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More SHIOK With a New Twist! 7-Eleven Refines Recipes of 9 Fan-Favourite 7-SELECT Ready to Eat Meals

7-Eleven is upping its game and has refined the recipes of its current RTE range including its all-time bestseller Butter Chicken Biryani, Mac & Cheese and Chicken Bolognaise! Plus, four brand-new items inspired by popular classics on its menu have also just launched in store. Your favourite dishes on the go have just got even better!

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 September 2022 – Whenever you wanted to cure a late-night craving, a quick meal on the go at the office, or just a bite with your schoolmates after a busy day of classes, 7-Eleven is always there for you! Our customers come first, and our goal is to offer a Ready to Eat range that is affordable, tasty and convenient to fit your lifestyle. So that’s why we’ve upgraded nine of our best-loved items refining their recipes to give you an even more enjoyable experience! We’ve sourced more premium, high quality ingredients and revisited the recipes to improve the flavours, textures as well as the overall presentation of each dish to take them to the next level. We’ve also increased the portion sizes of selected dishes as we know that you and your taste buds aren’t just looking for good food but also good value. And there’s more! We’ve further added to the menu and given a new twist to some of your favourite meals to give you even greater choice and excitement!

More SHIOK! Introducing refined recipes of classic 7-SELECT RTE dishes

7-SELECT Butter Chicken Biryani (U.P. $4.20) – This all-time favourite at 7-Eleven has been further enhanced to delight you and your taste buds. Succulent raisins and shallots have been added to provide more texture and taste. The look and flavours of the dish have been totally upgraded to make it tastier than ever!!

7-SELECT Mac & Cheese (U.P. $4.50) – Our popular comfort food classic is now creamier and meatier than ever! Sprinkles of mozzarella and red cheddar with meatier ham pieces and toasted herb crumbs make this beloved dish even more of a must-try!

7-SELECT Carbonara Penne with Chicken Ham (U.P. $4.50) – This Italian inspired crowd-pleaser now has an egg-cheese sauce that is smoother, creamier and tastier! The addition of turkey bits and shaved parmesan gives this dish an all in all meatier, smokier and cheesier flavour!

7-SELECT Thai Basil Chicken with Fragrant Rice (U.P. $4.80) – This popular Thai street food classic now looks and tastes better than ever! Fluffy white rice, topped with a sunny-side up egg together with mildly spicy basil minced chicken brings you more comfort in a bigger portion size!

7-SELECT Kimchi Fried Rice (U.P. $4.80) – We’ve upped the flavour factor of our Kimchi Fried Rice with succulent chicken bulgogi and fluffy scrambled egg. Your quick lunch on the go or late-night supper has just been taken up a notch!

7-SELECT Curry Chicken with Fragrant Rice (U.P. $4.20) – This local favourite also boasts a new and improved recipe with a stronger, more craveable curry flavour paired with fragrant white rice.

7-SELECT Black Pepper Chicken Chop with Aglio Olio (U.P. $4.50) – This dish features a chicken chop coated in blend of black pepper and herbs paired with garlicky aglio olio pasta and a colourful combination of carrots, corns and broccoli!

7-SELECT Chicken Bolognaise with Cheese (U.P. $4.50) – An all-time favourite Italian dish now presented with a generous serving of chicken bolognaise cooked to perfection in a tangy tomato sauce topped with shaved parmesan cheese and a pinch of parsley, to take you on a trip to Italy.

7-SELECT Japanese Curry Chicken with Pearl Rice (U.P. $5.00) – Missing Japan? Well, you and your taste buds can get one step closer with this new and improved recipe. Our thick, rich and bold curry sauce goes perfectly with the pearl rice and katsu chicken topped with a garnish of cabbage and nori.

Enjoy a new twist on 4 fan-favourites!

You can never have too much of a good thing, so we’ve created a series of four product extensions of some of our best-loved items to give our customers even more variety.

7-SELECT Butter Chicken with Prata (U.P $4.50) – You now have the extra option of enjoying our favourite Ready to Eat dish with a crispy fluffy prata. Simply dip the prata into the buttery savoury sauce for a quick meal on the go or tasty snack. It’s a perfect pairing!

7-SELECT Flaming Mac & Cheese (U.P $4.50) Try this spin-off our our popular Mac & Cheese – an adult version that’s hot and spicy, waking your senses to a creamy, savoury and tangy sensation with every mouthful. So craveable that you just can’t stop!

