A 28-year-old Facebook user with the initials T.H.Q., who lives in Cam Pha city, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province, has been fined the equivalent of U.S.$310. Police say the social media user was “posting false information about people withdrawing money from banks, simultaneously creating a sense of insecurity and causing confusion among the public.”
The fine was handed down on Wednesday. State-controlled media reported that the Internal Political Security Department of Quang Ninh province’s Police Department was the unit that tracked down the Facebook user and administered the fine.
Quang Ninh police said the Facebook post appeared on Oct. 8, the day after the news that Truong My Lan — Chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat Group — had been arrested. T.H.Q.posted on his or her page that people reacted to the report by rushing to withdraw money from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB).
Truong My Lan was arrested on fraud allegations related to the issuance and trading of bonds. Vietnamese media said SCB has made it clear that she has no executive position at the bank and a real estate firm that belongs to Van Thinh Phat Group is also not a SCB shareholder.
In the past few days, police agencies in provinces and cities including Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Binh Thuan, Ha Nam and Binh Phuoc have clamped down on social media users who have been accused of spreading false information about people withdrawing money from SCB on their personal pages.
SCB is Vietnam’s fifth-largest commercial bank, according to Bloomberg News.
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eavor Technologies Inc. (“Eavor”), the leader in globally scalable geothermal technology, is pleased to announce that Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (“CHUBU”) has entered an agreement to make a direct investment in Eavor and support the commercialization of Eavor-Loop technology.
Along with CHUBU’s investment they will have a representative on Eavor’s Board of Directors. CHUBU’s presence and influence will be of paramount importance as Eavor completes first projects and enters its global commercialization phase.
The Eavor-Loop system differs from conventional geothermal solutions as it uses conduction to retrieve heat from the earth’s subsurface, resulting in a long-term, reliable, predictable and independent supply of renewable energy. This completely closed loop system provides a highly scalable source of heat and power without the typical exploration risk.
Mr. Hiroki Sato, Senior Executive Managing Officer at CHUBU, commented: “A technology such as this is a true game-changer and represents a potential transformation to the world’s energy stack, addresses climate change as well as energy autonomy and independence issues simultaneously. CHUBU is excited to be working with Eavor and supporting a solution to some of the world’s most intractable problems. This is an important strategic step for CHUBU fully aligned with our Management Vision 2.0 which defines CHUBU’s efforts to achieve sustainable growth.”
John Redfern, President & CEO at Eavor, stated that: “The opportunity and plan for global deployment of this technology requires partners like CHUBU. The involvement of CHUBU as one of our partners and Board members represents a fantastic endorsement of our technology, its commercialization and global scalability. Ultimately, when it lives up to its potential, Eavor’s solution is not only the missing element needed to fully decarbonize the world’s energy supply, it is also an opportunity for localized economies to obtain resilient, independent, autonomous, domestic energy resources. This changes everything.”
CHUBU is one of the largest energy companies in Japan, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE:9502). CHUBU Group has more than seven decades history consisting of energy value chain which includes power generation, power transmission/distribution and energy retail business. Aiming for a decarbonized energy company, CHUBU is expanding its business territory on a global basis with the optimal business portfolio, which consists of four domains of (i) “green” business centered on renewable energy, (ii) “blue” business in relation to de-carbonization, (iii) “retail, power transmission and distribution, and new services” and (iv) “new technologies”. CHUBU is promoting decarbonizing business to create a synergy between domestic business in Japan and global business to enhance its corporate value. For more details, please visit https://www.chuden.co.jp/english/
About Eavor Technologies Inc.
