The Lao National Taskforce for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has announced that people living in Laos will be required to install the LaoKYC app on their smartphone and check in with a QR Code as part of new contact tracing regulations.
Laos Covid Taskforce Unveils New Contact Tracing QR Code
AIA Vietnam and Tiki announce Vietnam’s first comprehensive exclusive insurance and digital platform partnership
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – AIA Vietnam and Tiki are delighted to announce an agreement to form Vietnam’s first comprehensive exclusive partnership between a life insurer and a digital platform, aimed at helping Vietnamese families live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.
AIA Vietnam and Tiki will jointly explore collaboration opportunities to meet the diverse and increasing financial needs of Vietnamese people.
Under the terms of the 10-year agreement, which remains subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, AIA Vietnam will become Tiki’s exclusive insurance partner, enabling Tiki’s millions of customers to gain access to highly relevant life and health insurance solutions via Tiki’s leading e-commerce platform. AIA Vietnam and Tiki will also jointly explore collaboration opportunities to meet the diverse and increasing financial needs of Vietnamese people.
The AIA Vietnam-Tiki partnership represents a new form of collaboration between insurers and e-commerce players, offering unique lifestyle propositions, through an innovative, customer-centric distribution model.
By leveraging AIA’s omnichannel distribution and leading technology capabilities, alongside Tiki’s leading all-in-one e-commerce platform, this partnership offers significant potential for AIA Vietnam and Tiki to build long term relationships with even more customers across Vietnam.
Mr. Wayne Besant, Chief Executive Officer of AIAVietnam, said, “This unique and first to market partnership starts a new era of personal life insurance in Vietnam. Together, united by a shared vision to deliver seamless health and protection to Vietnamese families, we will focus on three distinct areas: Lifestyle benefits and innovative distribution; distinctive digital health & wellness offerings and other financial & e-commerce propositions. We believe with Tiki‘s existing assets and market leadership, we can bring an accessible and enhanced customer service proposition to make a positive difference in the lives of the people of Việt Nam. We are very excited to extend AIA’s Vietnam’s market leadership and work together with our partner, Tiki.
At AIA, we are committed to our Purpose of helping people live Healthier, Longer, Better lives. For the first time, we will offer bite-size protection and lifestyle-related products on the Tiki platform. Through this digitally-driven partnership, we will offer products tailored to customers’ life stages – building on the proven track record we have created thanks to our strong Agency force and bancassurance partnerships.”
Tran Ngoc Thai Son, Founder and CEO of Tiki, said, “Insurance is a great way to take care of oneself and one’s family and help society at the same time. Partnering with a global leader like AIA allows us to embrace that vision by creating personalized life and health insurance solutions for everyone, every need and every circumstance in a seamless, digital-first experience on our platform. This strategic partnership combines fuses AIA’s world-class expertise in insurance and Tiki’s deep, hyper-local understanding of Vietnamese consumers to create what we hope to be the simplest, hassle-free online insurance shopping experience.“
About AIA Vietnam
AIA Group Limited and its subsidiaries (collectively “AIA” or the “Group”), including AIA Vietnam, comprise the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group.
Founded in 2000 with the aim of protecting the prosperity and financial security for Vietnamese people, after 20 years of operation, AIA Vietnam has affirmed its position as one of the leading life insurance companies in the market. To date, AIA Vietnam has a wide system of more than 180 offices in more than 50 provinces and cities across the country.
AIA is currently serving and ensuring financial safety for more than 1.4 million customers in Vietnam and has cumulatively paid insurance benefits for hundreds of thousands of cases with a total amount of more than 7,000 billion VND.
Website: https://www.aia.com.vn/
About Tiki
Tiki Corporation is a leading all-in-one commerce platform in Vietnam, including the no. 1 trusted e-commerce marketplace, TikiNOW Smart Logistics – an integrated supply chain platform, and Tiki Trading – a retail subsidiary.
Tiki stands for “Tim Kiem” (Searching) and “Tiet Kiem” (Saving), which is also the vision and mission for the business: becoming a destination where Customers can search for anything they want, save their time and budget.
Starting as an online bookstore in 2010, Tiki has become a top trusted multi-selection e-commerce platform for millions of Vietnamese customers.
