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Cityneon Holdings and Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment Partner To Bring Unique Immersive Themed Art Experiences inspired by DC and the Wizarding World
Themed art experiences expected to open in 2023 will showcase the fan-favorite franchises in ways never seen, heard, or felt before
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 December 2021 – Cityneon Holdings is thrilled to announce an exciting partnership with Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment to produce two brand-new, unique global touring themed art experiences inspired by DC and the Wizarding World, slated to launch in 2023.
Audiences around the globe will be awestruck as they are able to engage in an all-new way with their favorite Super Heroes and the beloved Wizarding World, through immersive themed art environments. Both experiences will fuse cutting-edge media, sound, and technology together to create a truly sensorial visitor experience.
“We’re excited to announce our partnership with Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment to deliver two unique experiences based on two of their most successful and globally acclaimed franchises, the DC Universe and the Wizarding World,” said Mr Ron Tan, Executive Chairman & Group CEO of Cityneon. “This strategic relationship is a testament to our determination to scale greater heights in the arena of IP experiences. With Cityneon’s strong track record of delivering large-scale and innovative experiences globally, I am confident that the DC and Wizarding World experiences will be truly unique and immersive experiences that fans of all ages will enjoy.”
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Cityneon on these two new cutting-edge immersive themed art experiences,” said Peter van Roden, SVP Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment. “Each of the new experiences will help us further continue to reach our DC and Wizarding World fans with fresh, innovative and immersive experiences where guests can interact with the franchises like never before.”
Additional details will be announced at a later date.
About Cityneon Holdings
Cityneon is a global experience entertainment company that holds global partnerships with billion-dollar studios such as Disney and Marvel for Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. and Marvel Avengers Station Evolution, Hasbro for Transformers: The Experience, Universal for Jurassic World: The Exhibition, Lionsgate for The Hunger Games: The Exhibition and 20th Century for Avatar: The Exhibition. The company also partners the governments of Peru and Egypt for their original artifact IP experiences, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru and Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs respectively. These partnerships have enabled the Group to bring compelling experiences that leave lasting memories to visitors in more than 50 cities to date globally.
With its global reach and international partnerships, Cityneon has the capability to serve its clients anywhere in the world. Cityneon was listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Stock Exchange since 2005, and was privatized on February 2019 by West Knighton Limited, a company wholly owned by Cityneon’s Executive Chairman and Group CEO, Ron Tan, together with Hong Kong veteran entrepreneur and investor, Johnson Ko Chun Shun. Johnson is a capital markets veteran and has held controlling interests and directorships in many listed companies. In May 2019, Cityneon welcomed CITIC Capital as a new shareholder, who holds approximately 9% shares in Cityneon. CITIC Capital is part of CITIC Group, one of China’s largest conglomerates, and has over US$29B of assets under its management across 100 funds and investment products globally. Other institutional shareholders of the Group include EDBI – a Singapore government-linked global investor, and Pavilion Capital – a Singapore-based investment institution which focuses on private equity investments, that made strategic investments to the Group in August and October 2019 respectively. In April 2021, Cityneon welcomed new investors Seatown Holdings International, Qatar’s Doha Venture Capital, which will now own approximately 4% of the Group, and other financial institutions and family offices in Singapore and China, joining the already strong stable of shareholders to support the Group’s further expansion globally. For more information, please visit www.cityneongroup.com.
About Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment:
Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment (WBTE), part of WarnerMedia Global Brands and Experiences, is a worldwide leader in the creation, development and licensing of location-based entertainment, live events, exhibits and theme park experiences based on WarnerMedia’s iconic characters, stories, and brands. WBTE is home to the groundbreaking global locations of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, WB Movie World Australia, and countless other experiences inspired by DC, Looney Tunes, Scooby, Game of Thrones, Friends and more. With best-in-class partners, WBTE allows fans around the world to physically immerse themselves inside their favorite brands and franchises.
About Wizarding World
In the years since Harry Potter was whisked from King’s Cross Station onto Platform nine and three quarters, his incredible adventures have left a unique and lasting mark on popular culture. Eight blockbuster Harry Potter films based on the original stories by J.K. Rowling have brought the magical stories to life and today, the Wizarding World is recognised as one of the world’s best-loved brands.
Representing a vast interconnected universe, it also includes two epic Fantastic Beasts films, (the third releasing in 2022), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – the multi-award-winning stage-play, state-of-the-art video and mobile games from Portkey Games, innovative consumer products, thrilling live entertainment (including four theme park lands) and insightful exhibitions.
