The central bank of Laos PDR will issue LAK 5 trillion in savings bonds to individuals and legal entities residing in the Lao PDR, except for commercial banks and depository financial institutions.
Lao-China Railway Carries Over 400,000 Passengers to Destinations
The Lao-China railway has transported over 400,000 passengers in the past six months.
Schneider Electric ranks 2nd in The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2022
- Climbs 2021 ranking, up two from 4th place
- Three consecutive years Schneider Electric has placed in the top five
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 June 2022 – Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management and automation, was ranked second in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2022.
This is the third time Schneider Electric has placed in the top five and the seventh consecutive year it has ranked on the list. This demonstrates the company’s ongoing commitment and investment to strengthen its supply chain strategy.
This recognition comes in a year of prolonged supply chain disruption. Companies around the world and across industries continue to be challenged by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, facing constrained labor availability, global shortages of raw materials and electronics, and transportation issues. It has become even more critical for corporates to rethink, reprioritize, and reinforce the robustness of their supplier network and increase local capacity.
The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2022 identifies, celebrates, and profiles companies demonstrating excellence in supply chain management amid global supply chain disruption. The list is decided based on three aspects:
- Financial metrics including return on physical assets and revenue growth
- Corporate social responsibility including ESG measures
- Community opinion including Gartner experts and industry peers.
“We are humbled and honored to be recognized by Gartner and our peers,” said Mourad Tamoud, Schneider Electric’s Executive Vice President of Global Supply Chain. “We continue to invest in improving our supply chain because we have an unwavering commitment to our customers and sustainability. We think this recognition is further proof we are on the right path — that investing in people and fourth industrial revolution technologies has concrete benefits for resilience, agility, efficiency, and sustainability.”
Earlier this year, Schneider was recognized by Gartner in the Power of the Profession™ Supply Chain Awards. for its Adaptive Machine Learning Driver ‘Self-Healing’ Supply Chain in the Process or Technology Innovation of the Year category. The Schneider platform optimizes performance-related parameters such as safety stock quantity, minimum order quantities, and lead times on a real-time basis through machine learning. This has resulted in savings of more than €100 million.
Sustainability is at the core of Schneider’s purpose and mission, and the first pillar in its supply chain strategy, STRIVE (Sustainable, Trusted, Resilient, Intelligent, Velocity and Efficiency). Now in its second year, the company has accelerated its transformation toward becoming the most agile, innovative, planet and customer-centric supply chain.
Last year, Schneider launched the Zero Carbon Project, which aims to lower the carbon footprint of its supply chain. More than 1,000 suppliers, which represent 70% of Schneider’s carbon emissions, have committed to the initiative to half their operations’ CO2 emissions by 2025. The Project is part of Schneider’s 2021-2025 sustainability goals, and is a concrete step towards limiting the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5°C or less by 2050, as targeted by the Paris Agreement.
Earlier this year, Schneider Electric’s Le Vaudreuil factory in France was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Sustainability Lighthouse, one of only six globally, and two for the company with the other being Lexington, Kentucky. Its Hyderabad factory in India was also recognized as an Advanced Lighthouse, bringing the company’s total count to five.
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Vast VPN Market Research Reveals that Nearly Half of Users Resort to VPN to Protect Privacy
Multiple Scenarios Facilitate VPN Compatible with Trending Applications Overwhelming Acclaim Received in Indonesian
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 13 June 2022 – The Vast VPN (“the Product”) research department is pleased to release its self-managed market opinion poll results targeting the VPN usage scenarios. Data suggests that about 47% of users mainly seek assistance from VPNs to protect privacy when visiting websites anonymously and to prevent their online behaviors from being tracked and monitored by spyware, thanks to their anti-malware and ad-blocking features. Around 37% of users deem that Vast VPN is exceptionally supportive in accelerating their networks while playing video games or watching streaming content. The third-ranked case, accounting for 26%, is to safely view some sites of explicit content or thread between disparate internet exclusion zones with the personal IP address sheltered. The statistics indicate that how VPNs appeal to their respective audiences varies widely depending on the user preference.