Website: https://tiki.vn/
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Correcting and Replacing: Jurassic World RUN! Asia Pacific 2021: First-Ever Jurassic World Virtual Run in Asia Pacific
Registration opens 5th July 2021 at: jurassicworldrun.com
CORRECTION:
The information in the APPENDIX A has been updated.
The corrected release reads:
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – Jurassic World fans can get ready for a new adventure with the first-ever Jurassic World virtual run experience in Asia Pacific! The Jurassic World RUN! is an immersive experience for participants of all ages featuring dinosaurs from the ground-breaking film franchise Jurassic World. In the inaugural Jurassic World virtual run experience in Asia Pacific, runners can participate individually, in teams of two, and even as parent-child pairs! Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, Australia and New Zealand will be the first 5 countries to experience the thrills of Jurassic World RUN! Asia Pacific 2021. Registration is open from 5th July 2021 to 29th September 2021 via the official website (jurassicworldrun.com) or the MOVE by LIV3LY app.
The Jurassic World franchise has been entertaining generations of fans around the world with thrilling and awe-inspiring stories and characters for more than 25 years – from films and TV series, to video games and toys, to live action experiences and rides at Universal theme parks. In fact, Universal Beijing Resort is scheduled to open this year as Universal’s newest theme park destination and will feature seven highly themed and immersive lands – including Jurassic World Isla Nublar.
The Jurassic World RUN! Asia Pacific 2021 introduces a new layer of entertainment to runners as they complete their distances through a highly themed adventure. The virtual run is supported by the MOVE by LIV3LY app, which allows participants to access the Jurassic World RUN! at their convenience. Through the app, each participant will have a unique immersive experience, enhanced by exciting augmented reality images, in which runners will need to run their best to escape Isla Nublar. As they progress, runners will encounter both their favourite and most feared Jurassic World dinosaurs and unlock successive milestones of assistance that will enable them ultimately to escape Isla Nublar. The thrills and awe of Jurassic World will be brought to life through augmented reality that can be experienced anywhere and anytime; even right in their own neighbourhoods!
Runners can clock-in their run times and distances and unlock the successive milestones by using the MOVE by LIV3LY app. They may also use wearables or preferred running trackers by syncing them to the MOVE app [via Apple Health or Google Fit].
There are three distances available, depending on how long runners want their very own Jurassic World adventure to be. The longer the distance, the more adventures participants will have while trying to escape Isla Nublar.
The individual category is available at all three distances, challenging the brave contenders who dare face the dinosaurs alone. Individual runners can join the 5km at SGD35, 10km at SGD49 or complete the challenge of 21km at only SGD56. There is also a category for parent and child pairings for 10km at SGD77, allowing families to experience the run together. Alternatively, a team of two can complete 21km and meet the larger-than-life dinosaurs together for SGD84.
Finishers for all categories are entitled to an exclusive finisher T-shirt to celebrate their escape from Isla Nublar. Also, all finishers of 10km and 21km will receive their very own finisher medal to celebrate their bravery and commemorate their adventures with Jurassic World RUN! Asia Pacific 2021!
Jurassic World RUN! Asia Pacific 2021 is organised by CNeX, a M.I.C.E. and project management company headquartered in Singapore, and powered by LIV3LY, a social fitness marketplace for mass participation events in Asia Pacific. The virtual run is produced in conjunction with Universal Parks & Resorts.
All participants are required to adhere strictly to the laws and regulations of their country of residence to stay safe and well while participating in the Jurassic World RUN!
For more details on Jurassic World RUN! Asia Pacific 2021 and registration information, please visit jurassicworldrun.com, More information on registration available in appendix A.
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Individual |
Parent & Child |
Individual |
Team of 2 |
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$49 |
$77 |
$56 |
$84 |
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Finisher Shirt |
YES |
YES |
Each receives a shirt (1 Adult & 1 Child) |
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Each receives a shirt (2 total) |
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Finisher Medal |
NO |
YES |
Each receives a medal (2 total) |
YES |
Each receives a medal (2 total) |
About CNeX
Execution and project management centered, CNeX embodies decades of experience deploying some of the largest and most demanding M.I.C.E. around the world. A fully owned subsidiary of Cityneon Holdings that is headquartered in Singapore, equipped to develop and deploy thematic experiences, interior design and architecture projects, the team at CNeX continues to stay at the forefront and deliver only the best despite the ever-changing landscape of the M.I.C.E. industry.
