Residents and visitors in the tourist town of Vang Vieng were taken by surprise as torrential rains across Laos caused unexpected floods.
Sun Life Asia Invites You to Start a Lifetime Wellness Journey at the 2022 Open Day
Over 8,200 participants joined the first Asia OneSunLife Open Day in 2021. More wellness advices, insurance industry insights and career opportunities will be presented this year.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 21 February 2022 – Sun Life today announced that enrollment has started for the Asia OneSunLife Open Day 2022, which will be held virtually on March 19. The theme this year is “Wellness is a lifestyle. Live Brighter!” The Asia OneSunLife Open Day aims to encourage people to achieve wellness in all aspects of life and help participants live healthier and brighter lives. At the same time, the Open Day will provide industry insight and advice for people interested in exploring career opportunities in the insurance industry. At the event, Sun Life will share its inspirations and values, and how it supports and equips advisors as they build their careers.
To inspire and encourage participants to embrace wellness holistically, the event will feature award-winning speaker Yujin Wong, who will share his experience of burn-out while working in law and investment banking to becoming an international speaker and agent of positive change, illustrating the importance of physical, mental and financial health and well-being and how one can build a career helping other to do the same.
“Physical, mental and financial wellness is more important than ever since the outbreak of pandemic. We are very excited to have well-known motivational speaker Yujin Wong joining the Open Day this year. I am confident his story will inspire many who desire to strive for excellence in their careers and personal lives,” said Carene Chai, Chief Distribution Officer, Sun Life Asia. “After the success of the Open Day in 2021, we plan to expand the scope to provide more in-depth industry insight and explain our training support to help those considering a career as a financial advisor.”
The global pandemic has shown how important it is to protect people’s health and wealth. Insurance has played an important role in protecting people’s well-being in the past two years. Sun Life advisors have helped increase people’s awareness of the importance of gaining better financial protection, helped them make decisions to look after the health of themselves and their families and create long-term, holistic plans to give them peace of mind for the future. Sun Life always encourages people to explore career opportunities with the company so that they can help themselves and others enjoy brighter lives.
At the Open Day event, Sun Life executives will discuss the latest industry developments and career opportunities at the company. Sun Life is offering an exciting career path for people, especially the younger generation, who are looking for rewarding and fulfilling careers with more freedom and independence.
In addition, Sun Life has established a holistic and comprehensive talent development program, the Brighter Academy, to help train and grow advisors. The Academy provides advisors with a wide range of training, diverse toolkits and professional support, equipping them with knowledge and skills so that they can better serve clients and society.
Asia OneSunLife Open Day 2022 is open to the public. Anyone interested can visit below links for registration.
Sun Life Philippines: https://www.sunlife.com.ph/en/about-us/become-an-advisor/asia-onesunlife-open-day-2022/
Sun Life Indonesia: https://www.sunlife.co.id/id/about-us/careers/brighter-academy/asia-onesunlife-open-day-2022/
Sun Life Hong Kong: https://www.sunlife.com.hk/zh-hant/about-us/become-an-advisor-video/asia-onesunlife-open-day-2022/
Sun Life Grepa Financial: https://www.sunlifegrepa.com/home/about-us/careers/asia-one-sun-life-open-day-2022/
About Sun Life
Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individual and corporate Clients. Sun Life has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of March 31, 2021, Sun Life had total assets under management of $1,304 billion. For more information please visit www.sunlife.com. Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF. Note to editors: All figures in Canadian dollars.
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Laos-China Railway to Launch Conventional Train Service
The Laos-China Railway Company is to operate a conventional train service from next month in order to accommodate a growing number of passengers.
Scentopia, A New Attraction About Singapore’s Floral Heritage
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 21 February 2022 – Explore the vast and complex world of scents and fragrance
Scentopia aims to educate guests on the journey of Singapore floral heritage from a port to a nation for botanical exploration through fun and interactive activities. There will be four free interactive tours throughout the day, each lasting about 15 minutes. The exhibition which the tour will run through, promises a combination of more than 300 Augmented Reality (AR) enabled artwork. There will also be a state-of-the-art digitised contactless perfumery where guests can craft perfumes unique to their personality. Guests can then bring home their unique perfume.
