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Economist Impact: Last chance to register! Asia’s unmissable technology event of 2022 starts TOMORROW

Technology for Change Week Asia: Applying technology for the social good takes place this week online and in-person, March 8th – 11th 2022.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – More than 2,000 attendees have already registered for Economist Impact’s Technology for Change Week Asia, a dynamic virtual week exploring how technology-based and data-driven solutions can be applied to long-standing social challenges, and also connect with the consumer and talent of today.

Half of the world’s internet users live in Asia, which leads in digital innovation worldwide across a range of sectors. Blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, 5G, the internet of things and a myriad of digital services and devices have been heralded as essential to new economies.

It is not too late to register for your free place at Technology for Change Week Asia to stay ahead of the curve! For online registration and event details, please visit the website: techforchange.economist.com.

We will also be broadcasting LIVE from Singapore at the PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay on Thursday, March 10th from 10am -1.45pm – you may register your interest to attend the in-person panels and networking lunch here.

We would like to thank our event sponsors and supporters for their help in building momentum for Technology for Change Week Asia, including Amber Group and East Ventures. Please see their testimonials for our event below:

Amber Group is supporting the Economist Impact’s Tech for Change Week which will convene leaders across the public, private and civil sectors to discuss modern social challenges. Amber Group will share its approaches for addressing major issues around connectivity infrastructure, financial inclusion and education at this event.

East Ventures is elated to contribute in facilitating the impactful discussions among the policy makers, entrepreneurs, business leaders in fostering social innovation. This is part of East Ventures’ commitment in creating sustainable digital ecosystem, highlighting the importance of ESG approach in investment, and supporting the SDGs Goals.

Highly anticipated sessions include:

March 8th – Panel: internet identities and data security in the digital age

Edmon Chung, Chief executive, DotAsia

Dakota Gruener, Executive director, ID2020

Dominic Chan, Director for National Digital Identity Government Technology Agency, Singapore

Karthik Ramanathan, Senior vice president, cyber and intelligence (C&I) solutions, Asia Pacific, Mastercard

March 9th – Spotlight Interview: staying ahead of the curve in the fintech space

Michael Wu, Co-founder and chief executive officer, Amber Group

Michael Frank, Manager, policy and insights, Economist Impact (Interviewer)

March 10th – Panel: the battle for talent—nurturing, acquiring and retaining talent for growth [Broadcasting from Singapore LIVE]

Evan Dumas, Head of enterprise, Asia and India, Pluralsight

Stephen Wong, Senior vice president and executive director of Public Policy Institute, Our Hong Kong Foundation

U-Zyn Chua, Co-founder and chief technology officer, Cake DeFi

Juliana Chua, Regional head, digital transformation, EssilorLuxottica

Don’t miss your chance to hear 70+ leading experts share practical business insights including:

Dr. Lim Hyesook, Minister of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea

Dr. Pakorn Peetathawatchai, President, Stock exchange of Thailand

Tan Kiat How, Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

Ridwan Kamil, West Java Governor, Government of The Republic of Indonesia

Vincent Wang, General manager, global publishing and global esports, Tencent Games

Kathleen Reen, Senior director public policy and philanthropy APAC, Twitter

Simon Milner, Vice president, public policy, APAC, Meta

Howard Lee, Deputy chief executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Sunil Setlur, Global chief people officer, Gojek

and many more.

View the full agenda.

To engage with Technology for Change Week Asia on social media, use #EconTechforChange in your conversations and follow @EconomistEvents.

Technology for Change Week Asia is supported by Amber Group, Cake DeFi, East Ventures, Catapult, HCL Technologies, Mastercard, Tencent, Laiye, Microsoft, Pluralsight, Seagate Technology and Syngenta.

About Economist Impact

Economist Events is now Economist Impact, empowering businesses, governments and foundations to catalyse change and enable progress. Uniting the expertise The Economist Group is known for under a single brand, Economist Impact brings together policy research and insights, data visualisation, custom storytelling, events and media.

Economist Impact combines the rigour of a think tank with the creativity of a media brand, engaging an influential audience in the areas of sustainability, healthcare and new globalisation. View our global events.

#EconomistImpact

About Amber Group

Amber Group is a leading global digital asset platform, and a fintech unicorn backed by world-class investors such as Temasek, Sequoia, Tiger Global, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, and Blockchain.com. Founded in 2017, the company has cumulatively traded over $1T since inception, with $5B in assets under management.