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About LIV3LY Pte Ltd
LIV3LY aims to empower Asia Pacific communities to lead an active lifestyle by connecting our users to brands, health and fitness, and nutrition experts, all in a single platform. LIV3LY strives to break fitness barriers and had developed the region’s first social fitness and e-commerce ecosystem – MOVE by LIV3LY.
A comprehensive app to cater to lifestyle and fitness goals, MOVE brings together a community of everyday athletes to reinvent sports, technology and lifestyle. LIV3LY works together with brands and organisations to deliver smart and seamless virtual sporting experiences that go above and beyond, and produce exclusive merchandise available on the app’s marketplace, making MOVE an app like no other.
About Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Parks & Resorts, a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal, offers guests around the globe today’s most relevant and popular entertainment experiences. With three-time Academy Award ® winner Steven Spielberg as creative consultant, its theme parks are known for immersive experiences that feature some of the world’s most thrilling and technologically advanced film- and television-based attractions.
Comcast NBCUniversal wholly owns Universal Studios Hollywood, which includes Universal CityWalk Hollywood. It also owns Universal Orlando Resort, a destination resort with three theme parks (Universal Studios Florida, Universal’s Islands of Adventure and Universal’s Volcano Bay – a water theme park), eight on-site resort hotels, and Universal CityWalk Orlando. In addition, Comcast NBCUniversal owns Universal Studios Japan, in Osaka and has a license agreement with Universal Studios Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore. The company is also developing a theme park destination in Beijing called Universal Beijing Resort.
DHL Express delivers US donation of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Malaysia
Additional one million doses contributed by the United States government via the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) programme
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – DHL Express, the world’s leading logistics provider, has successfully delivered the United States government’s donation of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine today.
The arrival of around 1,000,000 doses comes as part of a recent commitment by the U.S. to assist with recovery efforts worldwide. This shipment is made possible via the COVAX global vaccine sharing programme that aims to accelerate global equitable access to immunisation against the pandemic.
“We are deeply honoured by the trust that our customers have placed in us and I’m incredibly proud that the team has yet again stepped up to successfully deliver another batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Malaysia. As DHL Express continues to leverage our global network and strong medical logistics expertise to ensure that these life-saving vaccines arrive safely and promptly, we must also remind ourselves of the need for collaboration amongst various parties and countries to manage this public health crisis effectively,” said Ken Lee, CEO, DHL Express Asia Pacific.
DHL Express arranged for the collection of the vaccines from facilities in the US before it was airlifted from our Cincinnati Hub to the DHL Express Subang Gateway, where it would be distributed to designated locations in Kuala Lumpur. From door-to-door, the journey spanned only four days in complete compliance with stringent handling and storage requirements.
“To date, DHL has transported more than 300 million doses of approved vaccines worldwide, five million of which were to Malaysia,” said Julian Neo, Managing Director of DHL Express Malaysia and Brunei. “The shipment today marks another milestone in combatting the spread of COVID-19 and contributing to the country’s recovery. In keeping with our mandate of connecting people and improving lives, we are proud to continue playing an active role in seeking a safe, new normal for the businesses and communities we serve.”
More than 9,000 life sciences and healthcare specialists work across DHL’s dedicated global network so that pharmaceutical, medical devices, clinical trials and research organisations, wholesalers and distributors, as well as hospitals and healthcare providers are connected across the value chain and through digitalisation, from clinical trials to point of care, and every step in between.
DHL’s portfolio for the healthcare industry includes 150+ pharmacists, 20+ clinical trials depots, 100+ certified stations, 160+ GDP-qualified warehouses, 15+ GMP-certified sites, 135+ medical express sites, and a time-definite international express network covering over 220 countries and territories. On a global scale, logistics providers are challenged to establish medical supply chain rapidly to deliver vaccines of unprecedented amount of more than 10 billion doses worldwide—also in regions with less developed logistics infrastructures, where approximately 3 billion people live. To provide global coverage over the next two years, DHL estimated in its vaccine logistics whitepaper that up to 200,000 pallet shippers and 15 million cooling boxes as well as 15,000 flights will be required across the various supply chain setups.
DHL – The logistics company for the world
DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management. With about 400,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global sustainable trade flows. With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, engineering, manufacturing & energy, auto-mobility and retail, DHL is decisively positioned as “The logistics company for the world”.