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When Vast VPN conducted this research, it was found that most VPN users have ever encountered this situation: after downloading a VPN software, only very few nodes are offered for free, and the network connection is prolonged and laggy, even could be dropped the line forcefully due to the unstable network environment, the user experience is very unpleased. Vast VPN has carried out a comprehensive technical upgrade and adjustment in response to this situation, providing all users with more than ten free nodes covering North America, Asia, Europe, etc., to meet their diverse demands greatly. But what would be the cherry on the top of the cake is that all these superior services are offered for unlimited free (click for more details).
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With the rise of entertainment applications such as Tik-Tok, SnackVideo, Netflix, etc., using scenarios of VPNs among ordinary users has become more and more extensive and entertaining. In addition to providing a stable and fast anonymous browsing experience, 37% of users make it clear that Vast VPN is also highly effective in helping them optimize their entertainment experience without bandwidth throttling. People can speed up video games significantly and peruse video streaming platforms for intriguing content. Enormous Opinions and endorsements were collected from players engaged in MLBB (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang) and Free Fire, both games have ultrahigh requirements on a reliable network environment. For video software users, they can flexibly switch IP addresses at any time to break through network restrictions to watch popular videos from other countries.
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According to Data.ai (formerly App Annie), a mobile data and analytics platform: Vast VPN has been firmly staying within the top 15 on the list of free tools in Indonesia since mid-April, ranked ninth at the highest and received an overwhelming response in the regional market. The cumulative downloads of Vast VPN on the Google Play Store have exceeded 40 million times across the board this May. It provides services to more than 10 million users and intensively cultivates the North American, Asian, and European markets.
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JustGo Launched First-Of-Its-Kind Tipper Truck Booking App in Singapore
Founded in 2021, JustGo’s vision is to transform the construction industry by adopting new technologies, overcoming the stigma that the industry is failing to keep up with technological advances. With the launch of its app, JustGo hopes to improve the sector’s efficiency and solve problems through technology.
There are two types of apps available – a Merchant App and a Driver App, each serving their respective purposes.
To encourage digital adoption within the construction industry, the JustGo app creates an efficient online marketplace to connect construction companies with trusted suppliers.
The Merchant App allows businesses looking for tipper truck services and construction companies seeking to rent a tipper truck with driver in Singapore to connect. Users can create job postings for organisations that are able to provide tipper truck driver services that precisely match their demands and budget within the user-friendly booking app.
On the other hand, the Driver App allows tipper truck providers and construction companies that own tipper trucks in Singapore to offer their services to organisations that need them. Through the app, companies and individuals can offer and accept tipper truck driver jobs in Singapore.
With the app, JustGo Enterprise hopes to reduce the cost for construction companies as they will no longer be restricted to prices quoted by a single supplier. They do not need to buy additional trucks either if renting is more cost-effective.
On top of that, JustGo aims to create a materials marketplace for the industry, to allow the reuse and recycling of materials such as hardcore and soil. This will greatly improve the productivity of JustGo’s users, as it will reduce their cost, and ensure minimal wastage of these materials. Moreover, with the JustGo app, it addresses the lack of such a platform in the industry to offer and request for materials and/or tipper truck services, contributing greatly to the progress of the industry.
JustGo Merchant App and JustGo Driver App are now available for download on both App Store and Google Play Store.
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Online Rich Introduces a New e-Business Scheme To Help Users Tap into the E.U and U.S. Markets
COVID-19 Pandemic and Mass Migration Wave Triggers Surge in Business Start-ups
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 June 2022 – The fifth wave of Covid-19 has swept Hong Kong, the unemployment rate climbed to a ten-month high of 5.4 per cent, and more than 200,000 people were out of work. The livelihood consumption and tourism-related sectors have been severely affected, especially the retail, accommodation, and food services industries. The overall economic situation in Hong Kong is deteriorating. Given this, numerous Hongkongers have been exploring new opportunities to stay resilient in this “epidemic” environment. Many have started their businesses and opened online stores to seek a way out.