For more information, visit www.ambergroup.io

Cake DeFi

Cake DeFi is a fully transparent, highly innovative and regulated fintech platform dedicated to providing access to decentralised financial services and applications by enabling users to generate returns from their crypto and digital assets. It is operated and registered in Singapore and is fully compliant with all regulatory requirements of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

By enabling and empowering its users to harness the potential of decentralized finance, Cake DeFi aims to educate and inform people around the world on crypto and DeFi in a simple, easy to understand and hassle-free manner.

For more information, visit www.cakedefi.com

East Ventures

East Ventures is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore. Founded in 2009, East Ventures has transformed into a holistic platform that provides multi-stage investment, including Seed and Growth for over 200 companies in Southeast Asia.

An early believer in the startup ecosystem in Indonesia, East Ventures is the first investor of Indonesia’s unicorn companies, namely Tokopedia and Traveloka. Other notable companies in the portfolio include Ruangguru, Warung Pintar, Kudo (acquired by Grab), Loket (acquired by Gojek), Tech in Asia, Xendit, IDN Media, MokaPOS (acquired by Gojek), ShopBack, KoinWorks, Waresix, and Sociolla.

East Ventures was named the most consistent top performing VC fund globally by Preqin, and the most active investor in SEA and Indonesia by various media.

For more information, visit east.vc

Catapult

Catapult is the first leadership learning hub in Southeast Asia backed by leading real estate developer CapitaLand, designed to groom Asia’s next generation of leaders by curating learning experiences focused on Leadership, Innovation, and Energy for Peak Performance delivered through experiential, immersive and impactful learning journeys.

For more information, visit www.catapult.com.sg

HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships.

HCL also takes pride in its many diversity, social responsibility, sustainability, and education initiatives. Through its worldwide network of R&D facilities and co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities, and over 197,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ across 52 countries, HCL delivers holistic services across industry verticals to leading enterprises, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000.

For more information, visit www.hcltech.com

Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

For more information, visit www.mastercard.com

Tencent

Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world. Founded in 1998 with our headquarters in Shenzhen, China, Tencent’s guiding principle is to use technology for good. Our communication and social services connect more than one billion people globally, helping them to keep in touch with friends and family, access transportation and pay for daily necessities. Tencent publishes some of the world’s most popular video games and other high-quality digital content, and offers a range of enterprise services like cloud computing and fintech.

For more information, visit www.tencent.com/en-us

Laiye

Laiye was founded in 2015 by two Ph.D. Ivy League graduates from Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, and in 2021 announced its Series C+ funding round, with a $50M injection. Laiye operates via a global team across Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. It’s Intelligent Automation solutions are in use at enterprise customers in the insurance, communications, electric power, finance, retail, and healthcare industries to build end-to-end automation solutions.

Laiye has rich experience in RPA and AI and helps businesses and people realize their full potential by optimizing the human-machine collaborative alliance with sophisticated, dynamic, productivity enhancing digital, low-code “workforce solutions.” Laiye delivers the deepest, most advanced AI/RPA/NLP solutions to help businesses become more efficient, effective, agile, and successful. And it frees people to focus on meaningful, innovative, mission-critical initiatives. Core technologies include robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, natural language processing (NLP), conversational intelligence, text recognition, and image recognition.

For more information, visit www.laiye.com/en

Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/en-sg

Pluralsight

Pluralsight – The technology workforce development company

At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology and develop the skills of tomorrow. With assessments, learning paths and courses authored by industry experts, our platform helps businesses and individuals benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products.

For more information, visit www.pluralsight.com

Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximise humanity’s potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion terabytes of data capacity.

For more information, visit www.seagate.com/sg/en

Syngenta

Syngenta is one of the world leaders in agricultural innovation and has a legacy spanning more than 250 years globally, and more than 90 years in Asia. At Syngenta Asia Pacific, over 5000 people across 14 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet.

We contribute to our global mission to feed the region safely, sustainably and with respect for the planet. We work with farmers across the region to improve their productivity through the use of our breakthrough products and technologies in Crop Protection and Seeds.

