HANOI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 20 December 2021 – One year after its launch, the VinFuture Prize Council has completed the evaluation process and selected 4 groundbreaking scientific innovations that have made and will continue to make positive impacts in the everyday lives of millions of people around the world. Prize winners will be announced at the inaugural VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony to be held on January 20, 2022 at the Hanoi Opera House and the VinFuture Sci-tech Week during January 18-21, 2022 in Hanoi.

This is an international event to honor outstanding scientific achievements and promote innovations for humanity in 2021 with the participation of world-leading scientists, policy makers, leaders of technology corporations, and the Prize winners.

The award ceremony will be held on January 20, 2022 evening to honor the winners of the inaugural VinFuture Prize, including the VinFuture Grand Prize and 03 Special Prizes for female innovators, innovators from the developing countries, and innovators with outstanding achievements in emerging fields.

As part of the Award Ceremony event series, VinFuture will organize a sci-tech week for the scientific community, business and start-up leaders in industry and technology. The Foundation will also hold dialogues and interactive sessions with the Prize Council members and the VinFuture Laureates which will catalyze the intellectual connection between Vietnam’s scientific and technological community and the world as well as bridge academia and industry, thus contributing to the transformation of science and technology innovations into real life applications.

Commenting on the upcoming events, Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend – Chair of the VinFuture Prize Council and a 2010 Laureate of the Millennium Prize, said: “Science and technology need to deliver benefits to all peoples and all nations. The VinFuture Prize will recognize those whose brilliant science or engineering achievements can have positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the planet.” 

The VinFuture Foundation is founded by Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong – Chairman of Vingroup, and his wife – Mrs. Pham Thu Huong, with the vision of creating meaningful change in the everyday lives of millions of people. 

In its inaugural year, VinFuture received 599 quality nominations from more than 60 countries around the world. Among these, nearly 100 nominations came from the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists, many of whom are laureates of distinguished awards, such as the Nobel Prize, Breakthrough Prize, Tang Prize, Japan Prize, among others. All the nominations were assessed in multiple evaluation and selection rounds by a 12 member- Pre-screening Committee, and then by 11 members of the Prize Council.

With a large number of quality nominations going through a rigorous assessment process conducted by the Prize Council of globally influential scientists and leaders in academia, research, and innovation, the 2021 VinFuture Prize is expected to identify breakthrough inventions and innovations that will bring about practical applications and meaningful impacts on the everyday lives of people.

Remarkably, the in-person presence of great minds of the global science and technology community at the inaugural VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony and the VinFuture Sci-tech Week will contribute to positioning Vietnam as a new destination full of potentials and open up opportunities to build direct and multi-dimensional cooperative relationships between scientists and entrepreneurs, promoting the commercialization and application of scientific innovations into the real world.

Besides the Laureate Announcement and the Award Ceremony on January 20th, 2022, there will be academic activities taking place from January 18-21, 2022, which include:

– Conversation with the VinFuture Prize Council members

– Symposium: Science for Life

– Scientific Dialogue with the inaugural VinFuture Prize Laureates.

The VinFuture Prize Foundation, introduced on International Solidarity Day, December 20^th, 2020, is an independent and non-profit organization in Vietnam. The Foundation was established with the vision of catalyzing meaningful change in the everyday lives of millions of people by honoring transformational technological innovations at a global scale.

The Foundation’s core activity is awarding the annual VinFuture Prize for breakthrough scientific and technological innovations that have made or have the potential to create meaningful changes in people’s lives.

In addition, the Foundation will conduct many activities to accomplish its mission, such as funding research projects, collaborating in academic development, and promoting STEMM education.

A total of four prizes are awarded by the VinFuture Prize Foundation every year, consisting of the VinFuture Grand Prize valued at US$3 million – one of the largest ever annual prizes globally. VinFuture also awards 03 Special Prizes, each valued at US$500,000, dedicated to female innovators, developing country innovators, and innovators with outstanding achievements in emerging fields.

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Three lucky contest winners will enjoy the tangy and sweet taste profile of this Vitamin C-rich fruit in a diverse tropical Christmas menu for the family.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 20 December 2021 – This festive season, give the gift of a culinary feast with a side dish of good health. Renowned chef, culinary director and host of the Bocuse d’Or, Chef Angela May, has collaborated with Zespri to present a Zesty Zespri Kiwi-mas feast. Participate in the contest and stand to win a three-course menu worth S$320 that offers delightful tropical flavours and stars Zespri™ Kiwifruit, which contain more than 100% of your daily Vitamin C needs.

