KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 (Bernama) -- The 7th Hunhe River Bank Symphony Festival recently opened in the Yunyang Pavilion of Shenshuiwan Park in Shenyang. The Festival is jointly organised by the Publicity Department of the CPC Shenyang Municipal Committee and the China Symphony Development Foundation, according to a statement. Themed ‘Hundred Years of Glory and Artistic Heart to the Party’, the Symphony Festival invited five orchestras comprising Harbin Symphony Orchestra, Shanxi Symphony Orchestra, Dalian City International Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Opera and Dance Theater Symphony Orchestra, and Shenyang Symphony Orchestra. It is held by the Shenyang Symphony Orchestra and the Publicity Department of the Heping District, with a total of six symphony performances in Yunyang Pavilion from July 22 to 30. The first performance was presented by the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, whereby the artistes of the orchestra performed Chinese and foreign music such as ‘Dongfanghong (The East is Red)’, ‘Chinese Heart’ and ‘Jazz Waltz’ for the Shenyang symphony fans. The 7th Hunhe River Bank Symphony Festival enriches the people's cultural life and demonstrates the city's cultural temperament. It has also received extensive attention from the Chinese symphony music community. The famous Chinese conductor Zheng Xiaoying and the symphony orchestras of Shenzhen, Changsha, Sichuan, Ningbo and other provinces and municipalities recorded blessing videos for the music festival. -- BERNAMA
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BARCO EXPANDS ITS PORTFOLIO FOR HYBRID MEETINGS WITH THE ADDITION OF THE CLICKSHARE PRESENT RANGE26/7/2021 SINGAPORE, July 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Barco, a global leader in meeting room technology, is about to expand the highly praised and awarded ClickShare family to enable businesses to prepare for a smooth return to the office and step into the new reality of the hybrid workplace. Completing the recent wireless conferencing range with two new models of ClickShare Present, our wireless presentation & collaboration solution, we offer customers worldwide the freedom to equip hybrid meeting rooms according to their own requirements, existing ecosystems, and company IT policies. The hybrid meeting technology that puts people first “There’s no going back to the way we worked before. We’re no longer prepared to slog to every meeting in person. And the virtual meeting has its shortcomings too. Instead, we are going for something better than both, which we call hybrid, a seamless blend of the physical and the virtual, of in-office and remote,” says George Stromeyer, Senior VP and GM Enterprise, Barco. Mixed working and collaboration solutions like ClickShare take center stage in this new era. We reinforce the capabilities of high-end video technology and bring meeting participants closer together. ClickShare enables seamless, highly engaged collaboration no matter where employees are working. With a full range of wireless solutions, we encourage businesses to re-enter the hybrid workplace safely and effectively and offer exactly that technology that fully matches their business and IT requirements. ClickShare puts the employee at the heart and fosters both engagement and connectivity. “In the past, technology has tried to recreate real life meetings. But in-person meetings aren’t perfect. At Barco, we have a different approach. We start with people. And how every person can be at their very best. Engaged. Agile. Fully involved. Inspiring each other. Only then we create the tech that makes that happen,” George Stromeyer continues. One range, two flavours ”With ClickShare, our wireless presentation and conferencing hub, we make hybrid collaboration seamless for all. No matter where we are - in Barco Experience Centre in Singapore or at our workstation at home, all we need is one click to start collaborating and share content. Participants can engage in an immersive conferencing experience in a matter of seconds," Olivier Croly, Vice President for APAC in Barco explains. With the introduction of ClickShare Present to the meeting room ecosystem, we now offer a solution for any customer wanting to turn existing conference rooms into fully equipped hybrid collaboration rooms. ClickShare Present is a seamless extension to wirelessly share content in your existing meeting room setup. Customers with existing Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Webex conference rooms can benefit from adding easy, wireless content sharing. ClickShare completes the collaborative experience with full BYOD, interactivity features and workflow integration. The focus shifts from mainly conferencing to true hybrid collaboration. On the other hand, the fully agnostic ClickShare Conference models, launched successfully last year at ISE in Amsterdam, unleash the power of BYOM (Bring Your Own Meeting) by bridging to remote participants through your video service of choice. ClickShare Conference gives users the freedom to organize hybrid meetings the way they want and where they want. They host calls from their laptop, use their preferred UC&C platform, and wirelessly connect to the meeting room display and AV peripherals. Any meeting room can easily be redesigned into a wireless hybrid meeting room by adding ClickShare Conference. Making hybrid collaboration flow in one click ClickShare offers IT managers the freedom to choose between plug & play collaboration with the ClickShare Button or powerful workflow optimization with the ClickShare Desktop App. Both empower hybrid meetings through the same, simple, intuitive experience. The Button is an instant plug-in for both employees and guests, while the App can be pushed through an MSI to all employee laptops. ClickShare is the perfect match for any digital workplace strategy. Touch or touchless, Button or App. It is the customer’s way of working, the customer’s decision. “ClickShare is simple, easy and wireless. Users decide how they want to present with no complex set up of room devices. You can ‘bring your own meeting’ anytime in a secured manner to achieve intuitive teamwork by collaborating with remote colleagues," Marc Remond, Vice President of Meeting and Learning Experiences for APAC in Barco clarifies. Introducing a complete portfolio: connected, secure at heart and enterprise-grade The new ClickShare Present range consists of 2 different models for wireless presentation in existing VC rooms.
