Category: Uncategorized

^{The world famous Awa Dance has a 400 years’ history. The story of its origin varies. It is said that Awa Dance was performed often around the time Hachisuka Iemasa, a feudal lord of Tokushima, entered Tokushima in 1586, and hoarded the wealth produced by the indigo and salt trades. Later, indigo traders played an active part and made the dance even more gorgeous year by year. Awa Dance was established in the civil society and flourished as a free-form of mass entertainment. Especially, after World War II, it developed rapidly as a symbol of reconstruction. Nowadays, Awa Dance is well-known around the world as a representative of Japan’s traditional arts. (Photo: Business Wire)}

TOKUSHIMA, Japan, Oct 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The Consumer Policy Department of the Tokushima Prefectural Government is currently promoting initiatives for consumer administration and education in cooperation with the Consumer Affairs Agency’s Strategic Headquarters for Frontiers of Consumer Policy, a national agency established in Tokushima Prefecture as Japan’s hub for policy development and international operations in consumer administration.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221005005009/en/

The forum, which will be held on Oct. 25, 2022, will have leading experts from various countries offer opinions and recommendations that promote “ethical consumption” and “sustainable fashion” –from “awareness” to “practices,”– in order to achieve the SDGs by 2030 and carbon neutrality goal by 2050. We will also have participants from the younger generation from within the prefecture and from overseas to join us as we continue connecting our efforts into the future.

The forum will be live-streamed on the website below. We hope that the forthcoming forum will facilitate meaningful discussions leading to the progress of international consumer policy and consumer behavior toward a sustainable society for everyone around the world.

1. Main Theme
   Connect to the Future! Consumers Rise to the Challenge of Creating a Sustainable Society
   -Capturing the Latest Trends in DX and GX-
2. Date and Time (JST)
   October 25 (Tuesday), 2022, 9:40–17:00 (Live-streaming)
3. Schedule (JST)

• 09:40–10:00 Opening Remarks
• 10:00–10:20 Speech by the Governor of Tokushima Prefecture
• 10:20–10:40 Keynote Speech
  Video Message from the Director-General of Consumers International
• 10:50–12:30 Session 1
  Session with the world’s top leaders in ethical consumption from the U.K., Australia, the U.S.A., France, and the Philippines
• 13:40–15:10 Session 2
  “Future” session with the youth from Tokushima Prefecture and ASEAN (Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand)
• 15:30–17:00 Session 3
  Joint session with the Consumer Affairs Agency

* For more details, please visit the website of the Tokushima International Consumer’s Forum 2022 below.

Tokushima International Consumer’s Forum 2022
https://www.pref.tokushima.lg.jp/en/world.consumer.forum/2022/

Tourist information on Tokushima Prefecture (in English, Chinese and Korean)
https://discovertokushima.net/en/

View source version on businesswire.com: 
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221005005009/en/

Contact

Inquiries
Consumer Policy Division, Consumer Development and Safety Bureau,
Crisis Management and Environment Department
Tokushima Prefectural Government
TEL: +81-088-621-2499
Aya Miyamoto
Email: shohishaseisakuka@pref.tokushima.jp

Source : Tokushima Prefectural Government

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 (Bernama) — As the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has set a new target of attracting 9.2 million tourists this year, Country Garden’s Forest City, one of the tourist cards of Johor Bahru, is ready for tourists.

According to a statement, based on Country Garden’s 26 years of design concepts, Forest City has cooperated with international professional teams such as SASAKI to design and develop.

With a coastline of four kilometres, the city is designed with vertical green walls, sky gardens, and roof garden systems to form a multi-dimensional three-dimensional greening system.

With the recovery of tourism in Malaysia, all Forest City projects are running as usual. For example, Forest City Water Park has opened with programmes including Surf n Slide, Water Fun Challenge, and Water Maze.

On the other hand, this smart city has first-class hotels, including the Forest City Golf Hotel and the Forest City Marina Hotel. Both hotels offer hundreds of luxurious rooms and are equipped with facilities including restaurant, and fitness centre.

