Following the recent heavy rains, parts of Laos will see even more rain and thunderstorms this week.
ASEAN Bans Myanmar Military Leadership from Meetings for Inaction On Peace Plan
Myanmar’s junta Generals will be barred from ASEAN meetings until progress is made on the agreed-upon “Five-Point Consensus” for peace.
BabyTree leverages its maternity and child-focused ecosystem Commits to promoting ESG and sustainability Rated silver by HKSSA
Regarding the Silver rating, Mr. Xu Chong, Executive Director and CFO of BabyTree Group, said: “We recently released our 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, practicing ESG concepts has become an important dimension to measure the long-term development of an enterprise, and the long-term value that it brings as it is valued by all enterprises.”
“The core value of the BabyTree platform is to help families dealing with maternity and infants pursue happiness. At the same time, we are committed to building a healthy and sustainable new business ecosystem with our partners and employees. BabyTree has been practicing its own value in the field of ESG to build a customer-centric system with ‘love’.”
“As the leading platform in the maternity and infant field, BabyTree has the determination and confidence to build a healthy and standardized maternity and infant service platform forging ahead together with our users, the industry and the society continuously situating itself on the service of families dealing with maternity and infants thereby contribute to overall social development.”
BabyTree is the largest and most active M&C community platform in terms of MAU (monthly active users) in China. The Group is dedicated to connecting and serving young families by building an online platform for expectant and young parents in China so that they can communicate with one another and get the best pregnancy advice. In 2021, BabyTree Parenting APP took the lead with comprehensive high-quality content and an active community atmosphere, further improving user experience and activity. Annual average MAU on the platform reached 22.787 million, as it now becomes the app with the highest coverage and the highest number of MAU among similar M&C platforms.
The Group has deepened and developed public welfare undertakings in the previous year and upgraded the “2+1+6” public welfare system. The Group has added vitality in terms of rural hygiene and education by attracting talent that can help with rural revitalization and boost industrial economic transformation. It is working to help the agriculture sector and boost sales thereby promoting industrial revitalization. At the same time, BabyTree promotes projects on woman’s right and children’s right aspects to push the development of social responsibility work.
For users, BabyTree is committed to connecting and serving young families, assisting them in building a nurturing and friendly society with “Products for Love, Pregnancy and Parenting “. With BabyTree Parenting app as the core within the traffic matrix, BabyTree provides one-stop products and services to fully meet four needs in prenatal and postnatal care, communication and friendship, healthy growth and optimal shopping of maternal and infant family.
Concerning partnerships in corporate governance, BabyTree’s ESG report pointed out the notion of “Care for Partners without Biased Operation” demonstrating that BabyTree has forged long-term and mutual-beneficial relationships with the upstream and downstream industries.
For employees, BabyTree follows the principle of “Employee Care, Happy Work” and adheres to a good corporate culture, building a sound platform for employee’ career development and establishing a comprehensive welfare system with great importance attached to the direction of employee’ career development.
In addition, BabyTree attracts external high-quality talents to join and encourages employees to give full play to their potential.
Concerning environmental governance, BabyTree actively advocates low-carbon environmental protection within the Group, encouraging electricity saving and green travel and actively promotes the construction of green offices, and pursues the four-purpose environmental protection principle of “reduce, reuse, recycle and replace” to minimize waste and make the most efficient use of resources.
In addition, Fosun Group is the major shareholder of BabyTree. Focusing on the three core needs of health, happiness and wealth, Fosun Group has built an industrial ecosystem that runs through the entire life cycle of a family. It owns high-end residences and maternity inspection hospitals, global industrial channels, genetic testing, film and television IP and many other scarce resources. BabyTree deeply cooperate with Fosun’s ecology and realize online and offline traffic complementarity, continuously delivering precise audiences for the brand. At the same time, the ecological combination of Fosun Group and BabyTree will also create files for users throughout the pregnancy cycle, thereby further providing high-quality maternity services to families with maternity and infants.
