Day: September 22, 2022

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DEA at Tokyo Game Show 2022, Paving a Way to a National Strategy

Mr. Daisuke Asano, Director of the Web 3.0 Policy Promotion Office, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and Mr. Masaaki Taira, a member of the House of Representatives (Chairperson of the Web3 Project Team (PT) of the Liberal Democratic Party), visited the booth.

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Digital Entertainment Asset Pte. Ltd. (DEA), a Singapore-based global GameFi company, has exhibited a Web3 Entertainment experience booth at the Tokyo Game Show 2022 (TGS 2022) held at Makuhari Messe in Tokyo for four days from Sept. 15 to 18, 2022.

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On TGS Business Days (Sept. 15 and 16), the booth was visited by Daisuke Asano, Director of the Web 3.0 Policy Promotion Office, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI); Masaaki Taira, a member of the House of Representatives from the governing party (LDP), a Chairperson of LDP Web3 Project Team, Director General of Information Research Bureau and Director General of Internet Media Bureau; Taisuke Ono, a member of the House of Representatives from the opposition party (the Japan Innovation Party), former vice governor of Kumamoto Prefecture and a candidate for the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election; and Yuichi Mayam, a former member of the House of Councilors from the opposition party (the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan) and a former news anchor and a chairperson of the news commentary for NTV, to observe the event. This symbolizes the recognition by key people for Web3 policy within the national strategy both in the national government and the governing and opposition parties.

Also, DEA held business seminars together with Genki Oda, Representative Director and CEO of Remixpoint Inc. and Representative Director of Bitpoint Japan Inc., and Hiroyuki Ono, CEO of ACAFP (ACA Football Partners) and Vice Chairman of the Board of KMSK Deinze, a member of the Belgian Professional Football League 2nd Division.

This was the first time for DEA to exhibit at an offline booth, holding a variety of events, including test-playing of the latest NFT games, distribution of original NFTs commemorating the TGS 2022 exhibit, a giant raffle with NFTs as prizes, and user-participatory stage events. And on public days (Sept. 17 and 18), the booth was filled with a large number of interested visitors.

DEA will continue to challenge various possibilities from its base in Singapore, aiming to be the World’s No.1 in Web3 Entertainment business and to lead the world’s GameFi companies.

Comment from Kozo Yamada, Founder & Co-CEO, DEA:

“TGS 2022, the first offline TGS in three years, was a bustling and very lively event, and it was also an epoch-making event in the history of Japanese gaming in that for the first time ever, there were multiple booths of NFT games.

“We are once again sobered by PlayMining’s responsibility to lead the global NFT game as a Japanese-owned project. PlayMining will launch five new games this year. We are aiming for mass adoption as a ‘Play to Earn game that you can actually hold in your hands’ and will also passionately convey to everyone the ‘essence of NFT games’ and ‘potential of Play to Earn’, which are still lacking in discussion and understanding around the world.”

Digital Entertainment Asset Pte. Ltd. | https://dea.sg

DEA, a global GameFi and meta verse platform business, was founded in Singapore in August 2018 and is developing “JobTribes”, a Play to Earn game, “PlayMining NFT”, an NFT marketplace and “PlayMining Verse”, a meta verse project. As a leading Web3 Entertainment company in the world of “GameFi2.0”, focusing on the entertainment experience, we aim to realize a world where “enjoyment turns into value” by utilizing blockchain technology.

Co-CEO: Naohito Yoshida, Kozo Yamada
Location: 7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower,#05-01,Singapore 018936
Establishment: August 2018
Business description: GameFi platform business

Contact Information:
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Digital Entertainment Asset Pte Ltd Public Relation
tomoyuki_takasugi@dea.sg

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Soon-to-be-released Chinese rights lawyer could face months of further restrictions

Concerns are growing that a prominent Chinese rights lawyer — due to be released at the end of a seven-year jail term for subversion — will instead be placed under house arrest ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress next month.