Forest City has also built two world-class courses, the Jack Nicklaus Legacy Golf Course and the Liang Guo Kun Classic Golf Course.

In typical Nicklaus style, multiple tees ensure that golfers of all levels can enjoy the game. The Classic Golf Course is a breakthrough in the traditional design concept. The various slopes on the fairway increase the difficulty and interest of the golf game.

Forest City strives to create various tourism projects to provide tourists with an unforgettable vacation experience.

More details at http://www.forestcitycgpv.com.

— BERNAMA

Ideal for adaptogen supplement solutions and natural preservatives in food and beverages.

Bedford, Mass., Sept 29 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —Conagen announced the commercialization of its 99% high-purity salidroside made by bioconversion technology, an active ingredient from the herbal plant Rhodiola rosea (golden root). Its strong antioxidant properties as an adaptogen are associated with reducing inflammation, protecting against oxidative stress in cells, and providing relief from depression, fatigue, and stress. Salidroside has also been used to alleviate high altitude sickness.

Unlike other salidroside products currently on the market, Conagen’s salidroside is non-GMO. Conagen leveraged its industry-leading bioconversion technology to produce clean, sustainable salidroside, identical to the compound naturally found in the Rhodiola rosea plant — the same technology used to produce non-GMO Rebaudioside M, other steviol glycosides, and bitter blockers for sugar reduction solutions which are available from their pipeline partner, Sweegen.

Conagen’s 99% high-purity salidroside, made by bioconversion, is ideal for non-GMO supplement solutions to formulate products with a sustainable and natural consumer appeal. It is readily soluble in water and is very formulable in food and beverage applications.

“We’re reimagining the way in which rare ingredients are sourced to make them safer and higher-quality for use in health-promoting products,” said Casey Lippmeier, Ph.D., senior vice president of innovation at Conagen. “Our bioconversion technology enables us to deliver non-GMO products. Through this technology, we’re unlocking salidroside’s great potential as a powerful active health ingredient and as a tool for food and beverage producers to adopt a more natural way to preserve food and beverages.”

Food and beverage producers benefit from Conagen’s salidroside as it also possesses antimicrobial properties, making it useful as a natural preservative solution for brands seeking alternatives to artificial preservatives. Salidroside expands Conagen’s portfolio of natural preservatives, such as Taxifolin BC-DHQ® and Rosavel™ rosmarinic acid, currently available from another pipeline partner, Blue California.

Stress reduction is popular among consumers, typically addressed by exercise or indulgence in food and beverages. More consumers are taking a holistic approach to their health, including their mental well-being and sleep. They are exploring adaptogens as one of the additional positive ways to add an edge to their diets and lifestyles.

“Salidroside is one of the rare, natural molecules with proven adaptogenic activities which correlates to stress reduction,” said Lippmeier. “Initially identified in botanical extracts, adaptogens are promising new options in the quest to relieve the stress of our daily lives. This trend opens new opportunities for supplement brands and food and beverage manufacturers to adopt a health-focused profile for their products.”

Conagen accelerated salidroside production by leveraging one of its proprietary molecular platforms, which have also been used to produce the clean antioxidants hydroxytyrosol and p-coumaric acid. Salidroside is a glucoside of tyrosol. Conagen’s antimicrobial and antioxidant compounds, hydroxytyrosol and p-coumaric acid are also now available through Blue California.

The inputs of fermentation are tightly controlled, dramatically reducing the chance of contamination with heavy metals, fungal toxins, and other unsafe materials that may be found in traditional medicine preparations. Rhodiola rosea extract is most commonly used in Europe and Asia. Its medicinal use for reducing stress and depression can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty in the classic medicinal scripture Compendium of Materia Medica.