7-SELECT Baked Pesto Fish with Aglio Olio (U.P $4.50) Our Black Pepper Chicken Chop with Aglio Olio is a must-try for many of our customers. Now you can savour its classic garlicky flavours with this fantastic fish option! Combined with a cream sauce, the baked pesto crumbs on top of the fish fillet gives added flavour and crunch.

7-SELECT Tom Yum Chicken with Egg Fried Rice (U.P $4.90) – Bringing you our new flavour of Tom Yum chicken marinated in Thai spices with a dash of chilli heat slow cooked in coconut cream sauce and paired with our golden egg fried rice – an aroi mak mak choice anytime of the day!

Check out this new and improved range in the chiller in 7-Eleven stores across Singapore.

A summary table of the new products and their prices can be found below:

Product RSP
7-SELECT Butter Chicken Biryani $4.20
7-SELECT Mac & Cheese $4.50
7-SELECT Carbonara Penne with Chicken Ham $4.50
7-SELECT Thai Basil Chicken with Fragrant Rice $4.80
7-SELECT Kimchi Fried Rice $4.80
7-SELECT Curry Chicken with Fragrant Rice $4.20
7-SELECT Black Pepper Chicken Chop with Aglio Olio $4.50
7-SELECT Chicken Bolognaise with Cheese $4.50
7-SELECT Japanese Curry Chicken with Pearl Rice $5.00
7-SELECT Butter Chicken with Prata $4.50
7-SELECT Flaming Mac & Cheese $4.50
7-SELECT Baked Pesto Fish with Aglio Olio $4.50
7-SELECT Tom Yum Chicken with Egg Fried Rice $4.90

All are halal certified.

More promotions and updates can also always be found on the official 7-Eleven Singapore Facebook and 7-Eleven Singapore Instagram pages.

Hashtag: #7-Eleven

About 7-Eleven

Established in Singapore in 1983, 7-Eleven has since expanded to more than 400 stores island-wide to become the leading 24-hour convenience chain store. We take pride in serving the Singapore community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 7-Eleven emphasises convenience and value by offering a wide array of quality products, food and services to satisfy the needs of its customers. Think 7-Eleven and what comes to mind are the refreshing Slurpee, 7CAFÉ as well as a wide range of quality ready meals and sandwiches under 7-SELECT. 7-Eleven is also a 24/7 one-stop destination for customers who need to access bill payment services in their own time. Our services cover payment of utilities, courier services, and even cash withdrawal.

For more information, visit

RockFlow Launching “Baby Bull & Baby Bear”, Making Options Trading Simpler

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 September 2022 – Recently, RockFlow (https://rockflow.ai/ ), the one-stop investment platform for Gen-Z, has launched its latest innovative stock options product – Baby Bull & Baby Bear. The product signifies the fact that RockFlow has once again lowered the investment threshold, one solid step toward providing reliable and fun investment services for the new generation of investors.

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Dissatisfying with the arms race on “zero commissions” among brokers, RockFlow wishes to keep innovating on the product side and this time, RockFlow’s “BabyBull & Baby Bear” has made options trading simpler.

“Baby Bull & Baby Bear”, an innovative stock option product

RockFlow was founded in July 2021, and headquartered in Singapore, it is a Financial Service Provider registered in New Zealand. At the end of 2021, RockFlow announced its 10 million Angel Round fundraising led by BlueRun Ventures and some other private equity firms. In actual practice, the cross-industry background of its team and the ability to innovate with AI technology have let RockFlow not just satisfied with innovation in trading, but also with investment products, allowing financial derivatives that are used to belong to institutions and high-net-worth clients can be accessible to retail investors.

Stock options are the highest earning product in the earning reports of Robinhood in the last two years. In emerging markets such as the SEA region and Middle East region, a new generation of tech-savvy investors have just kindled towards stock and options trading, but the traditional user interface of options trading platforms is complex and cumbersome, adding unnecessary difficulties for users to trade options. Furthermore, the average retail investor does not have the specialized trading knowledge to best implement their investment ideas with options.

“Baby Bull & Baby Bear” is created to solve these pain points. It combines options and options strategies together and eliminates learning and decision-making costs with product packaging based on users’ investment needs and scenarios. To pick the option products that fit the criteria, investors only need to make a simple judgment on price movement and time expectation.

