LOS ANGELES, US – Media OutReach – 14 March 2023 – De Beers natural and responsibly sourced diamonds shined on Rihanna, Ariana DeBose and Halle Bailey at the 95th annual Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, honouring the finest achievements of film.
From left to right: Ariana Debose, Rihanna and Halle Bailey in De Beers Jewellers
Rihanna, dripping in layers of classic diamond pieces, dazzled during her performance of her Oscar nominated song “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Ariana DeBose, who presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role after her historic 2022 win, was radiant in edgy diamond ear climbers.
Halle Bailey shined in a diamond necklace from De Beers’ The Alchemist of Light High Jewellery collection featuring a 20.57 carat diamond as she proudly debuted a new trailer for her highly anticipated live action version of The Little Mermaid.
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About De Beers Jewellers
Founded in London, with a flagship store on Old Bond Street and a presence in the most exclusive locations around the world, De Beers Jewellers is the pinnacle of luxury diamond jewellery. Building on De Beers’ 130 years of expertise, the House glorifies the world’s most beautiful diamonds through creativity and craftsmanship in bold, distinctive designs.
De Beers is invested in ensuring all the diamonds it discovers create a lasting positive impact for people and the places where they are found. This comes with a pledge to build a better future – one that is fairer, safer, cleaner and healthier, in which communities thrive, ethical practices are maintained, and the natural environment is protected. We call this long-term commitment Building Forever.
De Beers Jewellers has 37 stores globally and ships to 15 markets via debeers.com.
Cambodia’s Digital Government Committee plans to make a Khmer language version of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) technology, ChatGPT, available to the public.
HANOI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 13 March 2023 – VinFast Trading & Service Co., Ltd. announced the deployment of the “Non-stop service network” to enhance the customer’s electric vehicle ownership experience. Accordingly, from March 15, 2023, all VinFast’s corporate-owned service workshops in Vietnam will operate continuously from 8 AM to 9 PM daily, including Sunday.
Instead of operating from 8 AM to 5 PM from Monday to Saturday, with daily afternoon breaks and Sundays off, VinFast is rolling out the “Non-stop service network” from March 15, 2023, with three additional operational criteria: no days off – no afternoon breaks – continuous service from morning to evening. Customers can have their vehicles serviced, repaired, and maintained at any time from 8 AM to 9 PM on all days of the week.
The adjustment applies to all VinFast’s service workshops nationwide from March 15, 2023.
The increase in service time from 48 to 91 hours/week without interruption will ensure that VinFast’s customers can have their vehicles serviced more flexibly and conveniently, a growing need considering VinFast’s rapidly increasing market share within the country.
In addition to the “Non-stop service network”, VinFast also provides a unique “24/7 Mobile Service” in Vietnam, including Mobile Repair, Mobile Charging, and 24/7 Rescue, ready to support customers anytime, anywhere.
VinFast has also officially implemented the “Non-stop Global Repair and Consulting Center” on a global scale. The center has qualified experts on call for 24-hour shifts to promptly advise and provide technical support for service workshops in international markets where VinFast cars are present.
The simultaneous deployment of the “Non-stop service network”, “24/7 Mobile Service”, and “Non-stop Global Repair and Consulting Center” are drastic steps towards outstanding customer service. This move boldly demonstrates VinFast’s commitment to its customers and its core values of high quality products, reasonable pricing, and outstanding after-sales services. Specifically, excellent customer experiences, a pinnacle of Asia-inspired dedication to customer and professional service, is one of VinFast’s competitive advantages, and it affirms the brand’s key “Customer-Centric” philosophy.
VinFast is the only car manufacturer in Vietnam and the first all-electric automotive company in Southeast Asia. The company has a diverse range of electrified vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, and buses, a comprehensive ecosystem including vehicle factories, battery factories, and a nationwide charging network of 150,000 charging points. VinFast is also the automotive company with the largest retail and service networks with 89 locations, covering 63 provinces and cities throughout Vietnam.
