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Breeze Spa at Amari Johor Bahru Showcases Signature Thai-Ayurveda Fusion Package Alongside Unique Treatments like Mango Sticky Rice Body Scrub

Guests can indulge in Private Spa Suites Equipped with Sauna and Jacuzzi Amenities, Offering a Curated Range of One-Of-A-Kind Wellness Experiences

JOHOR BAHRU, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 30 October 2023 – Breeze Spa at Amari Johor Bahru offers a range of services designed for wellness and relaxation. The spa is located on the 6th floor of the hotel and aims to provide a serene escape from the city’s hustle and bustle. Breeze Spa features a variety of private treatment rooms and suites, including three couple rooms, one of which includes a jacuzzi, as well as a single room with a sauna. A retail boutique is available for guests to continue their spa experience at home.

Amari Johor Bahru's Breeze Spa offers Siam Sabai massages such as the Signature Muay Thai, Siamese Stones and Foot Massage, Siamese Back Tension Relief, and Siamese Head Massage.
Amari Johor Bahru’s Breeze Spa offers Siam Sabai massages such as the Signature Muay Thai, Siamese Stones and Foot Massage, Siamese Back Tension Relief, and Siamese Head Massage.

The signature package, the Johor Bahru Energy Boost, is designed to invigorate the body. This treatment includes a coffee and citrus body scrub, a fusion massage combining Thai and Ayurveda techniques, and a rejuvenating Crystal Fresh Facial. One of the highlights is the Special Butterfly Pea Tea offered to guests, known for its potential benefits for skin health and blood circulation.

As Amari Johor Bahru embraces Thai culture and cuisine, Breeze Spa offers Siam Sabai massages such as the Signature Muay Thai, Siamese Stones and Foot Massage, Siamese Back Tension Relief, and Siamese Head Massage. Additionally, guests can explore Mood Massages designed to align with their emotional state, catering to various moods and preferences.

The spa also offers a selection of unique body treatments, including the Jasmine & Mint Body Scrub which offers gentle exfoliation while the Mango Sticky Rice Body Scrub combines tropical mango with nourishing sticky rice and the Sun Soother Body Wrap is designed to provide soothing relief.

Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to replenish your senses and pamper yourself in the lap of luxury. Guests are advised to arrive 15 minutes prior to their scheduled appointment. To make a booking or for more information, please contact us at +6016 776 8341.

Breeze Spa also offers a Loyalty Membership program where members can receive various benefits, including birthday month discounts, savings on a la carte services and retail items as well as access to promotional offers. Furthermore, members have the option to extend these benefits to their partners. This lifetime membership is exclusive to Breeze Spa at Amari Johor Bahru, providing an opportunity to indulge in serenity and revitalization.

For additional information about Amari Johor Bahru and Breeze Spa, please visit our website at www.amari.com/johor-bahru or call +6072668888.
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About Amari Johor Bahru

Amari Johor Bahru is conveniently located only steps from Komtar JBCC, City Square and the Persada Johor International Convention Centre. Offering easy access, it is a 30-minute drive from Senai International Airport, and a five-minute walk from JB Sentral Customs and Immigration. To find out more, visit www.amari.com/johor-bahru.

Bybit Receives ‘Centralized Exchange of the Year’ Award at the GB Tech Web3 Awards

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Media OutReach – 31 October 2023 – Bybit, the world’s third most visited crypto exchange, has been named ‘Centralized Crypto Exchange of the Year’ at the GB Tech Web3 Awards, held at Headlines, Dubai World Trade Centre on Oct. 30. The event brought together over 120 leaders and organizations from the crypto industry, celebrating the innovative spirit and significant accomplishments within the region’s Web3 ecosystem.

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Hosted by Motivate Media Group and GB Tech, a brand under the Gulf Business umbrella, in collaboration with Arte by Crypto Oasis, the ceremony recognized a total of 15 winners across various categories, highlighting their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning crypto field.

Bybit, a global cryptocurrency exchange with close to 20 million users, was commended for its outstanding performance and unwavering commitment to driving the adoption of decentralized technologies. The accolade reflects its rollout of unique and compelling products including TradeGPT, AI trading bots, and highly attractive passive income products via Bybit Earn.