Scentopia, in partnership with Perfume Workshop aims to educate guests in the exploration of plants that have been an essential part of Singapore culture, rituals, food, and celebration. Besides the available exhibitions and the opportunity to design your own perfume, they have extended their services and activities to team building activities that cover a range of educating topics such as 200 years of Singapura, Raffles Floral Heritage, and Can you Singlish. The whole theme behind the attraction is personalisation. With the interactive perfumery section, Scentopia wants to use that to change the dull perspective of perfumery to an experience that is magical and whimsical.
For more information about the attraction, visit https://www.scentopia-singapore.com/.
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SG Printz Announces Plans To Launch A Series Of New Products
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 21 February 2022 – SG Printz, an established online-based printing company in Singapore, has announced its plans to launch a series of new products – building on another addition to its current range of product offerings. While the launch is still in the works, clients can look forward to a variety of new products that will soon be available to customise and print.
SG Printz has plans to launch these new products in hopes to expand its scope of services for its numerous corporate clients and increase sales. Among the new product lineup are custom standing pouch packaging, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cards, and more. In addition, this new product range of printed materials further depicts SG Printz’s commitment to providing the best value to its corporate clients for their marketing needs.
As SG Printz operates online, the rates for the new products will be deemed competitive. Furthermore, it is an added convenience for customers to place an order online as they are not required to head down to a physical location. Although online-based, SG Printz aims for prompt communication to ensure all printing needs are well taken care of – clients can expect SG Printz to be responsive to any query.
SG Printz is a leading printing company providing online printing services for businesses across Singapore for all their marketing and operating needs. It currently specialises in printing stickers, flyers, NCR booklets, l shape folders, business cards, and non-woven bags. These products come in various sizes, colours, and quantities with an aim to ensure clients’ specific needs are met. A printing provider for services like invoice printing and customised sticker printing in Singapore, SG Printz strives to provide affordable printing services, especially for newly established businesses.
For more information on SG Printz and its range of products, please visit https://sgprintz.com/.
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Blue Prism survey reveals untapped opportunities of RPA adoption rates in financial services industry across APAC
With only 34 percent in Singapore and 50 percent in Malaysia of respondents indicating familiarity with RPA, there is potential for better comprehension and perception around this technology. This is in comparison to 85 percent in Australia, 82 percent in Hong Kong and 75 percent in India.
Robert Dewar, Vice President, Financial Services, APAC, Blue Prism, said: “While RPA adoption across global industries grew at tremendous speed, this report revealed the disparity of RPA adoption within the APAC financial services industry, indicating a long roadmap before the region reaches RPA and Intelligent Automation maturity. Presently, the use of RPA adoption remains largely a tool to improve efficiency and cut costs, rather than a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation. As markets look to scale up enterprise RPA and Intelligent Automation deployments, our aim is to empower companies to fulfil their vision for strategic business automation and achieve faster, better organisational outcomes.”
Almost all of the organisations (95 percent) surveyed felt that the adoption of RPA has improved overall business operations, which includes error and cost reduction (7 percent each), empowering the workforce to concentrate on higher value tasks (24 percent) and increasing efficiencies and speed within the organisation (61 percent).
The report also revealed that across Australia, India, Singapore and Malaysia, the top two areas that companies leverage RPA are the finance and IT departments. This differs slightly in Hong Kong, where the top two areas are finance (79 percent) and customer service (71 percent) departments. Within the next two to three years, companies in Australia and India expect to continue leveraging RPA the most in the finance and IT departments, while Hong Kong companies expect the same in the finance and customer service departments. In Malaysia, besides the finance department (61 percent), companies are prioritising RPA programmes in sales and marketing (73 percent) in the next two to three years. Interestingly, the finance department was not included in the top three areas that Singapore companies will be leveraging RPA in the near term, with companies ranking IT departments (61 percent) as the top priority for RPA adoption, followed by sales and marketing (54 percent) and customer service (50 percent).
