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Zoho Launches New Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration Technology for Zoho Workplace

Zoho Workplace achieves 38% YoY Revenue Growth in APAC and 16 Million+ Users Worldwide

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 24 April 2023 – Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, today unveiled its new collaboration experience, Trident, as well as strengthened collaboration technologies to offer businesses easier ways to communicate across channels, reduce tool-ambiguity, and improve an organization’s overall digital adoption.

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Establishing itself as a central work hub or virtual headquarters, Zoho Workplace is a unified office platform that combines collaboration, productivity, and communications tools. It is now a flexible, full-featured business mail and cloud office suite that is built on a common data model and unified through search and AI, enabling users to operate collaboratively and seamlessly through applications.

Commenting on the continued innovation, Gibu Mathew, VP and GM of Zoho APAC notes, “In the past year, Zoho Workplace adoption has accelerated in the APAC region as businesses of all sizes transition to digital-forward, hybrid work. With a clear focus on continued innovation, Zoho is well-positioned to be a growth partner for businesses. The goal of Zoho Workplace is to enable businesses to unify their work to a point where the line between apps disappears. It’s heartening to see so many new businesses join the Zoho family, using Zoho Workplace as their customizable center of gravity.”

Zoho Workplace has grown 38% year-over-year in APAC and now has more than 16 million users worldwide. This substantial growth is attributed to increasing business demand for simplified, streamlined solutions that maintain utmost standards for user privacy as well as rising costs from other collaboration platform providers. Additionally, migrations from Google, Microsoft and GoDaddy to Zoho Workplace almost doubled in 2022.

Here’s a look at what’s new:

  1. Zoho Trident is a brand new collaboration, productivity and communication experience that combines mail, messages, audio/video calls, calendar, tasks and more into the same place. It’s also Zoho’s first native desktop app for email and chat. Trident is a move away from individual product experiences, as Zoho works to provide its customers with a unified platform.
  2. The Zoho Voice platform is now a full Phone System integrated directly within team collaboration app Zoho Cliq and web conferencing app Zoho Meeting. This allows employees to make direct line calls and send SMS messages, as well as pick up inbound calls across the apps.
  3. Zoho Webinar is now part of the Zoho Meeting web conferencing app that will let you broadcast yourselves to hundreds of attendees and engage with them using Polls and Q&As.
  4. Zoho is releasing a new AI-based grammar tool, BluePencil. This brings writing suggestions and a text editor which can be used on any third-party webpage.
  5. Universal Drag & Drop functionality lets users save time and improves users experience doing things across collaboration channels. Drag an email attachment and drop it to your colleague’s chat to send it directly, for example.
  6. Mobile Device Management capabilities and OTP-restricted Emails have been added to the workplace suite as Zoho focuses on security.
  7. TrueSync has been added to Zoho Workdrive so that hard drive storage limits are no longer a concern. TrueSync creates a mirror of all WorkDrive files and folders on the desktop so you can seamlessly switch between the cloud and your computer. You can access files locally and make changes without using up hard drive space.

Zoho Workplace Pricing:

Zoho Workplace is available in three editions: Standard is $3 per user per month. Professional is $6 per user per month. Zoho Mail is $1 per user per month. For more information, please visit: https://www.zoho.com/workplace/

Zoho Privacy Pledge

Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. The company owns and operates its data centers, ensuring complete oversight of customer data, privacy, and security. More than 80 million users around the world, across hundreds of thousands of companies, rely on Zoho every day to run their businesses, including Zoho itself. For more information, please visit: https://www.zoho.com/privacy-commitment.html
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About Zoho

With 55+ apps in nearly every major business category, Zoho Corporation is one of the world’s most prolific technology companies. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with international headquarters in Chennai, India, Zoho is privately held and profitable with more than 12,000 employees. For more information, please visit:

7-Eleven Convenience Stores to Start Operations in Laos This Year

7-eleven convenience store in Thailand. ( Photo: Brand Inside).

Thailand’s CP ALL Public Company plans to launch 7-Eleven convenience franchise stores in Laos by mid-2023.

Olymp Trade Held a Ramadan Charity Campaign

3,116 families in need received 10-kg food baskets

KINGSTOWN, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES – Media OutReach – 24 April 2023 – Olymp Trade, a trading platform with over 80 million user accounts, has completed Every 1 Counts, a Ramadan charity campaign. The aim was to encourage the community of traders to support and help those in need.

For every 100 trades made by the campaign participants, Olymp Trade committed to sponsoring one food basket for a disadvantaged family. The goal was to assemble 3,000 baskets and thus enable as many families to enjoy iftar meals.

Once Every 1 Count was over, Olymp Trade donated the resulting amount to the Misr El Kheir Foundation (MEK), a well-known Egyptian NGO. Since 2007, the foundation has been contributing to human development, intending to reduce poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and disease.

Every 1 Count: Results

19,760 traders from Egypt and other MENA countries joined Olymp Trade’s Ramadan campaign. They collectively assembled 3,116 food baskets.

In April, MEK volunteers distributed more than 30,000 kg of food aid among 3,116 impoverished households during the Iftar Ramadan Charity Campaign. Additionally, they distributed 1,000 free hot meals to provide instant hunger relief.

On its official Facebook page, Misr El Kheir Foundation thanked Olymp Trade for supporting this charitable cause.

