Habitat for Humanity announced that the eighth Asia-Pacific Housing Forum with the theme, “Building forward better for inclusive housing”, will be held in Bangkok from December 7 to 9. This will be the third time that the affordable housing forum will be held in Thailand. The strategic location of the country, presence of a strong and vibrant international development community in Bangkok, and Habitat for Humanity’s 23-year history of building homes in Thailand, were the key considerations for the choice of venue for the biennial event. Participants at the seventh Asia-Pacific Housing Forum in 2019 held in Bangkok (Habitat for…
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Malaysia played host to the most content-rich virtual conference on Artificial Intelligence and related future-tech on Friday, 23 July 2021. Hosted by Trescon, World AI Show convened over 300 online participants that included major stakeholders of Malaysia’s AI ecosystem including government authorities, top AI experts and solution providers. The online conference featured leading AI organizations such as Dataiku and Denodo to discuss Malaysia’s AI prospects. The conference was themed on assisting key government entities and private enterprises in developing a comprehensive AI roadmap and also how Artificial Intelligence can disrupt that one does business and generate value. The event focused…
Bluewill, is pleased to launch its North America shopping platform on Wed, August 4, 2021 (PST). All Bluewill products will be available for the US opening, at www.Bluewill.com. With the volatile markets of 2020-2021, people prefer to shop online, with E-commerce catching and finally surpassing offline retail in terms of annual sales. Many shops and merchants have tried to capture this growing market, offering low prices, but product quality and service guarantees often end up lacking in the end. This will continue in the coming months and years, but there are also some positive changes taking place. The Bluewill team is…
Riding on the success of the previous webinar with PERAFI (Indonesian Facade Association), the latest edition was held virtually on July 29 and focused on the international perspectives of facade design and applications. Subject-matter experts from around the world shared valuable information on tackling and overcoming challenges faced in the industry. The online sessions recognised the need to keep up to date with the latest developments and supported a better understanding of best practices in facade design and their applications for different countries. Putri Anindia from Astra Land Indonesia, hosted the webinar with the following speakers: – Anna Pravinata, Principal…
Seedo Corp. (http://saffron-tech.ag) (OTC: SEDO), an agtech company that is developing the protocols to grow saffron using vertical farming technology, today announced that it is expanding its research to include the study of the spice’s well known natural anti-anxiety and antidepressant properties. Similar to the approach of the indoor cannabis industry, Seedo hopes to be able to enhance the medicinal properties of this unique herb for use in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications. Mental health has come to the forefront in sports with Simone Biles withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics and Naomi Osaka opting out of the French Open and Wimbledon.…
Shoppers can get attractive vouchers, half-off prices and free shipping from Spritzer’s Shopee store Spritzer Malaysia (Spritzer or the Company), which produces Malaysia’s best-selling natural mineral water, is having exclusive promotions on the Company’s official Shopee store in conjunction with Shopee’s 8.8 Brands Festival that ends on 08 August 2021. Stay safe, remain hydrated and healthy in this hot weather by shopping for various Spritzer Natural Mineral Water subscription plans from the comfort of home through https://shopee.com.my/spritzer.os from as low as RM127.50 per month catering to different household needs that can be delivered safely to your doorsteps. In addition, every subscription plan…
The ClinTex (CTi) tokenized platform (clintex.io) will be the first of its kind to utilize blockchain-based clinical data analytics to address the main causes of clinical trial inefficiency, helping to drive down the cost of new medicines and expediting their delivery to patients. The initial spark of an idea that would eventually become ClinTex started in 2014, at the DIA Forum in Vienna. By 2018, Clintex was formally working on the Clinical Trials Intelligence (CTi) platform. CTi’s purpose is to deliver data analysis at scale, to drive collaboration and insights across clinical trials. With large pharma companies like Merck and…
TOKYO, Aug 3, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) announces that it revises its forecast of consolidated business results for the first half of the year ending on December 31, 2021 and that for the full year ending on December 31, 2021, both of which were announced on July 8, 2021. SDK also announces that it will record extraordinary loss. 1. Revision of forecast of consolidated business results for January 1 – June 30, 2021 (1) Revised forecast of consolidated business results for January 1 – June 30, 2021 Please see www.sdk.co.jp/assets/files/english/news/2021/20210803_sdknewsrelease_e.pdf (2) Reasons for the revision Net sales hovers around the…
In April 2019, during the Guatemalan election, the people of Guatemala suspected that voting fraud had occurred. Since additional elections were scheduled for August 2019, citizens wanted assurance that there would be no fraud in the next election. That was the impetus for Fiscal Digital, a Guatemalan citizen volunteer organization, to utilize a public immutable blockchain for their elections. Against overwhelming opposition, the Organizer of Fiscal Digital, Carlos Toriello Herrerias, was successful in implementing a blockchain-based voting solution in Guatemala. Carlos was the winner of last year’s GBA Annual Achievement Award for Courage. The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) is pleased…
Straits Inter Logistics Berhad (Straits or Company), a Bursa Malaysia Listed Company, announced today that Victoria STS (Labuan) Sdn Bhd (Victoria STS) had received approval from Marine Department Malaysia on 30 July 2021 to commence operations to develop an integrated offshore Ship-to-Ship Transhipment Hub. The Company has mobilized its resources and infrastructure in preparation to commence operation of the STS Transhipment Hub in the coming fourth quarter 2021. Victoria STS is a 70% owned subsidiary of Fajar Maritime and Logistics Sdn Bhd, which in turn is a 60% owned subsidiary of Straits. Concurrently, Victoria STS has also on 30 July…