3D Out-of-Home Ads Debut in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 November 2023 – TUMI, the leading international travel and lifestyle brand, has launched its first 3D Out-of-Home (OOH) advertisement to showcase the exceptionally durable yet lightweight TEGRA-LITE® collection of hardside luggage. This innovative advertisement leverages the 3D anamorphic billboard technique, which involves manipulating the perspective to create the illusion of a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional surface. It runs from October 2023 to January 2024 in seven prime locations in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East in the latest example of the brand’s creativity in engaging with customers.
TEGRA-LITE® 3D Advertisement at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The 30-second advertisement features various components of a TEGRA-LITE® International Expandable Carry-On coming together in mid-air before the product collides with the surrounding walls, leaving a path of destruction. The striking display of strength and impact performance illustrates the revolutionary Tegris® material that gives the collection its durability and toughness. Created for use in lifesaving armor, protective sports gear and professional race cars, it is consistent with TUMI’s high standards of design excellence and is globally exclusive to the brand for use in travel and accessory products. The woven Tegris® used in the construction of the TEGRA-LITE® collection, which is also highlighted in the advertisement, further adds to its world-class toughness. The long-lasting build and integration of recycled materials also make TEGRA-LITE® a more responsible choice for travel.
TEGRA-LITE® 3D Advertisement at Mandarin Oriental, Jakarta in Indonesia
“At TUMI, we are always looking to innovate and disrupt in how we reach consumers. We’re thrilled to bring our much-loved TEGRA-LITE® luggage to our first 3D Out-of-Home ad, which demonstrates the strength and resilience of this high-performance collection featuring the ground breaking Tegris® technology.” said Jill Krizelman, SVP Global Marketing and E-Commerce, TUMI.
The 3D advertisement aims to ignite the TUMI brand in the region while reinforcing its performance luxury roots. It launched in Malaysia on October 1, with Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Japan, and Dubai to follow. Each urban location was chosen because it is a top travel destination and among the fastest rebounding countries for inbound travelers.
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About TUMI
Since 1975, TUMI has been creating world-class business, travel and performance luxury essentials, designed to upgrade, uncomplicate and beautify all aspects of life on the move. Blending flawless functionality with a spirit of ingenuity, we’re committed to empowering journeys as a lifelong partner to movers and makers in pursuit of their passions. The brand is sold globally in over 75 countries with approximately 2,000 points of sale. For more, visit TUMI.com.
Empowering businesses with technology for real-time cash flow
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 November 2023 – Hong Kong’s leading payment technology company, Yedpay is breaking tradition and pioneering the innovation of the next-generation payment industry with ‘One Touch’ technology. This technology aims to solve the sequence of cash flow from collection, payment to settlement for businesses, providing a new experience for real-time cash flow.
In the past, payment and settlement were separately managed. Due to the cash flow transfer of acquirers, settlement institutions and banks, the cash flow from payment transactions was relatively delayed after a lengthy process of circulation and advance payment. With the ‘One Touch’ payment technology, the boundary between cash and electronic payments will disappear. Collection, payment and settlement can be achieved in one step, making it easy for businesses to manage their funds.
Breaking barriers and innovating to achieve real-time cash flow
At the 8th Hong Kong FinTech Week event themed ” Fintech Redefined” Yedpay officially announced this innovative collaboration that will change the history of payment technology development. Yedpay’s General Manager, Leo Ngan introduced the innovation and breakthrough of this payment technology to the industry insiders present. They also highlighted the “domino effect” this technology will have on the operation of funds for businesses and retailers.
Leo Ngan, General Manager of Yedpay, mentioned that Yedpay has employed Tap to Phone payment technology in the ‘One Touch’ payment product. This technology cloudifies credit card payment processing encryption, breaking through the traditional POS machine’s fixed hardware encryption format. By using a mobile phone, it can cope with mainstream payment methods. Business enterprises or retailers only need to download an application to activate ‘mobile phone induction collection’ and use their smartphones to flexibly collect payments anytime and anywhere. Moreover, this technology does not need to be stuck with the traditional T+2 cash flow time difference and the full settlement arrives “instantly.”
Lam Cheung-fu, Chairman of the Hong Kong Newspaper Vendors Assoication, mentioned that newspaper vendors and stall operators tend to have more traditional mindsets. Many newspaper vendors have been running their businesses for decades and face daily challenges related to payments and accounting. They have relatively straightforward business models that heavily rely on cash transactions. There is a pressing need for them to undergo a business transformation. The innovative payment technology offered by Yedpay is beneficial for large, medium, small, and micro enterprises to undergo transformation. It not only resolves the issue of delayed payments but also enables newspaper vendors to expand their business into the realms of digitalization and industry reform within the newspaper distribution sector.
