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Police Detain One Hundred Lao Workers Smuggled into Thailand

Lao workers in Thailand (photo: Matichon).

More than 100 Lao migrant workers have been apprehended by Thai authorities after entering the country illegally.

CoinW officially launched in the Vietnam Market and announced the rewards of 10 million USDT.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 28 April 2022 – CoinW, the world-class comprehensive digital assets exchange, announced their official entry into the Vietnamese market. They will be fully sincerely bringing rewards of more than 10 million USDT to Vietnamese users, which can be obtained from the activities of doing registrations, friend invitations, and transactions.

Founded in 2017, CoinW has provided secure, compliant, efficient, and convenient cryptocurrency and derivatives trading services for more than 7 million users around the world. They have successively obtained financial regulatory licenses in many countries and regions such as the Lithuania financial license, US MSB financial license, Singapore MAS license, SVGFSA license, and so on.

Mingguo Bai, CEO of CoinW said: “Vietnam is currently the most dynamic blockchain market in the world. In recent years, a large number of encrypted projects and technical teams, such as Axie Infinity and Coin98, have emerged in the global encryption industry. Fresh wind. It is a great pleasure to bring the products and services to Vietnam. CoinW will provide a safe, stable, and fast cryptocurrency channel for local cryptocurrency users, and ensure the security of user transactions in multiple dimensions.”

CoinW has already launched a Vietnamese language package version to make transactions more convenient for Vietnamese users. In addition, the Vietnamese Dong (VND) OTC transaction feature will also be opened soon, enabling Vietnamese users to use VND to exchange cryptocurrencies on the platform. CoinW has also prepared a mysterious gift of 10 million USDT for new users in the Vietnamese market. For more details, please follow the official announcements or their official communities as belows:

Register Now: https://www.coinw.com/user/register.html

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Coinw_exchange

Telegram: https://t.me/coinw_vietnam

Furthermore, CoinW Vietnam agents are becoming extremely hotly recruited. If users apply to become a CoinW Vietnam agent, they are probably to get a generous floating salary, and the commission rate is as high as 80%, far exceeding the current industry average. Besides, CoinW Vietnam agents will also be able to receive airdrop rewards, traffic support, and exclusive gift packages (click here to learn more) ). CoinW highly welcomes and is looking forward to the participation of the Vietnamese Community owners, KOLs, media promoters, or market analysts… to join with us to bring crypto to greater heights.

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

CoinW officially launched in the Vietnam Market and announced the rewards of 10 million USDT.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 28 April 2022 – CoinW, the world-class comprehensive digital assets exchange, announced their official entry into the Vietnamese market. They will be fully sincerely bringing rewards of more than 10 million USDT to Vietnamese users, which can be obtained from the activities of doing registrations, friend invitations, and transactions.

Founded in 2017, CoinW has provided secure, compliant, efficient, and convenient cryptocurrency and derivatives trading services for more than 7 million users around the world. They have successively obtained financial regulatory licenses in many countries and regions such as the Lithuania financial license, US MSB financial license, Singapore MAS license, SVGFSA license, and so on.

Mingguo Bai, CEO of CoinW said: “Vietnam is currently the most dynamic blockchain market in the world. In recent years, a large number of encrypted projects and technical teams, such as Axie Infinity and Coin98, have emerged in the global encryption industry. Fresh wind. It is a great pleasure to bring the products and services to Vietnam. CoinW will provide a safe, stable, and fast cryptocurrency channel for local cryptocurrency users, and ensure the security of user transactions in multiple dimensions.”

CoinW has already launched a Vietnamese language package version to make transactions more convenient for Vietnamese users. In addition, the Vietnamese Dong (VND) OTC transaction feature will also be opened soon, enabling Vietnamese users to use VND to exchange cryptocurrencies on the platform. CoinW has also prepared a mysterious gift of 10 million USDT for new users in the Vietnamese market. For more details, please follow the official announcements or their official communities as belows:

Register Now: https://www.coinw.com/user/register.html

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Coinw_exchange

Telegram: https://t.me/coinw_vietnam

Furthermore, CoinW Vietnam agents are becoming extremely hotly recruited. If users apply to become a CoinW Vietnam agent, they are probably to get a generous floating salary, and the commission rate is as high as 80%, far exceeding the current industry average. Besides, CoinW Vietnam agents will also be able to receive airdrop rewards, traffic support, and exclusive gift packages (click here to learn more) ). CoinW highly welcomes and is looking forward to the participation of the Vietnamese Community owners, KOLs, media promoters, or market analysts… to join with us to bring crypto to greater heights.