Eavor (pronounced “Ever”) is a technology-based energy company led by a team dedicated to creating a clean, reliable, and affordable energy future on a global scale. Eavor’s solution (Eavor-Loop) represents the world’s first truly scalable form of clean, dispatchable, baseload capable, and flexible power. Eavor achieves this by mitigating or eliminating many of the issues that have traditionally hindered geothermal energy. Eavor instead circulates a benign working fluid that is completely isolated from the environment in a closed-loop, through a massive subsurface radiator. This radiator simply collects heat from the natural geothermal gradient of the Earth via conduction. Eavor has been supported by equity investments made by several leading global energy producers, investors, developers, and venture capital funds including Vickers Venture Partners, bp Ventures, Temasek, Chevron Technology Ventures, BHP Ventures, Helmerich & Payne, Precision Drilling, BDC Capital and CHUBU. info@eavor.com
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“คุณ Henry มีประสบการณ์ที่ด้านการพัฒนาธุรกิจ วิศวกรรมคุณค่า และการส่งมอบโครงการอย่างรอบด้าน พร้อมด้วยความรู้และความสำเร็จในอุตสาหกรรมภาคพลังงานและก๊าซอุตสาหกรรมกว่า 25 ปี เขานำความสมดุลระหว่างความสามารถในการวางแผนเชิงกลยุทธ์และการดำเนินการมาสู่กลุ่มบริษัทและ NESP” คุณ Emile Bado รองประธานบริหาร ฝ่ายขายและการพัฒนาธุรกิจของกลุ่มบริษัทกล่าว “บทบาทของคุณ Henry ยังช่วยสนับสนุนภารกิจของเราในการจัดหาอุปกรณ์ เทคโนโลยี และบริการที่เป็นนวัตกรรมใหม่ผ่านกลุ่มบริษัทระดับโลกของเรา เพื่อช่วยสร้างความแตกต่างให้แก่ลูกค้าของเรา”
คุณ Henry เข้าร่วมในหน่วยการทำงาน Integrated Cryogenic Solutions มามากกว่าหนึ่งปี และมีบทบาทสำคัญในความสำเร็จล่าสุดของสายงาน Hydrogen Refueling Station ของ Nikkiso โดยคุณ Henry สำเร็จการศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรีในสาขาวิศวกรรมเคมี และปริญญาโทในสาขาวิศวกรรมศาสตร์จาก North Carolina State University นอกจากนี้ เขายังเป็น PE ขึ้นทะเบียนและ PMP ที่ผ่านการรับรองอีกด้วย
Replaces On-Premise System with New Cloud Environment, Adding Enhanced Email Security Capabilities
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Oct. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR), a global leader and innovator of cloud, messaging and digital solutions, today announced that one of the largest telecom operators in Italy has successfully completed the migration to the latest version of Synchronoss Email Suite. Supporting 13.5 million subscribers, Synchronoss Email Suite was migrated from an on-premise system to a new cloud environment. As part of the migration project, the latest version of the email service now includes enhanced anti-spam, anti-virus, and IP reputation capabilities.
Since 2001, Synchronoss has provided this telecom operator with software, technical expertise, and consulting services. Over the years, the operator grew from 2 million email subscribers to 13.5 million today. The Synchronoss Email Suite platform provides the capability to deliver a continuous, simplified, and intuitive user experience across desktop and mobile.
The new Synchronoss Email Suite includes the Mx9 core messaging platform that is highly scalable with a stateless architecture, designed to be fault tolerant. It integrates encryption to ensure the utmost in security and data privacy. Mx9 has a modern and intuitive web user interface (UI) for email, contacts, and events. Additionally, the Huge Mail feature supports large file exchanges, and integrates Razorgate, an unparalleled message filtering capability designed to remove spam and mitigate the threat of phishing and viruses.
“While there are many channels of communication available today, email remains an important part of digital communications,“ said Chris Hill, Chief Commercial Officer at Synchronoss. “We are delighted Synchronoss Email Suite will play an instrumental role in helping this prominent Italian telecom operator continue to serve its subscribers with the most advanced features and functionality.”
Synchronoss Email Suite supports 20 major email deployments to service providers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and hosts more than 180 million mailboxes. To find out more about the platform and other messaging solutions, visit https://synchronoss.com/products/engagex/email-suite.
About Synchronoss
Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ: SNCR) builds software that empowers companies around the world to connect with their subscribers in trusted and meaningful ways. The company’s collection of products helps streamline networks, simplify onboarding, and engage subscribers to unleash new revenue streams, reduce costs and increase speed to market. Hundreds of millions of subscribers trust Synchronoss products to stay in sync with the people, services, and content they love. Learn more at www.synchronoss.com.
More than 200,000 children have been displaced by fighting in Myanmar’s war-torn states of Kayin, Kayah and Rakhine since the military took control of the country in a February 2021 coup, according to data compiled by rights groups, NGOs, and anti-junta forces.
Beyond the psychological trauma they experience, children are vulnerable to military airstrikes and at risk of capture by junta troops, who press them into forced labor, use them as human shields and sell them as sex slaves to human trafficking rings, the Karen Human Rights Group, or KHRG, said in a report released Tuesday.