However, as a novice in starting a business, it could be formidable to run an online store. From purchasing supplies, building a website, and expanding customer sources, to order processing, shipping, and after-sales services, the workflow is complicated and trivial. It requires a considerable investment in time, workforce, and operating costs, which discourages many business starters.
Online Rich new e-commerce operation model to help new business starters to perch a firm foothold
To help e-commerce practitioners solve their operational problems as well as provide comprehensive and quality support for the newbies, Online Rich (“the Company”) has custom-made a “One-stop E-commerce Undertaking System”. The system equips all the “e-commerce novices” with express yet integrated services and comprehensive yet flexible support to help them lower risk and reduce cost while improving operational efficiency significantly. With the help of Online Rich’s native and international executive team, start-ups can tailor-made indigenous content on social media and other e-commerce platforms, which could greatly boost the success rate of starting an online business.
Online Rich searches and selects a wide range of hot-selling products at cost prices for users. Users can initiate their e-commerce operations from scratch even if they do not have any experience. After browsing the hot-selling products with decent margins on the supplier’s pages, users can select what they want and establish their e-stores by automatically uploading product information on their platforms to sell. Online Rich provides strategic marketing consultancy and artwork assistance throughout the process. Once receiving orders, the store owner can utilize the integrated automatic delivery and distribution feature of Online Rich to ship goods, collect a payment, and recognize a profit. Distinguished from other online store outlets only providing tutorial videos, Online Rich offers 24-hour live customer service to follow up the whole course, cope with any questions, and strive to stay close to the users, interlock to assist them in completing the main sections of the e-commerce platform construction.
Within four years, it has successfully helped more than 536 startups establish their e-stores internationally. More than 289 among them have successfully evolved into self-contained brands, accounting for total sales exceeding US$80 million.
Mr. Darek, a restaurant manager who turned into an online shop owner, shared, “Due to the epidemic, my restaurant was mired in stagnation, so I had to leave that trade and try to start the e-commerce practice. At first, I didn’t know anything about e-commerce, thanks to Online Rich’s new automatic sales system combining product selection, sales, customer service, and so on, which functionally simplifies those conventional and cumbersome management procedures. I can use the Online Rich App to monitor real-time sales and profits at any time. After opening my online store for three months, my monthly sales have reached almost US$40,000.”
Ms. Katherine, who worked in the tourism industry before the epidemic, said she was hesitant before deciding to use Online Rich, as there are many so-called e-commerce startup platforms out there that rely on ‘click farming’ to commit fraud on newcomers who want to start an online business. She said, “I did much research before ending up with Online Rich. Its parent company is a leading e-commerce solution provider in Asia with a good reputation, so I feel comfortable using it. Online Rich’s procurement, website design, marketing, logistics, sales, customer service, and even the technical team are very professional; it highly fits someone with zero experience starting their e-business just like me”. After setting up for two months, Katherine’s online store has been on the right track, with monthly sales amounting to US$35,000.
Breaking boundaries to expand into the European and U.S. markets; An ideal choice for Immigrant Business Owners
Many Hong Kong people have moved to other places in recent years. The figures of the Hong Kong Immigration Department showed a net outflow of more than 140,000 Hong Kong residents in the first quarter of 2022. Various investigations revealed that many immigrated Hong Kong people are not able to cope with the rising cost of living and fail to secure a job in places. Usually, their professional skills grasped in Hong Kong cannot be fully employed. Hence, opening an online store to start own business has also become the ideal choice for many immigrant Hong Kong people. The competitive edges of Online Rich include breaking through the geographical, time, and language restrictions with low cost and burden-free. Users can make a living promptly after moving to a new environment and ensure a certain source of income.
Mr. Hui, CEO of Online Rich, commented, “Online Rich is committed to establishing a barrier-free cross-border e-commerce platform for start-ups, empowering them to open up the European and U.S. markets favorably. Our internal professional marketing team can help users build their bespoke brand websites to create marketing content that caters to the corresponding culture. Meanwhile, by using popular social media such as Facebook and Instagram to help users target European and American markets and boost the operational performance of online stores. Even if you have no experience and base, as long as you are hardworking and willing to reflect and defeat the obstacles caused by the epidemic, a small online shop can also tread its stride into international markets.”