“The GB Tech Web3 Awards are a testament to the incredible progress and innovation that’s taking place in the crypto industry, and we are deeply honored to be recognized amongst such a prestigious group of industry leaders,” said Ben Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Bybit. “This award is a reflection of our team’s hard work, dedication, and belief in the transformative power of blockchain technology. We remain committed to advancing the industry and providing our users with exceptional service and opportunities in the crypto space.”

The panel of judges for the GB Tech Web3 Awards included esteemed industry experts and members of the Gulf Business editorial team, ensuring a comprehensive and balanced evaluation of all nominees.

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About Bybit

Bybit is a top-five cryptocurrency exchange established in 2018 that offers a professional platform where crypto investors and traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine, 24/7 customer service, and multilingual community support. Bybit is a proud partner of Formula One’s reigning Constructors’ and Drivers’ champions: the Oracle Red Bull Racing team.

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Laos, South Korea Partner to Simplify Cross-Border Money Transfers

Laos, South Korea Partner to Simplify Cross-Border Money Transfers
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Laos and South Korea are joining forces in a pilot project to facilitate the process of cross-border money transfers for Lao workers abroad and foreign workers in Laos.

‘There are Many Experiences of Being a Refugee and All of Them Matter’: Lao-Canadian Author Souvankham Thammavongsa

Born in a Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, award-winning Lao-Canadian author Souvankham Thammavongsa spoke to the Laotian Times about returning to the country of her birth for the first time and her much-lauded collection of short stories which chronicles the heartache and the wonder of the immigrant experience.

Alibaba Cloud Launches Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 and Industry-specific Models to Support Customers Reap Benefits of Generative AI

New AI Model Building Platform and a suite of innovative cloud products launched to cater for the surging demand among customers and developers

HANGZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach – 31 October 2023 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced the launch of Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest large language model (LLM), along with new industry-specific models at its annual flagship tech event Apsara Conference. This release signifies another significant progress in Alibaba Cloud’s pursuit of cutting-edge AI innovation and its ongoing commitment to fuel digital transformation in businesses.

In response to the surging demand for powerful infrastructure supporting generative AI development, Alibaba Cloud also unveiled an AI model training platform and a series of innovative cloud products. New initiatives to bolster the open-source AI model community and global AI startups were also unveiled during the Conference. These resources are designed to enable customers, partners, developers, startups, and the wider community to fully harness the potential of generative AI.

“Currently, 80% of China’s technology companies and half of large model companies run on Alibaba Cloud. We aim to be the most open cloud in the era of AI. We hope that through this cloud, it will become easier and affordable for everyone to develop and use AI, so we can help, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to turn AI into huge productivity,” said Joe Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group.

Tongyi Qianwen 2.0: A Leap Forward in LLMs

Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, a generic LLM with a few hundreds of billions of parameters, represents a substantial upgrade from its predecessor launched in April. The model successfully exceeds some leading LLMs in benchmarks across domains ranging from language understanding, arithmetic problem solving, to question-answering.

With an expanded model size and improved alignment technique, Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 demonstrates remarkable capabilities in understanding complex instructions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing, and preventing hallucinations. The model is now accessible to the public via its website and mobile applications, and available for developers through APIs.

Industry-specific Models: AI for Enhanced Business Performance

In addition, Alibaba Cloud also released new industry-specific models to help businesses unlock the transformative potential of generative AI across sectors for enhanced business performance. These sectors include customer support, legal counselling, healthcare, finance, documentation management, audio & video management, code development, and character creation.

“Large language models hold immense potential to revolutionize industries. We’re committed to using cutting-edge technologies, including generative AI, to help our customers capture the growth momentum forward,” said Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud. “To help businesses better reap the benefits of generative AI in a cost-effective way, we are launching a more powerful foundation model as well as industry-specific models to tackle domain-specific challenges. Through these initiatives, we hope that our proprietary models can deliver real values to our customers to improve operation efficiency and stay competitive.”

GenAI Service Platform: A Comprehensive AI Model Building Platform

To cater to the burgeoning demand for generative AI, Alibaba Cloud introduced GenAI Service Platform, an all-in-one AI model building platform aimed at streamlining the model development and application building process. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for data management, model deployment and valuation, and prompt engineering, making it easier for enterprises of all sectors to develop their enterprise-specific AI models.

Innovative Cloud Products to Drive Generative AI Development

To support the increasing computing and data processing needs required in generative AI development, Alibaba Cloud has launched a series of innovative cloud products across machine learning, container and database.

