Syngenta’s TYMIRIUM® technology secures regulatory approval in Argentina

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Syngenta, one of the world’s leading agriculture companies, announced its TYMIRIUM® technology has received regulatory approval in Argentina.

The technology will bring farmers closer to accessing the novel nematicide and fungicide for both seed and soil uses, which is highly effective even at low use rates.

According to a statement, TYMIRIUM® technology provides long-lasting protection against invisible yet highly destructive nematodes and soil-borne diseases – particularly the Fusarium species. 

Key benefits include its ability to safeguard plant roots from attack, translocate to above-ground parts of the plant and protect against early season diseases. Simple to apply, it is also highly compatible with a wide range of other crop inputs.

“The development of TYMIRIUM® technology required an investment of over 10 years to bring it from discovery to market – a clear example of Syngenta’s commitment to addressing farming needs,” said the president of Global Crop Protection Jeff Rowe.

Farmers using TYMIRIUM® technology further benefit from its ability to preserve soil biodiversity and soil health. A protected, stronger root system supports soil structure and soil organic matter enhances nutrient use efficiency, and improves crop resilience to both biotic and abiotic stress.

Highly selective, TYMIRIUM® technology has minimal impact on beneficial insects, pollinators, and soil biodiversity.

Products containing TYMIRIUM® technology will be launched in over 100 crops and in more than 60 countries worldwide, under various trademarks in the coming years.

More details at www.syngenta.com.

-- BERNAMA

Northern Trust expands philanthropy efforts in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- Leading financial services company Northern Trust has expanded its philanthropy efforts in Malaysia.

In a statement today, it said this is aligned with its vision to create more equitable opportunities to achieve long-term financial success for those who too often face hurdles because of their race, ethnicity, gender, geography or socio-economic conditions.

It said Northern Trust would donate funds to Teach For Malaysia, a not-for-profit organisation that works towards ensuring educational excellence in schools, especially in rural and underprivileged communities.

“We have been inspired to support the work of Teach For Malaysia as they seek to create education equity in Malaysia, supporting the development of young people to fulfil their highest potential,” global head of corporate philanthropy Shana Hayes said.

Meanwhile, Teach For Malaysia chief executive officer Chan Soon Seng said: “We believe it is only through our collective efforts that education inequity will end and collaborating with partners such as Northern Trust in Malaysia who share our values and beliefs will help enable us to continue our work to evolve the education system.”

Northern Trust has provided global custody and related services to Malaysian clients, including key institutional investors, since 2009 and established a representative office in 2014.

Besides Malaysia, Northern Trust has a network of offices across the Asia Pacific including Beijing, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Pune, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. 

-- BERNAMA

NX MIDDLE EAST SECURES ISO 45001:2018 CERTIFICATION

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- Nippon Express (Middle East) L.L.C. (NX Middle East) has obtained the ISO 45001:2018 certification for its occupational health and safety management systems, effective June 29, 2022.

NX Middle East is a group company of Nippon Express Holdings Inc, according to a statement.

The ISO 45001:2018 certification enables NX Middle East to provide its employees with a safe and healthy work system and environment to reduce the risk of work-related industrial accidents.

The Nippon Express Group is endeavouring to obtain ISO certification out of a commitment to maintaining and improving the quality of its operations as a useful means of ensuring the group’s sustainable development and improving its performance to enhance customer satisfaction.

It also said it would continue to pursue business growth alongside its stakeholders based on its unchanging values of safety, compliance and quality and in accordance with its corporate philosophy of advancing society through logistics.

More details at https://www.nipponexpress.com/

-- BERNAMA

WHR GLOBAL ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT, CHRIS LAGERMAN

WHR also Promotes Tenured Employees to Director of Global Operations and Client Services Manager

MILWAUKEE, Aug 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHR Global, Inc. (WHR), a leader in the global employee relocation industry, announced that Chris Lagerman will be its new President, effective immediately. This promotion reflects Chris’ dedication to WHR and the global mobility industry. Over his 20-year tenure at WHR, Chris previously served as a Relocation Counselor, Client Services Manager and most recently, as Director of Global Operations (DO).

As DO, Chris guided a team of Client Services Managers throughout WHR’s offices in the US, Switzerland and Singapore. WHR helps some of the largest global organizations and has relocated tens of thousands of employees to over 100 countries worldwide. WHR specializes in providing each expatriate with a dedicated relocation team, white-glove service and 24/7 availability for their entire relocation journey. As a testament to Chris’ DO success, WHR only lost one corporate client in its 27-year history, which is a direct result of Chris’ passion for best-in-class service.