Hashtag: #BabyTreeGroup
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Chinese National Commits Suicide on Laos-China Railway
A Chinese national was killed by a Vientiane-Boten freight train on the Laos-China Railway on 3 August in Naxaythong District.
Synagie and Singapore Institute of Retail Studies Partner to Springboard eCommerce Career Opportunities in European Market
The collaboration aims to equip Singapore-based eCommerce workers with the skills needed to venture into Europe

Europe’s eCommerce market, with its 65million online shoppers, is worth S$600 billion, five times that of Southeast Asia. This presents a great potential for brands and businesses. The programme by Synagie and NYP-SIRS aims to train and offer career opportunities to Singaporeans in five key areas of digital commerce to support Synagie’s expansion into Europe starting in October 2022.
Adopting a glocal enterprise approach, the programme’s curriculum has been carefully curated by eCommerce subject matter experts and customised to develop key skills in channel store development, creative design, cross-border engagement, marketing and customer service against a European market context. Through this partnership, Synagie and NYP-SIRS will collectively incubate 300 talents and 700 merchants, in a phased approach, to prepare them for the European market.
The MoU was signed as part of the ‘Work in the Future – eCommerce Open House’, jointly organised by Synagie and SIRS. The signing was witnessed by the Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth and Trade and Industry, Ms Low Yen Ling. The event was attended by graduands of SIRS programmes, Nanyang Polytechnic alumni and graduates, along with mid-career job seekers interested in transitioning into the digital commerce industry.
Ms Olive Tai, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Synagie, said, “Synagie is proud to be propelling the tech and talent of the Singapore eCommerce industry to Europe. With our glocal enterprise approach, Synagie’s entry into the market will elevate the online consumer experience and the standards of digital commerce enablement services in Europe. Synagie, known in Southeast Asia as the enabler of choice for Beauty and Fashion, will be the partner of choice for the market with beauty and fashion categories being synonymous with the region. This training and placement program will allow Synagie to bring Singapore businesses and Singaporeans along on this exciting journey, whilst operating and working strategically out of Singapore.”
Ms Megan Ong, Director, Nanyang Polytechnic’s Singapore of Institute of Retail Studies, said, “The eCommerce industry has been growing at an unprecedented speed. With Singapore being the Southeast Asian hub for cross-border eCommerce, our enterprises are constantly exploring opportunities for growth, both within and outside the region. We are pleased to support Synagie in their expansion into the European market through our training and talent programmes to equip both employees and retailers with the relevant eCommerce skills for them to ride the wave and leverage exciting opportunities in Europe through this collaboration.”
This partnership with SIRS follows the launch of Synagie Commerce Academy (SCA) earlier this year which saw the co-development of modules with SMU Academy. The SCA programme aims to address the digital commerce talent gap here in Singapore with the goal of upskilling over 3,000 eCommerce and tech professionals by 2025.
Hashtag: #Synagie #NanyangPolytechnic #SIRS
About Synagie
Synagie’s prolific list of 600 brand partners include Nike, Estee Lauder Companies, Shiseido, L’Oreal, Amore Pacific and Nestle. The Group is the proud Winner of Lazada Regional Partner of Year 2021 & is Lazada 3-starred certified and Shopee accredited enabler across markets and consecutive terms.
Synagie maintains a gender-balanced, diverse workforce of 450 digital commerce professionals across SEA and advocates for fair, inclusive and progressive work spaces. Synagie is the first and currently only enabler championing sustainability across the eCommerce value chain with its Singapore fulfilment centres using Certified Green Packaging since 2021 with the rest of the region to follow by end 2023.
For more information, visit www.synagie.com
About Nanyang Polytechnic and the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies
Established as an institution of higher learning in 1992, Nanyang Polytechnic’s (NYP) academic schools offer quality education and training through 40 full-time diploma courses and common entry programmes. NYP also has a full suite of continuing education and training (CET) options for lifelong learning, ranging from specialist and advanced diplomas to SkillsFuture modules and courses.
The Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS) is a National Continuing Education & Training (CET) institute, appointed to spearhead CET for the retail industry. Jointly established by NYP and SkillsFuture Singapore, NYP-SIRS works closely with industry to support the retail sector through consultancy, executive programmes, solutions development, CET, as well as placement services. For more information, visit https://www.sirs.edu.sg/.
Cambodia Agrees To Loan from Japan for Sihanoukville Sea Port
Japan and Cambodia signed an agreement on Saturday for Japan to loan Cambodia over USD 300 million to expand the Sihanoukville Port New Container Terminal.
Media OutReach Newswire joins hand with AIESEC in Universiti Malaya and Thermomix KLM for the youth in Malaysia
Launching volunteer projects to promote youth’s mental health awareness, STEM education and food waste management
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 8 August 2022 – AIESEC in Universiti Malaya returns with its semiannual Malaysian Youth Volunteer projects focusing on SDGs 4 and 12, in the field of mental health awareness, STEM education and food waste management respectively. The projects run throughout a span of four weeks and are scheduled to take place from the 25th of July 2022 to the 20th of August 2022. With targeted beneficiaries coming from students in the B40 groups, AIESEC in Universiti Malaya strives to amplify its impact by having students drive the projects for students – for youths, by youths.

Media OutReach Newswire, the first global newswire and press release distribution service provider founded in Asia, is pleased to support the projects as a Newswire Partner by providing pro bono press release distribution service to raise public awareness of their projects that aim to enrich youth contribution to the community.
“At Media OutReach, social responsibility has always been an integral part of our business – we believe in investing to improve lives in our community. The partnership with AIESEC demonstrates our vision to nurture our next generation with an aim to unleash their potential. The projects aim to reduce the gap of the inequality of education among students from less privileged communities. We believe that this collaboration will be able to amplify the impact of the projects and bring the voices of our youths further,” Jennifer Kok, the Founder and CEO of Media OutReach said.
SPEAK UP as a gateway to STEAM Education
AIESEC in Universiti Malaya strives to provide quality leadership experiences for its volunteers and participating schools. This year, with the Under SDG 4, the SPEAK UP project was launched as a national project to provide a safe and conducive environment for Malaysian high school students to speak confidently, while gaining personal development and technology literacy throughout the project. The key activities of the project have been continuously refined for added relevance and suitability for the current generation.
Together with creative editor Nur Husnina Afiqah Binti Mohd Apandi and more, the SPEAK UP project looks into conducting CANVA, coding and game development workshops to equip volunteers with STEAM skills relevant to their growth and development. Besides, education spaces are designed to ensure volunteers are able to become -trainers themselves. President of the AIESEC in Universiti Malaya Local Chapter, Gan Xiao Tian, said: “We believe in the growth and development of students as they discover and develop others’ potential.” While volunteers learn tech knowledge from the strategic partners, they are able to facilitate the growth of the student beneficiaries.
Food waste management with CLEAN OUR PLATE project
As a nation spoiled for choices on delicacies, the food waste thrown by Malaysians averages 3.8 tonnes daily as of November 2021, as reported by The Lost Food Project (TLFP). To curb this ongoing problem and raise awareness among youth about food wastage, the CLEAN OUR PLATE (COP) project was pioneered by AIESEC in Universiti Malaya in 2017. It focuses on SDG 12 to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
‘Zero Food-Waste’ Campaign by AIESEC in Universiti Malaya x Thermomix KLM
AIESEC in Universiti Malaya has come together with Thermomix Malaysia (KLM Branch) to design ‘Zero Food-Waste’ Campaign, which aims to urge the community to join in on the food waste awareness movement by showcasing their creativity through the power of social media. The competitions set up range from Poster Designing Competition to Reels Showcasing, with details as follow:
For more information, do visit:
‘Zero Food Waste’ Campaign Booklet:https://bit.ly/ZFW_Booklet
‘Zero Food Waste’ Campaign Registration Form: https://bit.ly/ZFW_RegistrationForm
To widen the impact and increase the outreach, Thermomix KLM has put forth a prize pool totalling up to RM 360.00 for the winners. Interested individuals are encouraged to put their best forward for the competition and be a part of the change.
Hashtag: #MediaOutReachNewswire #AIESECinUniversitiMalaya
About Media OutReach Newswire
Founded in 2009, Media OutReach is the first global newswire founded in the Asia Pacific region with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and with its headquarters in Hong Kong. Media OutReach constantly invests in its distribution network and post release report to deliver an authentic service that connects clients to journalist, build online visibility, empower their SEO and social media.
Media OutReach Newswire is the only global press release distribution company that owns its distribution network across 25 countries in the Asia Pacific; possessing a database of more than 140,000 journalists, 400 trade categories, 65,000 media titles, and has partnership with more than 500 real media to provide guarantee real online news posting for their clients’ news releases.
With proprietary technology at its core, Media OutReach disrupts the newswire industry by delivering multimedia and multilanguage directly to journalists and provides post release reports that offer reporting options that helps PR professional to reports efficiently and quickly. With its ownership of its distribution, their reports include insights into journalists accessing the news by publication and country.
In 2021, Media OutReach was named “the Most Important and Influential Asian PR Distribution Service provider for Asia Pacific Region” by TMCnet, the world’s leading trade online media website covering communications and technology. Media OutReach was also named “2021 OPPO Partner of the Year” by OPPO Global, the world’s leading smart device manufacturers and innovators. For more information, please visit https://www.media-outreach.com/
About AIESEC in Universiti Malaya
AIESEC in Universiti Malaya is the oldest local chapter of AIESEC Malaysia. Established in 1968, it started as a subcommittee under the Universiti Malaya Economics Society (UMECS) before becoming an independent organisation in the university, later on growing to become a national chapter. Currently, the organisation runs with 12 other local chapters across the country, and the Universiti Malaya branch prides itself on running projects under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and providing industrial exposure to students of its entity. If you wish to know more about the organisation and our programmes, please contact us at youth@aiesec.my or visit
https://aiesec.my/
About Speak Up Project
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakupmalaysia/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakUpMalaysia
About Clean Our Plate Project
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleanourplatemalaysia/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CleanOurPlateMalaysia/
About Thermomix KLM
Thermomix KLM is one of the Branches in Thermomix Malaysia. It was formed in early 2018 with just a Branch Manager; Suriya Abdullah. Today it has over 600 active advisors and has been the No 1 branch in Malaysia in 2020 and 2021 in terms of number of sales. Suriya Abdullah is also the Author of the award winning Malay Kitchen Cookbook.
They can be contacted at (Adrina Awaludin – Thermomix Advisor: +6019-2358733)
TÜV Rheinland Becomes 1st Notified Body Designated by DGSM for New Omani Conformity Scheme
The DGSM, as a directorate under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion (MoCIIP) of the Sultanate of Oman, is implementing the technical regulations for the new Omani Conformity Scheme, which came into force June 5, 2022. Products subject to these regulations need to obtain certification from a Notified Body designated by the DGSM. Conformity certificates are valid for one year and subject to annual renewal.
Regulated products in Stage 1 cover dishwashers, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners. Manufacturers are required to apply for the Omani Type Examination certificate from a Notified Body. These products must undergo safety and EMC tests, and the manufacturer has to prepare product design and risk analysis documentation.
According to UN Comtrade, in 2021 Oman imported US$26.2 million in dishwashers, US$13 million in washing machines, and US$2 million in vacuum cleaners. Implementation of the Omani Conformity Scheme raises the product quality in the market. Stages 2 and 3 of the Omani Conformity Scheme are expected in 2023 and 2024, and non-electrical products may be included in the scheme.
TÜV Rheinland is also a designated certification body for the Gulf G-mark, Oman and Bahrain energy efficiency, UAE ECAS & EQM, Saudi SALEEM, Kuwait KUCAS, etc., and can provide complete market access solutions for the Middle East market (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, etc.). If you have questions about certifications for the Middle East market, please contact TÜV Rheinland for consultation.
Infographic of Omani Conformity Scheme
Hashtag: #TÜVRheinland
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