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Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program in its 12th year of nurturing University Students’ Corporate Social Responsibility

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – This year, 80 business students in the Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program (CIP) will have the unique opportunity to intern with local NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and contribute their business knowledge and creative ideas through actual community projects to help these organizations build capacity. Since its debut in 2010, nearly 850 students have benefited from the program.

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Mr. Anson Kwok, Head of Commercial Bank, Citi Hong Kong (fourth row third from left) and Mr. Chua Hoi-wai, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Council of Social Service (third row third from left) pictured with the interns, NGO and university representatives at the online Launch Ceremony for the Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program 2022.

This is the 12th year this first-of-its-kind cross-sector collaboration between academia, business and NGOs has been organized. 80 business school students have been selected and will be placed in 40 NGOs serving various groups including low-income, elderly, children and persons with disabilities, as well as helping in environmental conservation. Sponsored and organized by Citi, and co-organized by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), CIP aims to cultivate Hong Kong’s future business leaders to be more caring and responsible individuals through a broadened understanding of the community’s needs and challenges and the ideals of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

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Student interns are giving 20 hours of in-depth training to prepare them for working with the NGOs and to enrich their knowledge of pressing community issues in Hong Kong.

At the launch ceremony, Mr. Anson Kwok, Head of Commercial Bank, Citi Hong Kong, said: “We are thrilled to witness the continued overwhelming response to this fruitful cross-sector collaboration. Not only will these future leaders be nurtured to have an understanding of CSR, but we will also help create a talent pool of managers with interest and experience in sustainable community development.”

Mr. Chua Hoi Wai, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service said: “In addition to the genuine support of Citi, the engagement of various social welfare NGOs and universities is indispensable to the continuity of a cross-sector internship program that lasted for 12 years. Through the seamless cooperation of all these parties, the program could flutter and soar high, contributing to social development. Our project allows future talents to understand different aspects of the society and corporate social responsibility, and at the same time develop their potential and infuse new impetus into the social welfare sector.”

The internships will take place from July to August 2022 and target undergraduates majoring in business studies at 10 Hong Kong universities. The interns will work in pairs to contribute their business knowledge and skill sets to assist their assigned NGOs in various projects including fundraising, brand-building and operations, as well as social services. Participants will also be given 20 hours of in-depth training to prepare them for working with the NGOs and to enrich their knowledge of pressing community issues such as the poverty gap, the aging population and environmental conservation. The training comprises: seminars on CSR and cross-sector partnerships; visits to non-profits and social enterprises; opportunities to interact with various underprivileged groups; and volunteering activities.

About Citi

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

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About HKCSS
The HKCSS is an umbrella organisation of 500 agency members that provide over 90% of the social welfare services in Hong Kong. HKCSS launched the Caring Company Scheme in 2002 to build a cohesive society by promoting strategic partnership among business and social service partners and inspiring corporate social responsibility through caring for the community, employees and the environment. HKCSS puts much effort into building capacity for social enterprises through the Social Enterprise Business Centre (SEBC) to advance social entrepreneurship and mobilize social innovation.

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Epicor Speeds Digital Transformation with New Epicor Automation Studio

Low code iPaaS solution enables citizen integrators to connect data and automate workflows across Epicor and third-party cloud applications

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, today introduced Epicor Automation Studio, an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution embedded within Epicor Kinetic and Epicor Prophet 21 that empowers citizen integrators to effortlessly connect data and automate workflows both within their Epicor solutions as well as with more than 1,000 applications and databases.

As many organizations modernize IT ecosystems and expand their portfolio of software and data platforms, they are challenged with connecting siloed systems, applications, and data sources to deliver accurate, highly available information to users across the organization, as well as automatically take action on business events and triggers.

Epicor Automation Studio, powered by Workato, addresses these challenges head-on, offering a low code integration and synchronization tool that makes it easy for Epicor users to connect their data across applications and create automated workflows, all directly from their native Epicor environments, and in collaboration with IT for governance.