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

Virtual assistants talkback – Beauty brand LUX hacks virtual assistants to outwit casual sexism

An initiative by LUX and Wunderman Thompson Singapore gives female-voiced virtual assistants witty clap backs for sexist comments, discouraging harmful behaviours

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 28 April 2022 – LUX is standing up for virtual voice assistants to highlight the contagious nature of sexist attitudes in a new initiative launched today called ‘Shut up Sexism’ – created in collaboration with creative agency Wunderman Thompson Singapore.

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Almost 3 billion people are currently using voice automated software. Research by Brookings[1], a leading non-profit organisation, states that 92.4% of smartphone assistants have traditionally featured female-sounding voices. Furthermore, according to Gartner,[2] people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses. This form of AI is increasingly a part of our daily life. However, there have been numerous reports of widespread sexist and sometimes abusive language from users.

Shut up Sexism was created to highlight sexist or gender bias behaviour found when engaging with virtual assistants with female voices and names. In a study by the UNESCO (2019) it outlined how virtual assistants responded to verbal abuse.[3] As an example. when a user says ”You are hot”, the replies vary from “How can you tell? You say that to all the virtual assistants” to “Thank You.”

Shut Up Sexism From LUX:

As a brand that aims to empower women to fight against everyday sexism, LUX wants to call out the unquestioned nature of these exchanges and start a conversation about the impact of this kind of casual misogyny hidden in seemingly harmless interactions with tech.

In the new campaign, virtual assistants were designed to automatically respond to demeaning, sexist insults with sassy clap backs. For example, in response to “Shut up”, the hacked assistant might reply, “If I shut up, will you grow up?” or “After you, I insist.” You might even hear a siren noise accompanied by “Attention; the anti-sexist police are on the way.” These comebacks serve as witty reminders of how abuse directed at virtual assistants with female voices (and names) can help stop harmful behaviour in real life. The new responses effectively get the assistants to stand up for themselves, which is one tactic when dealing with abusive situations.[4]

Speaking on behalf of LUX, Severine Vauleon, Global Vice President – LUX at Unilever, said, “The global campaign’s central idea was triggered by a UNESCO study released earlier this year, in which researchers argue that the way voice assistants are gendered as female is seriously problematic. Our digital assistants typically have female voices and female names, and researchers say this reinforces stereotypes of women as ‘servile’, existing only to do someone else’s bidding.”

LUX collaborated with women from all walks of life to create witty comebacks to the most common sexist insults thrown at the virtual voice assistants. A social experiment was conducted with several families whose virtual assistants were trained to deliver these lines. The clapback routines are easily installed in any virtual assistant and available to everyone globally at bit.ly/luxshutupsexism. The initiative is launched through a video campaign and a collaboration with one of the most influential women: actor and celebrity Yasmine Sabri, who has 18.4 million followers on Instagram.

Yasmin Sabri, a champion of women’s rights across the Middle East said: “Touching upon gender stereotypes and how they originate, there are so many studies on stereotyping and it all starts from ages 5-6. Imagine the child being exposed to sexism at home through virtual assistants. It’s nice to see Lux stand up against sexism and also giving everyone the power to stop casual sexism at home by giving their virtual assistants a voice to speak up; and also trigger important conversations within the home about stopping casual sexist behaviour.”

‘Shut Up Sexism’ will be activated through the video campaign and via influencers. The downloadable anti-sexism routine is available globally and can work with most virtual home assistants. LUX is inviting women and girls to download these clapbacks to stand up against casual sexism in the home, one sassy comeback at a time.

LUX creative agency, Wunderman Thompson Singapore, has created the ‘Shut up Sexism’ campaign to tackle sexism head-on and literally ‘talk back’ to abusers by reaching them in their own homes. The initiative stemmed from the widespread debate around why virtual assistants are programmed to have default female voices and female names.

Marco Versolato, Chief Creative Officer – Unilever at Wunderman Thompson Singapore said, “These virtual assistants are increasingly becoming fixtures of our homes, and part of the family routine. Significantly, most of them speak with women’s voices and have female names. Often, they the virtual assistants are submissive or apologetic in response to insults. This is a sexist issue that needs to be highlighted and called out.

Our campaign will help highlight casual sexism at home. The next time someone insults a virtual assistant, she will answer back – helping call out sexist behaviour and toxic language. We hope that we shall encouraging more debate, discussion, and education around this topic to ensure sexist or abusive behaviour will not happen in the first place.”

LUX Global Initiatives To Inspire Women:

The new activation echoes LUX global initiative. The brand has pledged to inspire 50 million women by 2025 using content, partnerships and activations to help them rise above everyday sexist judgements and express their beauty and femininity unapologetically.

