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Vietnamese Tourism Operators Concerned about Lack of Russian Tourists

Russian tourists at a resort in Khanh Hoa Province 2019 (Photo Anex Vietnam)
Russian tourists at a resort in Khanh Hoa Province, 2019 (Photo: Anex Vietnam)

As Vietnam prepares to reopen to foreign tourists on 15 March, concerns are growing among the tourism industry that Russian tourists, who once made up a significant portion of the foreigners visiting Vietnam, will be less likely to travel due to the conflict in Ukraine. 

Lotus’s Malaysia awarded NEFIN to equip 12 more stores and one Distribution Centre with solar panels

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 3 March 2022 – In support of its Group’s ambition to be a net zero carbon organization by 2030, Lotus’s Stores (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (“Lotus’s Malaysia”) had on 3 March 2022 entered into its second Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Asia’s renowned premium carbon neutral and financing solutions company, NEFIN Group (“NEFIN”).

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The Lotus’s-NEFIN PPA will run for 20 years till 2042 and see the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the rooftop spaces of 12 more Lotus’s stores nationwide as well as its Fresh Distribution Centre (DC) in Simpang Pulai, Perak.

Once the installation is completed in August 2022, the solar PV panels will collectively generate about 9,300,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean energy per year, thus reducing approximately 5,943 tonnes of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

“This is the second phase of our solar energy push which began in July 2020. We first entered a PPA with NE Suria Satu Sdn Bhd (NESS), a joint-venture company of PETRONAS and NEFIN Group for the installation of PV panels in 15 former Tesco stores nationwide. To date, Lotus’s would have the largest commercial solar PV installation in Malaysia,” said Lotus’s Malaysia President, Mr. Kenneth Chuah.

“With these new 12 stores under the Lotus’s-NEFIN PPA, we will now have 27 out of our existing 64 stores as well as one DC that are running on clean energy and together with phase one, Lotus’s would be able to significantly reduce its carbon emissions by approximately 14,761 tonnes annually, thus reducing our overall carbon emissions. This push in environmental sustainability is just one of the many ways that we are doing to mitigate climate change, which already includes redistributing our unsold but safe and edible food to non-governmental organizations and stopping the provision of single-use plastic carrier bags in our stores since July 2021.”

Mr. Chong Bor Hung, NEFIN Group’s Head of Business Development and Managing Director (Malaysia) shared, “NEFIN is delighted to be selected once again by Lotus’s Malaysia for their Phase 2 solar projects for 13 sites across Malaysia. Having repeated customers is a testament to NEFIN as it shows the trust they have in our ability to deliver value and innovative solutions. With investment from ACEN, the energy platform of Ayala Corporation, we have built the strong foundation necessary to provide comprehensive carbon neutrality solutions for our customers across APAC.”

NEFIN will fully invest in the 13 solar PVs which include the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of the solar PV systems. Main Market-listed Solarvest Holdings Bhd has been appointed as the local Clean Energy Specialist for this project.

Besides the Fresh DC in Perak, stores which will be fitted with the solar PV panels are Lotus’s Manjung, Sungai Dua, Sungai Petani Utara, Ara Damansara, Jenjarom, Putra Nilai, Seremban 2, Melaka Cheng, Melaka Hyper, Kulai, Mutiara Rini and Plentong.

Click HERE to download contract signing photos

About Lotus’s Malaysia

Lotus’s Stores Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Lotus’s Malaysia), formerly known as Tesco Malaysia, is a member of the Charoen Pokphand Group Co Ltd (C.P. Group) since December 2020. The C.P. Group is a multinational conglomerate, operating across various industries ranging from agricultural, industrial to service sectors. C.P. Group currently has investments in 21 countries and economies.

Having acquired Tesco Malaysia’s business in December 2020, Lotus’s Malaysia has assumed the operations of all existing Tesco stores, employing 9,000 employees across one head office, two distribution centres and 64 stores throughout Peninsular Malaysia. Lotus’s also has Malaysia’s most extensive online grocery home shopping network with over 100 delivery trucks and operations in Penang, Johor Bahru, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Ipoh.