Pioneering the innovation of the global payment settlement industry and making inroads into the Belt One Road market
According to the 2022 McKinsey Global Payments Report¹, in emerging markets in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, the pandemic accelerated shifts to contactless payments and e-commerce, and low banking penetration affords opportunities for payments providers to capture untapped potential and reach underserved populations.
According to the “2022 Southeast Asia Digital Economy Report,” Southeast Asia’s booming digital payment market is expected to hit $2 trillion by transaction value in 2030².
In the future, Yedpay will continue to be Hong Kong-centric with ASEAN as its core growth point and will launch diversified financial products from collection to remittance of merchant electronic wallets, aiming to build the ASEAN Payment Hub. With ‘openness’ and ‘practicality’ Yedpay will conduct technological innovation and make more forward-looking explorations and breakthroughs in the field of mobile payments.
The ‘cashless society’ promoted by Yedpay can make finance more inclusive and business more intelligent, which drives financial innovation while saving the overall social cost and accelerating the operation of the economy. From a business perspective, this provides companies with new opportunities to explore new financial management models. Especially the new breakthrough of Yedpay’s instant payment and settlement, which improves the efficiency of large enterprises’ fund settlement, increases the flexibility of funds and can instantly control the operation and reduce operational risks. In addition, through the analysis of electronic payment data, companies can further understand consumers’ wants and needs, actively adjust their operational strategies and forecast market direction. Whether it’s retails, hotels, mobile services or even newsstands, instant payment technology solutions will revolutionarily change traditional payment methods.
As a leader in Hong Kong’s payment technology industry, Yedpay is committed to providing a low-threshold and secure electronic payment system, enhancing competitiveness with ‘efficiency’ and ‘liquidity’ and relying on technological power to change the traditional sales industry’s landscape to make its own contributes for a more universal and sustainable future.
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About Yedpay
In the early days of its establishment, Yedpay developed a payment platform in Cyberport, Hong Kong. It was launched in 2017. It is committed to developing a financial technology brand that revolutionizes the payment industry. Its open payment platform assists merchants with an APP to process credit card transactions and e-wallet payments in physical stores and online.
The Yedpay system uses cloud technology and ensures data security. It has obtained the PCI DSS payment industry security standard level 1 certificate since 2017, and obtained the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 information security management system certification international standard since 2018.
Yedpay integrates electronic payment technology into traditional culture, including created the first cashless market in Hong Kong, changed the payment mode of the Taxi industry to go digital, and organised the Cheung Chau Bun Festival for the first time to enable more than 100 merchants on the island to accept digital payments. The whole process is connected with Yedpay, and it is the first time to electronically transform Fa Yuen Street merchants in the form of full digital payment, etc.
From 2023 onwards, Yedpay will focus on ASEAN, with Thailand as the leader, and radiate ASEAN. Yedpay will also launch diversified financial products, merchant e-wallets from collection to remittance, and strive to build an ASEAN Payment Hub to implement ASEAN, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China with the same pace for digital.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 2 November 2023 – Temus, a digital transformation services firm headquartered in Singapore, commemorated the third iteration of Temus’ “Step IT Up” career conversion programme today at an event graced by Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of National Development.
Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, with Temus executives and Step IT Up graduates
Temus also marked the occasion with two other announcements that underscore its commitment to talent development and capability building in tandem with Singapore’s growing digital economy. Firstly, it has acquired Decision Science Agency (DS), a home-grown digital services provider focused on agile application development with over 70 professionals in Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. As part of the acquisition, Collin Ang, founder of DS, joins Temus as a Managing Director. Secondly, Temus announced its first international expansion with the launch of a Hong Kong office.
KC Yeoh, Chief Executive Officer, Temus, said: “We are excited to announce these milestones for Temus today as we gather to celebrate the continued success of Step IT Up. Temus was established with a clear vision to enable and deliver digital transformation for the public and private sectors. We look forward to creating even greater value with Decision Science Agency and as we expand our footprint beyond Singapore into Asia-Pacific through Hong Kong.”
DS is the second acquisition for Temus since it was established in 2021. Last year, Temus acquired Dreamcloud, one of Singapore’s largest OutSystems delivery teams and pioneers in the low-code space.
