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Vietnam’s Richest Man Starts Electric Taxi Company

Vingroup Chairman launches Electric Taxi Firm In Vietnam
The VF e34 model by VinFast. ( Photo : VinFast )

Pham Nhat Vuong, who is the wealthiest man in Vietnam, has established GSM, an electric taxi company that hopes to speed up the creation of Vietnam’s green ecosystem.

Road Accident Claims Life of Lao Football Referee

Pepsi Lao League 1 Referee Killed During Road Accident
Accident involving cement truck and motorbike (left), Mr. Khamhom Sinuanxay (left).

The fatal accident occurred on 13 March at Thatluang Village, Xaysettha District in Vientiane Capital when the brakes on a cement mixer truck failed to operate.

Dachser acquisition in Australia and New Zealand

The takeover of air and sea freight forwarder ACA International adds six locations Down Under to the company’s own Air & Sea Logistics (ASL) network

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 15 March 2023 Dachser has acquired ACA International headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. This acquisition means Dachser’s own air and sea freight network now also covers Australia and New Zealand, countries that are not only economically strong but also closely interlinked with Asia, Europe, and North America.

ACA International employs 56 people and generated revenue of around EUR 75 million in 2021. The air and sea freight forwarding company was founded in 1982 and is privately owned. ACA International provides its customers in Australia and New Zealand with integrated international transportation services. The company puts a strong focus on quality, expertise, innovation, and collaboration, for which it uses the latest information technologies.

Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, the company has two additional offices in Sydney and Brisbane. In New Zealand, ACA International has offices in Auckland, Wellington, and Hamilton. The company has an additional branch office in Kansas City, USA. ACA International is also present in the Greater China region. However, these Chinese locations are not part of the acquisition; Dachser has been serving its customers in China from its own locations since 2003.

Continuing on a growth trajectory

For the past 14 years, ACA International has been led by experienced air and sea freight logistics specialist Adam Cruttenden, Glenn Hall, Mark Weeks and Hervey Graham. Leading Dachser Oceania into the future, Adam Cruttenden will be taking on the role of Managing Director ASL Oceania. “This acquisition lets Dachser Air & Sea Logistics continue on its growth trajectory and, by adding Australia and New Zealand, fills a gap in the global network of our own locations,” says Edoardo Podestà, COO ASL and Managing Director ASL APAC. “That means we can offer our customers seamless access to dynamic economic markets that boast attractive local conditions and significant levels of investment.”

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About Dachser

Dachser, a family-owned company headquartered in Kempten, Germany, provides transport logistics, warehousing, and customized services in two business fields: Dachser Air & Sea Logistics and Dachser Road Logistics. The latter consists of two business lines: Dachser European Logistics and Dachser Food Logistics. Comprehensive contract logistics services and industry-specific solutions round out the company’s range. A seamless shipping network—both in Europe and overseas—and fully integrated IT systems ensure intelligent logistics solutions worldwide.

Thanks to some 31,800 employees at 376 locations all over the globe, Dachser generated consolidated net revenue of approximately EUR 7.1 billion in 2021. The same year, the logistics provider handled a total of 83.6 million shipments weighing 42.8 million metric tons. Dachser is represented by its own country organizations in 42 countries.

In Asia Pacific, Dachser has operations in 43 locations across 12 Business Areas with its Regional Head Office located in Hong Kong. For more information, please visit

VinBrain becomes NVIDIA Inception Premier Member

HANOI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 14 March 2023 – VinBrain has become a Premier member of NVIDIA Inception, a global program that provides cutting-edge startups with access to accelerated computing resources and more. By teaming up with NVIDIA, VinBrain is poised to transform HealthTech innovation in Southeast Asia, building on its previous successful collaborations with Microsoft and Stanford University.

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From the outset, VinBrain has leveraged cutting-edge NVIDIA’ GPU technology to accelerate AI model training for healthcare solutions.

As a Premier member of NVIDIA Inception, VinBrain has the advantage of being an early adopter of NVIDIA’s latest hardware innovations. Moreover, VinBrain receives ongoing technical support by regularly meeting with R&D experts, empowering the company to design and train advanced AI models and seamlessly integrate AI systems into clinical workflows. With this capability, VinBrain is better equipped to serve hundreds of hospitals across Vietnam, the United States, and Southeast Asian nations with optimal efficiency.

VinBrain’s AI product suite, including DrAid™, AIScaler™, and SenMe™ (aka AIviCare™) is now featured on the NVIDIA Accelerated Apps Catalog.