  • To improve efficiency of LLM models training and inference, Alibaba Cloud has upgraded its Platform for Artificial Intelligence (PAI), featuring enhanced computing power, network, storage, computing, container, model training and inference capabilities. AI and metaverse technology firm Futureverse has been training its text-to-music generation model on PAI leveraging its high performance and easy-to-scale capabilities to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
  • To expedite the process of building customized generative AI applications, Alibaba Cloud has enhanced its full range of database solutions – including cloud-native database PolarDB, cloud-native data warehouse AnalyticDB, and cloud-native multi-model database Lindorm – with its proprietary vector engine. It has also introduced LLM-powered database ecosystem tools, including the intelligent data analytics assistant Data Management Service (DMS) Data Copilot.
  • To enable a more scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure for application development, Alibaba Cloud unveiled Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS), a pioneering serverless solution that integrates container services with its cloud computing resources. ACS enables businesses and developers to deploy the resources of Kubernetes, a container-centric management software, in a more cost-effective and user-friendly way.


Community Programs to Foster AI Development

In a bid to support the broader AI community, Alibaba Cloud has pledged to contribute more to open-source communities, including ModelScope, the company-initiated AI community with over 100 million model downloads since its inception a year ago. The cloud pioneer plans to opensource its 72 billion-parameter version of Tongyi Qianwen later this year.

Alibaba Cloud also announced the Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Program, offering cloud computing resources, including cloud credit support of up to USD $120,000, free online learning memberships, and networking opportunities to promising global startups including AI companies.

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About Alibaba Cloud

Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com) is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualization services, large-scale computing, security, management and application services, big data analytics, a machine learning platform and IoT services. Alibaba maintained its position as the third leading public cloud IaaS service provider globally since 2018, according to IDC. Alibaba is the world’s third leading and Asia Pacific’s leading IaaS provider by revenue in U.S. dollars since 2018, according to Gartner.

Hongkong Land and American Express form strategic partnership to serve premium customers

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 31 October 2023 – Hongkong Land and American Express today announced a strategic partnership that will see the two companies create exclusive privileges and luxury lifestyle experiences for American Express Cardmembers at LANDMARK in Central, Hong Kong.

The partnership will provide American Express Cardmembers in the most premium segment with access to unique privileges at LANDMARK, the pre-eminent luxury shopping destination in the heart of Hong Kong. The exceptional offerings will include a series of specially curated experiential engagements involving luxury fashion, watches and jewellery, arts and lifestyle, and international fine dining. Additionally, it will draw on the premium amenities of Hongkong Land’s market-leading regional hospitality and loyalty programme, BESPOKE.

This marks a unique strategic partnership between American Express and a commercial property landlord in Hong Kong. It demonstrates the commitment of both companies to delivering exceptional experiences to their customers and underscores a shared vision of Central in Hong Kong as a leading international luxury shopping destination and business centre.

“We are delighted to launch this innovative partnership with American Express, a brand that aligns with LANDMARK’s passion for bringing luxury experiences in fashion, dining, art and culture to discerning customers,” said Mr Alexander Li, Chief Retail Officer at Hongkong Land.

“I am confident that, together, we will elevate client experiences to a level unmatched anywhere on the global stage. In turn, this will reinforce LANDMARK and Hong Kong as one of the world’s most sophisticated and desirable locations to visit, shop and dine,” he added.

“We are always looking for ways to create new value and bring premium experiences to American Express Cardmembers. Drawing on the renowned heritage of American Express and Hongkong Land in providing exceptional services and experiences, our closer collaboration will open the door to new prestigious perks and lifestyle services for our premium customers,” said Mr Walter Liu, Head of Asia Region at American Express.

“This is a well-timed partnership as international visitor numbers to Hong Kong continue to climb and consumption activity among high-end consumers gathers pace,” he concluded.

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Hongkong Land

Hongkong Land is a major listed property investment, management and development group. Founded in 1889, Hongkong Land’s business is built on excellence, integrity and partnership.

The Group owns and manages more than 850,000 sq. m. of prime office and luxury retail property in key Asian cities, principally Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing and Jakarta. Its properties attract the world’s foremost companies and luxury brands.

