U.S. Ambassador to Lao PDR Dr. Peter M. Haymond joined Vice Minister of Health Dr. Sanong Thongsana on 20 April to officially launch the Continuous Professional Development Training Facility for Health Professionals at the Center for Medical Rehabilitation (CMR).
Laos to Host SEA Games in 2029
Laos has been nominated to host the 38th Southeast Asia Games in 2029.
SDS School of Entrepreneur Streamlined Analysis of YouTube Entrepreneurship Science Free Online Courses to Create Passive Income System

Core SEO Skills & Secrets Teaching Everyone Can Make Famous Videos!
SDS School of Entrepreneur introduces a good command of core SEO skills to users, which greatly increases the exposure of the video on YouTube and even appears on Google. The course involves the simplest video production methods to break the myth of complicated video design and directly offers users an elementary and effective model to think about the video theme and title, also to produce an exquisite and attractive video cover. The core part of the course that will never be skipped is sharing the equations for drafting video content and writing manuscripts. Just to follow the framework and system taught by SDS School of Entrepreneur and everyone can produce a video content with over 10,000 views.
There are many actual students who achieved excellent grades in just 3 months, and their famous videos on YouTube have reached over 10,000 views.
The course content and technique can be applied to YouTube entrepreneurship or any media business. The interpersonal skill will be improved with copywriting training and uplifting speechcraft. The market positioning will be directly analysed by the tutorial system so the proven business model can be directly applied by the users. A Facebook group “entrepreneurial boss” is composed in the lecture, where the first-hand information about starting a business and making money can be exchanged with each other, also support from various parties is available allowing users to easily achieve their entrepreneurial plans.
Reproducible Operating System to Create Passive Income
The unique feature of SDS School of Entrepreneur is a system and framework that can be replicated, which allowing users to earn income quickly at the lowest cost. Under the premise of high-quality video content, the advertising fees earned by YouTube’s entrepreneurship not only provide stable income but also create opportunities to monetize traffic and click rate. SDS School of Entrepreneur builds a replicable business model for users. The system also operates automatically and earns income just like a computer. Users just need to follow the guidelines provided, and the systematic content will greatly improve the learning efficiency.
About SDS School of Entrepreneur
The founder of the post-90s generation, SDS, is known as the youngest rich dad in Asia who owns more than 300,000 subscriptions on YouTube and hit a record of 10,000 subscriptions in three days. He has even helped more than 10,000 people improve their financial situation and increase their income in Taiwan, Malaysia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States, etc. In the age of professionals that everyone trying to be, SDS School of Entrepreneur believes that entrepreneurship can create wealth while also making life meaningful.
Free Course: Exp the Online Passive Income System Course
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Laos Cabinet and National Assembly Meet to Discuss Economic Woes

Cabinet ministers and National Assembly members held a special meeting yesterday to discuss the country’s growing economic problems.
Ordinary Folk raised $5M Pre-Series A to bring access to personalized, quality telehealth experience to men and women’s health in a $10B market across Asia
Strengthen its development in Hong Kong by focusing on expanding its product, growth and design team in the market
- Ordinary Folk, a digital health experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, secures $5M Pre-Series A by Monk’s Hill Ventures.
- The funding will be used to accelerate hiring talent to build a differentiated CX in healthcare using tech, expand in new markets (Hong Kong & other Asian cities), while continuing to scale in Singapore.
- Its full-stack telehealth platform integrates its two consumer platforms (Noah and Zoey), distributed compliant medical network, electronic medical record (EMR), digital prescriptions, cloud pharmacy, and last-mile fulfillment.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 21 April 2022 – Ordinary Folk, a digital health technology startup that makes telehealth services easily accessible to patients across Asia, based in Singapore, today announced its Pre-Series A funding of USD 5 million.
“Our mission is to use technology to simplify the patient experience. 60% of total health expenditure in Southeast Asia is out-of-pocket making treatments for many prevalent health conditions very expensive. We realized the need for a frictionless experience from discovery to delivery. Which is why it was essential for our digital health platforms to create access to doctors and medical solutions for sexual health, hair care, fertility, mental health and overall wellbeing together. We’re committed to strengthening our existing engineering, product and design teams as well as bringing on board the right people to pilot our expansion into key markets including Hong Kong, while continuing to scale in Singapore,” said Sean Low, founder of Ordinary Folk.