DHL is part of Deutsche Post DHL Group. The Group generated revenues of more than 66 billion euros in 2020. With sustainable business practices and a commitment to society and the environment, the Group makes a positive contribution to the world. Deutsche Post DHL Group aims to achieve zero-emissions logistics by 2050.
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Trend Micro Warns of Ransomware Targeting Industrial Control Systems
Latest report highlights United States as the prime target of global threat actors
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today released a new report highlighting the growing risk of downtime and sensitive data theft from ransomware attacks aimed at industrial facilities.
Click here to read a full copy of the report, 2020 Report on Threats Affecting ICS Endpoints: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk/security/news/internet-of-things/2020-report-ics-endpoints-as-starting-points-for-threats
“Industrial Control Systems are incredibly challenging to secure, leaving plenty of gaps in protection that threat actors are clearly exploiting with growing determination,” said Ryan Flores, senior manager of forward-looking threat research for Trend Micro. “Given the US government is now treating ransomware attacks with the same gravity as terrorism, we hope our latest research will help industrial plant owners to prioritize and refocus their security efforts.”
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are a crucial element of utility plants, factories and other facilities—where they’re used to monitor and control industrial processes across IT-OT networks.
If ransomware finds its way onto these systems, it could knock out operations for days and increase the risk of designs, programs, and other sensitive documents finding their way onto the dark web.
Trend Micro’s report found that Ryuk (20%), Nefilim (14.6%), Sodinokibi (13.5%) and LockBit (10.4%) variants accounted for more than half of ICS ransomware infections in 2020.
The report also revealed:
- Threat actors are infecting ICS endpoints to mine for cryptocurrency using unpatched operating systems still vulnerable to EternalBlue.
- Variants of Conficker are spreading on ICS endpoints running newer operating systems by brute-forcing admin shares.
- Legacy malware such as Autorun, Gamarue and Palevo are still widespread in IT/OT networks, spreading via removable drives.
The report urged closer cooperation between IT security and OT teams to identify key systems and dependencies such as OS compatibility and up-time requirements, with a view to developing more effective security strategies.
Trend Micro makes the following recommendations:
- Prompt patching is vital. If this is not possible, consider network segmentation or virtual patching from vendors like Trend Micro.
- Tackle post-intrusion ransomware by mitigating the root causes of infection via application control software, and threat detection and response tools to sweep networks for IoCs.
- Restrict network shares and enforce strong username/password combinations to prevent unauthorized access through credential brute forcing.
- Use an IDS or IPS to baseline normal network behavior to better spot suspicious activity.
- Scan ICS endpoints in air-gapped environments using standalone tools.
- Set up USB malware scanning kiosks to check the removable drives used to transfer data between air-gapped endpoints.
- Apply principle of least privilege to OT network admins and operators.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.trendmicro.com.hk
Laos Records 56 New Cases of Covid-19
Laos has confirmed 56 new cases of Covid-19 today, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 2,300.
Increase in Trafficking of Lao Women to China Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Trafficking of women from Laos to China to serve as wives for Chinese men or to work in prostitution is increasing amid economic pressure following the Covid-19 pandemic.
SonicWall Triples Threat Performance, Dramatically Improves TCO with Trio of New Enterprise Firewalls
With triple the firewall throughput compared to previous SonicWall appliances, new NSa and NSsp models help organizations keep pace with the speeds of their growing networks
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – SonicWall today announced three new high-performance firewall models for enterprises and large organizations — NSa 4700, NSa 6700 and NSsp 13700 — designed to accelerate network throughput, stop advanced cyberattacks like ransomware, and securely connect millions of users. Featuring some of the highest port densities in their class, the new appliances help enterprises keep pace with the speeds of their growing networks — all while drastically reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
“The growing volume of ransomware attacks has enterprises and government agencies moving quickly to evaluate their mitigation capabilities and strengthen their security postures,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. “The recent string of highly publicized cyberattacks has catapulted security to the top of the priority list. We’re there to help by delivering multiple options to cost-effectively protect even the largest environments. With higher port densities and more capacity, the new offerings dramatically disrupt the traditional cost structure as organizations need fewer appliances to secure the same environment.”