About Online Rich
Established in 2018, Online Rich is an e-commerce system founded by Good Timing Holding Ltd (Asia’s leading e-commerce solutions company). The Company has successfully helped more than 536 start-ups establish their e-stores internationally, of which more than 389 have successfully established their self-contained brands, accounting for total sales exceeding US$80 million.
Online Rich launched a brand-new and innovative e-commerce operation model devoted to assisting Hong Kong brands to go worldwide and creating a global cross-border e-commerce ecosystem. Its creative e-commerce business model provides potential start-ups with a low-cost and automated cross-border platform to secure business opportunities without any geographical and time restrictions, further optimizing and enhancing its global e-commerce business across the board.
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Laos Participates in UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS

The United Nations General Assembly convened the Plenary Meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment yesterday on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS, which were adopted by the General Assembly on June 8.
This Meeting provided a timely global review on the fight against HIV/AIDS and the progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 3 on “Good Health and Well-being,” ensuring that the world gets back on track to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
At the opening session, the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly inaugurated the meeting. This was followed by the General Debate, presided over by Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Lao PDR to the United Nations. Several UN member states took turns delivering their statements on behalf of regional groups by highlighting the importance of enhancing international cooperation to support the global efforts to achieve health-related goals, including the 2030 target for ending the AIDS epidemic.
The Assembly acknowledged that a financing gap for addressing HIV/AIDS still exists and there is a need to further promote technology transfer, improve access to medicines in developing countries and to scale up capacity-building, research and development.
Despite some progress, the data released by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has shown that HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are not declining fast enough to end the pandemic by 2030.
Against this backdrop, the international community reaffirmed its joint commitment and common responsibility in taking actions against HIV/AIDS to fully implement the commitments contained in the UN Declaration.
The most urgent tasks are to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine, to provide appropriate medical treatments for all and to increase investment in research and development, science and innovation.
Shared responsibility and solidarity among all nations is more crucial than ever in order to increase and equally allocate resources to scale up universal health coverage. Every year, the United Nations has designated 1 December in commemoration of World AIDS Day.
Ahead of BTS’ 9th anniversary, ARMY celebrates release of BTS’ new album Proof with 3 million Tweets in an hour
The launch of their new anthology album sent excited fans on #KpopTwitter into overdrive
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – Media OutReach – 12 June 2022 – BTS’ new anthology album Proof was embraced by fans on Twitter all over the world when it dropped on 10th June. Twitter saw an impressive 22 million Tweets on the launch day, and the most Tweeted time was from midnight to 1AM ET on 10th June when Proof was released with 3 million Tweets in just one hour.

Fans from South Korea, US, and Indonesia were the loudest on Twitter, and conversations about the group’s latest release came from all over the world, including countries like the Philippines, India, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, and Peru. #KpopTwitter was a flurry of activity as ARMY took a trip down memory lane, enjoying hit songs from past albums, while looking ahead to the title track “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)”. Clearly, the reception towards the band’s past, present, and future music was undeniably explosive.

Twitter launched custom emojis for fans to join in the festivities regardless of where they were. A grey-colored BTS symbol could be included by using hashtags #BTS and #방탄소년단, while #BTS_Proof would activate a special Proof emoji. Furthermore, #YetToCome and #TheMostBeautifulMoment would activate emojis too. Additionally, @TwitterMusic also changed its header to a BTS concept image, bio to #BTS_Proof and name to ‘Twitter Music is listening to BTS “Proof“‘ to promote the new album.

YeonJeong Kim, Head of Global K-pop Partnerships at Twitter said, “Be it to celebrate new albums, or to cheer them on at important occasions, the #BTSARMY has always stayed close to the band on Twitter. Just weeks ahead of their comeback, BTS made a trip to Washington, D.C., paying President Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) a visit to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes, sending hashtags like #BTSatTheWhiteHouse to the top of Twitter trends worldwide. With our various features and activations, we will continue to connect BTS and the fans, helping them to celebrate moments no matter where they may be in the world.”
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