The funding will be used to accelerate hiring talent to build a differentiated CX in healthcare using tech, expand in new markets (Hong Kong & other Asian cities), while continuing to scale in Singapore. The company plans to grow its team and hire top engineering talents in Vietnam, product, growth and design across the Singapore and Hong Kong markets.
Ordinary Folk also plans to continue to expand its B2B partnerships with companies to provide Noah and Zoey services to its employees.
“Millions of people across Asia find it difficult to access proper treatment and care for health conditions that have tremendous taboo attached. Through Noah and Zoey, Ordinary Folk is uniquely positioned to bring in value through the consumer journey of healthcare services, creating an ecosystem where patients have access to medical experts and products, and a wide range of treatment options. Sean and his team have strong digital and branding DNA to grow the business to new heights, and we are happy to be partnering with them,” said Peng T. Ong, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Monk’s Hill Ventures.
As a full-stack telehealth platform, Ordinary Folk integrates two platforms:
- Noah: Launched in 2020, Noah is a men’s telehealth platform that integrates different areas of care including sexual health, mental wellness, hair care, weight management, creating the right tools for a better, more seamless patient experience.
- Zoey: Less than a year later, Zoey was also launched as a telehealth platform where women can access sexual wellness, fertlility, mental health and wellbeing medical solutions in a judgement-free space.
The aim is to help people across Asia lead healthier lives, removing high costs and accessibility as barriers to quality healthcare.
Since its launch in 2020, Ordinary Folk has seen revenue growth up by over 130% and attracted over a million unique visitors. Its platforms, Noah and Zoey, help users with cutting down on scheduling appointments, long waits at clinics, encountering tough questions in-person, and instead create a patient-doctor-treatment process that can be accessed from the privacy and comfort of one’s home.
In addition, Ordinary Folk is also committed to expanding their growth, design and marketing teams. Its team currently comes from some of the most creative names in the region – Grab, Ogilvy, DDB, BBH, TBWA.
Tuan Pham, formerly at Grab, who leads the tech team from Vietnam, said, “Coding is not just about building digital products. It’s about engineering change, and for us, on how we can improve the patient-doctor experience to make an impact on the lives of people across Asia.”
About Ordinary Folk
At Ordinary Folk, we’re reimagining the building blocks of healthcare in Asia. Bringing access to quality healthcare, people engage with medical experts and receive treatment online and at home. The company has inclusive, judgement-free telehealth platforms, Noah and Zoey, for men’s and women’s healthcare, which provide service and support for conditions across sexual wellness, hair care, fertility, mental health and overall wellbeing.
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About Monk’s Hill Ventures
Founded in 2014 by entrepreneurs Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, Monk’s Hill Ventures (‘MHV’) is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups, primarily in Series A, in Southeast Asia. Backed by institutional investors and family offices worldwide, MHV works with exceptional entrepreneurs who use technology to improve the lives of millions of people in the region. Find out more at www.monkshill.com.
World’s Longest Glass Bridge Near Completion in Vietnam
On 30 April, Vietnam’s national holiday of Reunification Day, a glass bridge spanning more than 630 meters will open to tourists.
Telos’ Decentralization Rivals that of Bitcoin and Ethereum
Telos shows that decentralization is measured in more than just node count

After a thorough competitive analysis comparing Telos’ decentralization to the decentralization of many of the other top Layer 1 chains, the Foundation has confirmed its assumptions. Based on validator equality and crucial factors regarding architecture and finances, the team confirmed that Telos is indeed one of the leading chains regarding credible neutrality and decentralization.