Other key findings for each respective market are as follows:
Australia Key Findings
- 99 percent of organisations believed that RPA has improved overall business operations, including cost and time savings (88 percent) and increased accuracy and quality of output (76 percent).
- Organisations ranked top considerations when drawing RPA budgets to implementation costs (77 percent) as the most important factor, followed by maintenance costs (70 percent) and ancillary costs (67 percent)
- Of the organisations that are not currently using RPA solutions and technologies (22 percent), 8 percent are planning to implement such technologies within the next six months, and 4 percent are planning to do so within the next year
- Almost nine in 10 (89 percent) organisations said that the future growth of RPA is promising
Hong Kong Key Findings
- 96 percent of organisations felt that RPA has improved overall business operations, with significant benefits in cost and time savings (69 percent) as well as increased accuracy and quality of output (69 percent).
- In terms of factors that organisations consider when drawing up an RPA budget, most organisations ranked implementation costs (65 percent) as the most important factor, followed by ancillary costs (60 percent) and maintenance costs (59 percent)
- 52 percent of organisations are not currently using RPA solutions and technologies; 31 percent are planning to implement such technologies within the next six months, and 8 percent are planning to do so within the next year
- 85 percent of organisations said that the future growth of RPA is promising
India Key Findings
- 95 percent of organisations felt that RPA has improved overall business operationscost and time savings (83 percent) as the most significant benefit associated with RPA adoption, and RPA as a catalyst for driving digital transformation (76 percent)
- In terms of factors that organisations consider when drawing up an RPA budget, most organisations ranked implementation costs (75 percent) as the most important factor, followed by maintenance costs (62 percent) and ancillary costs (44 percent)
- Of the organisations that are not currently using RPA solutions and technologies (50 percent), 27 percent are planning to implement such technologies within the next six months, and 11 percent are planning to do so within the next year
- More than nine in 10 (93 percent) organisations said that the future growth of RPA is promising
Singapore Key Findings
- Among the five markets, Singapore holds the highest percentage of financial institutions (19 percent) that do not use any of the five disruptive technologies (artificial intelligence, business process management, machine learning, deep learning and predictive analytics)
- Almost eight in 10 (79 percent) organisations felt that RPA has improved overall business operations, with a reduction in manpower or burden of administrative personnel (68 percent) as the most significant benefit, and RPA as a catalyst for driving digital transformation (68 percent)
- In terms of factors that organisations consider when drawing up an RPA budget, most organisations ranked maintenance costs (88 percent) as the most important factor, followed by implementation costs (59 percent) and ancillary costs (59 percent)
- Of the organisations that implemented RPA solutions and technologies during the pandemic, most ranked the increased cost and time savings (75 percent) as well as the reduction in manpower or burden of administrative personnel (75 percent) as the most important factors
- 71 percent of organisations said that the future growth of RPA is promising
Malaysia Key Findings
- 93 percent of organisations felt that RPA has improved overall business operations, with increasing efficiencies and speed within the organisation as the most main driver of RPA adoption (86 percent), followed by allowing workers to concentrate on higher value tasks (70 percent) and reducing errors (68 percent)
- In terms of factors that organisations consider when drawing up an RPA budget, most organisations ranked implementation costs (69 percent) as the most important factor, followed by maintenance costs (62 percent), ancillary costs (49 percent) and business process value (49 percent)
- Within the next two to three years, 41 percent of organisations expect to invest approximately up to 50 percent of their total automation budget in RPA, and 36 percent organisations expect to invest approximately up to 75 percent of their total automation budget in RPA
- Of the 56 percent of organisations that are not currently using RPA solutions and technologies, 13 percent are planning to implement such technologies within the next six months, and 16 percent are planning to do so within the next year
- More than eight in 10 (84 percent) organisations said that the future growth of RPA is promising
To access the full APAC report findings and insights, please click here.