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The Data Centre is the first in Malaysia to be certified as a Titanium+ Tier facility by Green Climate Initiative (GCI), a testament to the Bank’s commitment to addressing climate change and the transition to a green, low carbon and climate-resilient economy
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 13 March 2023 – Hong Leong Bank’s (“HLB” or “the Bank”) new data center has received a Titanium+ Tier nod from the Green Climate Initiative (“GCI”), an industry-leading green technology accreditation organisation. With this accreditation, the Bank’s data center is officially a Certified Green Computing Facility and the only facility in Malaysia to achieve the prestigious Titanium+ ranking by scoring a near-perfect 99 out of 100 points in the Certified Green Computing Facility (“CGCF”) Weighted Scorecard.
HLB’s Chief Technology Officer William Streitberg receiving the Titanium+ Tier Certification from Green Climate Initiative’s (GCI) Avis Tan, Head of Sustainability Committee (Asia & Middle East), flanked by Huawei Enterprise Business Group, Financial Services Industry Director G.T Tan
This accreditation, which was presented at the Huawei Malaysia Digital Power Summit 2023, comes as the Bank continues to execute its strategic ESG initiatives, working towards its goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. In recent years, the Bank has gradually embedded ESG considerations throughout its business operations by implementing sustainability and environmental frameworks as part of its business strategy. The Bank’s new data center, which uses open-source, latest data governance architecture to enable real-time data processing, data mining, and in-depth analysis, was developed in line with the Bank’s overall ESG framework.
According to Domenic Fuda, Group Managing Director and CEO of HLB, climate change will remain the most profound generational challenge which the world faces today as well as a key emerging risk for financial institutions over the next few years, given the increased regulation, demands for transparency and the need for whole ecosystems to embrace the need for action now so that future impacts of climate change can be appropriately and effectively managed.
“We take both a short-term, as well as, a long-term view when it comes to addressing climate change by being steadfast in incorporating sustainability actions and policies into our daily operations and strategic initiatives. These initiatives and actions throughout our business are designed to create a positive impact across our customers, community and the environment, whether it’s in business enablers like a data center or through our products and services that customers use. This certification from GCI is a testament to our commitment to putting sustainability at the core of our operations. We are proud to have the first Titanium+ tiered data facility in Malaysia,” said Fuda.
Operationally, HLB has set the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15% to 25% by 2026, achieving net zero Scope 1 and 2 by 2030 and being carbon neutral by 2050. Some key initiatives that are aligned with these ESG commitments include:
Business and Corporate Banking Credit Policy and ESG Assessment Framework which takes an inclusionary approach to transition customers in high-risk sectors to adopt lower-carbon economic activities.
Developer End Financing Framework encourages property developers to adopt greener practices as those with green certifications for their development projects will be classified with low ESG risk profiles.
Regional Wealth Management ESG Framework guides the creation of responsible wealth management products with integrated ESG considerations.
Procurement Policy assesses the level of ESG adoption for its vendors across the entire value chain through the Bank’s Vendor Sustainability Self-Assessment.
Environmental Policy on Energy, Water and Waste Management monitors electricity and water consumption as well as manages waste and recycling measures. Accordingly, HLB has introduced bank-wide Energy Efficiency & Conservation (EE&C) initiatives to upgrade and retrofit its operational facilities.
Ceased financing of any greenfield coal-fired power plants beginning 1st July 2021 and new financing of all coal-fired power plants effective 1st July 2026.
Forest rehabilitation and conservation practices via its 15-hectare mangrove rehabilitation project in Kuala Selangor Nature Park, having so far planted over 40,000 trees, to offset carbon emissions, prevent soil erosion and assist the fishing ecosystem to help fishermen’s livelihoods and the HLB Earth Hero initiative which nurtures an environmentally responsible younger generation, whilst replanting trees in a forest in Sabah.