Apart from that, RockFlow has also launched “RockFlow Selected”. This is what RockFlow’s investment research team has filtered out for users from various complex financial indicators ( including the targeted option’s profit points, leverage, and expiration date and also the indicators such as trading volume, open interest, Delta, Gamma, IV, and other financial indicators), to help select the best Baby Bull & Baby Bear that are in accord with theoretical economic indicators and practical trading experience, and to help retail investors to simplify the analyzing process.

“Make Investing Simpler”

In comparison to other brokers, RockFlow has a stronger investment research ability. The investment research and financial mathematics team have rich experience in the financial market. They select products with risk-defined and infinite returns to investors through professional options strategies and investment research, saving the hassle of analyzing and filtering processes in complex derivatives.

Therefore, it does not only stop at making trading more straightforward but also aims to help investors to enhance the productivity and quality of trading.

From “buy Tesla with $1” to “baby bull & baby bear”, and from stock trading to Robo-advisory to asset management, RockFlow wishes to leverage the abilities of its team’s financial mathematics innovation and investment research to provide investors with simpler financial products.

Hashtag: #RockFlow

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) Launches MILESTONE®Food for your Genes in Singapore

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 September 2022 – Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia), a provider of innovative health solutions, has launched MILESTONE®Food for your Genes in Singapore. With the entry of biofunctional foods, Of Dreams and Knowledge (Asia) hopes to kickstart a new wave in functional health with MILESTONE®Food for your Genes.

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Biofunctional foods have the potential to adapt to an individual’s set of genes and allow the “expression” of possibilities encoded in one’s DNA. In terms of health, these functional foods can have the transformative ability to accelerate positive health impact when preventing chronic health conditions and dealing with a multitude of health concerns.

The Future of Health Innovation

The current world and socioeconomic climate is seeing more and more people face rapid nutrient decline in everyday foods, as well as an over-reliance on pharmaceutical drugs and health supplements. Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) aims to overturn this trend by spearheading innovations in functional health with the launch of MILESTONE®Food for your Genes in Singapore.

The range has 6 medical-grade liquid functional food formulas. Each formula is produced under zero oxygen conditions with high bioavailability and contains polyphenols and bioactive compounds that are known to be nature’s most potent antioxidants. Originating from Greece, the company is closely involved in the entire production process from farm to bottles and from the soil to every drop.

Of Dreams and Knowledge specialises in creating innovative and unique solutions — Foods for Immune with Vegan Vitamin D3, Foods for Inflammation with Liquid Curcumin, Foods for Brain and Heart with Vegan Omega 3s, Foods for Mood and Energy with Vegan Vitamin B12, Foods for Antioxidative Stress with Omega 3(ALA), 6, 9 and Foods for Pregnant Women and Kids with Vegan Calcium, Potassium and Iron.

These biofunctional food solutions are poised to positively impact the lives of Singaporeans and people around Asia. The functional food formulas are the head start of a continuous and inventive process as the world continues to evolve, with Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) striving to provide only the most holistic and sustainable form of nutrition.

“MILESTONE®Food for your Genes has been created to make vegan and plant-based functional nutrition accessible to people from all age groups and walks of life”, shared Darren Jerome Low, General Manager at Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia). “We endeavour to shift people’s mindset of addressing health problems with drugs and supplements as these suppress specific bodily functions to treat symptoms. For us, addressing a specific part cannot take place at the expense of the body’s other key processes. Every organ, every system, and every pathway must move in tandem to achieve the most holistic outcome in order to trigger the body’s restorative and self-healing capabilities. This is where we come in with functional foods that provide the most sterling results. They simply look at the human body in its entirety.”

Sustainable Biofunctional Foods For A Healthier You and A Healthier Planet

With the intent to produce biofunctional foods that meet quality and function, the company gives top priority to protecting and preserving the biodiversity of the environment. Through efforts like supporting wildlife and organic farming practices that avoid the use of chemical and synthetic fertilisers at all costs, Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) yields the purest ingredients that are lauded as Mother Nature’s gifts.

As an innovative health solutions provider with a preventative nutrition purpose, Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) is established in Singapore to create awareness and bring Asia closer to what functional nutrition can offer. The functional food formulas are set to help people tackle many forms of illnesses and ailments, fight against virulent bacteria and viruses, achieve optimal balance mentally and physically as well as slow down the aging process.