About the report:
The research was commissioned by Blue Prism. Respondents include 802 global business leaders in Australia (200), Hong Kong (201), India (201), Malaysia (100) and Singapore (100). All respondents have worked in financial services for 10 years or more and are in companies with more than 10 employees. All interviews were conducted online from September to October 2021.
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Azoya Turnkey Social Commerce SaaS Empowers Hong Kong Retailers to Capitalize on Booming Private Traffic
Solution connects companies and consumers amid lockdowns and social distancing
SHENZHEN AND HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 21 February 2022 – Azoya, an award-winning social commerce solution provider and full-service agency based in China today launched a turnkey social commerce suite, which assists renown cultural-retail pioneer K11 to develop a robust social presence in the Greater Bay Area (GBA). As a leading solution provider, with over 9 years of market expertise in China e-commerce and social media private domain marketing skills, Azoya also supports dozens of premium international practices to grow their businesses in China’s immense retail market.
The escalating Covid-19 situation continues to affect Hong Kong retailers. Shopping malls, pharmacies and duty-free businesses cannot get access to foreign customers and tourists, while local customers must continue to comply with social distancing. In response, retailers are turning to digital methods to continue their operations and serve customers whose demand for merchandise remains strong.
As an initiative to service the large portfolio of tenants, K11, an unique concept brand combines art and commerce in commercial with a growing portfolio of brands across different sectors in Greater China and around the world, which owns the iconic K11 Art Mall and K11 MUSEA, is exploring the opportunity with Azoya to deploy social commerce using the popular WeChat platform. As part of the solution, Azoya successfully assisted K11 to launch K11 Go HK WeChat mini-program using the proprietary technology of Azoya SaaS, and fully integrating with WeChat Work, where customers can interact directly with tenants and smart sales consultants. The mini-program leverages K11’s strong portfolio of tenants and capacity of acquiring customer traffic both offline and online to increase overall brand awareness, customer loyalty and revenues for tenants, including Beyorg, Carbali, Champion, Kids 21, L’Occitane, Penhaligon’s, Thann and a dozen more brands who are also available on the physical premises.
One of the key features of the mini-program launched by Azoya is to integrate deeply with K11 membership system KLUB11. The fully-customized solution allows K11’s private domain customers to earn and burn points in the same mechanism as in offline stores. Customers are allowed to redeem for both physical and virtual gifts. During the social distancing stipulation, this approach boosts exposure for tenants looking for increased access to customers.
According to latest WeChat Open Class Pro, almost 97% of shopping centers in mainland China have launched mini-programs, and total transactions of WeChat mini-program from the retail, travel, and catering sectors have surged 100%. Azoya is continuing to upgrade the solution to better support retailers that want to capitalize on this boom. “Consumers want to form a closer relationship with brands in WeChat according to our study and practice. Our data shows over 34% of customers that participated in group chats have made at least 1 purchase in the past year, and we think the number will continue to increase,” says Davy Huang, director of business development from Azoya, “We are working with our retail partners to transform a large amount of idle sales reps into smart digital beauty advisors, who can interact with customers in WeChat groups, and convert interpersonal connections into deeper customer relationships.”
Backed by cutting-edge technology, Azoya’s solution continues to help brands and retailers quickly set a presence for the WeChat ecosystem and marketplaces, and solve practical challenges of operating WeChat ads, content, livestream campaigns, and various other WeChat Ecosystem activities. The company, founded in 2013, is eyeing major growth over the next several years, and plans to power global retailers and brands with indigenous e-commerce solutions to help them to grow in China.