New NSa Firewalls Disrupt Cost Expectations by Tripling Throughput, Expanding Port Densities
The new SonicWall NSa 4700 and NSa 6700 next-generation firewalls deliver 18 and 36 Gbps of firewall throughput — three times the previous comparable SonicWall appliances. Both also support critical TLS 1.3 encryption standards.
“When designing large networks, high-bandwidth interfaces are a critical component,” said NW Technology owner Ryan Oord. “SonicWall’s new NSa series provides interface options that fit the different needs of varying and sizable networks.”
The NSa models boast some of the highest port densities in their class; the NSa 6700 even offers both 40G and 25G connectivity, delivering multi-gigabit threat protection for large environments. These higher port densities, coupled with hardware redundancy and high availability, allow distributed enterprises to purchase fewer appliances while supporting more secure connections as their networks grow.
The NSa 4700 and NSa 6700 provide up to 115,000 and 153,000 connections, respectively, per second. They also support up to 2 million or 6 million concurrent DPI connections, and up to 4,000 or 6,000 site-to-site VPN tunnels.
High-Performance NSsp 13700 Firewalls Designed To Protect The Fastest, Most Complex Environments
The new SonicWall NSsp 13700 is an advanced next-generation firewall for high-speed threat protection designed for enterprise-class networks and MSSPs that supports millions of encrypted connections.
The NSsp 13700 next-generation firewall delivers elite speeds for threat prevention throughput (45.5 Gbps), IPS (48 Gbps) and IPsec (29 Gbps), and include scalable hardware architecture with high port density. Like SonicWall’s other new offerings, the NSsp 13700 supports the latest TLS 1.3 encryption standard.
Information-sharing and collaboration is a critical component of an organization’s defensive posture. SonicWall is consolidating access to threat research and security news through the Capture Labs Portal, a free and centralized repository of research tools available to the public where visitors can track malicious actors and remain up to date with latest zero-day vulnerabilities.
To help expedite remediation, the Capture Labs Portal offers a single repository to look up threat signature, CVE details, IP reputation, and URL reputation, making it effortless to do your threat research from a single interface. SonicWall PSIRT advisories and Capture Labs threat researcher blogs with news regarding the latest vulnerabilities can be easily and quickly
Simplify Secure SD-WAN Deployment, Management with New Orchestration and Monitoring Capabilities
Enterprises, service providers, government agencies and MSSPs can efficiently manage large-scale deployments with SonicWall’s cloud-native Network Security Manager (NSM), which delivers a single, easy-to-use cloud interface for streamlined management, analytics and reporting.
With NSM 2.3, network infrastructure teams can quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues as they monitor secure SD-WAN landscapes in real time. Administrators can monitor the health and performance of complete SD-WAN environments to ensure consistent configurations and drive optimal application performance.
SD-WAN environments are now easily organized using SonicWall’s new and intuitive self-guided workflow as well as the use of Templates that allow the provisioning of thousands of remote firewalls efficiently.
Enterprises also can leverage the NSM wizard-based setup process to ensure proper configuration for site-to-site VPN connectivity, and use the monitoring tools to track the connections and ensure optimum performance.
Optimize Productivity with Enhanced Network Visibility, Monitoring and Reporting
Managing employees’ internet utilization and behavior can be
SonicWall Analytics 3.1 delivers Productivity Reports to provide insights into employees’ internet utilization and behavior. Generated snapshots and drill-down reports can classify users’ web activities into productivity groups such as productive, unproductive, acceptable, unacceptable or custom-defined groups.
Drill-down capabilities enable analysts to easily and quickly pivot and investigate data points of interest at the user level, and establish evidence-backed, policy-controlled measures for risky users and applications as they unfold in the discovery process.
New VPN Reports allow organizations to summarize what company resources are being accessed inside VPN tunnels, how much bandwidth they are consuming and by whom. Network admins can leverage this information for monitoring business-critical applications, controlling or shaping traffic, and planning for capacity growth.
Zero-Trust Security Offering Expanded to Include More Granular Control
About SonicWall
SonicWall delivers Boundless Cybersecurity for the hyper-distributed era in a work reality where everyone is remote, mobile and unsecure. SonicWall safeguards organizations mobilizing for their new business normal with seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across boundless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled workforces. By knowing the unknown, providing real-time visibility and enabling breakthrough economics, SonicWall closes the cybersecurity business gap for enterprises, governments and SMBs worldwide. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on 
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