Doubling Down on Tech Modernisation Capabilities
“DS and Collin are an excellent fit with the Temus family,” said Srijay Ghosh, Founding Member and CRO, Temus. “Their deep knowledge and experience in agile app development will greatly enhance our ability to deliver high value applications for government and commercial sectors, in tandem with the growing needs of our region’s digital economy. Both our firms are driven by a connected purpose towards building a differentiated digital transformation platform, and investing in local talent to develop a strong Singapore core. By doubling down on our technology modernisation capabilities, we can catalyse our expansion into multi-platform offerings over the next few years to grow and transform with our clients and partners.”
Collin Ang, founder of DS, said: “DS and I are excited to be a part of Temus. We are excited about amplifying the wonderful work Temus does through the combination of our skills and expertise. I am confident that together we can drive even greater value for our clients and unlock new opportunities in the market.”
Trajectory for Growth Underpinned by Investment in Talent Diversity
Temus has been on a strong growth trajectory since its founding in 2021 with the strategic acquisitions of DS and Dreamcloud, expansion internationally through Hong Kong, two successful cycles of Step IT UP – its accelerated ‘hire, place and train’ programme and launch of its third cycle in October 2023. In line with their mission to build local capabilities to drive transformation in public and private sectors, Temus has more than doubled in strength in these two years, and now have more than 400 digital talent, most of whom reside in Singapore.
Temus’ Step IT Up career conversion scheme was introduced in August 2022, and has seen 38 individuals with no prior tech training or backgrounds secure full-time roles in software and digital application development upon graduating from the three-month programme. The company aims to hire, place and train 20 digital business analysts (Digital BAs) in this third run of Step IT Up.
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Temus
Temus was established by Temasek in partnership with UST, to provide digital transformation solutions for the private and public sectors as we aspire to be a strategic partner in realising the Singapore Government’s Smart Nation vision. We are headquartered in Singapore and have ~200 employees across a wide range of disciplines in strategy, design, architecture, technology, data & AI.
Step IT Up is an accelerated ‘place, and train’ programme, supported by Infocomm Media Development Authority’s (IMDA) under Techskills Accelerator (TeSA) initiative, aimed at growing digital talents for Singapore. The programme was launched in August 2022 and will benefit 400 people from non-tech backgrounds over the next three years. Step IT Up has been successfully conducted across multiple countries since its inception 8 years ago by Temus’ strategic partner, UST. Beyond Singapore, the programme has run in the United States, Mexico, Poland, Australia, Costa Rica, and Israel. For more information, please visit: www.stepitup.temus.com.
The Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa. (Photo: Mongolian National News Agency)
The Mongolian president will soon be on his way to Laos. In just a few days, on 5-6 November, President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa is scheduled to meet with his Lao counterpart in Vientiane to solidify the long-established amicable relationship between their countries.
A villager looks at his damaged house at Ndelikan village in Wonogiri regency on July 1, 2023, a day after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the area. (AFP/File)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Timor island on Thursday, causing panic and light damages to several buildings and houses but there no immediate reports of casualties.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake had a depth of 36.1 kilometers and its epicenter was located 21 kilometers north-northeast of Kupang, the capital city of East Nusa Tenggara province.
Daryono, who heads the Earthquake and Tsunami Center at Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency, said the land-based quake was causing panic as it was strongly felt in several cities and villages.
The agency measured a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 for the quake and then revised it to 6.3. Variations in early measurements of quakes are common. The USGS reported that the quake had a magnitude of 6.1.
“The quake has caused light damages in several buildings and houses,” wrote Daryono, who goes by a single name, on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, adding there was no danger of a tsunami.
Video circulating on social media showed residents in Kupang panicking as houses and buildings swayed just after dawn. Some witnesses said ceilings at the governor’s and mayor’s offices were damaged.
Indonesia is a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people that is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin known as the “Ring of Fire.”
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake last year killed at least 602 people in West Java’s Cianjur city, It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 2 November 2023 – BingX, a leading cryptocurrency trading platform, is thrilled to announce a substantial airdrop of FEVR tokens, the native token of the sports Web 3 project. This strategic move is in response to the recent impressive price surge of NFT platform token Blur and Gamefi platform token Gala, both of which have nearly doubled in value.
With the latest launch users will now be able to trade FEVR USDT.
