Saly Sorsaksit and Noud Sivanxay have a golden rule: be ready.
“We decided before getting married that we would be fully ready as parents before even having kids. It is a big step; we must know when it’s best [to have children] and how to care for them and each other as parents,” said Saly, who married her sweetheart last month after a two-year relationship.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 8 February 2024 – Kingdee International (0268.HK), the leading SaaS company in China, is proud to announce the launch of Kingdee Cloud Stellar, the first FREE ERP App designed exclusively for Hong Kong’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This groundbreaking solution empowers businesses to take charge of their future by providing comprehensive ERP functionalities tailored to their needs. With a limited availability of only 1,000 free quotas, this exclusive offer highlights the exceptional value it brings. Eligible Hong Kong SMEs are urged to act swiftly to secure their access to Kingdee Cloud Stellar and revolutionize their business operations.
Resolving all kinds of management difficulties, facilitating business automation
In business operations, decision-makers must navigate a rapidly changing market environment, addressing challenges like swiftly adapting to new market demands, catering to personalized customer service, and keenly identifying market trends. Handling such challenges can be time-consuming, potentially reducing a company’s competitive edge. Moreover, human management can lead to administrative chaos, including issues such as information silos, disjointed processes, inaccurate data, and complex inventory management, destabilizing growth. Concurrently, stringent financial controls are crucial to mitigate financial risks and prevent resource wastage. Thus, effective strategies and streamlined processes become essential for sustainable growth amidst evolving market dynamics.
To address various challenges, intelligent management is crucial. Kingdee has consistently provided enterprise management and cloud services, widely adopted across various industries.
The newly launched ERP system, Kingdee Cloud Stellar, is specially designed for local SMEs, it helps companies by streamlining the online operation system and digital management system, supports cross-platform with the functions below:
1. Financial Cloud: Provides comprehensive integration of business, finance, and taxation, enhancing businesses with financial functionalities like intelligent accounting, reporting, credit management, and asset oversight.
2. Purchase, Sales, and Inventory Cloud: Through integrated supply chain management, it minimizes expenses and boosts efficiency, showcasing comprehensive cost accounting across purchasing, sales, and warehouse operations, along with transaction oversight and operational analysis.
3. Tax Cloud: Acts as a tax expertise for companies and manage taxes through invoicing, incorporating functionalities like invoice handling, smart invoicing, invoice validation, and tax analysis control.
4. Order Marketplace: Construct a tailored online marketplace for enterprises, incorporating premium marketing, digital ordering, promotional strategies, interactive advertising, and versatile payment options.
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With Kingdee Cloud Stellar APP, corporates can effortlessly handle various business issues in real-time, whether it’s inventory, pricing, reports, or various documents, while easily grasping key data indicators. Furthermore, they can delve into data-driven deep analyses, crafting tailored analytical approaches to make precise and effective decisions. Once an enterprise adopts intelligent management, processes from procurement, financial management, inventory control to sales become traceable. The system is versatile, catering to over 300 industry-specific management attributes, facilitating an integrated approach to supply chain, financial, and tax management. Additionally, it offers tax risk analysis, aiding businesses in mitigating potential tax-related challenges across diverse sectors.
Kingdee is now offering a 3-year free access to Kingdee Cloud Stellar (Financial Cloud and Purchase, Sales, and Inventory Cloud) for those eligible local SMEs. Till now, Kingdee’s service quality and safety have consistently been recognized, notably earning international information security certifications and domestic telecom-grade IDC data storage. This ensures data security, providing customers with confidence in its use.
Enhance business efficiency by management automation in various industries
Amidst the market’s constant exploration and innovation, Kingdee’s array of cloud service products has garnered significant acclaim as industry benchmarks.
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So far Kingdee has provided services to over 7.4 million businesses worldwide, including Chow Tai Fook, Nan Fung Group, China Merchants Group, Huawei, Petro China International, Tao Heung Group and so on.
Through Kingdee’s management system, their clients tackled key challenges like financial management, tax compliance, risk, and internal control. Kingdee’s enterprise and cloud services efficiently streamline vast data, cutting down complexity and enhancing efficiency. This enables business leaders to make informed decisions using gathered insights, fostering collaborative business outcomes.
Ranked No.1 in Chinese SaaS market
IDC, the well-known market intelligence and demand generation company, announced IDC China Semiannual Enterprise Application (EA) Tracker, 2023 H1. In the report, Kingdee ranked 1st in SaaS EA, SaaS ERM (Cloud ERP) & Financial Cloud Service markets.
