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Thailand-US Cobra Gold Military Exercises Resume at Pre-pandemic Size

In this photo released by Royal Thai Army, Thailand Chief of Defence Forces General Chalermpol Srisawasdi, left, shakes hands with Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command Admiral John Aquilino, during opening ceremony of Cobra Gold 2023 in Rayong Province Thailand, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Thai and U.S. officials presided over the opening ceremony Tuesday of Cobra Gold 2023, one of the biggest joint multilateral military exercises in the world that pulls together the security interests of the United States and six Asian nations. (Royal Thai Army via AP)
In this photo released by Royal Thai Army, Thailand Chief of Defence Forces General Chalermpol Srisawasdi, left, shakes hands with Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command Admiral John Aquilino, during opening ceremony of Cobra Gold 2023 in Rayong Province Thailand, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Thai and U.S. officials presided over the opening ceremony Tuesday of Cobra Gold 2023, one of the biggest joint multilateral military exercises in the world that pulls together the security interests of the United States and six Asian nations. (Royal Thai Army via AP)

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai and US officials officially opened annual Cobra Gold multinational military exercises on Tuesday, now restored to one of the world’s largest following three years of sharp pandemic cutbacks, reinforcing the security alliances of the United States and six Asian nations.

Ke Huy Quan, Cara Delevingne and Angela Bassett Shine in De Beers Jewellers at The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards

LOS ANGELES, US – Media OutReach – 28 February 2023 – De Beers Jewellers natural and responsibly sourced diamonds dazzled on nominees and actors Ke Huy Quan, Angela Bassett, and Cara Delevingne at the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, honouring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television.

From left to right: Angela Bassett, Cara Delevingne and Ke Huy Quan in De Beers Jewellers

From left to right: Angela Bassett, Cara Delevingne and Ke Huy Quan in De Beers Jewellers

Key Huy Quan shined in striking Ascending Shadows brooch from The Alchemist of Light High Jewellery collection featuring a 2.70 carat oval fancy grey central diamond set in striking blue aluminium as he made history as the first Asian male to win a SAG award in film for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

Angela Bassett, nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, was radiant in Talisman High Jewellery drop earrings and matching ring featuring rough and polished fancy yellow and white diamonds complementing her vibrant yellow gown.

Making her first SAG Award appearance as a nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Cara Delevingne, shined in Midnight Aura necklace from The Alchemist of Light High Jewellery collection, featuring a 20.57 carat pear shaped diamond, and matching diamond stud earrings.

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About De Beers Jewellers

Founded in London, with a flagship store on Old Bond Street and a presence in the most exclusive locations around the world, De Beers Jewellers is the pinnacle of luxury diamond jewellery. Building on De Beers’ 130 years of expertise, the House glorifies the world’s most beautiful diamonds through creativity and craftsmanship in bold, distinctive designs.

De Beers is invested in ensuring all the diamonds it discovers create a lasting positive impact for people and the places where they are found. This comes with a pledge to build a better future – one that is fairer, safer, cleaner and healthier, in which communities thrive, ethical practices are maintained, and the natural environment is protected. We call this long-term commitment Building Forever.

De Beers Jewellers has 37 stores globally and ships to 15 markets via debeers.com.

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“It’s about your products. Not ours.” – Packaging machine specialist ROVEMA invites to “Customized Experiences” at its Hessian headquarters

The mechanical engineering company ROVEMA is planning a series of customized customer events for various sectors of the food industry in 2023. The events will take place at the company’s headquarters in Fernwald, Germany.

FERNWALD, GERMANY – Newsaktuell – 28 February 2023 – “It’s about your products. Not ours.” – with this motto ROVEMA, the German specialist for packaging machines and sustainable packaging solutions starts a series of events in spring 2023 individually adapted to different sectors of the food industry.

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ROVEMA Customized Experience, Key Visual, Event at Rovema Headquarters in Fernwald, Coffee, Sustainable packaging of coffee, Sustainability, Photographer Sönke Schmidt

The guests will be offered intensive personal advice and support from ROVEMA’s Packaging Experts, live demonstrations as well as specific industry lectures and presentations on topics such as sustainable packaging or product protection.