HLB’s new Data Centre is powered by Huawei Module Data Center which delivers simple and flexible deployment and expansion and most importantly, a self-optimisation system that reduces energy consumption and carbon footprint. For the successful deployment and attaining Malaysia’s first Titanium+ certification from GCI, Huawei also presented the Bank with the “Excellence Customer of Module Data Center” award under the Deployment in Finance Category 2022.
Vice President of Digital Power Business Group of Huawei Malaysia, Chong Chern Peng said, “We are grateful that our customer Hong Leong Bank has received this certification and recognition for Huawei’s Data Center Facility. In the pursuit of Next-Generation Data Centers, technological innovation will be a key force in ensuring sustainable development. Looking towards the future, Huawei will keep making breakthroughs in products and technologies through continuous investments in R&D and through extensive cooperation with customers, ecosystem partners, and industry organisations. Together, we can jointly usher in a new era of data center development”.
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A send-off ceremony was held to send Lao government officials to participate training program on leadership enhancement on Friday.
Fifteen vice ministers, vice governors from several provinces, director generals, and equivalent-level officials will visit Japan from 13 to 17 March to participate in a training program on leadership enhancement.
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 13 March 2023– BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) (“BEST” or the “Company”), a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China, held its first network conference for its BEST Malaysia and Singapore’s business partners in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
About 200 of Malaysia and Singapore BEST business partners were presented for this one-day event.
Johnny Chou, the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BEST Inc. also attended in this special occasion.
In his remarks at the conference, Johnny Chou expressed his appreciation to the business partners that have given unconditional supports the company, which has allowed BEST Inc’s business to grow stably in the region and continued to expand.
“Logistic is a promising large market. An efficient logistic is a key part of economy, internet and IT technology drive fast growth in ecommerce push for more efficient logistics, Mr Chou said in his opening remarks.
Logistics has a major influence on people life, it plays an important role in the growth and development of the local economy. The rise in local consumption drives for networked transportation, warehouse and integrated services, with the latest development of logistic where information technology (IT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), large data, wireless drive for digitization of logistics and increase the efficiency and services.
“With the consolidation and integration among the industry. It is foreseen that the next ten-years will be the golden age for logistics industry,” Mr Chou said in his opening remarks.
Discussing on the 2023 goals set for BEST Malaysia and Singapore, Mr Chou said, “We will continue to put our first priority in our PEOPLE, as they are assets and competitive advantage. To maintain the growing momentum in this region, BEST Inc. will continue to increase investment in express, freight and warehouse businesses.”
Besides that, Mr Chou also highlighted BEST’s commitment to further strengthen the relationship with business partners from business volume, coverage and service quality.
“We will concentrate on enhancing service quality and improving every aspect of customer experience. Meanwhile, we will speed up our expansion in Southeast Asia as we see tremendous e-commerce needs and increasing cross-border opportunities in the region. We are eyeing to build warehouse service partnership and develop SaaS service in this region,”
In 4th quarter 2022, BEST Inc. achieved 20.3% and 13.7 % increased year-on-year of parcel volume growth respectively in Malaysia and Singapore.
“Our ultimate goal is to achieve win-win and support our partners to realise profitable growth,” Mr Chow reiterated.
Also attended during the event include Mr. Xiaoqing Wang Vice, President, General Manager of BEST Global, Mr Eric Liang, Deputy General Manager of BEST Global, Mr Wang Hao, Network Senior Director of BEST SCM, Ms Jessy Sun General Manager of BEST Inc. Malaysia and Singapore and others BEST Inc’s regional key management personnels
Another highlight of the event is the recognition of outstanding business partners in Malaysia and Singapore with accordance to their excellent performance in terms of, time efficiency, parcel delivery, service quality, efficiency improvement, outbound performance and contribution.
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ABOUT BEST INC.
BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) is a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia. Through its proprietary technology platform and extensive networks, BEST offers a comprehensive set of logistics and value-added services, including freight delivery, supply chain management and global logistics services. BEST’s mission is to empower business and enrich life by leveraging technology and business model innovation to create a smarter, more efficient supply chain. For more information, please visit: http://www.best-inc.com/en/.
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