As mining pools lack equality, massive node counts become irrelevant: As depicted in the pie charts above, Telos, via its governance, has maintained an equitable distribution amongst all its active validators and Bitcoin and Ethereum have not. Instead, the mining pools of both Bitcoin and Ethereum have now become centralized. The hypothesis is that over the years the well-funded pools have overtaken the little ones. Despite the substantial number of nodes, to be a credibly neutral peer-to-peer network, the network must also sustain even splits in validator power / responsibilities. Without this equality, the insulating strengths of decentralized peer-to-peer networking becomes significantly degraded. A decentralized network made up of equitable validators adds a powerful layer of insulation against multiple scenarios. For example, a multi-government coalition could potentially implement disruptive regulations or restrictions on blockchain. If only a handful of validators / mining pools need to be targeted, it becomes much easier for those governments to impose their will and degrade the insulation that a peer-to-peer network is supposed to provide. In fact, an event far smaller than this could instantly interrupt some chains from operating as they intended. However, the problem is not just limited to government interference. It is also the potential of a coalition amongst the validator majority that threatens the decentralization and stability of a chain. Despite having many nodes, it appears that for Bitcoin it would take only ~5 large mining pools to form a majority, only ~4 for Ethereum and 22 for Telos (as depicted in the pie charts above). Aside from this significant (4x to 5x) difference, it is also worth noting that the community fairly votes the Telos validators into active slots vs Bitcoin / Ethereum in which the mining pool’s principles are anonymous and can simply buy their way into a majority position. Hence, the centralization and lack of credible neutrality that has now formed. Credible neutrality cannot exist in an environment in which control and influence is exerted by small groups of well-funded people. This move towards validator centralization also leads to neutrality questions that are impossible to answer. For example, are the validator majorities’ ambitions in line with what is best for the chain or themselves? To put the potential gravity of this into perspective one needs to understand that the principal/s of a majority sized mining pool can easily be a crime syndicate, and no one would know about it due to the anonymity. In fact, all the major mining pools can hypothetically be owned by crime syndicates, and no one would ever know. In contrast to this, with chain-governed validator equality and ongoing fair community voting, these credibility and neutrality questions are simply non-existing issues. In fact, all these chain degrading scenarios are exactly what the Telos architecture and governance have insulated against. As a chain’s validator network becomes unequal in size; the more it will move towards centralization, the more its neutrality will become biased and the more these chain breakdown scenarios may become a reality.
Insider allocation cost blockchain’s their credible neutrality: Being that Telos was a 100% bootstrap project (95% of the coins airdropped to the community, 5% were used as equal pay to the almost 150 contributors, no insider handouts, and no ICO), the team already knew that its insider allocation was at the same level as Bitcoin’s beginnings, zero. Telos is the only L1 chain besides Bitcoin to have ever reached this stage of maturity while still maintaining zero insider allocation. All the other L1 chains are believed to be centralized and unable to become credibly neutral public infrastructure due to their insider allocation (click here to see). With this being noted, these chains will most likely never be utilized by governments as a legal tender and dApps depending on this infrastructure will never be 100% insulated by the full power of credible neutrality and decentralization.
Telos Decentralization: Since its inception, the validators of the Telos Blockchain are both equally sized and regionally / globally diversified. Plus, no ungoverned wallet is known to hold more than 2% of the chain. From chain architecture to finances, decentralization and neutrality are of the highest priority for the chain. Over the last 4 years, Telos has grown into a truly utopian blockchain option for both private and public infrastructure. It is ludicrously fast, very inexpensive, extremely energy efficient, credibly neutral, non-congested, super easy to deploy on and the only chain that fully insulates the public from the front running / MEV that is plaguing Ethereum.
Decentralization Highlights:
- Telos is the only third generation layer 1 blockchain to have never done an ICO [initial coin offering] and this non-action alone insulates the chain greatly regarding insider collusion and the SEC security law suits. Telos, at its inception, electively chose to stay a bootstrap project and rise in the same fashion as Bitcoin. All other third generation layer 1 chains (including Ethereum) have done ICOs and will more than likely be forced to file with the SEC as securities. The former and current SEC Chairman have both expressed that every ICO [initial coin offering] they have seen are indeed securities, that they have jurisdiction, and that federal securities laws apply.
- The validating architecture of other networks might be structured via peer-to-peer architecture, but they are not credibly decentralized due to the distribution of monetary / voting / validating power. Again, insider allocation is non-existent and as you can see above in the pie charts depicting validator decentralization, Telos Validators are proportionally equal.
- Telos governance has the fairest voting system in existence, called Telos Decide. It is tamper-proof and secured by the Tlos coins that investors own. A coin holder can vote on behalf of the coins they hold and rely on outcomes that do not require any further human involvement. No other Layer 1 offers this level of automated community fairness. Especially because the Telos governance documents may be dynamically amended by the votes of the coin holders in a process that is entirely controlled by on-chain smart contracts.
Governments, investors, dApp creators, and end users need not forget that the fundamental features which bring the most value to blockchain are credible neutrality and decentralization. With credible neutrality and decentralization the following attributes are all significantly enhanced:
- Utility Redundancy
- Security / Trust
- Individual Financial Independence
- dApp Sovereignty
- Fair Voting
- Legal Tender
The actions and inactions of Telos are driven by the belief that the public and private sectors require credibly neutral blockchain infrastructure in a third-generation capable format. Credible neutrality, ludicrously fast speeds, energy efficiency, and super low-cost transactions make Telos the perfect crypto currency for the global internet and for the people.
