F&B Rents in First Rise Since Q3 2016 yet Relaxation of Cross-Border Restrictions may Impact Short-Term Demand Highlights of Office Market – Citywide rents dropped 1.4% q-o-q, mild decline from -2.0% q-o-q in Q1 – Net absorption at -192k sq ft, improved from -900k sq ft in Q1 – Availability rate at 14.4% is expected to remain stable in 2H 2021 Highlights of Retail Market – YTD […]
More than ever before, Indians are now eyeing properties in Dubai. Investing in real estate has emerged as the quickest way to get a residency permit in UAE, and since 2017, Indians have ranked amongst the top 3 nationalities investing in property in Dubai. In 2019, Indians contributed 16% of the housing sales in Dubai sales by volume – pushing in more than 8 Bn AED into […]
HONG KONG SAR and SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 6 July 2021 – Hang Lung Properties has received the honor of being named among “China Best Managed Companies 2021”, as the only property developer among the 13 new winners. The recognition highlights the Company’s commitment to excellence in management by upholding its philosophy of We Do It Well. Derek Pang (middle), Senior Director – Mainland Business […]
Stronger-than-expected international migration lifted Canada’s population by 82,000 in the first quarter, the fastest quarterly increase since the pandemic began, a report by Royal Bank of Canada said. The report attributed this to the federal government’s strong push for new permanent residents, with most of the increase accounted for by people already temporarily living in the country. There was also a significant increase in temporary residents that […]
Additional one million doses contributed by the United States government via the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) programme KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – DHL Express, the world’s leading logistics provider, has successfully delivered the United States government’s donation of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine today. The arrival of around 1,000,000 doses comes as part of a recent commitment by the U.S. to assist […]
With triple the firewall throughput compared to previous SonicWall appliances, new NSa and NSsp models help organizations keep pace with the speeds of their growing networks SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – SonicWall today announced three new high-performance firewall models for enterprises and large organizations — NSa 4700, NSa 6700 and NSsp 13700 — designed to accelerate network throughput, stop advanced cyberattacks like ransomware, […]
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 2 July 2021 – The Nailist, a home-grown Manicure Singapore service provider, collaborates with Outrankco to improve its overall digital capabilities. With the lack of walk-in customers and people working from home during the Covid-19 period, it has inevitably affected the performance of most brick-and-mortar store, even more so for services that requires close contact with the customers such as manicure and […]
16 international logistics companies were evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute in this Gartner Magic Quadrant report “We believe that we scored particularly well thanks to our agility and ability to adapt, and these strengths are especially important to help our customers drive innovation into their fast evolving supply chains” says Oscar de Bok, CEO of DHL Supply Chain BONN, GERMANY – […]
Partnership is a key aspect of DHL’s Group-wide program GoTeach, which seeks to improve employability for young people by preparing them for the working world Key highlights of this year’s program include virtual mentoring sessions, job skills training and DHL scholarships Collaboration between DHL and SOS Children’s Villages will be extended for another five years to 2026 HO CHI MINH, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 1 July […]
BANGKOK, THAILAND – Media OutReach – 1 July 2021 – Levoit, the #1 selling air purifier brand in the US*, announced its new partnership with Ban Leong Chin Inter Co.Ltd. As a frontline distributor, Ban Leong Chin Inter will focus on selling Levoit air purifiers such as Core 300, Core 200S, LV-H128, Vista 200, LV-H133 and more. This partnership will play a hugely significant step to help […]
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 30 June 2021 – Two teams have emerged as winners of the inaugural Digital Water Hackathon, organised by ripple2wave incubator (r2wi) and Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). This event is supported by A*STAR Central, Enterprise Singapore (ESG), Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency. 47 entries from eight countries/regions, namely France, Taiwan, India, Denmark, USA, Bulgaria, Israel […]
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 29 June 2021 – Bodhi Healing and Education Centre recently launched a NLP communication skills course to improve children’s executive ability and parent-child relationship. The course integrates methods from multiple perspectives, such as parental type testing, method of education in Israel, and hypnotic method to improve children’s executive ability. Improve parent-child relationship. Bodhi Healing and Education Centre believes that parent-child […]