WHR CEO Roger Thrun believes Chris will continue to drive the success of WHR’s services and technology. “Chris has been instrumental to our growth in the last 20 years and will continue the velocity of our global expansion. I am very proud that he is part of WHR,” said Thrun.

"I'm honored and grateful for this opportunity and I look forward to driving WHR's further growth," said Lagerman.

Effective immediately, WHR also announced that Heather Hess has been promoted to Director of Global Operations, leading all Client Services Managers in the US, Switzerland and Singapore. WHR also announced that Peter Janotta has been promoted to Client Services Manager, effective immediately. Heather and Peter have been at WHR for 14 years each, embodying WHR’s service-oriented approach to global mobility and successfully managing relocation programs for Fortune 500 companies. 

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Mary Kay continues to support women’s empowerment at IWF Cornerstone Conference

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 (Bernama) -- Mary Kay Inc has continued its support of women’s entrepreneurship, empowerment and thought leadership as a sponsor for the 2022 International Women’s Forum (IWF) Cornerstone Conference.

According to a statement, the conference that took place on May 17-18 in Santiago, Chile, convened global decision makers who explored the most pressing challenges to progress on gender equality for the Latin American region.

For the first time ever, IWF commissioned groundbreaking research as part of its annual conference programming with funding by Mary Kay.

Conducted by the Latinobarómetro founded by Marta Lagos, this research, titled “Latin American Women: Democracy and Society from a Gender Perspective,” is the first-ever analysis of a quarter of a century (1995-2020) of public opinion and attitudes towards and by women on gender equality issues in 18 Latin American countries.

“Now, more than ever, the collection of gender data is crucial to inform advocacy and policy work. I am so pleased for Mary Kay to support this impressive compilation of research -- Latin American Women: Democracy and Society from a Gender Perspective.

“It is our collective and individual responsibility to learn from the experiences of women in Latin America and to use this data to keep pushing the needle to achieve gender equality in the region and around the world,” said chief operating officer at Mary Kay Inc, Deborah Gibbins.

Not only does this research reveal the most important changes in the opinions, attitudes, and behaviours of Latin American women over the last 25 years, but it also looks at the barriers to change.

-- BERNAMA

Street Cred Capital to distribute Synchronoss Personal Cloud offering

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- Synchronoss Technologies Inc (Synchronoss or the company), a global leader and innovator in cloud, messaging, digital products and platforms, has announced that Street Cred Capital has signed a letter of intent to become a distributor of the company’s value-added personal cloud solution.

Synchronoss’ personal cloud product provides a turn-key solution for companies seeking to integrate or bundle personal cloud as a value-added service.

President and chief executive officer of Synchronoss Jeff Miller said: “We have successfully expanded our Synchronoss Cloud solutions to serve the needs of global service providers, insurance companies, and retailers, and Street Cred would represent an exciting new market opportunity for our personal cloud platform.”

According to a statement, the financial company represents a unique market opportunity to resell Synchronoss’ personal cloud solution and expand the value of device financing.

Serving leading North American carriers, mobile virtual network operators and retailers, Street Cred Capital offers six lending product options for financing new devices and value-added solutions.

The Synchronoss solution enables Street Cred Capital to offer a personal cloud bundle at a discounted rate as part of every financed purchase.

This unique offer allows subscribers to back up, sync, and organise a broad range of digital files between devices and the cloud.

Through its mobile sales channel ecosystem, Street Cred Capital offers funding solutions to address nearly 32 million customers.

More details at www.synchronoss.com.

-- BERNAMA

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY AND GLOBAL PARTNERS HOLD SESSION ON IMPROVING PROTECTED MARINE AREAS AT UN OCEANS CONFERENCE WITH SUPPORT FROM MARY KAY INC.

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With less than 3% of the ocean effectively protected, stakeholders call for strengthening global efforts to protect at least 30% of our ocean with a focus on improving the management of existing areas, rather than promoting the establishment of new protection.


DALLAS, Aug 10 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The United Nations Ocean Conference 2022 took place from June 27 to July 1, in Lisbon, Portugal, and brought together more than 5,000 participants, including world leaders, entrepreneurs, youth, influencers, and scientists. The conference aimed to facilitate these stakeholders in finding science-driven innovations and solutions to respond to a multidimensional ocean crisis driven by climate change, overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution.

