Day: October 28, 2022

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LaPresse: Paola Severino says “It is possible to prosecute alleged war crimes in Ukraine if proven”

NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LaPresse interviews Professor Paola Severino, former Italian minister of Justice (2011-2013). Severino said Thursday in New York that prosecuting alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian troops in Ukraine is possible if evidence is carefully collected, underlining that it is always important to acquire possible witnesses for testimony in such cases.

Speaking to Italian news agency LaPresse on the margins of her lecture to New York University students, Severino, who served under Mario Monti Government, stated that since the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was requested to gather proofs for these alleged crimes is ‘very important’, seeing in this a signal of the existence of some elements to be collected about war crimes.

According to the prominent Italian attorney, it is also a signal that there is a will to prosecute these crimes not only by the Ukrainian people but also by the international community. Ukraine authorities will be able to conduct these investigations and to start with criminal proceedings, she added.

It is true that Ukraine has not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, but it asked to be protected by this kind of jurisdiction, she said, noting that the possibility for the ICC to prosecute these crimes cannot be ruled out.

Recalling the case of Erich Priebke, the former nazi officer sentenced to life in Italy in the 1990’s for war crimes committed during WWII, which has proven once again that war crimes and crimes against humanity do not expire, Severino underscored that the memory of war crimes is always present even in the minds of young people.

She said that Priebke’s case occurred 50 years after the tragedy happened and interrogating witnesses made it seem as if it happened yesterday, adding that the memory stays alive when you commit war crimes. ‘I think it would be the same in the Ukraine war’.

For more information:

LaPresse SpA Communication and Press Office Director
Barbara Sanicola – barbara.sanicola@lapresse.it

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OKX is coming to Hong Kong Fintech Week 2022

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OKX, the world-leading cryptocurrency exchange, is coming to the world’s first cross-border FinTech event, Hong Kong Fintech Week. OKX is a Diamond Sponsor for the event.

Taking place from October 31 to November 4 at the Wanchai Expo Center, Hong Kong Fintech Week is Asia’s global financial technology event, and attracts thousands of fintech entrepreneurs, investors, regulators and visionaries from over 60 economies. The week-long event will feature multi-track conferences with prominent speakers, the FintechHK Global Final, the Fast Track Programme, exhibitions, deal floors, networking events and demo shows.

Two OKX representatives will speak at the event. On November 1 in a closing fireside presentation, Director of Financial Markets Lennix Lai will deliver a presentation entitled ‘What Hong Kong Should Do to Become the Hub of Virtual Assets in the Future’. Also on November 1, Vice President of Engineering Jerry Le will speak in a panel session on the Web 3 Stage. The name of the panel session is ‘The Role of Crypto in a Fiat World’.

Lennix Lai, Director of Financial Markets, OKX, said, “Hong Kong is a market that has always offered some of the very best tech and finance talent, and that has given rise to some of the most exciting crypto projects. We are very excited to both be participating in this leading global conference, and to see the steps that Hong Kong takes going forward to further provide an environment that is conducive to innovation in the space.”

As part of OKX’s goal to build the world’s most beloved crypto brand, the company is executing on an impactful calendar of events that will help deepen its relationships with a broad range of users and industry contributors.

For more information on OKX, please visit OKX.com.

To find out more on Hong Kong Fintech Week, check out www.fintechweek.hk.

For further information, please contact:
Media@okx.com

About OKX
OKX is the second biggest global crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading web3 ecosystem. Trusted by more than 20 million global customers, OKX is known for being the fastest and most reliable crypto trading app for investors and professional traders everywhere.

As a top partner of English Premier League champions Manchester City F.C., McLaren Formula 1, golfer Ian Poulter, Olympian Scotty James, and F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo, OKX aims to supercharge the fan experience with new financial and engagement opportunities. OKX is also the top partner of the Tribeca Festival as part of an initiative to bring more creators into web3.