“Epicor Automation Studio puts the power of intelligent integration and workflow automation in the hands of our users,” said Kerrie Jordan, Vice President of Data Platforms at Epicor. “With low code, visually intuitive capabilities embedded directly within their Epicor platform, Epicor customers can get the most value out of their entire technology stack, eliminate the headache of maintaining complex systems, and shift costs to areas that will help them strategically grow their business.”

Epicor Automation Studio provides self-service access to a marketplace of connectors and tools, including more than 400,000 published “recipes” – or pre-built workflow automations – giving users a head start to adapt and develop their own Epicor automations and integrations across CRM, Sales, Finance, Production, Marketing, HR, IT, and other applications.

The integrations and workflow automations that users can create with Epicor Automation Studio are virtually limitless across every company department. For example:

● Sales can benefit from automatically producing an order in their Epicor platform from an opportunity created in Salesforce.com.
● Finance and Accounting can ensure greater accuracy from automating monthly exchange rate adjustments in their Epicor platform.
● HR can gain efficiencies from automatically uploading workforce data from their Epicor platform to ADP.

“Epicor Automation Studio solves a real need that we have in our growing business which is the ability to connect other systems quickly and easily to our instance of Epicor,” said David Holm, President at Kiski Precision Industries, a subsidiary of Aerotech, Inc.

Epicor Automation Studio is part of the company’s full complement of integration technologies. For more information or to request a demo of Epicor Automation Studio, please visit our website.

About Epicor

Epicor equips hard-working businesses with enterprise solutions that keep the world turning. For 50 years, Epicor customers in the automotive, building supply, distribution, manufacturing, and retail industries have trusted Epicor to help them do business better. Innovative Epicor solution sets are carefully curated to fit customer needs and built to respond flexibly to their fast-changing reality. With deep industry knowledge and experience, Epicor accelerates its customers’ ambitions, whether to grow and transform, or simply become more productive and effective. Visit for more information.

Epicor and the Epicor logo are trademarks of Epicor Software Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. The product and service offerings depicted in this document are produced by Epicor Software Corporation. Results are not guaranteed, and each user’s experience will vary.

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Thailand Officially Cancels Thailand Pass System

Thailand pass has been cancelled.

Thailand’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has announced the complete cancellation of the Thailand Pass system for travelers entering Thailand. 

Cove Rolls Out Exclusive Platform to Track Property Portfolio with Real-time Data for Its Landlords in Singapore

Market leading data-driven platform with real-time updates for landlords

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – Cove, Southeast Asia’s leading one-stop home rental platform today announced the launch of its best-in-class property management tech platform, developed specifically for Cove’s partner landlords. With Singapore as one of its key markets in the region, the platform is set to revolutionise property management for landlords and further cement Cove’s positioning as an all-encompassing platform that serves the needs of tenants and landlords.

This feature-rich software was developed in-house at Cove and is the culmination of nearly 4 years of experience working with landlords to understand their wants and needs. It will provide live portfolio data and unrivalled insights into the performance of the landlord’s properties, allowing them to monitor the progress seamlessly. This includes a comprehensive rundown of the property and tenant details, a financial component to track return on investment and a tab that allows landlords to access tenancy agreements easily. In addition, the platform will also highlight any ongoing tickets or complaints from tenants that Cove currently manages. It will also give landlords access to historical data regarding occupancy and rental income of their property.

To further enhance the end-to-end experience for landlords, Cove continues to provide an onboarding process for any new properties added to the platform. This includes home-staging and furnishing to make the property more appealing to potential tenants and a complete 360 immersive virtual reality tour of the listing, which features on their slick online listing platform.

Commenting on the rollout of Cove’s landlord platform, Sophie Jokelson, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Cove said, “At Cove, we believe that creating value for all our stakeholders is the key to a sustainable business model. We have successfully made renting more accessible and tenant-friendly, and we are now pleased to provide valuable performance insights and software tools to our landlords for effective property management.”

“As part of this roll-out, Cove is introducing the new landlord enhancement through a mobile app in Indonesia to cater to the growing market demand for real-time property investment tracking there. In the near future, we have plans to introduce the app version in Singapore and landlords can look forward to overseeing their portfolio on the go,” she added.