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The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with support from Mary Kay Inc., held an event in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Government of Ecuador, the Jocotoco Foundation, the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, Re:wild, and the Marine Conservation Institute.

TNC and UNEP moderated the event, highlighting the critical importance of ensuring quality Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) by enhancing governance, effective management, and climate resilience and the significant roles that communities, NGOs, governments, philanthropy, the private sector, and cross-sector collaborations play in effective MPAs.

The event stood out at the conference, as it emphasized the need to improve the management of existing areas, instead of promoting the establishment of new protection. As currently fewer than 3% of MPAs are effectively managed, the efficacy of these protective measures is essential to capitalize on their potential for both conservation and livelihoods.

Dr. Lizzie Mcleod of TNC noted, “Effective management is foundational to achieving 30x30 commitments—a campaign to protect 30 percent of the world's ocean by 2030. With support from Mary Kay, TNC, UNEP, and other partners, we are developing tools for marine managers to improve marine management, support sustainable financing, and guide marine habitat restoration. By leveraging innovation, new technologies, and global best practices, marine managers will be better able to tackle major threats facing our oceans.”

“MPAs are key to ocean health and sustainable development. But they are not always effective without a range of support. Decision support tools that enable improved MPA design and management, knowledge sharing, and collaboration are needed to give marine stakeholders the support they need to better protect the oceans,” said Ole Vestergaard, Programme Officer in the Marine, Coastal & Freshwater Ecosystems Branch of Division for Environmental Policy Implementation at UNEP.

“Mary Kay’s founder, Mary Kay Ash, believed that there are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened,” said Deborah Gibbins, Chief Operating Officer at Mary Kay. “We’re honored to join forces with the first type of people to develop the tools and resources needed to protect our oceans for generations to come.”

If we are to protect and restore ocean and coastal ecosystem services and revitalize ocean systems and secure our current livelihoods and humanity’s future, we must improve the effectiveness of marine protected areas in achieving their conservation and sustainability goals in parallel to accelerating MPA coverage.

About The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters, and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably, and helping make cities more sustainable. Working in 79 countries and territories, we use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit www.nature.org or follow @nature_press on Twitter.

About the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

UNEP is the leading global voice on the environment. It provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

About Mary Kay Inc.

One of the original glass ceiling breakers, Mary Kay Ash founded her dream beauty company in 1963 with one goal: enriching women’s lives. That dream has blossomed into a multibillion-dollar company with millions of independent sales force members in nearly 40 countries. As an entrepreneurship development company, Mary Kay is committed to empowering women on their journey through education, mentorship, advocacy, networking, and innovation. Mary Kay is dedicated to investing in the science behind beauty and manufacturing cutting-edge skincare, color cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and fragrances. Mary Kay believes in enriching lives today for a sustainable tomorrow, partnering with organizations from around the world focusing on promoting business excellence, supporting cancer research, advancing gender equality, protecting survivors of domestic abuse, beautifying our communities, and encouraging children to follow their dreams. Learn more at marykayglobal.com, find us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or follow us on Twitter.

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Contact

Mary Kay Inc.
Corporate Communications
marykay.com/newsroom
972.687.5332 or media@mkcorp.com

The Nature Conservancy
Misty Edgecomb
Communications Director
medgecomb@tnc.org or 484-343-3223

United Nations Environment Programme
Laura Darby
Communications and Project Management for Innovative Conservation
laura.darby1@un.org

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LILA MOVETECH SECURES RM2.5 MILLION FINANCING UNDER MDV-TACT FOR ITS USA EXPANSION

 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Bernama) --  Sportboleh Sdn. Bhd. (Sportboleh), owner of LILA® Movementechnology (LILA Movetech) brand of high-performance products, today announced its continued expansion into the global marketplace and the initiation of its USA omni-strategy growth plans for the lucrative USA and North American sport and fitness markets. 
 
Sportboleh’s growth plans will be supported by a RM2.5 million financing facility from Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad’s Technology Acceleration and Commercialisation Scheme (MDV-TACT). MDV is an agency under the purview of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and a subsidiary of the Minister of Finance (Incorporated) that provides financing for high-growth technology companies. 
 
The announcement was made during a signing ceremony between Sportboleh and MDV, held at Sportboleh’s office in Wisma OCM yesterday.
 