ROVEMA Customized Experience, Key Visual, Event at Rovema Headquarters in Fernwald, Coffee, Sustainable packaging of coffee, Sustainability, Photographer Sönke Schmidt

ROVEMA Customized Experience, Key Visual, Event at Rovema Headquarters in Fernwald, Coffee, Sustainable packaging of coffee, Sustainability, Photographer Sönke Schmidt

Christoph Gusenleitner, CEO of ROVEMA, comments: “We invite our customers of today and tomorrow to discover and experience our customized solutions for sustainable packaging. What makes ROVEMA special are our individually adaptable machines, our special application know-how and our expertise in the field of sustainability. In our Experience Center at our headquarters this can be presented and understood in the most impressive way.”

With Customized Experiences, ROVEMA emphasizes that the company puts customers and their needs first: “We also focus on our customers and their specific product requirements. Our goal is to be at their disposal with all our know-how, which is why we’re rethinking traditional trade show participation and will no longer be exhibiting at Interpack, for example. Instead, we will offer our own highly concentrated and effective events directly on our premises with our Customized Experiences, which are individually tailored to the needs of our customers,” says CSO Florian Lude.

The series will kick off in March 2023 with an event for the coffee sector. Other events, including those for the confectionery and powder industries, are planned for 2023.

Interested parties from the respective industries can register for the event at rovema-experience.com.

Hashtag: #ROVEMA

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About ROVEMA:

With more than 60 years of experience, ROVEMA develops packaging systems that meet the complex requirements of modern recycling management. ROVEMA thinks holistically and sustainably. The specific requirements of the customers and their products are at the center of ROVEMA’s development of efficient and sustainable packaging machines. A successful concept – ROVEMA has delivered more than 30,000 machines and lines worldwide.

Thailand Bans Tipsy Tubing Following Viral Video

Thailand Bans Tipsy Tubing Following Viral Video

Thailand has banned drunken tubing activities along the Pai River in Mae Hong Sonprovince after a video of tourists enjoying the activity went viral.

Lao Government Bonds Sell Out Like Hotcakes on First Day

People waited to purchase government bonds on Tuesday. ( Photo: Vilaysack Soulichanh).

Government bonds at commercial banks across Laos sold out in just a few hours after the government announced they would go on sale today.

Crypto Sets Higher Standards for Proof of Reserves for Traditional Finance: Bybit CEO

  • The new norms after 2022: crypto exchanges have set a high bar in transparency with 100% verifiable proof of reserves
  • DEXs form an important part of a healthy ecosystem by supporting medium and long-term traders
  • Bybit has a calling as a CEX: delivering seamless integration into Web3 for everyday users

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Media OutReach – 28 February 2023 – The future of the crypto industry is one step closer to its full potential, now trust and transparency is at the forefront, said Bybit CEO Ben Zhou. According to Zhou, technology will lead the way in restoring trust in crypto, and legitimate exchanges have what it takes to outperform traditional financial institutions in terms of transparency.

Speaking as part of a panel discussion at Blockchain Life 2023 in Dubai on Monday, Zhou proposed leveraging the open nature and real-time verification that decentralized technology offers. Blockchain is part of the solution, and crypto-native solutions can help armor the financial industry against traditional and new forms of fraud risk. He noted that crypto exchanges are able to offer real-time, verifiable proof of reserves, which is far and above the transparency traditionally offered by financial institutions.

Bybit is committed to managing user funds with the utmost transparency and integrity, which is why it has real-time proof of reserves with a purpose-built Merkle Tree. Users can use their Merkle Leaf code to check that their assets are recorded as liabilities in Bybit’s on-chain wallets down to the granular details.

For Zhou, this kind of technology — powered by blockchain — is the real solution to the constant news of malfeasance in the crypto and wider financial sector. The new industry norm of proof of reserves can offer users more peace of mind and visibility into exchanges’ assets, and this has tilted the conventional power dynamics between the customers and financial service providers, he said.

Zhou went on to talk about the role of crypto exchanges as the industry moves forward from a challenging 2022. While security considerations are a given, Zhou revealed why CEXs are still preferred by serious traders: deep liquidity and powerful infrastructure with millisecond precision.

Referring to institutional clients and professional traders, Zhou said that “centralized exchanges are pretty much their only choice simply because of the liquidity. And you simply can’t do high frequency trading on a decentralized exchange (DEX) due to infrastructure limitations.” However, Zhou suggested that those interested in medium-to-long term trades could consider DEXs as an option.