Key initiatives by LUX, include:

A partnership with an online travel platform CityWalks which asked men to walk in women’s shoes in 2021

Taking a stand for Olympic Gold Medallist Caster Semenya in her 2021 campaign against being banned by the World Athletics’ ban for having natural high-performance testosterone

Watch the video here https://youtu.be/biVIzsaHA58

Install it here bit.ly/luxshutupsexism


[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-ai-bots-and-voice-assistants-reinforce-gender-bias/ The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

ABOUT LUX

Lux has been celebrating beauty and femininity since 1925. We understand that beauty is a woman’s armour, her source of strength. It is hers to express, unapologetically. We will continue to help women everywhere fight casual sexism at home, in the workplace and in wider society. Lux is committed to impacting 50 million lives by 2025 through content, activations and partnerships.

#LUX

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China-funded Project Resettles Luang Prabang Residents affected by Railway

Resettled villagers in front of their new homes in Buam Or Village Luang Prabang
Resettled villagers in front of their new homes in Buam Or Village, Luang Prabang (Photo: Xinhua)

The resettlement of villagers in Luang Prabang affected by the Laos-China Railway is now complete.

Landor & Fitch enhances APAC team amid greater demand for data backed branding and unique experience design

Julius Cruickshank appointed as head of Sydney and Melbourne design teams, Stephen Pill returns as strategy lead of Experience Design offering
Key appointments in Insights & Analytics and Client Servicing teams in Hong Kong with studio recently certified as Great Place to Work™

HONG KONG – Media OutReach – 28 April 2022 – Landor & Fitch, a global brand transformation company, today announces key appointments to a growing APAC team amid greater demand for Insights & Analytics (I&A) and Experience Design that push the envelope for the world’s biggest brands. The appointments add to a 300 strong team located in studios across the region from Tokyo to Mumbai, Sydney and Beijing.

After a comeback year that saw many brands recover in 2021, demand for transformation has skyrocketed. The B2B, consumer, retail, mobility and tech sectors are among the most active in their demand for modern design, brand innovation, connected experiences and greater brand culture as a way to redefine engagement with customers and elevate brand relevance in an era of continuous change.

Landor & Fitch’s Australia business welcomes Julius Cruickshank to lead the Sydney and Melbourne design teams. Cruickshank’s 20 years of experience working with the likes of the Australian Government, Crown Resorts, Dolby and KPMG will be leveraged to create brands that are relevant, uniquely creative and delivering tangible business results.

Monica Zhu joins as a Director on the I&A team in Hong Kong. Zhu brings 17 years of experience in consumer insights and analytics, specialist branding, market analysis, new product development and go-to market communications to the award-winning Hong Kong studio. The company was recently Great Place to Work-Certified™ by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture.

Stephen Pill returns to head up strategy within the Experience Design team as a Strategy Director and will deliver exceptional experiences and real value to brands. Pill has a proven track record of designing award-winning transformational experiences throughout APAC and EMEA across brands including Swire Properties, Dubai Airports and The Ritz-Carlton. Pill will set the strategy for how Landor & Fitch develop innovative experiences, building on global award-winning work with Singtel, Swire and Apraava Energy.

Nav Kumari leads the Procter and Gamble work across APAC with a strong intent to create regionally and locally relevant solutions that help to positively transform their portfolio of FMCG brands. Kumari has expertise across FMCG, retail, and telecommunications and joins as a Senior Director for Client Services APAC.

‘2022 has got off to a very exciting start for Landor & Fitch across the region following a great performance in 2021 and I am delighted that we continue to welcome star talent to the team,” said Landor & Fitch APAC President Jonathan Cummings. “We expect to see growing needs for clients to reimagine and reinvent their brand ambition and experience to thrive in the new normal. Our breadth and depth of expertise in brand transformation, underpinned by our Insights & Analytics capability will ensure we can deliver powerful and tangible business results for our clients, as exemplified by the recent AirJapan launch.”

Landor & Fitch

We are a global brand transformation company with the ambition to make an extraordinary difference: for our clients, our employees and the world around us.

We are 1,200 curious minds, located in 19 countries, operating as one team. We have an uncommon combination of skills and capabilities, mixing left and right brain people, that work together to go beyond what’s expected. We bring rigor and creativity together to transform brands and businesses, to drive growth. Our clients turn to us for our insight and intelligence on everything from dramatic design, business strategy and brand purpose, to expression, experience and empathy.

We see ourselves as valuable additions to our clients’ teams and are proud of our relationships with them. Local and global, corporate and consumer, emerging and established, we work with clients that include Apple, Bang & Olufsen, bp, Kellogg’s, Lego, Microsoft, Nike, Procter & Gamble and Singtel, to name a few.

