KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Bernama) — Mary Kay Inc. has reaffirmed its global commitment to women entrepreneurs through external efforts and partnerships focused on elevating and advancing women’s entrepreneurship.
Marking Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on Nov 22, 2022, Mary Kay, an entrepreneurship development company operating in nearly 35 countries, has empowered women and supported their entrepreneurial aspirations for almost 60 years.
“Inspired by our mission as an entrepreneurship development company founded by a woman for women, we believe we must invest in and empower women to realise the full benefits of their economic participation not only in the economy but in society at large.
“We are transforming the landscape for women entrepreneurs by addressing the barriers they face through key partnerships aimed at disrupting the status quo,” Mary Kay Inc. chief operating officer, Deborah Gibbins, said in a statement.
The company has collaborated with change makers through impact-focused partnerships around the world to help dismantle barriers to women’s economic empowerment and accelerate women’s inclusion in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Notable ongoing partnerships to advance women’s entrepreneurship worldwide include The SDG Pilot Village Project in China – A Women-focused Poverty Reduction Development Project; and, The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator.
In 2021, the first Women’s Entrepreneurship EXPO led by United Nations Women with the support of Mary Kay organised a boot camp across the Europe and Central Asia region to increase the capacities of women entrepreneurs to attract investment.
This month, the second live Women’s Entrepreneurship EXPO, brought women entrepreneurs and business partners together to mobilise and take forward specific action to advance the landscape for women’s entrepreneurship development.
Aligned with its mission to enrich women’s lives, Mary Kay and its partners are focused on advancing women’s entrepreneurship and supporting established or aspiring women entrepreneurs wherever they live.
New areas have been introduced during the pandemic, including an artwork in the Garden Area featuring over 13,000 floating orchids and a vegan ramen restaurant where you can dine in teamLab’s artwork space.
TOKYO, Nov 21 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — teamLab Planets is a museum where visitors walk through water, and a garden where people become one with the flowers. The experiential museum has welcomed a cumulative total of over 3 million visitors since its opening in July 2018.
[Several new areas introduced during the pandemic]
Despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, various new areas have opened at the museum as featured on notable media such as CNN during the pandemic, including two large-scale artworks in the Garden Area, and an adjoining vegan ramen restaurant originating from Kyoto.
[Increase in foreign visitors due to the lifting of the ban on individual travel to Japan and the expansion of new areas]
On October 11, 2022, the Japanese government significantly eased the COVID-19 border measures. The ban on individual travel to Japan has been lifted, visa exemptions have returned and the daily limit on the number of people entering Japan has been removed. In response, tourism to Japan has resumed properly for the first time in about two and a half years.
Around a month since the lifting of the ban on individual travel to Japan on October 11, tickets purchased by visitors from overseas increased by 136% compared to the same month in 2019 (before COVID-19), with one in three visitors coming from overseas. (*1) More than half of the visitors from overseas purchased their tickets before visiting Japan, and a trend has been seen in which the museum is one of the purposes for people to visit Tokyo. (*2) In the visitor questionnaire, there have been positive comments from visitors from overseas, such as “I’ve been wanting to go to the museum since the renewal.”
(*1) According to ticket purchase data from the teamLab Planets official website: survey period – October 11 (Tue) to November 6 (Sun), 2022, and October 11 (Fri) to November 6 (Wed) 2019 (*2) According to ticket purchase data from the teamLab Planets official website: survey period – October 11 (Tue) and November 6 (Sun), 2022
[High praise from travel magazines]
In recent years the museum has been featured in notable publications such as Lonely Planet, a world-famous travel guidebook, which introduced it as one of “The 7 best museums in Tokyo that even Tokyoites line up for”, as well as in “The 26 Best Things to Do in Tokyo” by Condé Nast Traveler.
We look forward to welcoming visitors that are sightseeing in Tokyo to experience the museum, which has evolved through new artwork spaces.
The museum will continue to provide people from around the world an experience based on the concept of teamLab Planets, “Immerse your Body, and with Others, Become One with the World”.
Garden Area
The Garden Area was unveiled in July 2021 featuring two large-scale artworks, including a garden with over 13,000 live orchids and a surreal art space with ovoids scattered across a floor covered in real moss. These new art spaces can only be experienced here, and explore people’s relationship with nature and the world through digital technology. By incorporating natural light in space, the works reveal different aspects during the day and after sunset.
Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo, a vegan ramen restaurant originating from Kyoto, opened in October 2021 on the same premises as teamLab Planets. Diners can enjoy ramen in teamLab’s Reversible Rotation – Non-Objective Space artwork space, as well as the Table of Sky and Fire and One Stroke Bench outside of the restaurant. Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo also has vegan ice cream and various teas that are only available in Tokyo. The restaurant can be visited without entry to teamLab Planets.
Universe of Fire Particles Falling from the Sky is a work of public art that depicts flames, on display since April 2021. Flames, which are a phenomenon of light and heat generated by combustion, are expressed as a collection of lines drawn in relation to the flow of combusting gas. The work is displayed outdoors and can be viewed by anyone, regardless of whether or not they enter the museum.
teamLab Planets is a museum where you walk through water, and a garden where you become one with the flowers. There are four massive exhibition spaces and two gardens.
By immersing your entire body with other people in these massive artworks, the boundary between the body and the artwork dissolves. The self, others, and the world become continuous, and we explore a new relationship without boundaries between ourselves and the world.
Enter barefoot, immerse your body with others in the artwork spaces, and become one with the world.
[Exhibition details]
teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM Location: teamLab Planets TOKYO, 6-1-16 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo
[Opening hours]
(November – January) Mon – Fri 10:00 – 20:00 Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 9:00 – 21:00 * December 26 (Mon) – December 30 (Fri), January 2 (Mon) – January 6 (Fri) 9:00 – 21:00 * December 31 (Sat), January 1 (Sun) 9:00 – 20:00 * Last entry is 1 hour before closing
Closed: December 8 (Thu), January 11 (Wed)
*Opening hours are subject to change. Please check the official website for the latest updates.
*teamLab Planets will be open in Toyosu, Tokyo until the end of 2023.
[Tickets]
Adult: 3,200 yen Junior high and high school students: 2,000 JPY Children (4 to 12 years old): 1,000 JPY 3 years old and under: Free Disability discount: 1,600 JPY
Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo: https://vegan-uzu.com/pages/uzu-tokyo teamLab Flower Shop & Art *Please check the official website for opening hours *Closed on the same days as teamLab Planets
[New coronavirus measures (applicable to the Food & Shop)]
Implementation of regular cleaning and disinfection
Established in 2017. Operates and manages the facilities of teamLab Planets TOKYO. Location: Tokyo Nihonbashi Tower 10F, 2-7-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Representative: Takumi Nomoto
[teamLab]
teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.
In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.
teamLab exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and large-scale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, and teamLab SuperNature Macao, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht.
teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) — DEXLEVO, a company specialising in beauty medical devices, recently held meetings with about 250 Japanese and overseas doctors and companies during its participation in the Aesthetic and Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress (AMWC), which was held for the first time in Japan on Nov5-6, 2022.
DEXLEVO participated as a sponsor and exhibitor at the congress.
In a statement, it said the congress was launched this year in Japan to activate the East Asian market with Japan as an aesthetic medicine and anti-aging hub.
It said about 190 doctors participated in a special luncheon symposium devoted to DEXLEVO’s unique injectable GOURI on the first day of the congress.
DEXLEVO said during the seminar, an Italian plastic surgeon, Dr Mario Goisis, introduced GOURI’s technology and some practical cases to demonstrate the injectable’s anti-aging power and show how it fits in the latest trends of the aesthetic market.
“Since the launch of GOURI in September last year, we have introduced and started selling GOURI in more than 40 countries.
“Starting from January next year, we plan to continue marketing by participating in IMCAS Paris, AMWC Monaco and Dubai Derma, the biggest global aesthetic and anti-aging conferences,” it said.
Meanwhile, it said the company bagged the Best Injectables-Collagen Inducer award at the AMWC Awards held in Monaco last April, making it the first Asian company in the history of AMWC Awards to become a winner.
SAN DIEGO and SUZHOU, China, Nov 22 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Adagene Inc. (“Adagene”) (Nasdaq: ADAG), a company transforming the discovery and development of antibody-based therapies, today announced the appointment of Cuong Do, MBA, to Adagene’s board of directors (the “Board”) as an independent director. He will also serve as an audit committee member.
Mr. Do is President and CEO of BioVie Inc., a clinical-stage company developing innovative therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease and refractory Ascites. Prior to BioVie, Mr. Do was President of Samsung’s Global Strategy Group where he helped to set the strategic direction for Samsung Group’s diverse business portfolio, including the growth of its biologics businesses. He was previously the Chief Strategy Officer for Merck, a leading global pharmaceuticals company, where he played a key role in defining the company’s strategy, including the focus on oncology and creating its leading position with the anti-PD-1 therapy, pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®). Mr. Do was also a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he spent 17 years helping to build the healthcare, high technology, and corporate finance practices. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
“I’m very excited to join the Adagene board and do what I can to help advance our programs to help our patients,” commented Mr. Do. “Adagene has ground-breaking innovations that can improve the efficacy and safety of immunotherapies. I look forward to working with the company and our partners to advance the programs and benefit patients.”