With its technologically advanced cloud services for medium to large enterprises, Kingdee has secured numerous top positions in China’s SaaS market, establishing itself as a market leader.
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 8 February 2024 – On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the UK Government in collaboration with the ASEAN secretariat proudly launched the ASEAN-UK SAGE Women in STEM Scholarships. This initiative aims to address gender disparities in STEM education and employment within ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste.
While girls outperform boys in mathematics and science in primary and secondary education across ASEAN countries, a gender gap starts to appear in tertiary STEM education with only 19.3% of women obtaining STEM degrees compared to 39.8% of men1. The 2022 UN progress report on SDG 5 – Gender Equality – reveals only 20% of jobs in STEM are held by women globally, and various studies highlight disparities in publication, pay, and career progression for women in STEM.
Recognising the importance of these issues, the UK, through the ASEAN-UK Supporting the Advancement of Girls’ Education Programme (ASEAN-UK SAGE), seeks to address gender disparities in STEM by providing more access to STEM education for women and girls in ASEAN and Timor-Leste. Emerging from the UK’s official Dialogue Partner status with ASEAN in 2021, ASEAN-UK SAGE is a pioneer initiative under the ASEAN-UK Plan of Action 2022-2026. Launched in 2023, ASEAN-UK SAGE is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) with a commitment of up to GBP 30 million, through to 2028. The programme is implemented by the British Council, SEAMEO Secretariat, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), and EdTech Hub in its first phase, with a focus on three critical areas: (i) strengthening foundational learning, (ii) engaging out-of-school children and marginalised groups, and (iii) breaking gender barriers to digital skills and employment.
The newly launched, ASEAN-UK SAGE Women in STEM scholarships will contribute to addressing underrepresentation of women in STEM by supporting access to UK education for women. The scholarships will support inspirational advocates in the STEM sector and promote role models for Women in STEM with viable, recognisable STEM careers.
ASEAN-UK SAGE Women in STEM Scholarships are open to women from across all ten ASEAN Member States and Timor-Leste, offering women a chance to transform their future and become pioneers in STEM fields across the region. 11 successful applicants from ASEAN and Timor-Leste will receive a fully funded one-year opportunity to complete a master’s degree at the prestigious University of Warwick or Imperial College London. The opportunity is open to women from ten ASEAN Member States, including Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam as well as Timor-Leste.
Secretary-General of ASEAN, H. E. Dr. Kao Kim Hourn said:
“ASEAN expresses pride in its partnership with the UK as the ASEAN-UK SAGE Programme marks the commencement of a robust cooperation, setting the tone for a fruitful dialogue partnership. The initiation of the ASEAN-UK SAGE Women in STEM Scholarships signifies our mutual dedication to improving inclusivity and increasing the presence of women in fields where their representation is traditionally lacking, specifically within STEM disciplines. ASEAN looks forward to more positive outcomes that the ASEAN – UK SAGE Programme will yield, fostering enhanced collaboration and mutual benefit between the regions.”
Ambassador, UK Mission to ASEAN, H. E. Sarah Tiffin said:
“The UK, as ASEAN Dialogue Partner, is committed to improving educational opportunities for women and girls in Southeast Asia, and we will do this through our flagship ASEAN-UK SAGE programme. As part of ASEAN-UK SAGE, in 2024 we are offering 11 scholarships for applicants across ASEAN member states, plus Timor Leste. Our scholarships will offer life-changing opportunities to young women in the region, planting the seed to empower and inspire future generations of women into STEM subjects. Our mission is simple: for women to have equal access to education, smash gender barriers and norms, and push up brilliant future female leaders. We thank our two world-leading UK universities – Imperial College, London and Warwick University – for supporting this endeavour.”
Summer Xia, Director South East Asia, British Council said:
“The British Council is proud to be a lead implementation partner of the ASEAN-UK SAGE programme. The Women in STEM scholarships address the underrepresentation of women in STEM leadership, and among the reasons for this underrepresentation are societal attitudes and perceptions about the role of women and girls in STEM. Complementing British Council Women in STEM Scholarships, ASEAN-UK SAGE Women in STEM Scholarships also aim to challenge these norms, empower women, create role models, and reinforce a positive attitude towards STEM education among women and girls.”
Applications for the ASEAN-UK SAGE Women in STEM Scholarships and the British Council Scholarships for Women in STEM are open until mid-April 2024, with both scholarships covering tuition fees, stipends, travel costs, visas, and health coverage fees.