This expanding portfolio of Warner Bros. owned Wizarding World experiences also includes Harry Potter New York – a brand new flagship store, Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, and the Platform 9 3⁄4 retail shops.
The Wizarding World continues to evolve to provide Harry Potter fans with fresh and exciting ways to engage. For the worldwide fan community, and for generations to come, it welcomes everyone in to explore and discover the magic for themselves.
About DC
DC, a WarnerMedia Company, creates iconic characters, enduring stories, and immersive experiences that inspire and entertain audiences of every generation around the world and is one of the world’s largest publishers of comics and graphic novels. As a creative division, DC is charged with strategically integrating its stories and characters across film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, interactive games, DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription service and community engagement portal. For more information visit dccomics.com and
dcuniverseinfinite.com.
WIZARDING WORLD and all related trademarks, characters, names, and indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s21)
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Laos Seeks More Than 700 Companies to Invest in SEZs Over Five Years
The government of Laos will attempt to attract more than 700 companies to invest in Special Economic Zones over the next five years.
VP Bank appoints Chris Chee as Chief Risk Officer Asia
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 December 2021 – VP Bank announces the appointment of Chris Chee as the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Asia, effective 16 December 2021, pending approval by the relevant financial market authorities. The appointment comes just as the Bank announced the expansion of its Hong Kong office in November, aligning with its Strategy 2026 to further growth in Asia.
Based in Hong Kong, Chris will be responsible for all risk management strategies and operations, as well as supervising the Bank’s legal and compliance functions in Asia. He will report regionally to Pamela Hsu Phua (CEO Asia) and functionally to Patrick Bont (Group CRO).
Chris has 20 years of experience in legal, risk and compliance, bringing with him thorough understanding of risk management and the key markets in the region. He has extensive knowledge of Asian AML/CTF laws and regulations, having worked closely with Asian regulatory and supervisory regimes and held managerial positions in legal, compliance, and risk. Chris began his career at the Attorney General’s Chambers and the Manpower Ministry of Singapore as Public Prosecutor prior to moving into the financial services industry. He subsequently held leadership positions at RBC Singapore Branch, ANZ Bank Singapore, UBS and DBS across China, Hong Kong, Singapore. He was also a Founding Board Member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists’ (ACAMS) Singapore Chapter in 2013 and was the Co-Chair from 2016 to 2018. Chris was most recently the Chief Legal, Compliance and Risk Officer at BIL Wealth Management, where he was responsible for the firm’s implementation and execution of the legal and compliance framework.
Welcoming the new CRO Asia, Pamela Hsu Phua said, “I am delighted to have Chris join our Asia Management Committee (Asia Manco). His appointment reflects our strong commitment to Asia and I’m confident that his in-depth knowledge of legal, risk and compliance will greatly contribute to the successful execution and achievement of our Strategy 2026.”
About VP Bank Group
VP Bank Ltd was founded in 1956 and, with its 1’013 employees (940 in full-time equivalents) as of the middle of 2021, ranks amongst the largest banks in Liechtenstein. VP Bank is present with offices in Vaduz, Zurich, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong and Road Town (British Virgin Islands). VP Bank Group offers tailor-made asset management and investment advisory services to private clients and financial intermediaries. With its Open Wealth platform for wealth-related services, it provides innovative financial services with a strong focus on sustainability as well as easy access to difficult-to-invest or illiquid asset classes. As of 30 June 2021, client assets under management of VP Bank Group amounted to CHF 52.6 billion. VP Bank is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has received an “A” rating from Standard & Poor’s.
About VP Bank in Asia
VP Bank Ltd Singapore Branch is a boutique private bank with a client-centric business philosophy. With a presence in Singapore since 2008, it is the Asian branch of the Liechtenstein-based VP Bank Group.
VP Bank Ltd Singapore Branch provides specialised wealth management solutions and family office services for high-net-worth clients and professional asset managers and is dedicated to the protection and growth of clients’ wealth. The bank offers a holistic suite of services in wealth management. Apart from private wealth management, VP Bank Ltd Singapore Branch provides comprehensive services for asset managers and other financial intermediaries. The service offering comprises a trading platform, banking services – including e- banking and mobile banking – and operational support. Partnership arrangements with professionals include tailor-made investment advisory, discretionary management solutions, and custodian services.
For more than 15 years VP Wealth Management (Hong Kong) Ltd has concentrated on wealth management and family office services for wealthy private clients. Through our location in Hong Kong we have a presence in one of Asia’s leading centres for wealth management.