Cove now has over 3,000 rooms in its portfolio across Singapore and Jakarta, managing a total of 950,000 sq ft of residential real estate. The company is growing aggressively, with its Q1 net revenues increasing by over 170% compared to the previous quarter. Cove has worked with over 250 landlords since the company’s inception, including everything from private individuals and family offices to large institutions like the Lippo Group and Keppel Land, who has also invested as a shareholder in the company’s last funding round in 2020. Landlords working with Cove can expect improved rental income as a result of Cove’s renovation, interior design and staging services. There will also be significant uplifts in occupancy rates thanks to the high volume of tenant demand the Cove brand platform generates each month.

Since its launch in 2018, Cove has poised itself as an all-in-one platform for tenants and landlords by addressing the gaps in the industry through a seamless process. With a vision of solving the industry’s pain points, the landlord platform will be the first of many developments that Cove intends to adopt to enhance the full suite of services for all key stakeholders. The company is currently working on expanding this offer to more cities in the region, with launches in Bandung and Bali expected in Q3 2022 and new countries, such as Vietnam, in 2023 and beyond.

For more information on Cove, please visit https://cove.sg/. For Cove’s platform for landlords, please visit https://landlord.cove.sg/login.

About Cove

Founded in 2018, Cove is Southeast Asia’s leading one-stop home-rental platform. Putting renters at the centre of the home rental experience, Cove makes it easier, faster and more flexible to rent comfortable homes at honest prices.

With an aim to revolutionise the entire rental process, Cove continues to empower a generation of ambitious Southeast Asians with flexible lifestyle needs by providing a diverse selection of short-term or long-term, fully furnished accommodations.

To date, Cove has housed over 4,000 professionals and students in Singapore and Indonesia and is expanding its game-changing model across the region to offer better homes to thousands more of the region’s urbanites.

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ASEAN+3 Publishes Regional Economic Outlook for 2022 

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Risks abound, but growth is expected to normalize in the region as COVID recedes.

Qashier powers GastroBeats with cashless solutions

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – Qashier is proud to be the official point-of-sale (POS) for food and music festival, GastroBeats 2022. This marks the Singapore FinTech startup’s foray into the events payment solutions space.

DBS (official bank) and Visa (official payment), join Qashier as official sponsors, to bring a holistic cashless purchasing experience to attendees.

“The timeliness of GastroBeats means a lot to both merchants and attendees who have been craving for a live event of this scale since the Covid19 pandemic. We’re excited to partner with GastroBeats to enable contactless ordering and payments across the entire event, ensuring a safe and streamlined experience for everyone” Christopher Choo, CEO and Co-founder of Qashier.

As the official POS sponsor, Qashier powers the entire 14,200 sqm event space at Bayfront Avenue with cashless payments – around 40 F&B stalls and retail brands are equipped with QashierPay smart terminals, allowing them to accept a myriad of cashless payment methods, including credit/debit cards, and e-wallets.

During GastroBeats opening weekend (3-9 Jun) alone, Qashier saw over 25,000 transactions processed.

“The Qashier terminal is definitely very easy to use, very user-friendly, and it’s very portable as well so it’s very easy for us to handle,” Isabel Lee, Co-founder of An Acai Affair, who are a GastroBeats vendor, and a Qashier merchant.

In a blog post published by Qashier, other participating merchants, Fawn Labs, You Tiao Man, and The Art Faculty also expressed positive experiences using the cashless solutions.

A standout highlight of GastroBeats is Culinary Masters which brings guests on a gastronomic journey by acclaimed celebrity chef Sarah Todd, of MasterChef Australia fame.

Qashier has partnered with GastroBeats to offer QR code ordering and payments to enhance the Culinary Masters dining experience. During the same opening weekend, Qashier processed over a thousand QR transactions via its online-ordering platform, QashierEats – all guests needed to do is to scan the QR code on their table to view, order, and pay for their dishes, right from their mobile device.

Since QashierEats’ May 2021 launch, over 300 Singapore eateries have come aboard the platform, achieving up to 40% increase in revenue.