Pregnant women and babies are also caught up in the conflict. “Pregnant women fleeing the war have no choice but to give birth in caves in the forest, unsheltered from the elements out in the open, or along riverbanks,” said Saw Nanda Soo, a spokesperson for the group.
“Since they are on the run, they are entirely deprived of health care and supplies such as diapers, baby formula and medicine,” she said.
All told, the fighting between junta military forces and various rebel groups has created more than 350,000 people who are internally displaced, more than half of them under the age of 18, the group said. And of those minors, more than half are girls.
The vast majority of the displaced children, or about 175,000 of them, have fled their homes in Kayin state, which borders Thailand in southeastern Myanmar, the KHRG report said. Aid groups said that a combined 50,000 children have been displaced in Kayah, just north of Kayin state, and in Rakhine, in the west, near Bangladesh.
No concrete numbers have been provided for the number of children displaced since the coup in Sagaing region in the northwest, which has seen some of the worst fighting between the military and anti-junta groups. The United Nations recently announced that at least 500,000 people have fled conflict in Sagaing in the past 20 months.
‘Running and Learning’
A member of the Kayah State Basic Education Teachers Union told RFA that more than 30,000 children have become displaced in the region since the military takeover, and are forced to study in makeshift camps or while sheltering in the jungle.
“Artillery shells hit us every day and you never know when another one will come,” the union member said.
“Our children were denied [proper] education for an entire year due to COVID-19 [school closures] and then another because of the [insecurity following the] coup. We can’t just stop learning, so we must teach them on the run.”
The union member said that they are constantly on the move, and when they reach somewhere deemed temporarily safe, they resume teaching. “We’re stuck in a cycle of running and learning.”
In the western state of Rakhine, the rebel group Arakan Army reports similar numbers. In just the past two months, at least 20,000 children have become displaced since fighting resumed with the military after a two-year lull. That’s on top of the 82,000 children who had already been driven from their homes.
The rebel group said that the internally displaced people in Rakhine are housed in more than 150 different camps, where some 10,000 children attempt to continue their studies despite the regional violence.
Two refugee children are seen in Taungoo, Bago region, Myanmar, on Sept. 25, 2022. Credit: RFA
‘Biggest loss in our children’s education’
Zaw Zaw Tun, a humanitarian volunteer in Rakhine, said the junta soldiers fire artillery into their villages and then sweep into the villages, arresting residents. “Many of us are constantly on the run due to regional insecurity, rather than any specific battle,” the volunteer said.
“The biggest loss is our children’s education. Meanwhile, food is scarce and we are dealing with health issues such as the seasonal flu now that it is turning to winter.”
Regional support groups say it has become increasingly difficult to gather accurate statistics for the number of people displaced by fighting throughout the country since the coup because the junta is actively blocking international humanitarian groups from assisting them.
The junta has yet to respond to reports of the scale of displaced children and the risks they face while on the run.
On Oct. 10, Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told the U.N. General Assembly that since the coup, the junta has killed at least 2,338 civilians, including 91 children under the age of 14 and 209 children between the ages of 15 and 18.
He said that children in Myanmar have been particularly affected by the conflict under military rule and are regularly deprived of their rights.
According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, there are 89 million refugees worldwide, 36 million of whom are children. In Myanmar, the refugee agency said, at least 1.3 million children have been displaced since the coup, compared to around 300,000 beforehand.
Meanwhile, in the central Bago region, 2,000 people have fled the conflict between the military and Karen National Union (KNU) since this February.
The physical and mental health of those who are displaced are rapidly deteriorating, said Saw Maung Maung, a volunteer in Taungoo, adding that aid groups are facing shortages as donations dry up. “The donors are running out of patience,” he said.
“There is a scarcity of food and other necessities needed for the refugees. We are in a difficult situation and have had to find ways to connect with other organizations to meet our long-term needs,” he said.
Saw Htoo Htoo, a displaced 9-year-old in Taungoo, said he was forced to flee his village in Kyaukkyi and take shelter in the jungle for about a week after “fighter jets roared overhead, shooting at us repeatedly.”
“I was barefoot from the start… In the rain, I was nearly eaten alive by the mosquitoes … Soldiers were always hunting us as we ran and we were constantly shaking with fear,” he said. “We had to run for our lives, but at least now we are more secure in Taungoo and can even enjoy playing with each other.”
Translated by Myo Min Aung. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
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