VP Bank was awarded Best External Asset Manager Service Provider and Best Private Banking Regional Partnership at Greater China WealthBriefingAsia Awards for Excellence 2020 and Best Asia EAM Service Desk at Citywire Asia EAM Desk Awards 2020. In 2021, VP Bank was named Best Private Bank – Intermediary Services by Asian Private Banker and ‘Best Boutique Private Bank’ at the 9th annual WealthBriefingAsia Awards 2021.
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ONLYOFFICE Supplies a Comprehensive Office Suite and Versatile Collaboration Platform for Asia Pacific
RIGA, LATVIA – Media OutReach – 16 December 2021 – ONLYOFFICE Docs by Ascensio System SIA offers a powerful office suite that comprises online editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations highly compatible with Microsoft Office and OpenDocument file formats. ONLYOFFICE Docs provides users with multiple editing tools and collaborative features ensuring greater team workflow, and seamless work with complex formatting and objects within your web solution.
Thanks to an extensive and continuously growing network of resellers and integrators, today ONLYOFFICE is available in 20+ languages and is already trusted by over seven million users in 170 countries. ONLYOFFICE now intends to repeat this brilliant success, this time within Asia Pacific. Already ONLYOFFICE has an established presence in China, where it is hosted by Alibaba Cloud, currently regarded as China’s No. 1 cloud service provider.
ONLYOFFICE: scalable, versatile
The ONLYOFFICE Workspace collaboration platform supplies users with all the tools for their daily business tasks — these include managing documents, project planning and scheduling, client relations, and email. This versatile platform can be used in the public cloud as well as launched as an open-source solution on a private network.
As an open-source office suite, ONLYOFFICE Docs features online editing tools for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The editing tools are highly compatible with MS Office formats (docx, xlsx, and pptx) and equipped with numerous collaborative capabilities – real-time co-editing, commenting, reviewing, and built-in chat.
The ONLYOFFICE editing capabilities are currently integrated in more than 20 popular platforms and hundreds of enterprise services, including Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile, Alfresco, and others.
This breadth of availability is possible because ONLYOFFICE is both a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering and a self-hosted platform for private servers. The immediate advantages are access from just about anywhere, from any device, including a mobile phone, under a wide range of OSs, and, on that basis, group collaboration, all with a high degree of platform inter-compatibility.
ONLYOFFICE effectively creates an eco-system of accessibility and scalability. At the lowest level there is a free desktop version for the user who just wants a free alternative to MS Office. At the top end, there’s an Enterprise version, with greatly extended functionality and scalability, including enhanced security — ONLYOFFICE offers rich, layered security in depth, reinforced with end-to-end encryption and hierarchical access rights reminiscent of Unix and Unix-like OSs such as Linux.
“Globally, what we see at ONLYOFFICE is the need for a group-oriented collaborative approach that should prove a hit with users in APAC, where social media messaging has proved hugely popular, while often offering versatile services that extend well beyond simple messaging and chat”, noted Galina Goduhina, Head Of Sales at ONLY OFFICE. “ONLYOFFICE, in fact, supplies companies with their own equivalent internal services platform, with messaging and other apps available at the personal or communal level, plus a blogging engine and more. ONLYOFFICE reduces the huge distances of the APAC region to manageable and secure opportunities for creative teamwork”.
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International Award Winning Philips OLED806 Leads the Gaming TV Trend
Enjoy stunning picture, amazing sound, and unlimited content – now available in Taiwan
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 16 December 2021 – The new Philips 4K UHD OLED Android TV, the OLED806, is now available in Taiwan. This gorgeous OLED screen gives you a thrillingly realistic picture combined with immersive 4-sided Ambilight to create cinema-sized excitement. The TV has already won awards including Reddot 2021 and iF Design Award 2021. It’s a versatile all-rounder that includes special features for gamers such as Gaming OLED, Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) to ensure responsive action and clarity that keep you at the top of the leaderboard. The Philips OLED806 is available in Taiwan now with a choice of 55″, 65″ and 77″ screen sizes.
OLED Gaming TV, the best Gaming TV experience
The Philips OLED806 leads the way in gaming TVs, with NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync dual-certified large format displays, that feature high-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 for fast dynamic conversion and a perfect gaming experience at up to 4K 120fps. Meanwhile, VRR and ALLM provide ultra-low latency and the smoothest and best gaming experience.