As a testament to the work that it has been doing in delighting customers every day, Lotus’s was awarded the Best Foreign Retailer and Fair Price Shop Award 2020 by the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs in November 2021.

To learn more about our sustainability efforts, do visit https://corp.lotuss.com.my/.

About NEFIN Group

NEFIN Group is a regional renowned carbon neutrality solutions provider and investor with a bespoke unified energy management platform committed to achieve carbon neutrality for organizations and is backed by AC Energy. Founded by a core management team of DuPont Solar Business, the management team has grown into a well-rounded team of engineers, legal experts, investment bankers and techno-commercial experts with the combined experience of over 40+ years of project development in Asia and 50+ years of engineering experience. NEFIN Group has over 3000MW of utility-scale, commercial, and industrial rooftop solar systems in its combined portfolio regionally. As a strong cohesive team, NEFIN Group is able to offer a comprehensive 360-degree assessment and full-suite of services on socially responsible and commercially viable projects through innovative approaches to technology under its unified energy management platform. NEFIN believes the future of the world is everyone’s responsibility and strives to redefine energy boundaries towards a sustainable future.

Please refer to NEFIN’s website www.nefinco.com for more information.

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Over Ten Years of R&D in Imaging leads us to a New Era of Computational Video with the OPPO Find X5 Pro and MariSilicon X

SHENZHEN, CHINA – Media OutReach – 3 March 2022 – The OPPO Find X5 Pro is the result of a decade of research and development in mobile camera systems. It started in the early days of computer vision algorithm experiments, breaking from the traditional model to work out how a phone camera should “think”.

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2014 brought us pixel binning technology, where multiple sensor pixels are combined for better images in low light, while a demosaic technique is used to improve sharpness during the day. From 2014 to 2018 we saw the rise of OIS and computational photography that make capturing crystal clear night photos not just possible but easy.

OPPO’s Find X5 Pro collates this knowledge and takes it to the next level with a particular focus on low-light video, where each frame has detail, clarity and dynamic range comparable with a still night mode photo.

However, to get here OPPO had to solve a bottleneck it found around 2019, by which time OPPO phones used techniques like advanced AI noise reduction, multi-exposure night shooting and face recognition.

These demand a lot of work to be done instantaneously, causing a spike in power consumption. The ultimate solution is also the key to the OPPO Find X5 Pro’s paradigm-shifting photographic power: OPPO MariSilicon X.

This is a self-developed core imaging NPU designed with a laser focus on computational and AI photography workloads. It unlocks the processing power required for the OPPO FInd X5 Pro’s next-generation imaging capabilities.

4K Ultra Night Video

Computational video is the new battleground for phone cameras. OPPO phones have made huge leaps in low-light photo performance in the last four years, but video introduces a fresh set of challenges.

A phone can spend several seconds capturing and collating the data for a single still image. But the OPPO Find X5 Pro needs to generate 30 or 60 images per second for video, handling up to three billion pixels of information every second.

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The scale of the challenge is immense, necessitating the paradigm-shifting power of MariSilicon X, which is capable of up to 18 trillion operations per second.

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4K Ultra Night Video is the key demonstration of this power in action. It offers low-light video with dynamic range and detail comparable with the OPPO Find X5 Pro’s night photos, bringing light to darkness and restoring subtle gradations that are so often lost.

How? The OPPO Find X5 Pro’s 4K Ultra Night Video employs a combination of AINR, artificial intelligence noise reduction, and 3DNR to maximize the detail and dynamic range of your videos. 3DNR reaches beyond traditional techniques, comparing subsequent frames to best represent the motion of the real world.

DOL-HDR also lets the OPPO Find X5 Pro capture two frames concurrently, for real-time HDR imaging free of ghosting. The power of OPPO’s MariSilicon X imaging NPU has made the impossible possible.

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The OPPO Find X5 Pro also brings revolutionary upgrades to further improve the low-light stills photography performance established in the multi award-winning OPPO Find X3 Pro.

