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Hello Kitty Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Japanese Fruits Promotion

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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 (Bernama) — The Japan Fruit and Vegetables Export Promotion Council, in collaboration with The Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Center (JFOODO), has teamed up with the popular Sanrio Co Ltd character “Hello Kitty”.

According to a statement, the collaboration marks Hello Kitty’s 50th anniversary, and aims to promote Japanese-grown fruits and vegetables.

A social media campaign will run, inviting participants to post photos on Instagram centered on the themes of major seasonal events such as Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, and Valentine’s Day. These photos are to be entered into the draw to win a special “Smile Japanese Fruits Gift”, ideal for family enjoyment.

The campaign will focus on fruits that carry the “Japan-grown Fruit” label, indicating strict quality standards set by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. The target fruits include peaches, grapes, apples, persimmons, citrus fruits, strawberries, and sweet potatoes.

The campaign for Christmas runs from Dec 14 to 31 while the New Year will run from Jan 1 to 10, 2025; followed closely by Chinese New Year from Jan 29 to Feb 14, 2025, and wrapping up with Valentine’s Day from Feb 14 to 22, 2025.

To participate, entrants must follow the official Instagram account japanesefruit_official and post a video related to one of the campaign themes, tagging the account.

Participants can either create videos using the playful japanesefruit x Hello Kitty filter, or share videos or images capturing moments of joy with Japanese fruits. For the latter events like Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, posting joyful visuals is sufficient for entries.

Residents of Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are eligible for the draw, with the chance to win the exclusive “Smile Japanese Fruits Gift” set.

— BERNAMA

DUCK CREEK TO HELP MDA NATIONAL DEVELOPS, PROVIDES INNOVATIVE NEW SERVICES

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 (Bernama) — Duck Creek Technologies has been selected by MDA National (MDAN), an Australia-wide medical defence organisation, to deliver their new policy administration, policyholder portal, billing and next-gen analytics and insights solutions.

Duck Creek’s platform will help MDAN develop and provide innovative new services, improved member self-service and enhanced data-driven risk management capabilities, allowing them to increase the support and protection offered to their growing medical practitioner member base, in turn strengthening the medical care available to communities.

“We look forward to being a strategic technology partner to MDAN as they deliver new and innovative offerings that meet and surpass the evolving needs of Australia’s medical professionals.

“Duck Creek continues to meet the needs of our partners and customers by delivering mission critical insurance SaaS technology to key medical indemnity and general insurers in Australia and the rest of the world,” said its Managing Director of APAC, Christian Erickson in a statement.

Meanwhile, MDAN Chief Executive Officer, Ian Anderson said: “Transforming our technological capability through our partnership with Duck Creek will significantly enhance our ability to deliver on our purpose of supporting and protecting members whilst promoting good medical practice, leading to a successful and sustainable future.”

Duck Creek’s cloud-based OnDemand platform will replace MDAN’s legacy system to improve the ease of doing business for both members and staff, increase speed of change, and help create a more agile and innovative service-led model.

Furthermore, Duck Creek’s solutions were preferred due to their out-of-the-box capabilities, reusable, and customisable modular architecture, user-experience led design, configurability, automation and future-proof capacity.

As the global intelligent solutions provider defining the future of the property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance industry, Duck Creek’s extensive experience serving the local and international medical indemnity markets was also a significant influencing factor.

— BERNAMA

GLOBAL MAYORS EXCHANGE IDEAS ON SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN HANGZHOU

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 (Bernama) — Mayors and representatives from 24 cities in 15 countries and regions recently attended the Global Mayors Dialogue · Hangzhou and the ninth Hangzhou International Sister City Mayors Conference in Hangzhou.

According to the people’s government of Hangzhou in a statement, mayors from both domestic and international cities engaged in in-depth dialogues, sharing advanced experiences in urban governance and contributing their wisdom to promote global urban sustainable development.

Leveraging its rich historical and cultural heritage and thriving digital economy, Hangzhou showcases how an ancient yet modern city can coexist harmoniously, leading the way in global urban sustainable development trends.

The city’s mayor, Yao Gaoyuan vividly depicts Hangzhou’s characteristics as being suitable for living, business, and tourism, in addition to also sharing the exploration and practices of the city in areas such as digital innovation and urban governance, ecological civilisation and urban sustainable development, as well as cultural heritage and humanistic exchanges.

Furthermore, digital empowerment has boosted urban governance in Hangzhou, making the city smarter and its governance more efficient.

By constructing a digital city brain and utilising technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and advanced modelling, the city has achieved real-time monitoring and efficient scheduling of urban traffic that enable precise traffic guidance and effectively improve the intelligence and precision of urban governance.

Hangzhou is equally dedicated and sparing no effort when it comes to the preservation and inheritance of cultural heritage. Its economic development goes hand in hand with the preservation and prosperity of its culture, never losing sight of the city’s cultural essence.

As a city with a rich historical and cultural heritage, Hangzhou boasts three world cultural heritage sites. In 2011, the West Lake cultural landscape was inscribed on the list, while in 2014 and 2019, the Grand Canal of China and the Liangzhu Archaeological Site also earned the prestigious honour, respectively.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of Hangzhou’s establishment of its first international sister city relationship, and so far, Hangzhou has established friendly relations with 31 international sister cities and maintained friendly exchanges with 42 cities worldwide.

The eastern Chinese city looks forward to contributing more of its wisdom and solutions for the sustainable development of global cities and continuing to write a new chapter of brilliance in the future.

— BERNAMA

TAINAN MASCOT “HĀNG-Á NIAU” DEBUTS IN SHINJUKU, TOKYO

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Starting from September 21st, �Hāng-� Niau� can be seen at YUNIKA VISION in front of Seibu-Shinjuku Station in Tokyo as the finale of the Tainan 400 promo campaign. (Photo: Business Wire)

Starting from September 21st, “Hāng-á Niau” can be seen at YUNIKA VISION in front of Seibu-Shinjuku Station in Tokyo as the finale of the Tainan 400 promo campaign. (Photo: Business Wire)

TAINAN,Taiwan, Sept 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — With the Tainan 400 promotion campaign coming to an end, a commercial featuring Tainan’s adorable mascot “Hāng-á Niau” (Taiwanese for “Alley Cat”) is played on the lively streets of Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan. From September 21st (Sat.) to 27th (Fri.), the cute mascot can be seen in the promotional video “Hāng-á Niau Invites You to Tainan” at YUNIKA VISION in front of Seibu-Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, one of the busiest station in Japan with a daily traffic of 770,000 passengers on average.

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The mascot “Hāng-á Niau” takes after the legendary creature qilin, with a lightning pattern on its tail to symbolize good luck. The design is inspired by the rat-catching cats kept on trading ships during the Age of Discovery. The origin not only echoes the historical significance of Tainan 400, but also highlights the cultural inclusiveness of that time. In addition, the patterns on “Hāng-á Niau” also incorporate Tainan’s unique architectural characteristics and historical contexts.

Earlier from August 13th to 18th, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government had the “Tainan 400” promo video broadcast in the center of Paris (France), Times Square in New York City (USA), and New Balance Gangnam in Seoul (South Korea). This time, the mascot “Hāng-á Niau” takes center stage in Japan and will surely attract more international tourists to Tainan and experience its profound culture.

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