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GetGo Celebrates First Year Anniversary With Unveiling of New Car Sharing Mobile Application Features

Largest Point A-to-A car sharing service in Singapore, GetGo, thrives in the competitive car sharing industry. As it crosses its first year mark, it continues to improve and enhance the experience for its users. Its new promo code feature and growing fleet of cars makes car sharing an increasingly attractive way for users to get around the island.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 4 April 2022 – Singapore’s car ownership costs are one of the highest in the world and makes residents think twice about forking out the money for one.

But for those not ready to give up the convenience of driving and do not wish to put up with rising fuel costs and increasing COE prices – they can consider GetGo‘s enhanced car sharing service. In line with its first year anniversary, it has built in the capability of a promo code wallet. It continues to make improvements to its services and car fleet to enhance the customer experience.

Improved App Features Enhances Overall User Experience

With new easy-to-use features, GetGo’s app is now more shareable and accessible. Customers can look forward to a seamless experience with the app online and with renting out a car.

This promo code wallet allows users to receive, redeem and review promo codes with ease. They are able to view all the available promo codes they are able to apply for an upcoming car rental booking, view the validity period and full T&Cs of a promo code, and save them for future redemption.

Additionally, with the wallet, they are now able to apply a code to their booking in just one click, as opposed to manually keying it in during the rental process.

GetGo’s Year of Accelerated Growth

GetGo’s hourly car rental service makes renting a car hassle-free, affordable and enjoyable. With its enhanced user experience, customers can look forward to making car-sharing a viable transportation option.

Within a year from its inception in February 2021, GetGo has grown from being a relatively fresh face in the car-sharing scene to a formidable player in the industry.

What makes it stand out from the other car-sharing services in the market? Its unique Pay-As-You-Go policy. No deposits and no membership fees are required. Also, users can enjoy the flexibility and accessibility of car renting. This makes it easy for first-time users and those who use the service on a frequent basis.

When it first launched, it attracted a significant number of more than 20,000 users in a span of two months. They now have a network of over 1,000 locations islandwide, implement policies that safeguard drivers, and offer a total of 18 different car models.

Sustainable Car Sharing Solution

As Singapore pushes towards transforming into a greener, more sustainable city by 2030, GetGo’s car rental solutions are timely. With more experienced car rental services available in the market and car rental becoming easier and more convenient with car rental companies like GetGo, residents in Singapore may be ready to forgo the comforts of owning a car.

Solutions like these move the city a step in the right direction, in line with its efforts to reduce overall carbon emissions. Fewer cars on the road also means lesser demand for areas designated for parking. This frees up land for conversion to more green spaces for recreational use.

“GetGo is committed to the Singapore Green Plan 2030 by introducing more electric vehicles to our fleet,” the car sharing company declared. As of March 2022, it has introduced the Hyundai IONIQ Electric, Hyundai Kona Electric and the MG ZS Electric, with plans to introduce several more models.

“We see carsharing and hourly car rental services becoming an alternative option for Singaporeans that’s more economical and sustainable.”

About GetGo

GetGo is Singapore’s largest Point A-to-A carsharing service. To use its service, register, book and drive on its mobile app. It has more than 1,000 cars in over 1,000 locations islandwide. Users are required to only pay for the hours and mileage used, without needing to make payment for insurance, maintenance and fuel costs.

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Unusual Chilly Weather Puts Summer on Pause in Laos

Cows enjoy the cool weather.

An unusual cold snap has hit Laos bringing cold season temperatures during what is usually one of the hottest months of the year.

Australia Welcomes Vietnamese Workers Under Farm Visa Scheme

Vietnamese migrant workers on Australian farm.
Vietnamese migrant workers on Australian farm.

The Australian Agriculture Visa Program will be offering visas to around 1,000 Vietnamese agricultural workers under a new agreement between Vietnam and Australia.

Hong Kong Company New Generation Technology Aims to Promote the Landing and Popularization of NFT

By Demystifying the Market of NFT to Galvanize Individuals and Traditional Businesses with Extending Marketing Creativity

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 April 2022 – In 2021, with the hefty popularity of burgeoning concepts such as blockchain and metaverse, Non-fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) have swept the global market and become the new favorite of avant-garde players in the digital asset universe. Thanks to its three distinctive attributes of rarity, indivisibility and uniqueness, NFT has been repurposed to a newfangled technical carrier, which not only endows artworks with rareness, but also ensures that their ownership cannot be compromised, while conducting secured and traceable transactions. Numerous luxury brands, celebrities and artists have launched NFTs linked to their products or works, the hotspots have constantly proliferated in the corresponding market.

Nowadays, a considerable stereotype towards NFT exists in the public. Many people deem it a dingus that is exclusively proprietary to high-end players, which requires extremely solid capital background and professional knowledge as pivot. Coupled with the lack of in-depth perception of the underlying logic of emerging concepts such as cryptocurrency or the metaverse, most believe that NFTs are unattainable, not full-fledged and credible enough, leave aside the intention to promote it as a proper investment tool to the ordinary people. In this regard, Mr. Francis Leung, CEO of New Generation Technology (“NGT” or “Company”), stated, “What NGT wants to achieve most is to abate this type of market myths, so that NFT circulations can make a leap from niche subject to mainstream and turn into a trend.”

NGT devotes to the research and practice of various blockchain and NFT related cutting-edge technologies, such as ERC721A, the technique which can significantly save the “Gas Fee”, namely the minting cost of NFT, the Company’s tech team has already mastered it deftly. Meanwhile, to avoid malicious speculation and financial scams, the Company has also developed a strict screening system to complete cooperation procedures. Mr. Francis Leung added, “We are at the forefront in terms of technology, so it is particularly crucial to review and sift our partnerships. We must optimize strategy formulation and contract creation to nip the problems in the bud. The Company’s vision is to realize the combination of NFT and traditional business, as well as help individuals and enterprises to expand their marketing coups. We believe that popularized NFTs have their evolution space. Collectors and creators do not have to become celebrities or tycoons to be eligible to enter the world of NFTs, metaverse or Web3.0. Any individual, personalized community or organization should be capable to issue their own NFTs, thus, the existence of NGT is to provide reliable and first-rate technical support for them, and to empower all valuable content with surefooted and pragmatic NFT technology.”

About New Generation Technology (NGT)

Established in 2019, New Generation Technology (NGT) is a one-stop NFT project launcher headquartered in Hong Kong. Its expertise team consists of technical adepts keen on the tactics of cryptocurrency and Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), in a bid to facilitate the feasibility of NFT in traditional industries. By providing technical know-how and contract creation services to owners with unique product portfolios, NGT specializes in minting and marketing exclusive NFTs for them, then launching to the market for secured and prudent circulation and turnovers, fueling the materialization of the value of digital assets still further.

For more information, please visit or email business@nftlauncherhk.com.

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Laos Confirms 2,665 New Cases of Covid-19

Vientiane Covid Update

Laos has recorded 2,665 cases of Covid-19 across the country today.

Schoolchildren Overboard as Ferryboat Goes Down in Champasack Province 

Schoolchildren Overboard as Ferryboat Goes Down in Champasack Province.

A ferryboat carrying schoolchildren across the Mekong River capsized in Champasack Province yesterday, highlighting the need for safer routes for children.

Japanese Artist’s Sketches of Hakka Impressions Hit Bookstores in Taiwan, Japan

Amigos Koike’s Works Illustrate Hakka Vitality

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 1 April 2022 – Taiwan Hakka Sketchbook, a collection of works by renowned Japanese illustrator Amigos Koike while serving as a resident artist in seven Hakka townships along Provincial Highway 3, was published in Taiwan and Japan in March.

Taiwan Hakka Sketchbook published in Taiwan and Japan simultaneously

The book has its origins in 2019 when the Hakka Affairs Council (HAC), with a view to promoting the international visibility of the said cluster of Hakka communities along one of the most important thoroughfares in this country, invited the Japanese illustrator to become an artist-in-residence there. A Gunma Prefecture (Gunma-ken) native, Amigos Koike has worked as a freelance illustrator contributing to books, magazines, and ads since 1988. Over the course of his 21-day stay in Taiwan in 2019, he came up with more than 280 sketch and watercolor illustrations of the scenery, flowers, and people of the Hakka communities along Provincial Highway 3. After returning to his home country, he presented these works in a number of exhibitions to make Taiwan’s Hakka townships better known to more Japanese.

The publication of Taiwan Hakka Sketchbook took more than one year of meticulous preparations as the HAC put together the Japanese illustrator’s wonderfully conceived works and complemented them with texts fitting for his Hakka experience. Yo Kimiko, a multiple Japan Academy Film Prize winner whose father is a Hakka Taiwanese, was invited to write the preface to the book that extends a welcome to more Japanese to come to Taiwan and experience the Hakka culture and way of life in Hakka communities. To learn more about this latest publication, please go to the link Taiwan Hakka Sketchbook.

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Plastic Waste Causing Serious Environmental, Health and Economic Impacts in Laos

Plastic Waste Causing Serious Environmental, Health and Economic Impacts in Laos (Photo: Norwegian People's Aid)
Plastic Waste Causing Serious Environmental, Health and Economic Impacts in Laos (Photo: Norwegian People's Aid)

Residential waste generation has doubled in Laos over the last two decades, leading to critical environmental and public health issues.