For more information on the ASEAN – UK SAGE Women in STEM Scholarships, please visit: https://www.britishcouncil.id/en/programmes/education/sage
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 8 February 2024 – Technology for Change Asia will be held in Hong Kong on February 27th-28th 2024 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. This marks the beginning of a three-year commitment to stage the annual conference in the city.
Curated by Economist Impact and chaired by The Economist’s deputy editor, Tom Standage, the event will welcome 60 technology pioneers to share thought-provoking insights with an audience of 300 solutions-oriented leaders from across Asia-Pacific. Two days of dynamic conversation will cover hot topics including artificial intelligence, Web3, DeFi and crypto, the future of work, and the role of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in applying technology for impact.
Speaking ahead of the event, Tom Standage, Deputy editor, The Economist, said, “Technology is a welcome bright spot in a world beset by uncertainty and conflict. In fields from artificial intelligence to medicine, electric vehicles to solar power, the pace of progress is defying expectations—on the upside. But technology will only change lives for the better, and play a vital role in tackling global challenges, if it is deployed in an ethical and sustainable manner. Our aim in convening this event is to lead the discussion to ensure that it is.”
Globally renowned thought-leaders in powwow to make a change
An expert speaker line-up featuring the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales; futurologist and popular science writer, Michio Kaku; and leaders from Intel, Lenovo, J.P. Morgan, Amazon Web Services, Klook, EY, PayMe HSBC, Temasek, Tata Communications and more will unite in Hong Kong to deep-dive into how these technologies could reduce digital and financial inequality, transform the future of work and talent, and shape the future use of artificial intelligence.
Speaking ahead of the event, Mr Wales said: “The rise of generative AI will be as big as the invention of the World Wide Web, transforming and touching every organisation in every industry.”
Mr Kaku shared: “There are two computer revolutions rocking the world today. The first is a software revolution, heralded by chat bots which can write articles on a wide variety of topics better than most humans. This revolution rivals the ability of humans to write journals, essays, books, even songs, and raises the question of how intelligent AI systems have become. The second revolution may give us quantum computers millions of times more powerful than any digital computer. This revolution may give us control over life itself, with the ability to unravel fiendishly complex chemical and physical reactions that control cancer, photosynthesis, ageing, fusion, the weather, and even stars. Together, these two revolutions will redefine what we mean by intelligence.
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Asif Chaudhury, Managing Director, Asia at Economist Impact, said: “Asia-Pacific has unique challenges, but new technologies put resilient economic growth and a more sustainable future within reach. Through an exciting mix of keynote addresses, panel discussions and debates, Technology for Change Asia will showcase the latest technology solutions resonating with today’s socially conscious consumers, attracting and retaining talent, and contributing to positive social change. Hong Kong—a financial centre and leading innovation and technology hub—is the ideal place to drive the conversation on change. We look forward to setting new milestones for our flagship event leveraging what Hong Kong has to offer”
The Event is sponsored by TATA Communications and Ernst & Young, and supported by Brand Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Tourism Board and InvestHK. Live translation into Cantonese and Putonghua will be offered by KUDO.
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The younger generation in Laos is showing a growing interest in learning the Chinese language, recognizing the potential for future job opportunities amidst a significant influx of Chinese investors into the country.
The Australian Embassy in Laos is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the prestigious Australia Awards Scholarships for study in Australia commencing in 2025. The scholarships are aimed at future Lao leaders across all sectors in Laos.
Hefu Noodles’ Hong Kong store offers the same menu as the mainland China market, maintaining high-quality standards and focusing on healthy, green, and organic principles. The Herbal Soup, Longevity Vegetables, and Nutritious Tea ranges are now available, and the main dishes and snacks are priced from HK$10 to HK$188.
Hefu Noodles stores are located in more than 80 cities across China, with more than 20 million members, and the number of its directly operated outlets has now exceeded 600. With Hong Kong as the first store for Hefu Noodles’ overseas exploration, it is believed that it will go overseas and explore the global market soon.
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PTE Core received approval from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) last year and can now be taken to provide proof of English language proficiency for the purposes of permanent economic immigration to Canada or Canadian citizenship.
The first PTE Core tests can be taken from February 12 onwards including in test centres in Baguio and Makarti, Philippines.
PTE Core is a new addition to the Pearson Test of English portfolio, sharing many of the unique characteristics of PTE Academic. It is a two-hour, computer-based exam taken in a test centre environment that tests four key English language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
With high demand in Canada for professionals in areas such as nursing, engineering and web development, the approval of PTE Core arrives at a good time for test takers and opens new opportunities for Pearson.
PTE Core will be rolled out across Pearson’s existing network, with more than 400 PTE centres in 118 countries.
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