###

About Conagen

We’re making the impossible possible. Conagen is a product-focused synthetic biology R&D company with large-scale manufacturing capabilities. Our scientists and engineers use the latest synthetic biology tools to develop high-quality, sustainable, nature-based products by precision fermentation and bioconversion technologies. We focus on the bioproduction of high-value ingredients for food, nutrition, flavors and fragrances, pharmaceutical, and renewable materials industries. www.conagen.com

Attachments

• Conagen’s salidroside, an active ingredient from Rhodiola Rosea
• Unlike other salidroside products currently on the market, Conagen’s salidroside is non-GMO.

Ana Arakelian
Conagen
+1.781.271.1588
ana.arakelian@conagen.com 

SOURCE : Conagen

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Positioned in a prime location on the highways of Selangor, Malaysia, a series of billboards highlighting “One-on-One English Courses with Foreign Teachers” attracts attention from afar. This marks the official entry of 51Talk into the Malaysian market. 51Talk is set on the path to exploring and revolutionizing the Malaysian online English education market and industry.

51Talk entered the Malaysian market in March 2020, when the world was plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic with face-to-face classes suspended as a result. Leveraging the mode of “Internet + Education,” 51Talk uses a network cable and a screen to develop a new online mode for teaching English.

51Talk selects quality teachers around the world to implement immersive one-on-one classes taught by foreign teachers. Not only can these classes effectively create an immersive English environment and enhance students’ English communication skills by enabling students to come into contact with foreign teachers at an early age, they can also encourage students to speak and communicate with others, as well as improve their English accent, pronunciation and thinking skills.

In order to help students to acquire good verbal communication skills and attain better academic results, 51Talk adopts a short, high-frequency and effective method by setting the duration of a class at 25 minutes along with pre-reading, post-class review, tests and extended reading to ensure students gain and absorb all the knowledge learnt from class for better results. On the other hand, 51Talk prides itself on having a 3% passing rate, selecting the cream of the crop for guaranteeing the quality of education.

Online learning on 51Talk enables students to utilize fragmented time to learn anytime, anywhere. Between the two years from 2020 to 2022, 51Talk has received acknowledgement and praise from numerous parents and now, as all states and federal territories in Malaysia are able to access classes provided by 51Talk, 51Talk is becoming the most reliable and effective English education brand in Malaysia.

Up to date, over 40 million 51Talk users come from 50 countries and regions, with the aggregate number of classes held amounting to over 100 million and the number of Filipino and North American teachers exceeding 20k users. Looking forward, 51Talk will continue to expand in the Malaysian market so that all Malaysian users are able to benefit from quality online English education.

View source version on businesswire.com: 
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220923005421/en/

Contact

Zhang Xue
zhangxue05@51talk.com
13520550835
https://tw.51talk.com/global/course

Source : 51Talk

–BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 (Bernama) — The need for safety management across industrial sites has increased significantly in South Korea recently, with the enforcement of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act (SAPA).

As fatal accidents on industrial sites have become a major social issue, the National Assembly has passed SAPA which took effect on Jan 27, 2022, according to a statement.

Although SAPA is not much different from the established Occupational Safety and Health Act as both Acts are aimed at preventing serious accidents while ensuring the safety of workers.

It has expanded the range of those applicable disasters to a great extent with much enhanced punishment for violating the law.

With a surge in market demand to comply with SAPA, various solutions and products have been released to take a proactive approach to prevent accidents and casualties at construction sites.

LG U+ introduced “Smart Safety Solution,” a Bluetooth and machine learning-based smart safety platform.

Meanwhile, GSIL, a smart safety company, launched a smart safety integrated platform “BE-IT” with 4th industrial technologies such as IoT, ICT, and AI, providing a solution to manage safety issues and productivity through integrated safety data in the field.

The K-ConSafety Expo, which will be held at KINTEX in Goyang from Oct 19 to 21, is a great opportunity to meet the latest products and solutions of smart construction safety companies to manage on-site safety and prevent serious accidents.

In addition to LG U+ and GSIL, POSCO ICT will participate as an official sponsor.

More details at http://www.k-consafetyexpo.com.

— BERNAMA