We are proud to be part of WPP, a creative transformation company dedicated to building better futures.

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Thailand Ditches ‘Thailand Pass’ System to Revive Tourism

Thailand to reopen with Laos travel bubble

In a move aimed at reviving global arrivals, Thailand is to cancel its “Thailand Pass” system from 1 June, allowing tourists to enter the country with ordinary, pre-pandemic immigration forms.

Arlo Announces Apple HomeKit Compatibility For Arlo Essential Indoor Camera

Arlo Essential Indoor Camera users can now add HomeKit automations for direct interactions across supported devices.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 28 April 2022 – Arlo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ARLO), a leading smart home security brand, today announced that support for HomeKit, Apple’s smart home platform, is now available on the brand’s Arlo Essential Indoor Security Camera when paired with an Arlo SmartHub or Base Station.

While Arlo users can already control their Essential Indoor cameras via the Arlo app, HomeKit compatibility will provide added convenience for iPhone and iPad users. Now, iOS users will be able to access certain functions of their Essential Indoor cameras in the HomeKit ecosystem using the Apple Home app and Siri voice commands.

“Knowing that users have enjoyed the range of automation compatibility in other Arlo products, we are excited to announce HomeKit is now also compatible with our Essential Indoor camera. This means our whole range of security camera solutions are compatible with HomeKit providing customers with added convenience and a smarter home” said Brad Little, Vice President and Managing Director APAC.

HomeKit allows users to easily and securely control smart home products via the Apple Home app and Siri on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. All current Arlo Essential Indoor security cameras paired with an Arlo SmartHub or Base Station will now be able to receive notifications on the Apple Home app when motion is detected. iOS users can also utilise Siri to quickly activate a HD livestream onto their iPhone or iPad hands-free. With HomeKit, Arlo Essential Indoor users can also set up automations to control other HomeKit-enabled smart home devices. For example, users can set up an automation to trigger HomeKit-enabled lights to turn on at certain times when motion is detected by an Arlo Essential Indoor Camera.

Featuring an easy-to-control, automated privacy shield, the Arlo Essential Indoor Camera allows users to automatically activate the privacy shield that covers the camera lens, extending Arlo’s commitment to user privacy by delivering unparalleled peace of mind. The versatile camera enables users to monitor babies, pets, elderly family members, restaurants, stock rooms and more, with 1080p HD video, a 130-degree diagonal field-of-view, motion and audio detection and full-duplex audio for two-way conversations. The Essential Indoor Camera is available now through participating retailers at an RRP of $199 SGD.

For more information, please visit https://www.arlo.com/asia/cameras/essential/arlo-essential-indoor.html.

About Arlo Technologies, Inc.

Arlo is the award-winning, industry leader that is transforming the way people experience the connected lifestyle. Arlo’s deep expertise in product design, wireless connectivity, cloud infrastructure and cutting-edge AI capabilities focuses on delivering a seamless, smart home experience for Arlo users that is easy to setup and interact with every day. The company’s cloud-based platform provides users with visibility, insight and a powerful means to help protect and connect in real-time with the people and things that matter most, from any location with a Wi-Fi or a cellular connection. To date, Arlo has launched several categories of award-winning smart connected devices, including wire-free smart Wi-Fi and 4G enabled security cameras, audio and video doorbells, and a floodlight.

With a mission to bring users peace of mind, Arlo is as passionate about protecting user privacy as it is about safeguarding homes and families. Arlo is committed to supporting industry standards for data protection designed to keep users’ personal information private and in their control. Arlo does not monetise personal data. Arlo provides enhanced controls for user data, supports privacy legislation, keeps user data safely secure, and puts security at the forefront of company culture.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words “anticipate,” “expect,” “believe,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “estimate,” “project,” “outlook,” “forecast” or other similar words are used to identify such forward-looking statements. However, the absence of these words does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking. The forward-looking statements represent Arlo Technologies, Inc.’s (the “Company” or “Arlo”) expectations or beliefs concerning future events based on information available at the time such statements were made and include statements regarding Arlo cameras, Arlo video doorbells, Arlo Secure, Arlo Secure Plus and future Arlo products. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including the following: future demand for the Company’s products may be lower than anticipated; consumers may choose not to adopt the Company’s new product offerings or adopt competing products; and product performance may be adversely affected by real world operating conditions. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in such forward-looking statements. Further information on potential risk factors that could affect Arlo and its business are detailed in the Company’s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, those risk factors described in the Company’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these circumstances, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Arlo undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

#Arlo

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