We are thrilled to become a Premier member of NVIDIA Inception,” said Steven Truong, CEO of VinBrain. “VinBrain has collaborated with Microsoft Corporation on data sharing, cross-validation, product research and development, and with Stanford University on in-depth research and data use, including hundreds of thousands of shared medical images. Continuing collaboration with NVIDIA in the hardware field will create a strong foundation for VinBrain to enhance quality, efficiency, and accessibility of healthcare services, bringing the best value of AI to provide effective support for patients and doctors.”

VinBrain has committed to NVIDIA’s cutting-edge tech solutions from the outset, relying on the NVIDIA Clara healthcare platform, MONAI open-source framework, and NVIDIA NeMo framework for training, customizing and deploying generative AI models. Likewise, VinBrain has used NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD-powered AI supercomputing to develop computer vision solutions for medical imaging, intelligent video analytics, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, and text-to-speech, resulting in 100x faster model training than with CPU only.

VinBrain provides impactful solutions for many hospitals globally and supports healthcare professionals to augment their workflows and deliver precision radiology,” said Renee Yao, Global Healthcare AI Startups Lead at NVIDIA. “As a Premier member of NVIDIA Inception, VinBrain will work with NVIDIA to improve healthcare and precision medicine.”

Healthcare has notably been one of the emerging industries in NVIDIA’s Inception, which now boasts over 1,300 healthcare startups. Steven Truong will speak at an exclusive Healthcare AI Council as part of NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference running March 20-23, 2023 in San Francisco, US. He will share his thoughts on the future of innovation in the healthcare and life sciences industry and discuss how to collaborate globally and bring bigger impacts to improve patient outcomes and efficiency for doctors’ workflows.

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About VinBrain

As a 4-year-old startup, Invested by Vingroup, the biggest conglomerate in Vietnam, VinBrain has a mission to infuse AI and IoT to improve people’s lives and productivity. The company has developed over 300 AI models that process medical images and medical reports including X-ray, CT, MRI and medical reports data from a dataset of over 2.5 million images and big data of text. The comprehensive AI platform, DrAid™, has been deployed in over 100 hospitals in Vietnam, Myanmar, New Zealand, and the US.

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Indonesia Metaverse Collaboration Initiative was launched at MWC 2023 Barcelona as a Step Forward in the Metaverse Industry

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 14 March 2023 – Indonesia has made a significant move towards becoming a major player in the global metaverse industry with the launch of its Indonesia Metaverse Collaboration Initiative on 1 March 2023, in conjunction with the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. The event was attended by a delegation of prominent organization leaders, including the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Spain, Indonesia Ministry of ICT (Kominfo) as the representative of Indonesian Government, Telkom University, and group of industry leaders from GSMA, Telkom Indonesia, Telkomsel, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, XL Axiata, Smartfren, Alita, Techbros, Meta, and Telecom Infra Project.

Attendees of the Indonesia Metaverse Collaboration Initiative Launching event at MWC 2023 Barcelona, 1 March 2023. From left to right of the front row (Vishal Mathur - Global Head of Engagement of Telecom Infra Project, Rizal Akbar- VP of NITS Telkom Indonesia, Kevin Salvadori - Vice President of Network of Meta, Vikram Sinha - CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Denny Setiawan - Director of Resource Management of Indonesia Ministry of ICT, H.E. Dr. Muhammad Najib - Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Kingdom of Spain, Julian Gorman - Head of APAC GSMA, Franky O. Widjaja - Executive Chairman of Smartfren, I Gede Darmayusa - CTO of XL Axiata, Irlamsyah Syam - VP Synergy Management of Telkomsel)
Attendees of the Indonesia Metaverse Collaboration Initiative Launching event at MWC 2023 Barcelona, 1 March 2023. From left to right of the front row (Vishal Mathur – Global Head of Engagement of Telecom Infra Project, Rizal Akbar- VP of NITS Telkom Indonesia, Kevin Salvadori – Vice President of Network of Meta, Vikram Sinha – CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Denny Setiawan – Director of Resource Management of Indonesia Ministry of ICT, H.E. Dr. Muhammad Najib – Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Kingdom of Spain, Julian Gorman – Head of APAC GSMA, Franky O. Widjaja – Executive Chairman of Smartfren, I Gede Darmayusa – CTO of XL Axiata, Irlamsyah Syam – VP Synergy Management of Telkomsel)

This initiative is a national level collaboration that is significant for both national interests and stakeholders involved. For National benefit Metaverse has the potential to boost economic growth, advance education, foster innovation, and promote Indonesian national identity in the digital world. CSPs can collaborate with the community as co-creators. Researchers and academics can take on roles in innovation. For policymakers, this can help guide policy strategies. For the private sector, metaverse can enhance customer outreach and business development. And for users, it can help shape the direction of technology adoption and promote inclusive metaverse development.