“On the heels of data presented at the recent ESMO and SITC conferences showcasing the enhanced therapeutic index of our anti-CTLA-4 programs, I am delighted to welcome Cuong to our board as we approach significant milestones in our pipeline and engage in business development activities with major strategic considerations,” said Peter Luo, Ph.D., Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Adagene. “Cuong’s history of strategic leadership roles in healthcare, particularly for the pembrolizumab franchise at Merck, will help us position our highly differentiated anti-CTLA-4 clinical programs for partnership with leading anti-PD-1/PD-L1 players to develop safer and more efficacious combination therapies for proven and difficult-to-treat tumor types such as MSS CRC and others.”
About Adagene Adagene Inc. (Nasdaq: ADAG) is a platform-driven, clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to transforming the discovery and development of novel antibody-based cancer immunotherapies. Adagene combines computational biology and artificial intelligence to design novel antibodies that address unmet patient needs. Powered by its proprietary Dynamic Precision Library (DPL) platform, composed of NEObody™, SAFEbody®, and POWERbody™ technologies, Adagene’s highly differentiated pipeline features novel immunotherapy programs. Adagene has forged strategic collaborations with reputable global partners that leverage its technology in multiple approaches at the vanguard of science.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 (Bernama) — The Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) held its Incoming Buying Mission from Greece (IBM) and Debriefing Session at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) here, on 15 November 2022.
MTC has been actively conducting programmes to enhance trade and the IBM was held after seeing good potential in imports from the Hellenic Republic.
From January to August 2022, Malaysia’s export of timber and timber products to Greece was valued at RM24.58 million. The top four products exported were wooden furniture at RM10.63 million, sawntimber at RM7.72 million, mouldings at RM1.82 million, and Builders’ Joinery and Carpentry (BJC) at RM0.61 million.
Compared to the same period in 2021, Malaysia’s export of sawntimber and mouldings to Greece increased by more than 100% from RM3.14 million to RM7.72 million and from RM0.58 million to RM1.82 million, respectively, while the export of BJC increased by 34.9%.
“Malaysia has been trading with Greece for the past 15 to 20 years and we are very optimistic of generating more trade judging from the recent import patterns,” said MTC CEO Mr. Muhtar Suhaili.
MTC was also part of a Ministerial Mission to Greece that was organized by the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities in June this year to promote bilateral trade for the agricommodity sector where the Council paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Rural Development and Food of Greece H.E. Mr. Georgios Georgantas as well as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Mr. Konstantinos Fragkogiannis. The Council also had several engagement sessions with industry captains, including a roundtable discussion with the Greek Timber Association and the Greek Wooden Frame Association during the mission.
He added that though Malaysian timber products are exported to over 170 countries, MTC has never stopped seeking new partners or opportunities to boost the global market share for Malaysia.
A Business-to-Business (B2B) Matching Session was conducted of which a total of 12 Greek companies were matched with 21 Malaysian timber-based manufacturers who produce among others, laminated scantlings, glued laminated timbers, veneers and plywood as these are sought-after products in Greece.
Running concurrently with the B2B Matching Session was a Debriefing Session which highlighted the outcomes of programmes undertaken by MTC which included market research visits, marketing mission and raw material sourcing missions.
In conjunction with the IBM, factory visits were also organized where the Greek buyers visited several timber-based factories in both Selangor and Pahang.
“MTC’s programmes are extensive in nature as we try and gather on-the-ground information. It’s all about seeing where you can fill the gaps for the market and grow your business in a way that will allow you to outperform your competitors,” said Mr. Muhtar.
More than 80 industry members attended the debriefing seminar where trade findings of MTC’s visits to the United States, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand were shared.
The Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) was established in January 1992 to promote the development and growth of the Malaysian timber industry globally. MTC’s main objectives are to promote the Malaysian timber trade and develop the market for timber products globally, to promote the development of the industry by upgrading the industry’s manufacturing technology base, to augment the supply of raw materials, to provide information services and to protect and improve the Malaysian timber industry’s global image. Further information on the Council’s activities can be obtained from www.mtc.com.my.
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