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, YB Dato’ Sri Dr. Adham bin Baba commented that as an agency under MOSTI, MDV, through its innovative and specialised financing facilities, is focused on assisting high-calibre technology companies and startups like Sportboleh to develop their technologies and products.
 
“LILA Movetech has the potential of being Malaysia’s first truly global sports brand. I am pleased that MDV is able to offer its expertise and assistance to Sportboleh to ensure that they are able to realise their aspirations at the global level and putting Malaysia’s own home-grown company at par with other successful sports technology companies around the world,” said YB Dato ’Sri Dr. Adham bin Baba.
 
LILA Movetech’s CEO and Founder, Joseph Dolcetti, a 35-year veteran of high performance sport training, shared that, “As a Canadian who spent almost a decade as a high performance consultant for National Sports Council of Malaysia, I knew that when I started the company here, one day, we would reach the juncture where we would be faced with the struggle of needing to get into the big markets of North America and Europe. Coming from Malaysia, that wouldn’t be easy. While I have watched Malaysia grow in leaps and bounds in both its sport culture and sport economy, Malaysia is still considered a small market and has slower adoption rate for new technologies compared to more mature sport cultures.”
 
He added, “Being home-strong is really important for us. We have already established strong local roots with key local partnerships including the National Sports Institute, Selangor FC, Ironman Malaysia and RC Triathlon Coaching. Sportboleh also has a local customer base that includes many of our international heroes as customers, including BAM, PARAlympics, Malaysia Diving, Malaysia Hockey and more. However, the next growth area lies in the big global ocean, and it is time to stamp our mark at a truly global level. In this regard, we are fortunate that Malaysia has always been very supportive of its start-ups and entrepreneurs, and has in place various enabling policies and programmes to assist them to scale up, such as the MDV-TACT offered by MDV.”
 
Dolcetti explained, that partnerships in the USA have already been established at the highest level of sport. These include STAR ATHLETICS out of Florida, who host a cohort of NIKE’s premiere speed demons including Sha'Carri Richardson (the fastest anchor leg in the history (9.69) of the World Athletics), Kenny Bednarek (World Champion of the World Athletics) and Twanisha Terry (World Gold Medalist of the World Athletics), as well as a research partnership already in place with the UFC Performance Institute, which is the largest combat sports brand and organisation in the world. With these, acceptance of LILA Movetech’s product solutions is growing at all levels. 
 
The first wave of Sportboleh’s expansion strategy will look to secure logistics and legal compliance, as required, followed by a focused Direct to Customer (DTC) strategy that will be supported by on-the-ground, live touch points, events and educational road shows. These latter activities will build a buzz around the effectiveness of its launch line, Exogen Wearable Resistance, and pave the way for its new technology, an AI wearable coaching system that compliments Exogen and promises to provide a fun and potentially gamechanging solution to solving movement problems in sport, health and fitness around the world. 
 
Commenting on the financing, MDV’s Chairman, Khairul Azwan Harun explained that the MDV-TACT programme was established specifically to promote the development and adoption of new technologies by helping technology-based companies like Sportboleh accelerate their growth and expand their brand locally and globally. 
 
“It is undoubtedly challenging for technology-based companies and start-ups to compete at the global market as it would require substantial resources and support not just from the company but from the technology and finance community as a whole. As a seasoned financier with more than 20 years of experience in financing the technology sector, MDV understands this requirement and is able to provide Sportboleh with specialised financing suited to the Company’s financing needs as a technology start-up. This is due to our track record of financing more than 50 technology start-ups under our pioneering Venture Debt/Finance programme in Malaysia, which was introduced back in 2018. In fact, we are looking to continue to expand our Venture Debt/Finance portfolio and are planning to organise the first ever KL Venture Finance Forum 2022 (KLVF Forum 2022), sometime in September this year, to generate more interest and awareness on Venture Debt/ Finance in Malaysia,” he said.
 
The future looks bright for this home-grown brand, which has every intention of proving Malaysia and Sport--boleh.  


Photo of Chairman, Encik Khairul Azwan Harun can be downloaded via this link: Khairul Azwan Harun

SOURCE : Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad

TDK hosts 4th Rising Stars Clinic at WCH Oregon22

 

Sinclaire Johnson, Valerie Adams, Trey Cunningham, and Ashton Eaton (from left) with their students on the TDK Rising Stars Clinic at WCH Oregon22. (Photo: Business Wire) 

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- Japan’s TDK Corporation, the world leader in electronic solutions for the smart society, has presented the fourth installment of its Rising Stars Clinic (RSC). 

