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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 August 2022 – A pioneering and bold attempt to apply artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the performing arts was carried out by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in a public concert held on 14 July in Hong Kong. The HKBU Symphony Orchestra and an AI virtual choir perform a newly arranged choral-orchestral version of the song Pearl of the […]

OctaFX is celebrating its 11th anniversary! Here’s what the broker achieved over the years and the core elements of the brand philosophy that helped it along the way. KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 2 August 2022 – The global broker OctaFX is bigger than ever before—all thanks to the support of its clients. Below are the main achievements OctaFX has managed to accomplish over the […]

Celebrate National Day worry-free with Arlo’s amazing deals on home security devices. SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 1 August 2022 – National Day is just around the corner, and if you are looking for ways to give your home the love and care it deserves, don’t miss Arlo’s exciting promotions on its lineup of industry-leading home security devices. With a wide range of smart security devices, from […]

Combining features of life protection and wealth accumulation with flexi designation option to offer unique flexibility in legacy planning HONG KONG SAR – Media Outreach – 1 August 2022 – AXA Hong Kong and Macau (AXA) today announced the launch of its Max Wealth Insurance Plan (“Max Wealth”), which offers a market-leading guaranteed breakeven period as short as 5 years[2], and guaranteed cash value on the commencement […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 1 August 2022 – Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services firm, today announced the appointment of Rosanna Tang as the firm’s Head of Business Development Services, Hong Kong, effective August 1, 2022. Rosanna will be leading the research and marketing functions in Hong Kong, and support the management to establish and drive Cushman & Wakefield’s business priorities […]

By James M Dorsey I2-U2, the Indo-West Asian quad, has boasted its first success with the acquisition by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani of Haifa Port. The acquisition was announced days after an I2-U2 virtual summit during US President Joe Biden’s visit last week to the Middle East. The acquisition by a close associate of Prime […]

The post The Privatisation Of Haifa Port With Adani: India-1, China -0 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas In recent times, more Bangladeshi and Nepali migrant workers have died abroad than before. An increase in migrant mortality has been reported from countries as varied as the Middle East to Malaysia. Both the Nepal and Bangladesh governments are deeply perturbed by an ominous uptick in fatalities among their valued workers, whose […]

The post The Looming Crisis Of South Asian Migrant Worker Fatalities Abroad first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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By Sarah Thanawala The Supreme Court’s judgment, in the case of Himanshu Kumar & Ors. versus State of Chhattisgarh &Ors., delivered on July 14 by a division bench comprising Justices A.M. Khanwilkar, who  retired  on Friday, and J.B. Pardiwala, has led to outrage. The bench dismissed the writ petition that alleged that the Chhattisgarh government […]

The post 2009 Massacre Of Tribals In Dantewada By Para Military Forces first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Devasis Chattopadhyay Globally, most business and tech media, both online and offline (read print), for the past few days are discussing the muted and declining revenue of the Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the face of growing competition from TikTok. When I look at both these organisations, I often wonder, is it time to […]

The post Bridging The Technology Paradox – Metaverse Versus Universe first appeared on IPA Newspack.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 29 July 2022 – PSB Academy announces plans to launch PSB Academy City Campus: STEM Wing, an expansion of its City Campus in Marina Square. The new S$10 million premise brings together high-tech and industry approved laboratories and facilities to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for students. The existing campus will be renamed PSB Academy City Campus: Main Wing […]

HKU Survey throws light on how to make sustainability and ESG more relatable to Hong Kong SMEs, enabling the sector to involve more and driving real impact HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 28 July 2022 – ESG and sustainability issues alike have been moving up the corporate agenda in recent years. According to Google Search Trend, the keyword ‘ESG’ search popularity in Hong Kong has […]

New LEGACY Magazine features success stories from Sun Life families on recruiting family members, building teams and providing lifelong Client service. HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 29 July 2022 – Sun Life announced the launch of Agency Legacy program which consists of a series of knowledge sharing, digital training and recruitment initiatives, aiming to recruit the next generation of Sun Life advisors and empower them […]