GastroBeats 2022 runs from 9 – 23 June, Mon – Fri. The event boasts a line-up of live performances, entertainment activities for the family, and F&B options from renowned local and international personalities.

Held in conjunction with the iLight Singapore festival, the event is supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). GastroBeats event organisers, The O4 Company, expect a turnout between 200K to over 500K attendees – the largest festival since the global pandemic hit the island-state’s shores.

About Qashier Pte Ltd (https://qashier.com)

is a venture-backed startup that empowers SMEs from all industries with smart point-of-sale (POS) and payment solutions that digitalise and streamline their business operations. Qashier’s Smart point-of-sale (POS) systems boast all-in-one payments, and powerful cloud-based solutions. They come in three form factors, the light QashierXS, the sleek QashierX1, and the powerful QashierXL smart POS terminals. From cafes to restaurants, salons to boutiques, Qashier keeps things simple, so merchants can grow their business.

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Map My Gene Introduces Inborn Talent Gene Test For Kids

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – Map My Gene, a gene testing company, is able to analyse inherited skills and talents with their Inborn Talent Gene Test. The ITGT offers additional assistance to psychologists, coaches, and education specialists who contribute to helping parents in raising their children. Its objective is to aid parents in deciphering their child’s innate abilities and aptitudes, which are often difficult to discern in young children. The DNA gene test enables parents to better understand their child’s potential, allowing them to provide more effective parenting and assist in developing their children’s skills.

The ITGT is a comprehensive personality DNA test targeted for children, as it provides insights into their health, intelligence, personality, and intuition. Through this Talent Genetic Test, it is able to identify if a child shows talent in academic courses and leadership skills. Besides a child’s performance in school, children’s development of innate intelligence and abilities depend on their growth and maturation. With this testing service from Map My Gene, parents can learn more about their child’s unique genetic makeup, how they are likely to grow up, and determine whether their child is predisposed to certain conditions such as ADHD or autism. Parents will be able to obtain a better understanding of their child’s inherent strengths and weaknesses as a result of this test, allowing them to better prepare for their child’s future.

Genetic testing is able to remove the need for trial and error, guaranteeing 99% accurate predictions. The ITGT examines 46 abilities and characteristics. The test results will include a career profiling evaluated by a group of psychologists based on a person’s unique capabilities determined by their genetic composition. The test results will also contain expert suggestions that provide valuable information to assist parents in effectively nurturing and developing their child’s temperament and unique abilities, serving as a guide for their educational and career prospects.

Map My Gene is a DNA test provider in Singapore aimed at helping individuals gain insight into their genetic makeup through DNA testing. Through Map My Gene’s art biotechnology and professional counselling services, the gene testing company aspires to offer clients a paradigm shift towards a fulfilling and healthy lifestyle. With the Inborn Talent Genetic Test, Map My Gene assists parents in analysing the talents, skills, and abilities of their children to better prepare them for their future and studies.

For more information, please visit https://www.mapmygene.com/, and for more details on the Inborn Talent Gene Test (ITGT), please visit https://www.mapmygene.com/inborn-talent-gene-test/.

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Teledyne e2v: Boost dynamic performance of a broadband ADC by some 10 dBFS instantly with spur reduction IP

Benefit from an immediate design-free, dynamic performance gain

  • The new EV12AQ600/605-ADX4 device options now feature an integrated ADX4 license key enabling enhanced dynamics when operating at up to a peak of 6.4 GS/s (single channel mode).
  • ADX4 – a post-processing algorithm compatible with Xilinx Kintex® Ultrascale™ FPGAs delivers up to 10 dBFS of SFDR dynamic spurs reduction and close to 1 effective bit extra resolution in broadband applications.
  • Time-interleaving, whilst providing a conceptually easy to comprehend sample rate boost, is challenging to achieve at extended resolutions and wide bandwidths.