“Our role — and that of any centralized exchange — is to be ready for mass adoption and be the gateway to Web3 when it happens. So, I still believe in the industry,” Zhou added. “In two years, you will see signs of mass adoption. Your uncles, your aunties, your cousins will all start to use crypto,” he said.

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About Bybit

Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange established in 2018 that offers a professional platform where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent 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, esports teams NAVI, Astralis, Alliance, Made in Brazil (MIBR), and Oracle Red Bull Racing Esports, and association football (soccer) team Borussia Dortmund.

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Pakse to Build Wastewater Treatment Facility Worth USD 2.1 Million

Pakse Building USD 6 Million Waste Treatment Plant
Water Inlet in Wastewater Treatment Plants ( Photo : pepperl-fuchs )

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) held a groundbreaking ceremony last week to build four decentralized wastewater treatment plants and a city-level excrement treatment facility in Pakse City, Champasack that would benefit around 9,000 people.

Cisco and NTT Collaborate to Bring Private 5G to Enterprise Customers to Accelerate Industry Transformation

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 28 February 2023 – Cisco, a worldwide leader in technology, and NTT Ltd., a leading IT infrastructure and services company, announced plans to collaborate to drive Private 5G adoption across the Automotive, Logistics, Healthcare, Retail and Public sectors.

(Middle) Shahid Ahmed, Executive Vice President, New Ventures and Innovation for NTT Ltd. and (Right) Masum Mir, SVP and GM Cisco Networking, Provider Mobility discuss challenges of private 5G network deployments, and whether the industry is starting to see real world deployments at MWC Barcelona 2023
(Middle) Shahid Ahmed, Executive Vice President, New Ventures and Innovation for NTT Ltd. and (Right) Masum Mir, SVP and GM Cisco Networking, Provider Mobility discuss challenges of private 5G network deployments, and whether the industry is starting to see real world deployments at MWC Barcelona 2023

NTT and Cisco plan to co-innovate and jointly bring to market the technology and managed services that will enable enterprise customers to deploy Private 5G successfully and achieve better business outcomes. The companies plan to accelerate edge connectivity through NTT’s first-to-market, Managed Private 5G solution, combined with Intel hardware, so that Cisco and NTT customers will be able to seamlessly integrate Private 5G into their pre-existing LAN/WAN/Cloud infrastructure.

Together, the companies can rapidly enable critical Industry 4.0 capabilities such as push-to-talk ‘walkie talkie’ communications, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), always connected PCs (for digital frontline workers), machine vision (e.g. predictive maintenance, PPE detection), and more.

Cisco and NTT have already begun coordination on several customer deployments. In addition, the two companies are planning to power computer vision for product quality analysis, predictive analytics for manufacturing equipment functionality and maintenance, and autonomous vehicles for moving product on the factory floor, leveraging NTT’s IoT connected solutions.

“Together with NTT, we aim to help our enterprise customers accelerate digital transformation, with the power of 5G and Wi-Fi across IT and OT operations,” said Masum Mir, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Provider Mobility, Cisco Networking. “Our cloud-managed private 5G offers customers seamless integration with their Enterprise network fabric along with common policy and zero trust security architecture, helping to reduce technical, financial, and operational risks associated with managing 5G networks, so they can focus on driving business agility and efficiency.”

“This is a natural expansion of the cutting-edge capabilities and services NTT brings to market to help our global clients modernize their businesses. NTT and Cisco are building on our mutual commitment to build a simple to manage pure private network solution,” said Shahid Ahmed, Executive Vice President, New Ventures & Innovation at NTT. “As a premier systems integrator partner to Cisco, the two companies are well positioned to deliver a secure, reliable and future-proof private 5G network for our joint enterprise customers with global footprints.”

For Cisco’s Private 5G, NTT will provide network infrastructure design, deployment, run operations, use case development, device sourcing, compatibility, and end-to-end testing.

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About NTT Ltd.

As part of NTT DATA, a USD 30 billion IT services provider, NTT Ltd. is a leading IT infrastructure and services company serving 65% of the Fortune Global 500 and more than 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We lay the foundation for organizations’ edge-to-cloud networking ecosystem, simplify the complexity of their workloads across multicloud environments, and innovate at the edge of their IT environments where networks, cloud and applications converge. We offer tailored infrastructure and ensure consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our secure, scalable and customizable data centers. On the journey towards a software-defined future, we support organizations with our platform-delivered infrastructure services. We enable a connected future.