Zhou Shifeng, 57, was the director of the now-shuttered Beijing Fengrui law firm, which took on sensitive political cases, defending dissidents, the banned and persecuted Falun Gong spiritual sect and others who challenged the authorities.

The firm was the main target of a nationwide crackdown that saw more than 300 human rights lawyers and associates detained beginning on the night of July 9, 2015.

Zhou is scheduled for release from the Tianjin No. 1 Prison, but a date has yet to be confirmed with the family, a person close to the family told RFA on Thursday.

“The prison notified Zhou Shifeng’s younger brother in their hometown of Anyang, Henan around the end of August, beginning of September, that he should get ready to pick him up [from prison] in late September,” the person said.

“It was very mysterious, because they refused to disclose the actual date, but said they would call in advance when the time came [to release Zhou],” the person said. “According to my calculations, it should be Sept. 24.”

At Zhou’s 2016 trial, the prosecution alleged that the lawyer had been influenced by “anti-China forces over a long period of time,” which allegedly gave him the idea to “overthrow” China’s current political system.

It accused him of “gathering in public to cause trouble, attacking China’s legal system, and using public opinion to incite hatred of the government among people who didn’t know any better.”

‘Conspiring to subvert state power’

Zhou, alongside fellow rights activists Hu Shigen, Zhai Yanmin, and rights lawyer Li Heping, was also accused of “conspiring to subvert state power” and “seriously endangering national security and social stability,”

He pleaded guilty at the trial and was handed a seven-year jail term for “subversion of state power,” as well as five years’ deprivation of political rights following release.

Zhou’s associate said the lawyer will likely be forcibly returned to his hometown in Henan after his “release” from prison.

“During the [five years] when he is deprived of his political rights, state security police will still be in frequent contact with him, and even have him under restrictions or surveillance,” the person said.

“If he tries to travel, he will be under very tight restrictions … and they will prevent him from being in any contact with the outside world,” they said, adding that the strict house arrest now being imposed on released political prisoners is against even China’s laws.

Zhou’s jail term was likely shortened by his willingness to plead guilty, but his “crime” was to hire outspoken and fearless defense attorneys like Wang Yu and Wang Quanzhang, the person said.

“That’s why the government clamped down heavily on Fengrui.”

Time of tightening controls

Zhou’s release comes at a time when police across China are tightening controls on dissidents and critics of the CCP ahead of the CCP’s 20th National Congress, which opens in Beijing on Oct. 16.

Dissidents and rights activists have been informed they are to leave Beijing under police escort in the next few days, with similar measures reported in Tianjin, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.

“[Zhou] will be subject to very strict controls for at least the next six months, with people following him, and no contact with the outside world,” Zhou’s associate said.

U.S.-based legal scholar Teng Biao said Zhou was “very enthusiastic” about public interest lawyering, and supported his colleagues both morally and financially.

“His law firm became an important platform for rights lawyers and the rights protection movement,” Teng said. “In the eyes of the authorities, he was a core figure in that movement, judging from the sentence he received.”

“His long jail sentence was an affirmation of his work … we all regard this sentence as a badge of honor conferred on him by the CCP,” he said.

Zhou started practicing law in 1995. In 2008, he sued the Sanlu Group on behalf of the victims of the melamine infant formula scandal.

Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.

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Artemest Launches a Curated Art Category Featuring Italian Contemporary Artists

Starting from Sept. 22, Artemest will collaborate with a selection of Italian artists to offer a unique showcase of art pieces as part of its assortment.

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MILAN, Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Artemest, the leading online marketplace for handmade Italian contemporary design, introduces Art as a new product category. Starting from Sept. 22, Artemest will collaborate with a selection of Italian artists to offer a unique showcase of art pieces as part of its assortment.

Artemest ventures into the art world with the mission to attract the finest independent contemporary artists throughout all of Italy and give them International visibility by celebrating their artistic vision and work.