For more information, visit www.syngenta.com.sg

BHG Singapore Successfully Implements Leading Unified Commerce Solution in Partnership with Dynamicweb

As part of its digital transformation strategy, Singapore’s leading department store BHG Singapore has implemented a leading Unified Commerce solution and strategy with the help of Dynamicweb. This deployment will play a critical role in BHG’s plan of transitioning into a new business model.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – Dynamicweb is pleased to announce that it has recently completed the implementation of a unified commerce solution for BHG Singapore. BHG Singapore is a department store operating four stores (including one online store) across Singapore; BHG is currently undergoing a major transformation involving its merchandise, systems, and processes. Successful implementation of a unified commerce solution is likely to be the foundation of the company’s next phase of digital transformation.

BHG Singapore’s digital transformation strategy is a component of its 5-year transformation plan, and it entails much more than going online or leveraging advanced technology tools. The goal of this plan is to evolve into a new business model and the unified commerce solution is pivotal to this strategy. Interestingly, the recently implemented unified commerce solution by Dynamicweb is one of the earliest in Singapore, and will allow BHG Singapore to propel towards the next phase of its transformation with several exciting plans.

Dynamicweb enables BHG Singapore to:

  • Become more customer-centric and eliminate channel silos by leveraging one single commerce platform
  • Deliver a seamless shopping experience where BHG can offer a Click and Collect experience not seen before. The customer can fulfill their order and, if needed, pickup part of the order in one store, another product in another and get the rest delivered at a moment of their choosing.
  • Offer the same flagship product experience in their smaller stores by introducing the endless aisle concept.
  • Introduce effortless check-outs, where customers can make their purchase whenever ready, at any spot of the store. Skip the traditional cashier queue and be served by staff with Mobile Point-of-Sale.


In the next phase of digital transformation, BHG Singapore plans to introduce AI software for hyper-personalization, merge online and offline channels with concepts such as virtual stores, introduce predictive analytics, and build an ecosystem around the concept of a platform as a business model.

“As customers nowadays are accustomed to more channels to interact, how can we ensure that we understand their shopping habits if they shop online, in our flagship store, or even interact with our partner ecosystem? For BHG it was a must-have to be able to really get these customer experience insights and a big reason why we needed a unified commerce solution,” says BHG Singapore CFO Jheeva Subramanian. “In 2020, we spent time going out to the market trying to find the solution. While there are a lot of claims about unified commerce solutions out there, those were not actually fitting the concept that we have in mind. When we came across Dynamicweb, we realized that they understood our vision, industry, and why we want to do certain things. We chose Dynamicweb because we believe it is the fit we were looking for.”

Join Dynamicweb’s special webinar with Forrester explaining how ecommerce and PIM goes hand in hand and BHG talking about their transformational journey with the CFO as a change agent for digital transformation (dynamicweb.com).

About BGH Singapore:

BHG Singapore is a department store in Singapore which has become synonymous with quality, value and service. It currently operates four stores (including one online store). The department store was established in 1994 as Seiyu Wing On Department Store under a joint venture between Seiyu, Ltd (Japan) and Wing On Pte Ltd (Hong Kong). Today it operates under the BHG brand name and has become an established name in Singapore.

About Dynamicweb:

Dynamicweb offers a cloud-native composable eCommerce Suite, enabling customers to deliver better digital customer experiences and to scale ecommerce success through Content Management, Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, and Product Information Management solutions. Dynamicweb’s 300+ partners, 200+ employees in offices all around the globe are proud to support well over 4,000 brands, which includes leading brands like Lego Wear, Vredestein, Unilever, Winnebago, L’Oréal, Flying Tiger, Toyota, Europcar, and Skanska. Built on Dynamicweb, these customers are empowered to gain lifelong customer relations, increase revenue and grow their brands. To find out more about Dynamicweb and its Unified eCommerce solutions, please visit https://www.dynamicweb.com

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Rhenus Greater China Sets Up New Office in Xi’an

Rhenus will bring innovative solutions and leverage on its global expertise to provide comprehensive support for the customers in Northwest China.

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – Leading global logistics service provider Rhenus expands its network with a new branch office in Xi’an. Rhenus Greater China deepens its local presence with its first foray into Shaanxi, to strengthen direct support for the country’s strategic emerging industries, while bringing its reputed international expertise and innovation to the Northwest area.

The Shaanxi province is known to be home to science-technology innovations as well as high-technology sectors. Since 2018, Xi’an has developed major industrial parks and zones focused on strategic sectors including information technology, electronics, biopharmaceuticals and automobile manufacturing.