Stunning, best-looking OLED picture
Philips OLED TV is a lifelike and mesmerizing experience that fills the room, thanks to 4-sided Ambilight. Features like the P5 Picture Engine with AI, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos guarantee smooth motion, true color, and incredible depth. The vibrant HDR picture is great for movies and great for gaming, and is always comfortable to watch. This TV even looks great when you’re not watching it, thanks to premium design throughout, from stand to remote. There’s the ultra-thin metal bezel, and the soft, textured leather-backed remote with backlit keys. The reversible two-tone metal feet fit to the TV either way around, so you can choose the look you like.
Always watch whatever you want, including Disney+
With the recent launch of the Disney+ streaming platform, Philips will be able to showcase more than 1,200 movies and 16,000 episodes from Disney+, including Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and STAR.
When you own a Philips Android TV, the clear, intuitive interface and voice control always finds the content you love, no matter whether it’s Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, or anything else you choose. Check out all the new movie releases and latest series episode, and experience endless movies, TV, music, apps and games online. You can go beyond traditional TV programming with Google Play Store for content and apps. You can even command Google Assistant-compatible smart home devices – for example, to easily dim your room lights and control your air conditioning.
Ready for anything with key industry standard support
The Philips OLED806 is built with DTS Play-Fi wireless audio streaming technology, bringing the best wireless audio ecosystem to your home, allowing you to control all your DTS Play-Fi-enabled products via Wi-Fi, and stream music simultaneously, bringing an unprecedented sound revolution to your home entertainment experience. The OLED806 also features improved sound quality and storage space, with Mimi Sound’s personalized health volume function, which creates a more enjoyable listening experience by tailoring sound patterns to your ears through listening tests. The storage space has been upgraded from 3GB to 4GB, and the storage space for applications, files and software has been doubled from 16GB to 32GB, which exceeds the industry standard.
Where to buy and MSRP
Philips TV OLED806 55″: NT$59,900
Philips TV OLED806 65″: NT$89,900
Philips TV OLED806 77″: NT$249,900
All the Philips TV OLED806 series are available at Carrefour, RT-Mart, Tsann Kuen and E-Life Mall.
About TP Vision
TP Vision Europe B.V. (‘TP Vision’) is registered in the Netherlands, with its head office in Amsterdam. TP Vision is a wholly owned company of TPV Technology Limited (‘TPV’), which is one of the world’s leading monitor and TV manufacturers.
TP Vision is a consumer electronics key player in TV and audio entertainment. TP Vision concentrates on developing, manufacturing and marketing Philips-branded TV sets (Europe, Russia, Middle East, South America, India and selected countries in Asia-Pacific) and Philips-branded audio products (Globally) under trademark license by Koninklijke Philips N.V. We combine the strong Philips brand with our product development and design expertise, operational excellence, and industry footprint of TPV. We believe in creating products that offer a superior audio and visual experience for consumers.
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Laos Confirms 1 January Reopening for Tourists
Laos has confirmed 1 January 2022 as its official reopening date, according to a notice issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Yinan Li, Ex-CTO of Baidu and Former Founder of NIU Technologies Started to Build Electric Vehicles, Brand Name Unveiled as NIUTRON
BEIJING, CHINA – Media OutReach – 15 December 2021 – Yinan Li, the Ex-CTO of Baidu and Former Founder of NIU Technologies, enters into the electric automotive industry. As a technology industry heavyweight, Li’s NIUTRON is expected to be one of the most valuable electric automotive startups after NIO, Xpeng and Li Auto.
After a long influential career in high-tech industry and venture capital, Li founded NIU Technologies in 2014, created one of the most innovative and stylish electric two wheelers. NIU was later listed on Nasdaq in late 2018. After he departed from NIU technologies, Li started the automotive venture in 2018, namely NIUTRON. The Company has since grown to a team of 1,000 R&D personnel, and has received investments from world-leading investors such as IDG and COATUE, in its US$500 million series A fundraising.
NIUTRON has achieved several milestones since its founding, including its unique Gemini Platform and a strong product pipeline with many future models. NIUTRON NV, the Company’s first model, is a mid-large sized premium SUV, with “Urban Exploring” as its design concept, encompassing both BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) and EREV (Extended-Range Electric Vehicle) options to meet the needs of different driving scenarios.
NIUTRON NV will be launched and open for pre-order in China in the first half of 2022, and the delivery will start in September of the same year.
NIUTRON has already been building a modern manufacturing base of 770,000 square meters, with an annual production capacity of 180,000 units. The manufacturing base will be ready for operation in March 2022.
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