The Art section has been carefully curated by a team of experts, starting from the meticulous and passionate exploration of relevant Italian artists – most of which have already been honored with prestigious international awards. Artemest Art category features six different sub-sections: paintings, photography, sculptures & statues, tapestry and decorative art.

The stories behind each artist are key to Artemest; on a brand-new editorial series called The Studio Visit, visitors will be guided on an exploration trip through the artists’ workshops. A unique occasion to dive into the authentic artist environment and discover their point of view and the secrets behind existing and future artworks.

Moreover, in a crossroad between design and art, visitors can explore Design Shots, a new series dedicated to the world of design, seen through the lens of a camera. An authentic celebration of the everlasting bond between photography and design, in which the object becomes the subject and develops a brand-new meaning.

The art category will be available on Artemest website starting from Sept. 22, 2022.

Images available for download here.

Artemest 
Artemest, the leading online marketplace for handmade Italian contemporary design, was founded in 2015 by jewelry designer Ippolita Rostagno and Marco Credendino. Established to celebrate Italian craftsmanship, Artemest offers the unique opportunity to shop contemporary design in the categories of furniture, home décor, lighting and lifestyle. The selection of over 60,000 products is handmade by over 1,400 of the most representative Italian artisans and designers. Today, Artemest is headquartered in Milan, Italy. The company ships to more than 70 countries worldwide.

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Unify People, Process, and Performance at Accruent Insights 2022

Accruent’s annual conference to highlight the latest industry trends, share best practices and deliver skills training for facilities, asset, and workplace management professionals

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Accruent, the world’s leading provider of software solutions for unifying the built environment, will be hosting its annual Insights conference as a virtual event on October 5-6, 2022. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with their peers and leading industry and product experts, expand their industry and Accruent product knowledge, and hear inspiring customer success stories. These deep learnings and actionable insights will help attendees enhance their skillsets and expertise to help their organizations unify their people, processes, and performance.

The Accruent Insights conference is slated to be a highly interactive, collaborative, and engaging event. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of experts, share their experiences, and discuss their business needs and challenges. Attendee input will also help shape Accruent’s product strategy and development for the future.

Insights will offer more than 30 sessions connecting industry, workplace, asset management trends, customer perspectives, and Accruent solution deep-dives. Accruent Insights attendees represent a broad range of industries, including corporate real estate, education facilities, healthcare, manufacturing, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, public sector, retail, telecom, utilities, and more. Key presentations include:

  • Predictive Maintenance, Industry 4.0 & Sensor Data. Learn how to sift through data to locate the most valuable information to leverage predictive asset maintenance and reduce downtime and costs.
  • That Document Isn’t Right — The Risks of Untrustworthy Documentation. Find out how to ensure accurate and up-to-date facility and equipment documentation and stop making decisions based on tribal knowledge, hunches, and outdated documentation.
  • Asset Performance Management: The Next Frontier in Asset Management. See how a new generation of digital twins in operations supports asset performance management (APM) — an approach for managing assets that prioritize business objectives in addition to the traditional reliability, sustainability, and safety goals.
  • Smart Workplace — Emerging Trends. Transform how your people and spaces work together by looking at intelligent workplace trends now and in the future.
  • Cybersecurity and Cloud Growth. See why the future of cybersecurity is in the Cloud and how you can start taking advantage now.

The event’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Shawn DuBravac — a futurist, leading authority on technology, economics, and finance, and author of the best-selling book Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate. Dr. DuBravac will share insights on the societal and technological forces shaping today and the future to help attendees keep pace with the changes and continue to deliver value to their organizations.

Please visit the Insights 2022 event registration web page to register for this upcoming event.

About Accruent 
Accruent is the world’s leading provider of software for unifying the built environment, with solutions spanning workplace management, asset management, and physical and digital applications. Accruent continues to set new expectations for how organizations use data to transform the way they manage their facilities and assets. With headquarters in Austin, TX, and Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Accruent serves over 10,000 customers in a wide range of industries in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Contact: Barbara Ellis | Barbara.ellis@accruent.com

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Teledyne announces next generation 5GigE area scan camera platform

New Vizor camera platform brings together Teledyne’s vision expertise and customer knowledge in a new camera family

Vizor 5GigE Area Scan Platform

New Vizor 5GigE Area Scan Machine Vision Camera

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Teledyne FLIR is pleased to announce the Vizor 5GigE area scan camera family for machine vision. Constructed on an all-new modern platform, Vizor is designed to provide the richest combination of advanced imaging features in the industry and is engineered to handle the most complex vision system challenges both now and into the future.

Available in Q4, the first models extend the Genie Nano 5GigE sensor offering by integrating 5 to 24 MP Sony Pregius Gen 4 Global Shutter CMOS sensors. In addition to supporting link speeds of 1, 2.5, and 5GigE, Vizor offers burst mode to capture images at speeds up to 10Gb/s into memory. This, combined with a 500 MB image buffer, allows engineers to rapidly capture information in bursts for high-speed applications. It’s Trigger-to-Image Reliability (T2IR) framework giving engineers tools to develop reliable and robust systems faster.

Designed to simplify OEM integration, the Vizor feature set includes PoE, strong thermal management, and opto-isolated triggering for streamlined peripherals and easier camera control. System engineers can replace current GigE Vision compliant cameras with Vizor cameras to upgrade their system performance without changing their application software. Additionally, Vizor cameras support both Teledyne Spinnaker and Sapera LT SDKs and GigE Vision compliant software packages. Vizor is ideal for high-speed applications in factory automation for electronics inspection, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and for sports analytics and virtual reality motion capture.

“Vizor is the first area scan camera family to harness the combined wealth of customer knowledge and technical expertise from Teledyne FLIR, Teledyne DALSA, and Teledyne Lumenera,” said Sadiq Panjwani, General Manager of Teledyne FLIR IIS. “It is designed from the ground up to empower systems engineers to quickly develop highly reliable and competitive products.”

Like all Teledyne FLIR machine vision cameras, Vizor features a compact form factor for easy integration, all-metal body with 3-year warranty, and both rich online resources, and access to our world-class technical support team.

The new VIZOR area scan platform will be featured at the upcoming Vision show in Stuttgart and the week following at the Vision Show in Boston.

For more information about the Vizor 5GigE camera family, visit the webpage.

About Teledyne

Teledyne’s Vision Solutions group form an unrivaled collective of imaging expertise across the spectrum. Individually, each company offers best-in-class solutions. Together, they combine to leverage each other’s strengths and provide the widest imaging technology portfolio in the world. From aerospace through industrial inspection, scientific research, spectroscopy, radiography and radiotherapy, and advanced MEMS and semiconductor solutions, Teledyne offers worldwide customer support and the technical expertise to handle the toughest tasks. Their vision solutions are built to deliver to their customers a unique and competitive advantage.

Media contact:
Jennifer Yeung
Jennifer.Yeung@TeledyneFLIR.com

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Cambodians Welcome Dismissal of Genocide Appeal

Cambodians applauded the Khmer Rouge tribunal on Thursday after the United Nations-backed court upheld a genocide conviction against former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan, the final verdict in a marathon effort to find justice for victims of the Pol Pot regime.

In dismissing the appeal, Judge Kong Srim, from the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) found that a lower court, known as the Trial Chamber, had not erred in 2018 when finding the now 91-year-old guilty of genocide.

“Khieu Samphan’s conviction for the crime of genocide is affirmed,” he told a packed courtroom, while hundreds of victims, including ethnic Vietnamese and Muslim Cham and their families, gathered on the lawns outside and watched proceedings on big screens.

The Trial Chamber found him and former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea guilty of genocide in 2018.

Nuon Chea was the second-highest official after Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and because of that was known as “Brother No. 2.” Nuon Chea died before his appeal could be heard.

Khieu Samphan is the last surviving senior leader responsible for the deaths of about two million people between April 1975 and January 1979, when Pol Pot and his ultra-Maoists tried to impose their version of an agrarian society across Cambodia.

The national currency, education and all vestiges of Khmer culture were obliterated, and as the slaughter gained pace, no one was too important to be spared.

Two of Nuon Chea’s nieces, who trained as doctors in China, and a sister-in-law of Pol Pot all perished in the S21 security prison, where those tapped for execution were handcuffed and clubbed to death. Others were shot.

Bora Mom, a 43-year-old tuk-tuk driver and tourist guide, lost five members of his family to the Khmer Rouge and said he is “broadly content” with the ECCC, its work and the money spent.

“I think it’s good for Cambodia and the rest of the world. I’m very happy because they bring the peace to Cambodia and the victims who lost their life, more than two million,” he said.

About 800,000 people are believed to have died violently under the Khmer Rouge, with an estimated two million others succumbing to starvation and illness.

Sokna Prum, an assistant to the country director at the Goethe-Institut in Cambodia, said her only complaint about the tribunal was a lack of information about how to access the ECCC’s detailed findings.

But she added the ECCC had succeeded in setting legal precedents and enshrining Khmer Rouge crimes under international law, which are now included on school curriculums.

“I do appreciate that the victims, that they somehow ignore the word ‘hatred,’ which the Khmer Rouge leader used to use a lot. They decide to forget but they don’t forgive,” she said, adding many Khmer Rouge victims continued to live in fear and silence long after the genocide had passed.

Cambodia’s 30-year civil war ended in 1998 when Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea formally surrendered to Prime Minister Hun Sen, enabling a trial to proceed. Negotiations between the United Nations and Cambodia were marred by bickering and further delays.

An agreement was struck in 2001 but the first hearings did not begin until early 2009. Between 2006 and 2021, the ECCC spent $330 million. A further $16 million has been allocated to fund the tribunal for the rest of this year.

Robert Carmichael, author of the Khmer Rouge book “When Clouds Fell from the Sky,” said the ECCC had earned a mixed reputation, but added this should be expected given that all war crimes tribunals have been political in nature.

“There have been plenty of problems with this tribunal. From political interference to the cost – it hasn’t been cheap – to the sheer length of time it took to get it up and running and, of course, for many of the Khmer Rouge victims it was too long.

“It’s unrealistic to expect that politics wouldn’t have intervened in this in the first place,” he said. “I mean, the reason it got delayed so long is because the United Nations was recognizing Khmer Rouge as the official government of Cambodia until the late ’90s.”

Tribunal spokesman Neth Pheaktra said people had a right to compare the court costs with the few convictions, the number of victims and scale of the carnage committed by Pol Pot and his henchmen, but he did not believe this was right.

“The mission of the ECCC is to bring justice and the truth to the Cambodian people,” he told reporters outside the court, adding the life of a human being cannot be measured by money.

Another Khmer Rouge leader, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was convicted of crimes against humanity. He ran the notorious S21 security prison and processed about 24,000 people for extermination in the so-called “killing fields.” There were 196 such camps across Cambodia.

Other senior Khmer Rouge leaders died behind bars while awaiting trial, including army chief Ta Mok and former foreign minister Ieng Sary, whose wife, Ieng Thirith, was ruled mentally unfit for trial.

The tribunal began winding down almost a year ago when King Norodom Sihamoni signed off on legislation enabling the ECCC to finalize its mission by the end of 2024.

“This is a historical day for the ECCC, for the Cambodian people, especially for the victims of the Khmer Rouge and for humanity. This is the beginning of the end for the ECCC too,” Neth Pheaktra said, as Khieu Samphan was returned to prison.

Khieu Samphan will serve two life sentences concurrently – one for genocide and one for crimes against humanity. He and Nuon Chea were convicted of the latter charge in 2014.

Worldwide, just six people have been convicted of genocide.

The first was Jean-Paul Akayesu. In September 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted him on charges that included genocide and crimes against humanity. A former mayor, Akayesu was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Ethnic Hutus killed about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

 

 

Source: Voice of America