Hashtag: #OfDreams&Knowledge

About Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia):

Based in Singapore, Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) is set up to create awareness and bring the whole of Asia closer to MILESTONE®Food for your Genes natural liquid functional foods harnessed from Greek nature, with key ingredients derived from value-added natural products and medicinal plants. Helmed by General Manager, Mr. Darren Jerome Low, Of Dreams & Knowledge (Asia) offers personal consultations, workshops and talks to empower people with various needs and walks of life about MILESTONE®Food for your Genes biofunctional foods. For more information on MILESTONE®Food for your Genes, visit

Myanmar Donates 1,000 Tonnes of Rice to Sri Lanka

Myanmar farm workers load sacks of rice into a truck that will take these to the market (Nyain Thit Nyi / World Bank)
Myanmar farm workers load sacks of rice into a truck that will take these to the market (Photo: Nyain Thit Nyi / World Bank).

Myanmar has donated 1,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka as an expression of support to the government and people of the crisis-hit nation.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Honors Lao Academic for Japanese Language Education

Mr. Mixay Soukchaleun, Vice Dean, Faculty of Letters, National University of Laos received a Certificate of Commendation from Japan’s Foreign Minister Mr. Hayashi Yoshimasa on Wednesday.       

Embracing green and smart transformation whole-heartedly for Zhongnan Construction

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 September 2022 – The first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report of Zhongnan Construction (“The Company”, SZSE:000961), a leading Chinese enterprise principally engaged in real estate development and construction, was recently published, showing how The Company is accelerating efforts to promote a more green and smart business and build a better living space for communities during the year of 2021.

The 2021 ESG Report released by The Company is the latest reply to various stakeholders including suppliers, employees and other partners. Meanwhile, it is a response to the country’s “dual carbon strategy” and “rural revitalization”.

“In the year 2021, we are more aware of the importance of upgrading the corporate sustainability system to advance with the times. We believe we can rely on our prudent operation to tide over all the uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and the turbulent changes in the real estate and construction industry,” said Chen Jinshi, founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of The Company.

Integrating ESG strategy with business

The Company was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2009. It mainly focuses on two areas: real estate development, and construction business.

The total asset of The company reached 367.98 billion yuan (US$ 54.71) at the end of 2021 and the income stood at 79.21 billion yuan in the year 2021.

Based on the expertise and years of practice in the construction field, The Company has its own understanding of ESG. The letter E means harmonious environmental development, the letter S stands for healthy interaction with all kinds of stakeholders, and the letter G means robust internal governance.

The Company does not just take ESG strategy as a theory but tries to make it really work.

The Company identifies a concrete path to integrate sustainability and environmental, social and governance strategies across its daily operations, determining top five ESG priorities, including reducing carbon emissions, building healthy living space, employee improvement, better community and operation with integrity.

To realize these priorities, The Company has set its focus area on construction field where it believes its expertise can make the biggest difference and drive industry-wide change.

The Company is collaborating with partners on the industry chain to advance green transformation of the construction industry and the real estate industry, responding to the environmental goal.

In 2021, The Company integrated the existing environmental protection facilities, strengthening the penetration of green concepts across the entire industrial chain, covering development, design, construction and operation, and expanding business to urban renewal and ecological river management.

Reducing carbon emissions & Green buildings

The Company believes that for construction enterprises the best way to reduce carbon emissions and become more sustainable is to advance green transformation. And it has been committed to promoting green transformation in multiple ways from development to planning, design, construction, operation and renovation.

As at the end of 2021, The Company has completed 54.1 million square meters of projects which meet the one-star standard for green building, 19.47 million square meters of projects which meet two-star standard, and 540,000 square meters of projects which meet three-star standard. The total area of projects that meet the green building standards is 74.11 million square meters.

In 2021 The Company tapped into the ecological river management and urban renewal. It participated in the Jian River Restoration Project, a sub-project of Luoyang City’s “Joint Restoration of the Four Rivers” project, contributing to the restoration of Jian River. This project is The Company’s first large-scale municipal water conservancy Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project in Luoyang, and it is a key livelihood project in Luoyang.

Also in the year 2021, The Company obtained commercial center renewal projects in Xin’an, Shenzhen, and expects to invest over 4 billion yuan in these projects, including building an urban complex, which is covering high-end office, commercial, residential and other business, and creating a new urban landmark in high-end position in Qianhai.

Besides, The Company has been committed to promote the industrialization and technological upgrading of the construction industry, which can greatly improve productivity and cut off carbon emission at the same time.