Winners of the social contest stand a chance to win a vitamin C-rich Zespri Kiwifruit Christmas feast for a family of four by Chef Angela May.

Whether you decide to gift this meal to a frontline staff or a loved one, the meal is a great way for families to come together over a wholesome and tasty festive meal. To stand a chance to win, simply:

1.      Tag the person you would like to gift the three-course Christmas dinner to on the Zespri Kiwifruit contest post

2.      In the same comment, include the reason why this person deserves to win a Zesty Zespri Kiwi-mas Feast* on 23 December

Example: @ZespriFan deserves to win this Kiwi-mas dinner because he has Zespri Kiwifruit for breakfast every day! / My mother should win this dinner because she deserves a break from preparing the family dinner.

About the contest:

• There are three sets (Zesty Zespri Kiwi-mas feast, a three-course menu worth S$320 each) to be won.
• Each prize feeds four people and will be delivered to the comfort of your home on 23 December.
• Winners will be announced the following week in the comments section of the same post.
• Contest opens on 13 December and closes on 20 December at 11.59pm.

*Open to participants residing in Singapore only, terms and conditions apply

The collaboration with Chef Angela aims to bring cheer to festive dinner tables while sharing the health benefits of the Vitamin C-rich kiwifruit. Brand-new recipes were created especially for Zespri’s Christmas giveaway.

“I developed this menu with the vibrant flavour profile of Zespri Kiwifruit in mind. It was a fun, Vitamin C-rich ingredient to base my menu around and I’ve incorporated it in both sweet and savoury dishes.  In my home, mealtimes have always been a time to bond, catch up and tuck into something both tasty and wholesome, and this is all the more true at Christmas. I hope the bright flavours of this menu bring cheer to a few peoples’ homes, especially after a tough year for many,” said Chef Angela. 

The dishes highlight the versatility of both Zespri SunGold and Zespri Green Kiwifruit and span a spectrum of tastes, featuring the complex, uplifting flavours in the main, and spotlighting the sweet and refreshing quality of the fruit in the starter. Hurry, enter the contest and win Chef Angela’s Christmas feast for yourself or a loved one!

About Chef Angela May

Culinary Director of Déliciae Hospitality Management (DHM)

Founding Partner of Foodfluence and Founding Partner of Quick Greens

Chef Angela May brings joy and passion to the art of healthy eating and living. A familiar face on television shows and live presentations, she is not only an accomplished chef, but also an accredited sport performance nutritionist and acclaimed host of food and lifestyle shows. She has been the English voice of the world’s most prestigious Culinary event, Bocuse d’Or, as well as the World Pastry Cup, for twelve years running. Angela also has a Le Diplôme de Cuisine from famed French Culinary Academy ‘Le Cordon Bleu’.

She believes in supporting sustainable food sources and is a fan and creator of plant-based ingredients within environmentally-friendly health-focused menus.

About Zespri

Zespri is 100 percent owned by current and former kiwifruit growers and has a global team of 700 based in Mount Maunganui and throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Our purpose is to help people, communities and the environment thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit, and we work with 2,800 growers in New Zealand and 1,500 growers offshore to provide consumers with fresh, healthy and great-tasting Zespri Green™, Zespri RubyRed™ and Zespri SunGold™ Kiwifruit. In 2020/21, we supplied over 180 million trays of kiwifruit to consumers in more than 50 markets and recorded global operating revenue of NZ$3.9 billion. Zespri is committed to sustainability, with areas of improvement identified right through the supply chain including our pledge that by 2025 we will use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging, do more to help the environment, and to become carbon positive by 2035.

#Zespri

Close to 300 Students from 18 Schools Learn How to Bring Sustainability to Life

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 19 December 2021 – Environmental, social and governance (ESG) knowledge should form part of Hong Kong youth’s future skills development, according to the Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB). 

WONG Kam-sing, Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (fourth from right, second row), Luanne LIM, Chairperson, the Hong Kong Association of Banks (third from left, first row), and representatives from banks visited the  “ESG Community Promotion Booth”.

HKAB partnered with the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG) in October to launch the “ESG Pioneer – Farm-to-Community Project” (the Project), which allowed school educators and students to dig into the rich experiential learning opportunity offered by local organic farms.  Through this project, close to 300 students from 18 primary and secondary schools gained first-hand experience about the agricultural industry and explored ESG best practices in daily life. 

Speaking at the closing ceremony yesterday, Luanne LIM, Chairperson, the Hong Kong Association of Banks, said, “ESG has become an inextricable part of how banks do business.  We are pleased to be able to enrich our students’ real-world learning experience and help them discover future careers, especially in the ESG fields.  I would like to thank the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, our NGO partner, participating schools and volunteers from member banks.  The banking industry will continue to work with different stakeholders to build a sustainable future for everyone.”

WONG Kam-sing, Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Luanne LIM, and WAN Man-yee, President, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, officiated at the closing ceremony.  Representatives from the participating schools and banks also shared their takeaways from the project and expressed strong interest to continue to promote ESG in schools.

Students were invited to visit the HKFYG Organic Farm to learn farm operation, sustainable farming principles, biodiversity and ecosystem.  Forty participants were nominated to receive in-depth training and organise three “ESG Community Promotion Booths” in Fanling, Yuen Long and Tsuen Wan.

The project also supported the development of specific ESG learning materials for students, which is expected to be the first teaching material of its kind in Hong Kong.

#HKAB #HKFYG

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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 December 2021 – On December 18, MetaPoly, a digital art brand under Poly Auction (Xiamen), announced that it has inked a crypto art cooperation agreement with TRON Founder Justin Sun to jointly seek in-depth integration between traditional culture and crypto art. This partnership, intended to advance digital culture, has won support from a number of institutions.

Poly Xiamen will hold exhibitions and events themed on crypto and digital art simultaneously in Beijing and Xiamen on December 24; and will sponsor a special auction for metaverse and digital art on January 15 in 2022. Justin Sun will participate in all of these events as the co-producer.

The blockchain leader Justin Sun also has serious clout in the realm of top-notch art collections. Through clinching a myriad of artworks created both by art masters and emerging digital artists on major trading platforms, Justin has managed to build an empire incorporating art, investment, finance, and more. His collections include works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Beeple, and Pak, the latter two being the two most valuable crypto artists worldwide.

The alliance between MetaPoly and Justin Sun in crypto art will fully draw on the strengths of both sides to connect first-rate artists with blockchain, driving more world-class artworks to be recorded on chains and fueling the growth of the digitized culture.

MetaPoly is a top-notch digital art brand created by Poly Xiamen Auction with a focus on NFT digital artworks. It covers a gamut of businesses, including the auction, release, curation, and display of digital artworks, as well as the management of related assets. It will join hands with artists across the globe to present the future art world with an unprecedented aesthetic experience.

#TRON

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TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 17 December 2021 -DeCo Finance, which is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem built on the Binance Smart Chain, will officially be launched in December 2021. DeCo’s protocol features a simple user interface built on top of a sophisticated engine that supports pooling with reduced impermanent loss. DeCo has already introduced 2 tokens circulating in the entire ecosystem, DEMON and DEMONX.

Observing the growing market requirements of the industry, DeCo Finance was established by gathering some of the leading DeFi protocols across the globe to advance the collaboration of DeFi protocols across yield farming, NFT and Gamification. DeCo, an abbreviation of Demon Ecosystem, was derived from today’s technologically-advanced community, in which mining techniques are always improving up to a point where there occurs a crossover between traditional Proof of Work mining and modern Proof of Stake mining. DeCo Finance creates this crossover between traditional mining equipped with contract mining for blockchain & crypto community to engage/access into the world of modern mining ecosystem.

DEMON presale was launched on November 26, 2021. Early adopters will need to purchase DEMON with USDT or BUSD and stake in liquidity pools after the launching of DeCo Finance vault. The 1st adopter will get 2,000,000,000 DEMON at the rate of $0.00678 on an ongoing basis, the 2nd adopter will get 2,000,000,000 DEMON at the rate of $0.00848, the 3^rd adopter will get 2,000,000,000 DEMON at the rate of $0.01017 and so on.

The official launching of DeCo Finance Vault is on December 24, 2021 UTC 1600. PancakeSwap listing will be at $0.01349. DeCo will be introducing Single Pools, Stake DEMON, Earn DEMON, Stake BNB, Earn DEMO, LP Pools, Stake DEMON-BNB LP.

The cost of producing and maintaining DeFi tokens is incurred by the protocol and miners, shareholders, and bond holders. The majority of the value comes from the transaction of tokens within DeFi primitives and is captured by these DeFi primitives. Demon Ecosystem solves this problem by integrating the creation and the use of token into decentralized ecosystem. Demon will also integrate with GameFi Metaverse named DemonX which jointly build up the application of gamification and DeFi together in ecosystem. This relationship will create a positive feedback loop and generate a flywheel effect.

For more, please visit  https://www.demonfinance.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemonEcosystem

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/DemonFinanceOfficial

Telegram Community: https://t.me/DemonFinanceCommunity

GitBook: https://info-69.gitbook.io/demon-finance/

Email: info@demonfinance.com

#DemonFinance

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