About Telos
Live since 2018, Telos Blockchain (ticker: Tlos) is a third-generation smart contract platform that offers compatibility with Solidity, Vyper and Native C++ smart contracts. Telos provides full EVM/Solidity support with fixed low-cost gas fees and no front running. Uniquely, Telos also offers a path to fee-less transactions via its robust native C++ smart contract support. Utilizing less than 0.000002 kWh per transaction, the chain can sustainably support hundreds of millions of transactions per day, produce blocks in 0.5 second intervals on a first-in-first-out basis (eliminating front running on the network) and securely validate transactions via a credibly neutral and globally decentralized block producer network. The Telos Blockchain has the throughput needed to facilitate and scale the thriving Metaverse / Web 3.0 better than any other blockchain. Its performance is unrivaled in the industry and was purpose-built to offer speed, scalability, cost-effectiveness, credible decentralization, and end-user fairness. Telos, harnesses its power by utilizing tight C++ on the frontend and a custom WASM runtime environment on the backend.
About The Foundation
The Telos Foundation is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization established as a promotional and funding body to advance the Telos Blockchain Network and provide support to network applications.
Sunlight Real Estate Investment Trust Operational Statistics for the Third Quarter of the Financial Year 2021/22
At 31 March 2022, the occupancy rate of Sunlight REIT’s portfolio exhibited a mild improvement to 95.0% (31 December 2021: 94.5%). Office occupancy rate increased from 93.3% at 31 December 2021 to 94.3%, while retail occupancy rate dropped slightly to 96.6% (31 December 2021: 97.1%).
The overall passing rent of Sunlight REIT’s portfolio was HK$45.8 per sq. ft. at 31 March 2022 (31 December 2021: HK$46.1 per sq. ft.). Reflecting the still challenging business environment, the office and retail portfolio registered negative rental reversions of 7.6% and 7.0% respectively for the quarter under review.
At 31 March 2022, Dah Sing Financial Centre registered a steady occupancy rate of 91.4% with a passing rent of HK$42.9 per sq. ft.. Meanwhile, Strand 50 continued to benefit from the successful transformation into a top-notch Grade B office building in Sheung Wan, registering an improvement in occupancy rate to 97.7% with a passing rent of HK$32.3 per sq. ft.. On the Kowloon side, occupancy rate of The Harvest rebounded to 80.4% after the move-in of new beauty parlours; however, given the prolonged pandemic situation, the rent void period for its vacant areas would be longer than previously anticipated.
On the retail front, Sheung Shui Centre Shopping Arcade (“SSC“) and Metro City Phase I Property recorded occupancy rates of 94.8% and 98.0% at 31 March 2022 respectively, while their corresponding passing rents were HK$100.2 per sq. ft. and HK$55.1 per sq. ft.. However, the vacancy rate of SSC is expected to rise in light of the departure of a kindergarten tenant which currently takes up approximately 7.5% of its gross rentable area.
Remarks: Attached operational statistics of Sunlight REIT for the third quarter of the financial year 2021/22.
Operational statistics for the third quarter of the financial year 2021/22
Notes :
1. Calculated on the basis of occupied gross rentable area (“GRA“) as a proportion of total GRA on the relevant date.
2. Calculated on the basis of average rent per sq. ft. for occupied GRA on the relevant date.
About Sunlight REIT
Listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited since 21 December 2006, Sunlight REIT (stock code: 435) is a real estate investment trust authorized by the Securities and Futures Commission and constituted by the amended and restated trust deed dated 10 May 2021 (the “Trust Deed“). It offers investors the opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of 11 office and five retail properties in Hong Kong with a total gross rentable area of over 1.2 million sq. ft.. The office properties are located in both core and decentralized business areas, while the retail properties are situated in regional transportation hubs, new towns and urban areas with high population density.
About the Manager
The Manager of Sunlight REIT is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Henderson Land Development Company Limited. Its main responsibility is to manage Sunlight REIT and all of its assets in accordance with the Trust Deed in the sole interest of its unitholders.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this press release does not constitute an offer or invitation to sell or the solicitation of an offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for units in Sunlight REIT in Hong Kong or any other jurisdiction.
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