Since 2007, the company established the NPC (New Prefabricated Concrete) Division focusing on the modernization, transformation and upgrading of construction industry and development of NPC technology.

So far, The Company has developed six generations of NPC technology system with the overall prefab rate at more than 90 percent, in the leading position in the entire industrial chain of domestic precast concrete structure covering in-depth design, processing, transportation, and hoisting construction, which is recognized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Creating better communities

The Company always believes that a good community should have quality buildings, convenient facilities and friendly atmosphere, which enables people to strive for a better life. Thus, it proposed an idea of Healthy TED (Technology, Enjoyment and Daring) community, helping shape the communities where we live and work.

A Healthy TED community focuses in the following areas: Healthy living environment, to improve the comfort of living from the aspects of facilities, environment, etc. with more technological applications; Hearty community atmosphere, to provide a variety of functional support and service platforms, allowing customers to enjoy the company of love of family and a harmonious neighborhood atmosphere. Up to now, The Company has established 343 Healthy TED communities.

Since 2021, the company is actively embracing digital technologies to make community buildings more customized, just like the manufacturing of automobiles.

The company has been engaged in promoting the smart manufacturing of buildings. It decomposes a building into thousands of modules or components and then assembles them according to the demand of different customers. It specially established a building components R&D and design base to accelerate its dream-manufacturing houses like automobiles.

At the end of 2021, a laboratory named the Zhongnan Intelligent Construction Workshop (Z-lab) was established in Haimen District, Nantong City.

At the Z-lab, The Company consistently disassembles the building blocks into “components”, forming a set of “production lines” that are finely divided, accurately classified and clear at a glance.

In the future, these components can be assembled online through the intelligent platform, reducing the uncertainty caused by the processing of components at the construction site. This can effectively improve quality and efficiency, and reduce construction costs.

Also in the year 2021, The Company launched a project called “Zhongnan Better Life Cube”, which enables customers to see the construction process of the new building, experience the future service and the community life in advance.

Operating with Integrity and Accountability

The Company always adheres to the philosophy of operation with integrity and accountability.

The Company continuously strengthen the internal control management of overall business, effectively control the business risks of the enterprise, and promote all-round compliant production and operation of the entire industry chain.

The Company has built a risk management system with reference to the COSO risk management and internal control framework to define the relevant responsibilities of the board of directors and management at all levels, thereby ensuring the effective operation of the system.

In 2021, in order to further consolidate the achievement of enterprise risk management, The Company successively conducted a series updates of internal control systems.

The Company actively improves the internal audit information system by refining the online tracking and closed-loop mechanism for audit issues to raise audit efficiency.

The Company also casts great importance to the anti-corruption work. With reference to the ISO 37001 anti-bribery management system and the internal management system of benchmarking enterprises, The Company has formulated a series of anti-corruption systems, including Integrity and Self-discipline Clauses, Employee Code of Conduct, Audit Management System, Red Line Management System, Management Regulations and Declaration Guidelines for Potential Conflicts of Interest of Employees, Audit and Anti-Corruption Management System, etc.

The above-mentioned systems were implemented in all aspects of business and among all employees. For The Company, achieving green and smart transformation in collaboration with all kinds of partners is its purpose and also responsibility to deliver a sustainable future. We take this responsibility seriously.

Zhongnan Construction’s 2021 ESG Report is now available for download at the links below:
http://www.zoina.cn/wp-content/themes/images/esgEN.pdf

Hashtag: #ZhongnanConstruction

About Zhongnan Construction Group

Zhongnan Construction(SZSE:000961)rooted in the building construction industry with more than 30 years’ experience, we are the sole private construction company in China that holds both the Premium-class Housing Construction EPC Qualification and the Grade-A Construction Engineering Design Qualification. These top class construction qualifications have been granted to only four construction companies in China by the MOHURD.

Laos Debuts as Host for the 26th Asian Junior Table Tennis Championship

Photo Credit: Education, Science and Sports Daily News

Laos is to host the 26th Asian Junior Table Tennis Championship in Vientiane Capital, with teams from 17 countries attending.

State Parties Meet to Discuss Status of Cluster Munitions

Lao delegations in UN meeting of the convention on cluster munitions.

Lao delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Welfare shared the achievements and challenges of Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) at the 10th State Parties Meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) from 31 August to 2 September 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland.