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Laos Receives 100,000 Doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccines from Australia

Australia donates 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca.
Australia donates 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca.


Laos has received 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines from Australia today in accordance with a pledge to assist Laos in its fight against the virus.

Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB)’s ESG Programme for Students Completes Successfully

Close to 300 Students from 18 Schools Learn How to Bring Sustainability to Life

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 19 December 2021 – Environmental, social and governance (ESG) knowledge should form part of Hong Kong youth’s future skills development, according to the Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB). 

WONG Kam-sing, Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (fourth from right, second row), Luanne LIM, Chairperson, the Hong Kong Association of Banks (third from left, first row), and representatives from banks visited the  “ESG Community Promotion Booth”.

 

HKAB partnered with the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG) in October to launch the “ESG Pioneer – Farm-to-Community Project” (the Project), which allowed school educators and students to dig into the rich experiential learning opportunity offered by local organic farms.  Through this project, close to 300 students from 18 primary and secondary schools gained first-hand experience about the agricultural industry and explored ESG best practices in daily life. 

 

Speaking at the closing ceremony yesterday, Luanne LIM, Chairperson, the Hong Kong Association of Banks, said, “ESG has become an inextricable part of how banks do business.  We are pleased to be able to enrich our students’ real-world learning experience and help them discover future careers, especially in the ESG fields.  I would like to thank the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, our NGO partner, participating schools and volunteers from member banks.  The banking industry will continue to work with different stakeholders to build a sustainable future for everyone.”

 

WONG Kam-sing, Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Luanne LIM, and WAN Man-yee, President, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, officiated at the closing ceremony.  Representatives from the participating schools and banks also shared their takeaways from the project and expressed strong interest to continue to promote ESG in schools.

 

Students were invited to visit the HKFYG Organic Farm to learn farm operation, sustainable farming principles, biodiversity and ecosystem.  Forty participants were nominated to receive in-depth training and organise three “ESG Community Promotion Booths” in Fanling, Yuen Long and Tsuen Wan.

 

The project also supported the development of specific ESG learning materials for students, which is expected to be the first teaching material of its kind in Hong Kong.

#HKAB #HKFYG

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Foodpanda Gives Back to Needy Communities With Happiness Bags

foodpanda employees and rescue personnel pose for a photograph after handing out happiness bags.
foodpanda employees and rescue personnel pose for a photograph after handing out happiness bags.


Foodpanda continues to help local communities in Laos, with the company recently distributing consumer goods to needy families in Vientiane Capital.

Poly Auction (Xiamen)’s MetaPoly Inks Partnership With TRON Founder Justin Sun to Advance Crypto Art and Digital Culture

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 December 2021 – On December 18, MetaPoly, a digital art brand under Poly Auction (Xiamen), announced that it has inked a crypto art cooperation agreement with TRON Founder Justin Sun to jointly seek in-depth integration between traditional culture and crypto art. This partnership, intended to advance digital culture, has won support from a number of institutions.

 

Poly Xiamen will hold exhibitions and events themed on crypto and digital art simultaneously in Beijing and Xiamen on December 24; and will sponsor a special auction for metaverse and digital art on January 15 in 2022. Justin Sun will participate in all of these events as the co-producer.

 

The blockchain leader Justin Sun also has serious clout in the realm of top-notch art collections. Through clinching a myriad of artworks created both by art masters and emerging digital artists on major trading platforms, Justin has managed to build an empire incorporating art, investment, finance, and more. His collections include works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Beeple, and Pak, the latter two being the two most valuable crypto artists worldwide.

 

The alliance between MetaPoly and Justin Sun in crypto art will fully draw on the strengths of both sides to connect first-rate artists with blockchain, driving more world-class artworks to be recorded on chains and fueling the growth of the digitized culture.

 

MetaPoly is a top-notch digital art brand created by Poly Xiamen Auction with a focus on NFT digital artworks. It covers a gamut of businesses, including the auction, release, curation, and display of digital artworks, as well as the management of related assets. It will join hands with artists across the globe to present the future art world with an unprecedented aesthetic experience.

 

#TRON

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Demon Ecosystem To Be Launched In December

TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 17 December 2021 -DeCo Finance, which is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem built on the Binance Smart Chain, will officially be launched in December 2021. DeCo’s protocol features a simple user interface built on top of a sophisticated engine that supports pooling with reduced impermanent loss. DeCo has already introduced 2 tokens circulating in the entire ecosystem, DEMON and DEMONX.

Observing the growing market requirements of the industry, DeCo Finance was established by gathering some of the leading DeFi protocols across the globe to advance the collaboration of DeFi protocols across yield farming, NFT and Gamification. DeCo, an abbreviation of Demon Ecosystem, was derived from today’s technologically-advanced community, in which mining techniques are always improving up to a point where there occurs a crossover between traditional Proof of Work mining and modern Proof of Stake mining. DeCo Finance creates this crossover between traditional mining equipped with contract mining for blockchain & crypto community to engage/access into the world of modern mining ecosystem.

DEMON presale was launched on November 26, 2021. Early adopters will need to purchase DEMON with USDT or BUSD and stake in liquidity pools after the launching of DeCo Finance vault. The 1st adopter will get 2,000,000,000 DEMON at the rate of $0.00678 on an ongoing basis, the 2nd adopter will get 2,000,000,000 DEMON at the rate of $0.00848, the 3rd adopter will get 2,000,000,000 DEMON at the rate of $0.01017 and so on.

The official launching of DeCo Finance Vault is on December 24, 2021 UTC 1600. PancakeSwap listing will be at $0.01349. DeCo will be introducing Single Pools, Stake DEMON, Earn DEMON, Stake BNB, Earn DEMO, LP Pools, Stake DEMON-BNB LP.

 

The cost of producing and maintaining DeFi tokens is incurred by the protocol and miners, shareholders, and bond holders. The majority of the value comes from the transaction of tokens within DeFi primitives and is captured by these DeFi primitives. Demon Ecosystem solves this problem by integrating the creation and the use of token into decentralized ecosystem. Demon will also integrate with GameFi Metaverse named DemonX which jointly build up the application of gamification and DeFi together in ecosystem. This relationship will create a positive feedback loop and generate a flywheel effect.

 

For more, please visit  https://www.demonfinance.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemonEcosystem

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/DemonFinanceOfficial

Telegram Community: https://t.me/DemonFinanceCommunity

GitBook: https://info-69.gitbook.io/demon-finance/

Email: info@demonfinance.com

#DemonFinance

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Team Europe Unveils a EUR 550 Million Partnership with Laos

 

Eight European Partners launched with the Lao Government on Friday their Team Europe Strategy for Lao PDR in 2021-2025.

Laos Announces Travel Conditions for 2022 Reopening

Laos to reopen to tourism under three-phase scheme.
Laos is to reopen to international tourists under its Green Travel Zone scheme.


Laos has officially announced it will reopen for tourism on 1 January 2022, providing more information on travel conditions during a press conference held at the Lao National Convention Center today.

HKSTP Joins Global Leaders Avnet and ORIX to Nurture Promising Startups and Form a GBA-wide Hardware and Digital Technologies Eco-system

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 December 2021 – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is forming a series of strategic partnerships with global leaders such as leading technology distributor and solutions provider Avnet and diversified financial services group ORIX to foster a new wave of engineering talent and fast-rising startups in the advanced hardware and digital technologies sectors. The combination of technology, manufacturing market know-how and investment financier will propel promising startups on their growth journey and establish the Greater Bay Area (GBA) as a leading innovation hub for advanced hardware and digital technologies.

 

Photo 1: Mr. Peter Mok, Head of Greater Bay Area, HKSTP (right), and Mr. Alan Chui, Supplier Business Management President, Avnet Asia, officiate at the strategic co-incubation agreement signing ceremony to drive innovation and build a thriving hardware and electronics eco-system across the GBA.

Located at the centre of the world’s leading manufacturing powerhouse with Shenzhen and the huge market potential of China at its doorstep, Hong Kong and the broader GBA region is a haven for hardware and digital technologies startups. But challenges remain in accessing funding, market support, talent and manufacturing R&D expertise, especially for niche and emerging technology areas. Aviation is one new area among many in which HKSTP is collaborating with sector leaders on to develop Hong Kong and the GBA into an innovation and technology hub.

 

Photo 2: Mr. Peter Mok, Head of Greater Bay Area, HKSTP (middle), Mr. Alan Chui, Supplier Business Management President, Avnet Asia (3rd from left), and Mr Adrian Pang, Managing Director, ORIX Asia Limited (4th from right), join fellow industry leaders and ecosystem participants in the official activation ceremony at the Hardware Journey Eco-System – GBA Expansion Kickoff Event.

HKSTP and Avnet have formally signed a co-incubation agreement to combine Avnet’s design and technical expertise with HKSTP’s extensive startup development experience to propel technical talent and startups on their journey of growth. Selected startups can leverage Avnet’s global ecosystem and network to capture new partnerships and market opportunity in the GBA region. For a start, Avnet will also partner microelectronics leaders AMD, TE Connectivity and Xilinx to provide startups with expertise in aviation and next-generation Hybrid CPU-FPGA technology and significant support in accelerating their innovation from research to testing and high-quality manufacturing.

 

To drive momentum in this emerging ecosystem, HKSTP is also partnering Japanese financial services group ORIX to tap its financial and investment expertise to help startups go global and to engage the high-potential Japanese market. ORIX is a strategic partner in HKSTP’s GBA expansion and focus on new digital solution innovation, with its continued investments into high quality startups. The formation of such partnerships will be a further catalyst to accelerate innovation in the ecosystem, with aviation as a high-potential starting point.

 

Albert Wong, CEO, HKSTP said: “Our partnerships with multiple sector leaders highlight the enormous market potential in the GBA and provide the ideal platform for startups to tap into the world-class talent, resources and market opportunities in this region. This combined ecosystem of hardware and electronics expertise will help young pioneers and engineers realise their innovation dreams and elevate the GBA as a global innovation powerhouse.”

 

Alan Chui, Supplier Business Management President of Avnet Asia said, “Avnet is a long-term partner of HKSTP and has jointly supported many startup companies. Through this agreement, we will be able to equip startups and aspiring technologists with the necessary knowledge and resources to accelerate technological innovation in the GBA and facilitate the commercialisation of real-world applications.”

 

Adrian Pang, Managing Director, ORIX Asia Limited said: “We, ORIX, believe digital technologies are the key future driver and trend. With our diversified expertise, global network and wealthy experience in supporting SMEs and startups, ORIX is well positioned to incubate young companies through our partnership with HKSTP, which we will bring synergy to our dynamic future unicorn in Hong Kong and lead our economy to a new decade.”

 

This diverse hardware eco-system will see prominent developments like Avnet setting up solutions centre at Hong Kong Science Park Shenzhen Branch that will provide local and international startups easy access to state-of-the-art engineering facilities offered by Avnet and its partners. There will also be on-site application engineers to offer technical solutions, reference designs and consultancy services to enable these startups to get their products to market faster. Fast-rising HKSTP startup Aerosim, who specialises in aviation training technology, will leverage the centre for aviation simulation technology adoption support. Avnet and its partners will also contribute their hardware components knowledge and work with Aerosim to develop civil aviation technology.

 

Talent is a critical factor for successful innovation and HKSTP is providing a technology knowledge exchange platform in the GBA to nurture entrepreneurs in high quality hardware components. The HKSTP GBA InnoAcademy will serve as a talent training platform for the best entrepreneurs and engineers to fuel a new wave of technical talent from Hong Kong and the GBA.

About Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) has for 20 continuous years committed to building up Hong Kong as an international innovation and technology hub to propel success for local and global pioneers today and tomorrow. HKSTP has established a thriving I&T ecosystem that is home to three unicorns and Hong Kong’s leading R&D hub with over 11,000 research professionals and over 1,000 technology companies focused on healthtech, AI and robotics, fintech and smart city technologies.

Established in 2001, we attract and nurture talent, accelerate and commercialise innovation and technology for entrepreneurs on their journey of growth in Hong Kong, to the Greater Bay Area, Asia and beyond. Our growing innovation ecosystem is built around our key locations of the Hong Kong Science Park in Shatin, InnoCentre in Kowloon Tong and three modern INNOPARKs in Tai Po, Tseung Kwan O and Yuen Long. The three INNOPARKs are realizing a vision of re-industrialisation for Hong Kong. The goal is sectors like advanced manufacturing, electronics and biotechnology are being reimagined for a new generation of industry.

Through our infrastructure, services, expertise and network of partnerships, HKSTP will help establish innovation and technology as a pillar of growth for Hong Kong, while reinforcing Hong Kong’s international I&T hub status as a launchpad for global growth at the heart of the GBA innovation powerhouse.

More information about HKSTP is available at www.hkstp.org

About Avnet

As a leading global technology distributor and solutions provider, Avnet has served customers’ evolving needs for an entire century. We support customers at each stage of a product’s lifecycle, from idea to design and from prototype to production. Our unique position at the center of the technology value chain enables us to accelerate the design and supply stages of product development so customers can realize revenue faster. Decade after decade, Avnet helps its customers and suppliers around the world realize the transformative possibilities of technology. Learn more about Avnet at www.avnet.com/apac.

About Orix


ORIX Asia Limited (“ORIX Asia”) was established in Hong Kong in 1971, which is a wholly owned subsidiary and the first overseas venture of ORIX Corporation. ORIX Corporation (“ORIX”) (Tokyo Stock Exchange (8591) and New York Stock Exchange (IX)), based in Tokyo Japan, is a giant financial conglomerate connecting more than 30 countries and regions worldwide, providing innovative financial products and services to both corporate and retail customers. Our business portfolio includes but not limits to leasing, corporate finance, real estate, private equity investment, automobile-related business, environment and energy, banking and insurance.

ORIX Asia, being a Restricted Licence Bank in Hong Kong (an authorized institution regulated by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority), has over 50 years of experience in serving our community and we are dedicated to grow with our customers and economy in Hong Kong. ORIX Asia, together with our group’s affiliated entities, we strive to be a market differentiator in Hong Kong and to offer innovative and diversified one-stop financial services to our valued customers.

#Avnet