The Metaverse Indonesia Collaborative Initiative will be carried out in the form of a program called the Metaverse Research and Experience Center (MREC), a public-private partnership that aims to promote collaboration, research, innovation and development in the field of metaverse technology. It will be a multi-year program with 4 workstreams; Network Baselining, Network Optimization and Innovation, Use cases, and Ecosystem Support.
The Metaverse Research and Experience Centre (MREC) is expected to drive innovation and support the growth of the metaverse industry in Indonesia. This aligns with the national vision of President Jokowi to promote the digital economy as a crucial pillar to help Indonesia reach the top 10 global economies by 2030. Through this collaboration among industry leaders and the public sector, investment plans in Indonesia in the field of metaverse are expected to be facilitated, positioning the country as a leading hub for innovation in the digital economy.
Please find below a selection of quotes from the distinguished delegates who attended the event:

The launch of the Indonesia Metaverse Collaboration Initiative marks an important step in lifting Indonesia from being just a consumer to a producer in the metaverse industry, and represents a significant milestone in the country’s technological evolution.

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Women Leaders in Laos Gather to Commemorate International Women’s Day

Distinguished women leaders from international organizations, embassies, and the government of Laos, convened at the German Embassy in Vientiane to celebrate International Women’s Day.

MetaTrust Labs Announces Strategic Partnership with BingX

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 March 2023 – MetaTrust Labs (short for “MetaTrust”), founded by the globally renowned research team in Web3 developer security tools, is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic partnership with BingX. This partnership aims to provide high-quality security auditing and operation services, as well as comprehensive security and compliance solutions in the global Web3 industry.

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Established in 2018, BingX is a leading crypto exchange that offers spot, derivatives, copy trading, and grid trading services to more than 100 countries and regions worldwide with over 5 million users. With user trust and platform transparency as the top priority, BingX continues to connect users with expert traders and the platform in a safe, leading, and innovative way.

MetaTrust offers automated security tools and smart contract code audit services that can provide pre-security and compliance in the development lifecycle, achieving deep security scanning and dynamic protection. These accurate, efficient, and easy-to-use services provide developers and project teams with all-round and three-dimensional security empowerment.

In addition to providing audit services for BingX’s listed projects and investment portfolio, MetaTrust also offers an automatic security operations center which makes security management more effective in real time. This also helps to detect and address potential security vulnerabilities and issues in the systems, applications, and operational processes, and provides effective security solutions and recommendations. BingX has expressed high praise for MetaTrust’s professionalism and expertise in the area of security auditing and operations.

This partnership between MetaTrust and BingX is an important milestone for both companies. We will work together to protect the security of users’ assets and data and make positive contributions to the development of digital currencies. And we are looking forward to more opportunities for cooperation in the future and will continue to provide better security services.

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About MetaTrust

MetaTrust Labs is born to become the trust Layer for Web3 BUIDL. Leveraging its top-notch R&D capabilities, MetaTrust aims to deliver a fully automatic security solution through the software development lifecycle to help builders to develop secure web 3 applications.

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EthosEnergy appoints former ItalPresseGauss CEO, Mario Cincotta as new East Hemisphere Executive Vice President

Aberdeen, UK – News Direct – 14 March 2023 – EthosEnergy has appointed Mario Cincotta, former CEO of ItalPresseGauss and Senior Vice President of Norican Group as its new Executive Vice President of East Hemisphere. Mario will have strategic and operational leadership for the East Hemisphere. He will be based in Italy and report into the CEO, Ana Amicarella.

He brings with him 25 years of experience across the energy industry having spent 20 years with the GE Energy business in various leadership roles prior to his former position.

Ana Amicarella, CEO of EthosEnergy said, “Mario is known for his strategic vision, strong leadership and ability to execute. I am excited to welcome him to EthosEnergy and look forward to working closely together to deepen customer relationships, strengthen our position in the market and grow our business.”

Mario added, “I am delighted to join EthosEnergy at such an exciting time in their transformation and growth journey. I believe that building talent, team engagement, and inclusiveness as well as developing sustainability are key competitive factors, and look forward to working with the team to execute on these areas to take our business to the next level.”

Mario served as officer in the Italian Army and holds an Engineering Master’s degree from Milan Polytechnic University, a Master’s in Business Management from the ISTUD Institute of Management in Italy and a “Business Strategy in the Energy Industry” Certificate from the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology.

EthosEnergy turns on potential to deliver services and solutions globally for rotating equipment to make energy affordable, available, and sustainable. Tailoring solutions for the power, oil & gas, industrial and aerospace markets, so customers can achieve more.

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