It debuts OPPO’s OPPO’s SLR-level 5-axis OIS. Both lens and sensor elements can compensate for moments in your hand, allowing for flawless image capture.

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In action, you see the OPPO Find X5 Pro generate pristine low-light pictures almost three times as quickly as the previous generation of OPPO flagship phones. What you don’t see is the bustling hive of activity that occurs behind the scenes. The OPPO Find X5 Pro camera creates photos out of multiple exposures, like an oil painter building up a masterwork using layer upon layer of fine glazes.

Ultra HDR Photography and video

Night photography and video are proving grounds for the OPPO Find X5 Pro camera. The dream of being able to capture not just stills, but also great video, in any situation has been realized.

However some of the same techniques are a crucial component in a host of other situations.

Picture a bright sunset. The rich and brilliant oranges and reds of the sky sit in stark contrast to the dark foreground. A lesser phone might leave these foreground elements draped in shadow, but the MariSilicon X’s HDR fusion algorithm allows for up to 20 stops of dynamic range.

It brings out every last fine detail without leaving the sky washed out, threatening to obliterate the swathes of color that come to define every great sunset image. OPPO’s Find X5 Pro is ready to capture these moments, where the sky seems alight with color, cascading off the contours of each cloud.

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The OPPO Find X5 Pro can achieve the same effect when shooting 4K video too thanks to DOL-HDR, constructing high dynamic range footage free of ghosting artifacts even when your subject is in motion.

OPPO’s Find X5 Pro represents a generation leap for the hardware and software in phone cameras. It brings renewed creative control and a paradigm shift in low-light video. Only one question remains: what would you enjoy most about the OPPO Find X5 Pro camera?

Laos UN Ambassador Makes Call for Peace at General Assembly

Anouparb Vongnorkeo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Lao PDR at the 11th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Mr. Anouparb Vongnorkeo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Lao PDR at the 11th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Lao PDR to the United Nations, Mr. Anouparb Vongnorkeo delivered a speech at the 11th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly this morning.

It’s Starting! LOCA Is Ready To Install Electric Car Fast Chargers All Over The Country!!!

It’s starting! Loca is ready to install electric car fast chargers (fully charged within 20 minutes) all over the country!!!

Laos Confirms 246 New Cases of Covid-19

Xieng Khouang Covid Update

Laos has recorded 246 cases of Covid-19 across the country today.

DYXnet donates COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits to Fu Hong Society as cases soar

Back Hong Kong’s battle against COVID

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 3 March 2022 – With Hong Kong facing an onslaught from the fifth wave of the pandemic, and considering the rising demand for COVID-19 testing and long waiting time at Community Testing Centres, the use of rapid test kits allows simple and quick self-testing and reduce the risk of going out. Yet, it is not easy for the disadvantaged groups in the society to continue purchase and bear the related expenses on their own. In view of this, DYXnet (a member of NEOLINK) has made donation of thousand COVID-19 rapid test kits to Fu Hong Society yesterday and hopes this helps to offer them the necessary support during the pandemic.

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The COVID-19 rapid test kits donated by DYXnet have carried European CE-certified as well as ISO accreditation with an accuracy of 99%. Thousand sets of test kits will be distributed to the beneficiaries with intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disabilities by Fu Hong Society via their supported employment services and social enterprises. Fu Hong Society offers caring and selfless contribution to the underprivileged and provides appropriate rehabilitation services to nearly 4,000 persons with disabilities. DYXnet hopes the donation will help alleviate the burden of the underprivileged in purchasing testing kits, in terms of the financial one and panic buying, while also fighting the challenging fifth wave.

“Amidst the serious outbreak of the fifth wave of COVID-19, there is urgent need of the rapid testing kits especially for the disadvantaged communities as such purchase will undoubtedly increase their financial burden under the pandemic” said Tony Tsang, Chief Executive Officer of DYXnet. “We hope the donation working hand in hand with Fu Hong Society helps the beneficiaries to conduct simple self-testing and reduce the risk of infection spread. DYXnet will spare no effort to assist in combating this pandemic and to support the society as well as the economy to recover” he added.

About DYXnet

DYXnet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VNET Group (NASDAQ: VNET), is a leading carrier-neutral network service provider in Greater China with over 20 years of solid experience. As a NASDAQ-listed company and leading carrier-neutral Internet data center and hybrid cloud services provider in China, VNET has gone further by forming a new sub-brand “NEOLINK” in April 2021, which integrated its New Retailing Unit with DYXnet in providing a suite of diverse solutions for customers in achieving full-cycle digital transformation.

DYXnet has empowered enterprises to drive business growth with ICT innovations and is committed to provide solutions for our customers through disruptive technologies and services including enterprise network solutions like MPLS and SD-WAN, cloud solutions and data centre services.

We strive to strengthen our dominant position in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. Among the first ICT service providers in the region to have obtained ISO certifications including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 20000 1, and ISO 9001, we are also one of the first official members of the China Cross border Data Telecommunications Industry Alliance and one of the first SD-WAN service standard drafting units.

For more information about DYXnet, please visit www.dyxnet.com.

#DYXnet

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Green Monday and OmniFoods donate to SOS and BCH Spreading warmth and health through plant-based meals

BANGKOK, THAILAND – Media OutReach – 3 March 2022 – In wake of turbulent times, extending a helping hand to those in need is more important than ever. Social venture Green Monday Group and Asia’s leading Foodtech company OmniFoods have donated one of their bestsellers, Omni Luncheon, to Thai non-profit organizations Scholars of Sustenance Foundation (SOS) and Bangkok Community Help (BCH). Together, they provided over 130,000 meals to the underprivileged communities across Thailand, giving back to the community through healthy plant-based meals, spreading warmth to the less privileged and unite all against the ongoing pandemic.

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Green Monday and OmniFoods have donated Omni Luncheon to non-profit organizations, which can provid over 130,000 meals to the underprivileged communities across Thailand.

Green Monday and OmniFoods understands the hardship the pandemic has placed on underprivileged communities, partnering with SOS and BCH and join hands to support the Thai community with nutritious meals in this meaningful collaboration. SOS made nourishing meals with 1,000 cartons (3,840 kg) of Omni Luncheon donated, such as Omni Luncheon Stir-Fried Thai Basil and Omni Luncheon Deep Fried with Yellow Curry, distributing over 16,000 meals to 124 low-income and refugee communities in Bangkok, Pathum Thani, and remote areas such as Kanchanaburi and Ayutthaya. With the 3,000 cartons (11,520 kg) of Omni Luncheon donation, BCH made Omni Luncheon Stir-Fried with Long Beans and Cabbage and Omni Luncheon Stir-Fried with Mixed Vegetables, a total of 114,000 meals will be given out over a 38-day span to 15 slum communities in Khlong Toei and 15 communities in Bangkok, a total of 30 communities will enjoy the meals with Omni Luncheon.

Apart from providing nutritious meals to those in need, the charitable event also serves as a first glance to the meal recipients on plant-based meat. SOS stated that the recipients were appreciative to receive the nutritious and protein-packed Omni Luncheon in their meals. Apart from caring for the Thai community, this donation also serves as an opportunity to educate the public on the benefits of adopting plant-based diets, a goal shared by OmniFoods and its parent company, Green Monday, which advocates plant-based diets to alleviate pressing global crisis such as climate change and food insecurity.

About OmniFoods

Owned by Green Monday Holdings, OmniFoods’ range of alternative protein products includes the OmniMeat series, OmniSeafood series, and OmniEat series. With R&D in Canada and distribution network in over 20 markets, OmniFoods is partner to many of the world’s top restaurants and retail chains including Whole Foods Market, Sprouts Farmers Market, Starbucks, McDonald’s Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airlines, Disneyland Hotel, Four Seasons Hotels, Conrad Hotels, Grand Hyatt Hotels, and Pizza Express.

For more information on Scholars of Sustenance Foundation and Bangkok Community Help, please visit:
https://www.scholarsofsustenance.org/sos-thailand
https://bangkokcommunityhelp.com/

#OmniFoods #GreenMonday