HONG KONG SAR AND SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 29 June 2021 – Hang Lung Properties today announced the debut of Hang Lung Residences, a premium serviced residences brand in mainland China with projects planned in Wuhan, Wuxi, Kunming and Shenyang. Developed in line with the Company’s vision “to create compelling spaces that enrich lives”, the curation of premium residential products and services builds on Hang […]
The Kenanga Global Growth Fund and Kenanga Global Islamic Fund will offer investors global exposure and greater diversification following reintroduction. KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 29 June 2021 – Kenanga Investors Berhad (“Kenanga Investors“) announced the relaunch of two of its unit trust funds, the Kenanga Global Growth Fund (“KGGF“, formerly Kenanga Resource Equity Fund) and Kenanga Global Islamic Fund (“KGIF“, formerly Kenanga Islamic Fund) […]
Strives to be the “go-to” E-commerce gateway for Asian products with customers worldwide HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 28 June 2021 – YesAsia Holdings Limited (“YesAsia” or the “Company“; together with subsidiaries, the “Group“; SEHK stock code: 2209), a Hong Kong-headquartered E-commerce platform operator engaging in the procurement and sale of Asian fashion and lifestyle, beauty and entertainment products to customers around the world, has […]
James M Dorsey The rise of hardline President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has prompted someanalysts to counterintuitively suggest that it could pave the way for reduced regional tensions and potential talks on a rejiggered Middle Eastern security architecture but getting from A to B is likely to prove easier said than done. Hopes that a hardline endorsement of a return to the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program will […]
Study calculates total projected benefits of up to $1.7 million HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 25 June 2021 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced a new study revealing that its hybrid cloud security services can save thousands of person-hours per year on security administration. Forrester Consulting surveyed and interviewed 97 Trend Micro Cloud One customers and drew […]
HO CHI MINH, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 24 June 2021 – HCL Technologies, (HCL), a leading global technology company, has appointed country sales heads to drive and accelerate its presence in Asia. Joonho Moon, Terry Tai and Nguyen Ha Tuan will lead and drive growth in South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam respectively. Taiwan-Terry Tai Prior to HCL, Joonho spent more than two decades at Samsung SDS […]
HO CHI MINH, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 24 June 2021 – HCL Technologies, (HCL), a leading global technology company, has appointed country sales heads to drive and accelerate its presence in Asia. Joonho Moon, Terry Tai and Nguyen Ha Tuan will lead and drive growth in South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam respectively. Korea-Joonho Moon Prior to HCL, Joonho spent more than two decades at Samsung SDS […]
Former Barrick Gold Chief Geochemist will join SunMirror 1st July 2021 ZUG, Switzerland – EQS Newswire – 24 June 2021 – SunMirror AG (“SunMirror”; XETRA Vienna: ROR1; ISIN CH0396131929), the mining and exploration firm specializing in raw materials such as gold, lithium and other metals and minerals, is strengthening its management team to include Simon Griffiths who will join the company on 1st July 2021. Simon Griffiths […]
Direct Franchised Reform Bears Fruit Overall Business Achieved Healthy and Stable Development Results Highlights (RMB million) For the twelve months ended 31 March FY2021 FY2020 Change Revenue 1,970 1,541 +27.8% Gross profit (before reversal of/ provision for impairment of inventories) 1,292 1,023 +26.3% Gross profit margin (before reversal of/ provision for impairment of inventories) 65.6% 66.4% -0.8ppt Operating profit 2,070 530 +290.6% Operating profit excluding gains of […]
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 23 June 2021 – The 2021 Southeast Asia (SEA) Icon Series, organized by Riot Games, is set to conclude with its first regional championship of the year – the Summer Super Cup. Throughout the tournament circuit, teams have been competing in League of Legends: Wild Rift, the mobile version of the popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that has […]
Ranks the third most attractive data center location in APAC Land supply increase through HSITP in the Lok Ma Chau Loop advisable Pandemic and geopolitical tension exert little impact on the market position of Hong Kong’s data center. Hong Kong advances to the third most attractive data center location in Asia Pacific this year Shorten the time gap between power capacity expansion work and data center delivery, […]
James M Dorsey Education is emerging as a major flashpoint in competing visions of a future Muslim world. Rival concepts being instilled in a next generation are likely to shape what amounts to a battle for the soul of Islam. Reports earlier this year published by the Israel-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE) chart the divergence in educational approaches. At one end of […]