According to an Olymp Trade’s representative, the company considers the event successful and plans to organize such campaigns regularly in the future:

“So far, Olymp Trade has held several charity campaigns, including one in Egypt. But Every 1 Counts is unique because it directly engages so many of our users. Their collective activity on the platform boosted Olymp Trade’s donation to 1,000,000 EGP. We are really proud to make this contribution on behalf of the platform’s community. It’s yet another proof that trading is not limited to pursuing personal gain. It also has the potential to bring about positive social changes.”

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Top Election Official in Myanmar Assassinated by Guerrillas

Top Election Official in Myanmar Assassinated by Guerrillas
FILE - An official of the Union Election Commission counts ballots at a polling station in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Nov. 8, 2020. A top election official in Myanmar was fatally shot on Saturday, April 22, 2023, in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

BANGKOK (AP) — A top election official in Myanmar was fatally shot in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule.

Laos, Cambodia Enhance Border Cooperation With 387 New Border Posts Agreement

Laos, Cambodia Enhance Border Cooperation With 387 New Border Posts Agreement
Mr. Saleumxay Kommasith and Mr. Var Kimhong shakes hand after reaching an agreement (photo: Lao people's Army News)

Laos and Cambodia agreed to continue their border cooperation by deciding to install 387 more border posts last Friday at the Cambodian-Lao Joint Boundary Commission meeting in Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia.

Laos All Set to Host Asean Tourism Forum 2024

Over 600,000 Foreign Tourists Visited Vientiane Capital in 2022
Picture of Patuxay Monument at night.

The ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) will be held in Laos next year and the event will focus on aspects like sustainability, digitalization, and labor shortage to improve the tourism industry in Southeast Asia.

Fortune Insight enters agreement with Nikkei China (Hong Kong) Limited, strengthening its newly integrated platform for global and Asia, especially Japan, market, and life content

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 24 April 2023 – Fortune Insight, a Hong Kong-based FinTech company, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Nikkei China (Hong Kong) Limited, to offer selected Nikkei Asia content to Fortune Insight customers.

Nikkei Asia is Japan and Asia’s definitive source of trusted news and information to help people make decisions and know the latest situation in Japan and Asia market. This new agreement will offer Fortune Insight customers access to a selection of Nikkei Asia’s uniquely trusted content through FI x NIKKEI ASIA website and mobile app.

“As one of the top financial news websites in Hong Kong, Fortune Insight applies AI and big data technology to instantly provide the public with daily first-hand financial news synchronizing the pulse of world markets. Our partnership with Nikkei Asia, adding with Fortune Insight’s group of professional investment and financial columnists, will bring readers faster and more practical financial and cultural content,” said Nathan Tsang, CTO of Fortune Insight. “We are very pleased to be able to reach this strategic collaboration with Nikkei China (Hong Kong) Limited.”

“We are delighted to collaborate with Fortune Insight, a fast-growing business news organization committed to high quality journalism. Like Fortune Insight, Nikkei Asia prides itself for timely, on the ground news reports and in-depth analysis with an Asian perspective. We are confident that together, we can provide a wealth of useful information that will enrich our readers’ business activities across the globe.” Said Nozomu Kitadai, Managing Director of Nikkei China (Hong Kong) Limited.

FI x NIKKEI ASIA Annual Subscription Scheme Officially Launched

Fortune Insight partners with Nikkei China (Hong Kong) Limited by launching a new FI x NIKKEI ASIA scheme, which will provide a paid subscription service with an annual fee of HK$600. Subscribers can enjoy full access to English language online content provided by Nikkei Asia. In addition, FI x NIKKEI ASIA subscribers also enjoy 7-Day Free All Access across all columns on Fortune Insight Prime (which is valued at HK$7,900).

FI x NIKKEI ASIA subscribers will also enjoy a series of exclusive offers provided by Fortune Insight. Interested parties may refer to the latest updates on FI x NIKKEI ASIA Website.

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About Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia brings you news and insights on the region’s most influential companies, and comprehensive coverage of business, economy, markets, technology, politics, and trends – all from a uniquely Asian perspective. Nikkei Asia is published by Nikkei Inc.

For more than 145 years, Nikkei has been providing unparalleled coverage of Japan’s economy, industries and markets. The group’s business portfolio includes publishing, broadcasting and the Nikkei 225 stock index. Its flagship media, The Nikkei, has a circulation of approximately 2.5 million. With 37 bases globally and 1500 journalists, Nikkei is ideally positioned to provide Asian news and analysis to a global audience.

The Financial Times (FT), the global business newspaper, joined the Nikkei Group in 2015. As content partners, the Nikkei Asia and the FT share selected articles with their respective audiences and collaborate on joint editorial projects.

About Fortune Insight
A FinTech and financial information media platform based in Hong Kong, Fortune Insight provides readers with the latest news headlines, features, and market analysis by applying its own in-house AI and big data system. In 2020, the platform launched Fortune Insight Prime cooperating with more than 40 financial writers and analysts in Hong Kong to produce a series of financial columns and podcasts. Fortune Insight Prime mobile app was launched in early 2022. In May, Fortune Insight officially partners with Dow Jones & Company.

Authorities to Clear Commercial Area for Tourism Spot in Vang Vieng

Authorities to Clear Commercial Area for Tourism Spot in Vang Vieng
The commercial area with large space of the old airport that will be turned into a tourism spot (photo: Laophattana News)

On Wednesday, the Vang Vieng government issued a notice directing stalls at a commercial area near the old airport to vacate the premises to make way for a new tourism spot.