Beyond OKX’s exchange, the OKX Wallet is the platform’s latest offering for people looking to explore the world of NFTs and the metaverse while trading GameFi and DeFi tokens.

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OKX Blockdream Ventures Signs MoU with City of Busan to Build Blockchain Industry

Blockdream Ventures

Blockdream Ventures

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OKX Blockdream Ventures, the investment arm of the leading global cryptocurrency trading platform OKX, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the City of Busan in South Korea.

As part of the agreement, the City of Busan will encourage investors to increase their investments in the Busan blockchain sector. In addition, the City of Busan will supply the necessary resources to attract large amounts of foreign capital for blockchain sector development.

OKX Blockdream Ventures plans to help develop Busan City’s blockchain sector in several ways by:

  • Contributing to the development of the blockchain industry in Busan in many ways such as increasing efforts to recruit excellent local talent and attract global talent.
  • Utilizing local capabilities and resources to the fullest.
  • Providing media and marketing solutions to develop the blockchain sector in Busan.

Dora Yue, Founder, OKX Blockdream Ventures, said, “This partnership with the City of Busan is an important step for OKX Blockdream Ventures. Through our industry-leading position, we hope to invest in promising and innovative blockchain projects in South Korea and actively promote the developments of the local blockchain industry.”

Heong-Joon Park, Mayor of Busan, said, “We welcome VCs onboard in Busan and are expecting much from our future collaboration. We appreciate you actively participating in building Busan’s blockchain ecosystem. Together, we will help to make Busan a blockchain-specialized city.”

For further information, please contact:
Media@okx.com

About OKX Blockdream Ventures
OKX Blockdream Ventures is an investment institution under the worldwide top trading platform OKX. It focuses on exploring the best blockchain projects on a global scale, supporting the most cutting-edge blockchain technology innovation, promoting the healthy development of the global blockchain industry, and investing in long-term structural value.

OKX Blockdream Ventures is also committed to helping entrepreneurs who contribute to the development of the blockchain industry build great companies and bring global resources and historical experience to blockchain projects. The initial capital of OKX Blockdream Ventures is USD 100 million.

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YouTube to Help Users Make Informed Health Care Decisions

YouTube announced Thursday it wants to help people make informed health care decisions by allowing more medical sources to share videos on its platform.

“At YouTube, we’re working to make it easier for people to find authoritative information to help answer their questions, and we’re putting health professionals at the core of our efforts to connect people with helpful content,” the company said on its website.

Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals can now apply to have their video channels certified to participate in You Tube’s health features, something that, until now, has only been available to educational institutions, public health departments, hospitals and government entities.

“The reality is that the majority of healthcare decisions are made outside the doctor’s office, in the everyday lives of our patients,” YouTube said. “That’s why YouTube Health has been working on additional ways to help doctors, nurses, mental health professionals and health care information providers to bring high quality health information into the spaces that people visit throughout their day – like their favorite video-sharing app.

“This new step will allow us to expand to include high quality information from a wider group of health care channels,” the company said.

YouTube has been criticized in the past for being home to some misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines but has since banned the misleading information.

 

 

Source: Voice of America

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Study: Heat Waves Cost Poor Countries the Most, Exacerbating Inequality

Heat waves, intensified by climate change, have cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the past 30 years, a study published Friday found, with poor countries paying the steepest price.

And those lopsided economic effects contribute to widening inequalities around the world, according to the research.

“The cost of extreme heat from climate change so far has been disproportionately borne by the countries and regions least culpable for global warming,” Dartmouth College professor Justin Mankin, one of the authors of the study published in the journal Science Advances, told AFP. “And that’s an insane tragedy.”

“Climate change is playing out on a landscape of economic inequality, and it is acting to amplify that inequality,” he said.

Periods of extreme heat cost the global economy about $16 trillion between 1992 and 2013, the study calculated.

But while the richest countries have lost about 1.5% of their annual per capita GDPs dealing with heat waves, poorer countries have lost about 6.7% of their annual per capita GDPs.