Largest Possible Airdrop in October 2023: Secure Your FEVR Tokens with BingX
Airdrop Deadline: November 5, 2023
Event: BingX Airdrop of FEVR Tokens
Significance: The largest NFT and Gamefi platform token airdrop in October
In the current bear market conditions, BingX is offering its users a unique opportunity to acquire tokens from promising platforms, setting them up for success in the anticipated bull market development.
Exclusive for New Users: During the same period, the first 500 new users depositing at least 100 tokens of USDT, USDC, or BUSD can share a 5,000 USDT prize pool, with a minimum trading requirement of 100 USDT at FEVR price.
Trade to Earn: From October 30 to November 5, 2023, users trading a minimum of 300 USDT in FEVR Spot trading can share a 5,000 USDT prize pool, with rewards proportional to their trading volume.
FEVR Airdrop: A 3,000,000 FEVR giveaway is happening from October 27 to November 5, 2023. Participants need to engage with BingX and RealFevr on social media, join Telegram groups, retweet the event, and provide their BingX UID. A total of 100 winners will share the FEVR prize pool.
BingX has consistently shown its commitment to supporting Web3 projects related to sports competitions, ensuring that users have timely access to token price analysis content. This includes the global launch of the SPURS token, which saw SPURS price double on the day of its launch, garnering positive reception from numerous fans and investors.
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About BingX
BingX is a leading cryptocurrency exchange offering spot, derivatives, grid, and copy trading services to users in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. With a user base of over 5 million, BingX facilitates connections between users, expert traders, and the platform itself in a secure and innovative manner.
Three satellite events held across Singapore to commemorate Community Care Day 2023
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 1 November 2023 – The Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) is pleased to commemorate Community Care Day with a series of events aimed at showing appreciation and raising awareness of Community Care staff and the sector. This marks the fifth year that AIC has dedicated 1 November to honour the tireless efforts and dedication of Community Care staff who work diligently to enable seniors to live well and age gracefully in the community.
Community Care Day 2023 kicks off with celebrations at St. John’s-St. Margaret’s Nursing Home in Dover, with Mdm Rahayu Mahzam, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Health (MOH) as the Guest-of-Honour.
Two other similar events are held concurrently at St Luke’s ElderCare in Ang Mo Kio and Vanguard Tampines Care Home, where neighbouring Community Care organisations will join them to celebrate the passion and dedication of staff in caring for seniors and their well-being.
AIC has also galvanised nearly 60 staff as volunteers who will engage, interact, and bond with seniors at the three locations.
Sector Development
AIC recognises that celebrating Community Care Day would not be possible without the strength and commitment of all staff. Since 2017, MOH and AIC have been working with the sector to build their manpower capabilities and providing study opportunities for upskilling through the Community Care Manpower Development Awards, with over 800 awards granted to date.
Additionally, the commitment of more than $290 million to raise salaries of Community Care staff in 2022 and 2023 via MOH’s Community Care Salary Enhancement exercise, reflects efforts to put in place competitive compensation, rewards, and recognition for all staff.
AIC’s Chief Executive Officer Tan Kwang Cheak said, “Our commitment in enhancing capability building of the Community Care workforce signifies our dedication in making Singapore a great place to live and age well for seniors. We also want to give our heartfelt gratitude to all staff for their passion in delivering quality care to seniors, to empower and enable them to age in place.”
Exclusive treats for Community Care staff
To show appreciation to all Community Care staff, AIC has curated a special booklet in partnership with businesses and corporate partners, offering vouchers that provide staff with exclusive offers and discounts to enjoy across Singapore.
Spotlight on the sector through social media
One of the key objectives of this year’s Community Care Day is to highlight the critical role of Community Care staff in caring and empowering seniors. AIC will showcase diverse jobs and career paths within the sector through various social media channels, shedding light on the tireless work of those who provide professional care to seniors.
The public may view these videos on AIC’s social media pages on Instagram (@aic_Singapore), TikTok (@aicsingapore) or Facebook (@aic.sg). Hashtag: #CelebratingCommCare #communitycareday
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About the Agency for Integrated Care
The Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) aims to create a vibrant care community for people to live well and age gracefully. AIC coordinates and supports efforts in integrating care to achieve the best care outcomes for our clients. We reach out to caregivers and seniors with information on staying active and ageing well, and connect people to services they need. We support stakeholders in their efforts to raise the quality of care, and also work with health and social care partners to provide services for the ageing population. Our work in the community brings care services and information closer to those in need. For more about us, please visit https://www.aic.sg.
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