About Azoya:
Azoya is a leading China e-commerce enabler, which endeavours to help overseas brands and retailers break into China via e-commerce. The company prides itself on being the e-commerce leader that has signed exclusive agreements with the largest number of overseas retailers in China, including K11 Hong Kong, Feelunique, Pharmacy Online, and FragranceNet. With its all-encompassing services and dedicated specialist team, the company has won trust from more than 50 overseas retailers in 12 countries. Learn more: https://azoyagroup.com
About K11 Group
K11 Group was founded in 2008 by renowned entrepreneur Adrian Cheng. The unique concept brand combines art and commerce in commercial and residential real estate, and a growing portfolio of brands across different sectors in Greater China and around the world.
A destination 10 years in the making, K11 MUSEA, K11 Group’s most ambitious Cultural-Retail development, opened its doors in August 2019. Reinvigorating Hong Kong’s waterfront, Cheng’s vision is to make K11 MUSEA the Silicon Valley of Culture that will facilitate a broader discussion on the interconnectedness of creativity, culture and innovation.
In addition to its flagship K11 Art Malls, K11 Group also operates K11 ATELIER, a network of office buildings for the next-generation workforce; luxury residences for worldly travellers K11 ARTUS; open education platform K11 KULTURE ACADEMY; consulting and market research institution K11 Future Taskforce; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong’s not-for-profit to incubate Chinese artists and curators; K11 Craft & Guild Foundation, a foundation that is dedicated to preserving traditional Chinese crafts and bringing them into the future.
K11 Group is based in Hong Kong SAR and has operations in Greater China, as well as investments in Europe and the US.
Through K11 Group, Cheng’s stated aim is to enrich new consumers’ daily lives through the power of creativity, culture and innovation. This work will create a new global identity for Chinese millennials as well as cultivate opportunities for communities to thrive, connect, work and shop. By 2026, K11 Group will have gained a footprint of 40 projects (GFA 2.92million sq. m.) in 10 cities across Greater China. K11 was honoured by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies in 2019 for its disruptive retail model.
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Two Herbs Herbal Hair Treatment Launches Affordable & Transparent Herbal Treatment Services For Customers Suffering From Hair Loss
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 21 February 2022 – Two Herbs Herbal Hair Treatment has recently launched affordable and transparent herbal treatment services for customers suffering from typical hair loss problems and scalp problems.
Two Herbs uses a blend of two different types of herbs, 100% Chinese and ayurvedic herbs, in their treatment services and products. This treatment process provides customers with a higher chance of scalp recovery, promotes hair growth, and improves hair/scalp conditions within a week.
The ingredients used for their herbal hair loss treatment have been proven by studies to aid in the growth of new hair and slow down the process of hair loss. Their products and treatment also do not contain any harmful chemical additives tested and have been proven by HSA to be 100% free of chemicals. Two Herbs also aims to never hard-sell any products or treatments or require customers to sign any packages.
Two Herbs wants to make hair treatments in Singapore affordable and accessible for anyone facing embarrassing hair or scalp problems. Customers can choose to walk in for their dandruff scalp treatment or hair loss treatment services. Alternatively, customers may also purchase their do-it-yourself (DIY) treatment products on the website and apply them at their convenience.
Besides hair treatment services, there are also treatments services catered for specific scalp problems. Two Herbs offers collagen mask for dry scalp, scalp peeling mask for detoxing of the scalp and volcanic mud mask for oil scalp problems. Their mask treatment is available online for $18, and walk-in treatments at the salon cost $28.
About Two Herbs Herbal Hair Treatment
Two Herbs is a Singapore-based hair salon founded and led by Riff Lim Kian Hong.
Riff Lim Kian Hong is a certified trichologist and has been in the industry for over 16 years since 2004. He started concocting his formulation of ayurvedic and Chinese herbs to treat his wife’s post-pregnancy hair loss problems.
His successful results have led him to open up the brand Two Herbs, which is Singapore’s first and only salon that focuses on using 100% Chinese and ayurvedic herbs in its treatment and products.
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