The reason for that disparity is simple: poor countries are often situated closer to the tropics, where temperatures are warmer anyway. During heat waves, they become even hotter.

The study comes just days ahead of the start of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, where the question of compensation for countries that are disproportionately vulnerable to but least responsible for climate change is expected to be one of the key topics.

The costs of heat waves come from several factors: effects on agriculture, strains on health systems, less productive workforces and physical damage to infrastructure, such as melting roads.

Study researchers examined five days of weather considered extreme for a specific region each year.

“The general idea is to use variation in extreme heat, which is effectively randomly assigned to all these economic regions and see the extent to which that accounts for variation in economic growth” in a given region, Mankin explained.

“Then the second part is to say, ‘OK, how has human-caused warming influenced extreme heat?'” he added.

Despite these calculations, the study results almost certainly underestimate the true cost of extreme heat, according to the paper — only studying five days per year does not reflect the increased frequency of such heat events, and not all potential costs were included.

Previous studies on the subject had focused on the costs of heat to specific sectors, though scientists say it is important to look at the price tag of climate change wholistically.

“You want to know what those costs are, so that you have a frame of reference against which to compare the cost of action,” Mankin said, such as establishing cooling centers or installing air conditioners, versus “the cost of inaction.”

“The dividends economically of responding to the five hottest days of the year could be quite great,” he said.

But according to Mankin, the most important response is to reduce carbon emissions to slow global warming at the source.

“We need to adapt to the climate we have now, and we also need to deeply invest in mitigation,” he said.

 

 

Source: Voice of America

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Azerbaijani currency rates for October 28

BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 28. The official exchange rate of the US dollar and euro against Azerbaijani manat as of October 28, 2022 is set at 1.7 and 1.6977 manat, respectively, Trend reports via Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA).

According to CBA, the manat rate to other currencies on October 28 is as follows:

Currencies Official exchange rate
1 US dollar USD 1.7
1 Euro EUR 1.6977
1 Australian dollar AUD 1.0998
1 Argentine peso ARS 0.0109
1 Belarus ruble BYN 0.6714
1 Brazil real BRL 0.3182
1 UAE dirham AED 0.4628
1 South African rand ZAR 0.0947
100 South Korean won KRW 0.1198
1 Czech koruna CZK 0.0693
1 Chilean peso CLP 0.1808
1 Chinese yuan CNY 0.2352
1 Danish krone DKK 0.2282
1 Georgian lari GEL 0.6131
1 Hong Kong dollar HKD 0.2166
1 Indian rupee INR 0.0206
1 British pound GBP 1.9671
100 Indonesian rupiah IDR 0.0109
100 Iranian rials IRR 0.004
1 Swedish krona SEK 0.1553
1 Swiss franc CHF 1.7186
1 Israeli shekel ILS 0.4831
1 Canadian dollar CAD 1.2559
1 Kuwaiti dinar KWD 5.4913
1 Kazakh tenge KZT 0.0036
1 Kyrgyz som KGS 0.0206
100 Lebanese pound LBP 0.1123
1 Malaysian ringgit MYR 0.3601
1 Mexican peso MXN 0.0857
1 Moldovan leu MDL 0.0881
1 Egyptian pound EGP 0.0736
1 Norwegian krone NOK 0.1657
100 Uzbek soum UZS 0.0152
1 Polish zloty PLN 0.3595
1 Russian ruble RUB 0.0272
1 Singapore dollar SGD 1.208
1 Saudi riyal SAR 0.4524
1 SDR (Special Drawing Rights of IMF) XDR 2.1937
1 Turkish lira TRY 0.0914
1 Taiwan dollar TWD 0.0529
1 Tajik somoni TJS 0.1577
1 New Turkmen manat TMT 0.4857
1 Ukrainian hryvna UAH 0.0462
100 Japanese yen JPY 1.1626
1 New Zealand dollar NZD 0.9965

 

 