By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has raised the stakes higher in its running battle against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), claiming that at least 38 TMC MLAs were in close touch with the saffron party. Further, well-known pro-BJP actor Mithun Chakraborty told newspersons in Kolkata that at least 21 […]

The post With TMC Minister Mired In SSC Scam, BJP Raises Stakes In Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

– More than 239 applications received for first run SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 28 July 2022 – Real estate agency OrangeTee & Tie (OTT) has launched its second run of the Real Estate Salesperson (RES) Internship Programme, following the success of the industry’s first-ever internship programme of this nature earlier in March 2022. With another $500,000 set aside, the second RES programme will once again be […]

Annual Epicor Study Also Reveals 90 Percent of Cloud Users Believe the Flexibility, Agility, and Security Benefits of Moving to the Cloud Outweigh the Migration Effort HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 28 July 2022 – According to a recent research study from Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software designed to promote business growth, a resounding 96 percent of organizations surveyed worldwide have confidence […]

Members of The Premier Association of Financial Professionals® tap into post-pandemic strategies and experience next-level connectivity to learn, share and grow. PARK RIDGE, Ill. – Media OutReach – 27 July 2022 – The incomparable experience of in-person MDRT member gatherings for leading financial services professionals have returned after two years of virtual meetings, with the MDRT 2022 Annual Meeting in Boston, USA, from June 26-29, and the […]

Asian industry veteran chosen to helm most diverse region in Asia Pacific SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 26 July 2022 – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced the appointment of Isabella Kusumawati as vice president and managing director for Southeast Asia and Korea (SEAK). Based at the company’s regional hub in Singapore, Kusumawati will be responsible for scaling Infor’s SEAK business, driving customer success and strengthening […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 26 July 2022 – The pandemic has amplified the talent crisis of Hong Kong, according to the government Census and Statistics Department, the total employed persons have decreased by around 244,500 from 3,855,000 in May 2019 – July 2019 to 3,610,500 in January 2022 – March 2022. In January 2022, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Hong Kong conducted […]

Gary Edstein, CEO and Senior Vice President will retire at the end of 2022 after 36 years of service Phil Corcoran named new Managing Director, DHL Express, Australia and Papua New Guinea SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 26 July 2022 – DHL Express, the world’s leading international express service provider has announced the retirement of Gary Edstein, CEO and Senior Vice President for Australia and Papua New […]

By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of great concern that for the country’s millions of educated youth, degrees and certificates have become as useless as wastepapers as they fail to provide jobs and help brighten their future. Going by the official records, in the academic year of 2018 about 64.7 lakh students passed out […]

The post Rising Jobless Educated Youth Outpace India’s Economic Growth first appeared on IPA Newspack.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 25 July 2022 – MIMS, the region’s leading healthcare data and medical knowledge provider, is proud to announce that MIMS has successfully collaborated with Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on the editorial contents for the National Drug Formulary (NDF) website. The NDF is a MOH initiative under the National Pharmacy Strategy and the website is currently live at www.ndf.gov.sg. The NDF website […]

Donations to 40 NGOs sustains long-term community-building for B40 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 25 July 2022 – #ShopeeGivesBack, Shopee’s long-term community initiative, has collectively raised RM2.9 million across two years, through fundraising efforts with over 40 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to help underprivileged Malaysians in times of need. #ShopeeGivesBack which launched on 1 May 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, uses technology to […]

By Shreenivas Khandewale It is true that the whole world was engulfed by the adverse economic consequences of corona during 2020-21 and 2021-22 and that even during 2022-23, there are lingering effects of the pandemic. Most of the countries are suffering, as India does, from the economic dislocations in various sectors at various production points, […]

The post High Inflation And Rising Joblessness Are The Outcome Of Modi Govt Policies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Hilary Goodfriend In January 2022, Xiomara Castro became Honduras’s first woman president, restoring electoral democracy to the country after more than a decade of dictatorship. Running with the leftist Liberty and Refoundation (LIBRE) party, Castro’s election breaks with the century-old two-party system that traded power between elites in the establishment National and Liberal Parties. […]

The post Socialist President Xiomara Castro Reviving Democracy In Honduras first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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