This is part of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (WCH Oregon22), which was held on July 15–24 at the University of Oregon Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

RSC is “a unique initiative that gives aspiring young athletes the opportunity to train with and learn from, leading track and field competitors past and present,” it said in a statement.

According to the statement, the session was led by two current US athletes, namely WCH Oregon22 men’s 110m hurdles silver medalist Trey Cunningham and Sinclaire Johnson, the women’s 1,500m gold medalist at the 2022 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Two retired legends-turned RSC ambassadors also joined the session, namely Ashton Eaton (USA) - two-time men’s decathlon gold medalist at the Summer Olympics, and Valerie Adams (New Zealand), the four-time world and two-time Olympic champion in women’s shot put.

These elite sportspeople put 16 young participants from local athletics clubs through their paces, offering first-hand instruction on everything from warm-up exercises and stretches to running techniques.

The day’s activities culminated in a 4x100m relay on the main track at the renowned Hayward Field, preceded by a behind-the-scenes tour that gave an authentic taste of the different stages that athletes go through on race day, including a spike check in the call room and team entrances accompanied by introductions from the stadium announcer.

And just like top athletes, the experience was completed with post-race interviews in the stadium’s mixed zone.

-- BERNAMA

SUZHOU PROMOTES GREEN, SMOOTH INDUSTRIAL AND SUPPLY CHAINS WITH DIGITAL ECONOMY

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SUZHOU, China, Aug. 4, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

ASEAN Plus Three (10+3) Forum on Industrial Chain and Supply Chain Cooperation kicked off in Suzhou on Friday, its sub-forum on digital economy under the spotlight. Suzhou, as a global industrial city advantageous in the open economy, shared new ways to promote digital infrastructure construction, innovative application of digital technologies and green development of industrial chain and supply chain in the region, according to the Organizing Committee of ASEAN Plus Three Forum.
 
Suzhou boasts a sound industrial ecosystem and business environment. In recent years, the city has been making active efforts to promote the development of the digital economy, digital transformation, green and quality development by strengthening digital thinking and the philosophy of green development. In 2021, the value added of core industries in the digital economy hit 330 billion yuan ($48.84billion), accounting for 14.6% of the city’s GDP. More than 10,000 projects have completed intelligent transformation and digital reforming. Meanwhile, information technology, biomedicine and other pioneering industries have been actively laid out.
 
Three production bases of Panasonic in China have achieved net-zero emissions through digital transformation and green development, according to Zhao Bingdi, director and president of Panasonic China investing and building factories in Suzhou for many years. By 2050, Panasonic can reduce 110 million tons of CO2 emissions.
 
Suzhou is the hub for Japanese and South Korean investment in China. It is home to 2,794 companies funded by ASEAN member states, 2,987 Japan-invested companies and 2,452 ROK-invested companies, with their direct investment for actual use reaching $15.01 billion, $13.71 billion, and $5.93 billion respectively.
 
Suzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission said in a five-year development plan for the city that it will continue to implement the strategy of digital transformation to build Suzhou into a first-class, globally renowned hub for the development of the digital economy in China.
 
Source: The Organizing Committee of ASEAN Plus Three Forum
 
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AOP HEALTH INKS AGREEMENT WITH LEUKOS BIOTECH FOR LEUKEMIA TREATMENT

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 (Bernama) -- European pioneer for integrated therapies for rare diseases and in critical care, the AOP Health Group has signed an agreement with Leukos Biotech, a spin-off company founded by the Barcelona-based Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute in early July.

The agreement signed covers the option for the development of newly discovered chemical substance within any treatable indication, not limited to oncological or rare diseases, according to a statement.

At first, AOP Health will focus on the development of treatment options for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). Both are special disease types of leukemia that often start in the bone marrow.

Chief business officer of AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals GmbH, a member of AOP Health, Agnes Kohl said: “Based on positive data, our plan is to expand the development for further orphan indications even outside of AML and MDS at a later stage.

“With this agreement, we may be able to broaden the portfolio within our therapeutic areas offering even more treatment options for patients.”

As AOP Health focuses on rare, hemato-oncological cancers and has many years of experience in the development and commercialisation of hemato-oncological treatments, the company will drive the further development of the substance in cooperation with Leukos based on a new mode of action.

The company focuses on research, development and global sales of innovative treatment solutions and specialises in therapies for rare diseases and intensive care.

-- BERNAMA