Source: TREND News Agency

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Cong Thanh Nguyen ได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้เป็นผู้จัดการฝ่ายพัฒนาธุรกิจเวียดนามสำหรับ Nikkiso Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group

เตเมคูลา แคลิฟอร์เนีย, Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — กลุ่มพลังงานสะอาดและก๊าซอุตสาหกรรมของ Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries (“กลุ่มบริษัท”) ซึ่งเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของกลุ่มบริษัท Nikkiso Co., Ltd (ประเทศญี่ปุ่น) มีความยินดีที่จะประกาศว่า Cong Thanh Nguyen ได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้เป็นผู้จัดการฝ่ายพัฒนาธุรกิจสำหรับตลาดอุปกรณ์และโซลูชันการแช่เยือกแข็งโดยการใช้สารไครโอเจน ซึ่งให้บริการในเวียดนาม

Cong จะทำงานที่เมืองฮานอย ประเทศเวียดนาม โดยเขาจะเป็นแนวหน้าในธุรกิจก๊าซอุตสาหกรรมและ LNG ที่กำลังเติบโตในภูมิภาค โดยให้บริการโซลูชันจากสายผลิตภัณฑ์อุตสาหกรรมของเรา อีกทั้งมอบการให้บริการและการสนับสนุนในท้องถิ่นอันยอดเยี่ยม เขาจะรับผิดชอบในการขยายการรับรู้แบรนด์ของกลุ่มไปยังลูกค้าในท้องถิ่นที่หลากหลาย นอกจากนี้ การดำเนินการนี้จะทำให้สายธุรกิจหลักสามสายของ Nikkiso ในเวียดนามเสร็จสมบูรณ์ นอกเหนือจากธุรกิจการบินอวกาศและการแพทย์

Cong เคยดำรงตำแหน่งผู้จัดการฝ่ายพัฒนาธุรกิจของ Vietnam Industrial Gas ความรับผิดชอบของเขาได้แก่การร่วมมือกับแผนกต่าง ๆ จำนวนมากเพื่อพัฒนาและใช้กลยุทธ์การปรับปรุง เขาสำเร็จการศึกษาระดับปริญญาโทด้านศิลปศาสตร์สาขาธุรกิจระหว่างประเทศจาก University of Greenwich ประเทศอังกฤษ (วิทยาเขตสิงคโปร์)

“ประสบการณ์ในอุตสาหกรรมและธุรกิจระหว่างประเทศของคุณ Cong ผนวกกับความรู้ของเขาเกี่ยวกับตลาดท้องถิ่นจะเป็นประโยชน์อย่างยิ่งในระหว่างที่เราทำงานเพื่อพัฒนาโอกาสในภูมิภาคนี้ครับ” Tim Born รองประธานประจำภูมิภาคเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้กล่าว

นอกจากนี้ Nikkiso ก็ยังคงมุ่งมั่นที่จะให้การสนับสนุนโดยตรงและแสดงตัวตนให้เป็นที่ประจักษ์แก่ลูกค้า ทั้งในระดับสากลและระดับท้องถิ่นต่อไป

เกี่ยวกับบริษัท CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
กลุ่มบริษัท Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (ปัจจุบันเป็นบริษัทในเครือของบริษัท Nikkiso Co., Ltd.) ผลิตและให้บริการอุปกรณ์เชิงวิศวกรรมสำหรับการแยกก๊าซด้วยความเย็นยิ่งยวด (เช่น ปั๊ม เทอร์โบเอกซ์เพนเดอร์ เครื่องแลกเปลี่ยนความร้อน เป็นต้น) และโรงแปรรูปสำหรับก๊าซอุตสาหกรรม (Industrial Gases), ก๊าซธรรมชาติเหลว (Natural Gas Liquefaction) (LNG), กระบวนการผลิตไฮโดรเจนเหลว (Hydrogen Liquefaction) (LH2) และ วัฎจักรแร็งคินสารอินทรีย์เพื่อการนำความร้อนทิ้งกลับมาใช้ใหม่ (Organic Rankine Cycle for Waste Heat Recovery) บริษัท Cryogenic Industries ซึ่งได้ก่อตั้งขึ้นมากว่า 50 ปีนั้นเป็นบริษัทแม่ของบริษัท ACD, Nikkiso Cryo, Nikkiso Integrated Cryogenic Solutions, Cosmodyne และ Cryoquip พร้อมทั้งกิจการธุรกิจที่อยู่ภายใต้การดูแลควบคุมจำนวนประมาณ 20 กิจการ

สำหรับข้อมูลเพิ่มเติม โปรดไปยังเว็บไซต์ www.nikkisoCEIG.com และ www.nikkiso.com.

สำหรับการติดต่อด้านสื่อ:
Anna Quigley
+1.951.383.3314
aquigley@cryoind.com

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Desygner Launches ‘Workation’ With Global Hackathon in Bali to Spark Innovation

Desygner – a fast-growing martech solution – is hosting a fully sponsored global hackathon in Bali to kickstart a series of company-sponsored “workations” in some of the most sought-after destinations across the world for digital nomads. First in the series, the hackathon is set to go live from 31 Oct. 2022 until 11 Nov. 2022 at Munno Villas resort in Canggu, Bali, and is open to the public, including digital nomads and outstanding students. Participants will receive free accommodation, food, and activities during the hackathon.

Desygner Team

Desygner Team

GOLD COAST, Australia, Oct. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Imagine a world where a company books an amazing destination for their employees and pays to experience life as a digital nomad in Bali. At Desygner – a fast-growing martech solution – this is a way of work-life – distinct from the usual company offsite. With its digital workforce of over 100+ employees spread across the world, Desygner seeks to set a new status quo for innovation and talent acquisition by organising a series of company-sponsored “workations” in the most sought destinations around the world for digital nomads.

The Australian company today announced a 12-day global hackathon set to go live on the 31st of October 2022 until the 11th of November 2022 at Canggu in Bali, which is open for digital nomads and outstanding students in addition to the global Desygner Team, who are already heading towards their dream destination.

The hackathon is all-inclusive of accommodation, meals and entertainment provided to all participants. The event is an opportunity for talented Developers, DevOps, QA professionals, marketers, designers and sales professionals to work with the Desygner team and get hired for open positions in Bali, London, and the company HQ in Gold Coast, Australia (sponsoring remote applicants).

The main objective of the initiative is to benchmark Desygner as a brand that attracts the best talent around the world and to bring innovation to remote working, steering away from the traditional notion of work being physically tied to offices or company headquarters. The company, which is growing at a fast pace, believes that the right mix of work and play can spark innovation for creating “the awesome factor”, which is a thriving culture at Desygner.

Post-pandemic, as most organisations are experimenting with hybrid and remote working models, Desygner stands to lead by example in creating better work-life experiences to attract and retain talented staff to tackle global talent crisis as they grow.

Spearheading the workation, CEO of Desygner, Alex Rich, who envisions exceptional work culture for his staff by creating unique working environments a couple of times a year in beautiful locations worldwide said, “Instead of just investing in traditional startup slacks and ping-pong tables in the office, we are going one step further and investing in places people want to work from, in dream locations“.

“When you have a software company like Desygner with over 3 million lines of code and 30+ million users, you tend to focus on the bigger strategic projects, and smaller projects get missed. Therefore, the hackathon strategy pushes us to be more innovative than the larger companies to excel,” he says.

Speaking about the idea of a hackathon in Bali, Daniel de Byl, who is a QA Automation Developer at Desygner, said, “I love working at the office, but the workation in Bali is next level. I am super excited to be part of an event like this and work with colleagues from around the world face-to-face. It’s an experience to treasure for a lifetime.”

Interested participants can email their CV to balihackathon@desygner.com.

Contact Information:
Rajeshwari Channakrishna
PR & Communication
raj@desygner.com
+44 7440720172

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