Gain immediate, design-free access to a dynamic boost for the EV12AQ600/5

GRENOBLE, FRANCE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – Teledyne e2v today announces the immediate availability of EV12AQ600/5 models featuring an integrated license key providing direct access to the novel ADX4 post-processing algorithm developed at SP Devices within the Teledyne group of companies. The ADX4 spur reduction IP dynamically attenuates spurious frequency components resulting from gain, offset and phase mismatches between the four ADC cores. Time-interleaving is a trusted architectural approach to boost ADC sampling rates. However, avoiding resulting spectral artifacts with calibration is especially challenging beyond 10-bit resolutions and in broadband applications.

Applied to the EV12AQ600/5, time-interleaving four cores quadruples the sample rate from 1.6 to 6.4 GS/s. The mismatche errors between the ADC coresreduce spurious free performance. ADX4 delivers a spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) boost of up to 10 dB. That boost is particularly noticeable in broadband applications, and as it requires no hardware design changes is available on demand. The ADX4 code module is simply programmed into the post-processing FPGA. A modification that can even be retrofitted in the field.

About ADC time-interleaving

High-resolution data converters are on an upward trajectory to acquire broader instantaneous bandwidths. A theoretically simple method to achieve higher sampling is by applying time-interleaving to existing cores. Here, multiple ADC cores are clocked on different phases of a common sample clock allowing a higher density of samples of a signal to be acquired. This increased sample density offers a useful performance extension and works well with modest resolutions up to 8-bits in which cross core matching is relatively easy to manage through standard mixed signal calibration and circuit layout schemes.

For 10-bit resolutions and above, especially operating into the gigahertz range, it is increasingly hard to ensure matching. As a result, sampling artifacts arise causing distortion and limiting measured dynamic performance. These high frequency mismatch errors are very challenging to mitigate in the analog design domain. Consider that, for a 6.4 GS/s time-interleaved ADC to achieve 72 dB SNR (the theoretical 12-bit maximum) with a 3 GHz input signal, a cross core phase match of better than 12 fs is required.

Thankfully, over the last two decades, the cost of DSP resources has fallen significantly, now making it economically feasible to take an algorithmic approach to spur reduction. Teledyne SP Devices, the home of high resolution ultra-fast digitizers is well versed in mitigation technologies with experience gathered from several decades work on a broad range of industry leading discrete converters.

Unlike a single or multi-point calibration, ADX4 digital error correction can deliver spur suppression even when the errors vary over frequency. Results are such that the unwanted aliasing spurs are suppressed into the noise floor.

Implementing ADX4

It could not be easier to gain ADX4 dynamic enhancements. Via the desired supply chain, customers need only transition their orders across to the -ADX4 options of their EV12AQ600/5 device. Moreover, they need to add the ADX4 module to their Xilinx FPGA code load. Job done.

ADX4 availability

The following component list indicates the current EV12AQ600/5 options shipping today with ADX4 license keys. Customers considering dual channel operation should contact Teledyne e2v directly to discuss the future availability of an ADX2 license key option.

Useful links
Teledyne e2v EV12AQ600/5-ADX4 datasheet
Teledyne e2v EV12AQ600/5 product page
Video link: Learn time-interleaved EV12AQ600 ADC mismatch error correction

About Teledyne e2v

Teledyne e2v’s innovations lead developments in healthcare, life sciences, Space, transportation, defense and security and industrial markets. Teledyne e2v’s unique approach involves listening to the market and application challenges of customers and partnering with them to provide innovative standard, semi-custom or fully custom solutions, bringing increased value to their systems.

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About Teledyne SP Devices

Teledyne SP Devices designs and manufactures world-leading modular data acquisition and signal generation instruments. Their products utilize patented calibration logic, the latest data converters, and state-of-the-art FPGA technology resulting in an unrivaled combination of high sampling rate and resolution. Products are available with a range of application-specific features and embedded, real-time signal processing. This helps customers overcome performance bottlenecks, shortens time-to-market, and provides system-level advantages within a wide range of application areas. SP Devices’ products are deployed across a wide variety of industries, including analytical instruments, remote sensing, scientific instrumentation, medical imaging, and more. For more information, visit SP Devices’ website at .