The new Rhenus office will offer an expanded range of services, including air, ocean, rail freight and trucking. Energy solutions that include heavy lift handling and transport, rig move and field supply concepts will also be available.

“Xi’an is the heart of the ancient Silk Route and a key city in the modern Belt and Road Initiative. It is also home to numerous high-tech companies, one of our key customer groups. Having an office in Xi’an will allow us to further build on the road and rail freight connections to Europe and improve our overall service portfolio to better support our customers,” said Cliff Xu, CEO of Rhenus Air & Ocean Greater China.

With 20 offices and counting, Rhenus Greater China is one of the largest networks in the Asia-Pacific region. Key focus areas include rail freight from China to Europe, cross-border road freight and warehousing solutions. For more information, visit www.rhenus.com/en/cn.

About Rhenus

The Rhenus Group is one of the leading logistics specialists with global business operations and annual turnover amounting to EUR 5.4 billion. 33,500 employees work at 820 business sites and develop innovative solutions along the complete supply chain. Whether providing transport, warehousing, customs clearance or value-added services, the family business pools its operations in various business units where the needs of customers are the major focus at all times.

#Rhenus

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President of Laos Urges Strengthening of Local Military Units

President Thongloun speaks to local military units
President Thongloun speaks to military leaders at a meeting last week.

President of Laos and Party Secretary-General, Thongloun Sisoulith, has urged authorities to strengthen local military units to better maintain national defense and security.

Hungry Vientiane Restaurant Patrons Unfazed by Nearby Fire

A brushfire by a restaurant along the Mekong River

In a recent video clip that has gone viral, restaurant patrons in Vientiane Capital can be seen calmly continuing their meal despite a raging brushfire outside.

Ministry of Health and WHO Investigate Local Spread of Omicron Variant in Bolikhamxay

Contact tracing and specimen collection is also taking place in neighboring villages.
Contact tracing and specimen collection is also taking place in neighboring villages.

Following the detection of the first local case of the Omicron variant in Laos, an investigation is now underway to identify the source of infection.

YGG SEA and IVC Commit $750K in Novel Play and Earn God Game Apeiron

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 4 March 2022 – Foonie Magus, the company behind Apeiron, the world’s first god-game with NFTs, has announced that it will receive $750,000 of investment from Yield Game Guilds Southeast Asia (YGG SEA) and Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), in a strong show of support for the metaverse’s hottest new project. The two organizations will use the money to acquire their very own YGG SEA Constellation in Apeiron’s SEA Mythologically-inspired galaxy, which will come with its own NFTs, cosmetics, and tokens for guild scholars to enjoy.

Apeiron is bringing back classic god-game gameplay while modernizing it with influences from RPGs, roguelikes, and grand strategy games, among others. Players will act as Godlings, newborn gods, and take over planets full of little Doods. Every Planet offers a different gameplay experience and is a unique NFT; players will be able to earn a variety of tokens and additional NFTs simply by playing the game.

Frank Cheng, CEO of Foonie Magus, was thrilled to announce this investment: “It has been a humbling and very pleasant learning experience to work with them and to gain their early support, and we’re excited to be able to continue this partnership long into the future.” Evan Spytma, CEO of YGG SEA, also spoke confidently about the deal: an ultimate strategic god game placed in outer space. How can you go wrong?”

Apeiron is currently in its seed round with a fully diluted valuation of $80m, and is continuing to attract partners and collaborators. The 1st Apeiron NFT Presale is scheduled at the end of Q1 2022, with the game planning to launch late 2022.

About Apeiron

Apeiron is the world’s first play-and-earn godgame built with NFTs. Apeiron will have integrated gameplay inspired by classic god games such as Populous and Black & White, as well as a unique card-based action-adventure battle system. You will be able to build planets from on high before descending to the ground as a controllable Avatar to dive into dungeons and unravel the universe’s mysteries. Grow your planet until it can no longer grow, then reset the planetary cycle to allow for further advancement and exciting late-game alliance-level GvE and GvG activities. Apeiron will have a tri-token model, meaning three different tokens that will populate their ecosystem; a governance token, play to earn token, and a premium alliance token. For more information, visit Apeiron’s Website | Youtube | Medium | Discord | Telegram | Twitter

#Apeiron

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Laos Confirms 224 New Cases of Covid-19

Savannakhet Covid-19 Update

Laos has recorded 224 cases of Covid-19 across the country today.