The Group’s Central Hong Kong portfolio represents some 450,000 sq. m. of prime property. It has a further 165,000 sq. m. of prestigious office space in Singapore mainly held through joint ventures, four retail centres on the Chinese mainland, including a luxury retail centre at Wangfujing in Beijing, and a 50% interest in a leading office complex in Central Jakarta. The Group also has a number of high-quality residential, commercial and mixed-use projects under development in cities across China and Southeast Asia, including a 43% interest in a 1.1 million sq. m. mixed-use project in West Bund, Shanghai. Its subsidiary, MCL Land, is a well-established residential developer in Singapore.

Hongkong Land Holdings Limited is incorporated in Bermuda and has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, with secondary listings in Bermuda and Singapore. The Group’s assets and investments are managed from Hong Kong by Hongkong Land Limited. Hongkong Land is a member of the Jardine Matheson Group.

LANDMARK

LANDMARK represents the epitome of top-tier luxury shopping and lifestyle experiences. Drawing from a rich heritage which began in 1904 – LANDMARK today is the luxury shopping destination of Hongkong Land’s Central portfolio including 4 iconic connected buildings, LANDMARK ATRIUM, LANDMARK ALEXANDRA, LANDMARK CHATER and LANDMARK PRINCE’S. LANDMARK offers approximately 208 of the finest stores and restaurants, all seamlessly linked by pedestrian bridges. From high fashion and accessories to watches and jewellery, from luxury living to beauty and grooming, from international cuisine to authentic gourmet dining, LANDMARK brings the ultimate shopping experience to the discerning customer.

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New Fund Allocated to Education Improvement in Laos

Teacher at a rural school in Laos. (Photo/World Vision)

In the heart of Southeast Asia, Laos is facing a challenge that many developing nations share: a need to improve its education system.

To this end, Asia-Potash International, a Chinese corporation, has recently partnered with the Lao Ministry of Education and Sports to establish the country’s first-ever education fund.

With an initial disbursement of USD 700,000, the fund can become a beacon of hope for Lao teachers and students alike, according to the corporation representatives.

The fund will support educators, financially disadvantaged students in impoverished regions, as well as the training of skilled professionals in those areas. The goal is to help to address some of the most pressing challenges facing Laos’s education sector, such as teacher shortages, lack of resources, and high dropout rates.

Three key assistance programs to support education in Laos have been drafted in the Memorandum of Understanding between private and government parties involved in the project.

A Teacher Assistance Fund will help teachers in impoverished regions and those who contribute to education but do not receive a monthly salary, while a Scholarship Fund aims to support financially disadvantaged students enrolled in regular schools, colleges, or universities across the country. And a Vocational Education Fund will aid technical personnel and research projects in vocational schools.

The initial disbursement of assistance funds is focused on six provinces in the central, northern, and southern regions as pilot areas addressing the needs of 1,436 individuals, including volunteer teachers, regular-education students, vocational-education students, and university students.

Thailand Reduces Work Permit Fees for Employees from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam

A staff member shows freeze-dried durian products at a fruit products company in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand, on17 August 2023. (Photo: Xinhua)

Thailand issued an official notice that set new fees for inspections and work permits for foreign workers from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam to promote legal employment and address the issue of illegal immigration.

The new visa fee is THB 500 (approximately USD 13.84), down from THB 2,000 ( USD 55.36). The fee for applying for a temporary stay has also been reduced from THB 1,900 (USD 52.60) to THB 500.

The move, introduced in a ministerial order on 27 October, will take effect on November 10 for foreign workers from these four countries who enter Thailand to work based on an employment contract or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in connection with the recruitment of workers, and it will be valid for four years.

The measure is aimed at promoting legal employment and addressing problems related to illegal immigration and labor market stability. It will also ease the financial burden on both workers and employers.

The Thai government hopes that the reduced fees will encourage more foreign workers to legalize their employment when entering the country, ensuring that they are protected under Thai labor laws and that they contribute to the country’s social security system. 

“This ministry regulation is in line with the government’s approach to regulating the employment of foreign workers to strengthen the country’s competitiveness and support economic recovery after COVID-19. Reducing fees is a means to ease the financial burden on both workers and employers,” Khaosod stated.

Thailand has a total of 2,593,439 foreign workers as of September. There are still approximately 1 million workers in the process of submitting work permit applications.

Thailand, along with South Korea and Japan, is a popular destination for Lao residents seeking better career opportunities, as the country continues to face high inflation, an increased cost of living, and low minimum wages.