About Barco Barco designs technology to enable bright outcomes around the world. Seeing beyond the image, we develop visualization and collaboration solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting, classroom and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). In 2020, we realized sales of 770 million euro. We have a global team of 3,300 employees, whose passion for technology is captured in 430 granted patents. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=40613 Confidence remains very high, despite a marginal decline from Q1 - but regional variances point to ongoing economic uncertainty
KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 (Bernama) -- Professional accountants around the world have reported a buoyant return to economic stability in Q2 2021 finds the latest edition of ACCA and IMA’s Global Economic Confidence Survey (GECS). Over 1,100 global respondents, who are members of ACCA and IMA, report an upturn in key global activity indicators, such as orders – the proxy for real economic activity. The biggest gain in Q2 came in North America, powered ahead by a massive US fiscal stimulus. The two ‘fear’ indices – measured by concerns that customers and suppliers may go out of business – both declined in this latest survey, confirming that the extreme uncertainty created by the COVID-19 crisis has fallen back towards more normal levels. However, despite this optimism, stark warning signs remain due to wide regional variations in confidence, with large increases across Europe, contrasting with significant falls in Asia Pacific and South Asia. As a result, ACCA and IMA ask governments and policy makers to ensure this divergence does not grow. Michael Taylor, chief economist ACCA says: ‘These changes reflect the speed at which vaccinations are taking place in Europe while increased COVID-19 infections are happening again in Asia Pacific and South Asia. A key theme of this GECS is the divergence in economic prospects between advanced and emerging market economies. This needs to be tackled urgently.’ Helen Brand, chief executive of ACCA, adds: ‘The world economy’s recovery to its pre-pandemic size has been driven by rapid growth in the US and China, the two biggest economies. There are many jurisdictions with plenty of ground to still make up. But the difference we see between advanced and emerging markets is glaring – and action is needed on vaccines so that there are no shortages in emerging economies.’ Malaysia and Asia Pacific For Malaysia, confidence has dropped considerably between Q1 and Q2 2021 from 14.3 to -41.2, which may be attributable to rising COVID infection, raising fears of restrictions that would hurt domestic activity and tourism. However, orders have improved from a Q1 low of -53.6 to -14.7, an improvement seen across the wider Asia Pacific geography. Findings have revealed the unusual juxtaposition of a significant drop in confidence with a healthy increase in orders, with the orders balance in Asia Pacific now at the highest level in over three years. Asia Pacific exports are rising at a healthy rate, in line with a strong global recovery and the survey suggests that this will continue in the coming months including in Malaysia. Edward Ling, Head of Portfolio ACCA Maritime Southeast Asia concludes: ‘Looking ahead, health and economic risks are considerable, especially if a vaccine resistant variant emerges and spreads, forcing renewed lockdown measures with consequent economic harm. On the global and national level, policy-wise it’s important that fiscal support is not withdrawn prematurely, potentially causing a setback to recovery in private demand.’ Key global findings from GECS Q2 2021 reveal: • Confidence: This fell back in North America, but this came after a very large jump in the Q1 survey. Advanced economies are now recovering, benefitting from rapid progress on vaccinations and the spending of accumulated savings. • Orders: In Western Europe orders saw a jump, pointing to economic recovery gathering momentum in the second half of the year. Asia Pacific also reported increased orders, boosted by export demand. Elsewhere there was little change, apart from in South Asia where renewed lockdown measures have affected the economic outlook in the near term. • Economic recovery: The majority of respondents in North America said that economic recovery is already underway. By contrast, over half of respondents in Africa and South Asia do not expect recovery until 2022 at the earliest. Surprisingly this was also the case in Asia Pacific. In Western Europe the proportion expecting a much-delayed economic recovery has fallen by 10 percentage points between the Q1 and Q2 survey, underlining the recent improvement in the economic outlook in the region. • Inflation: The GECS shows respondents across regions expect a modest increase in inflation over the next five years. Compared to Q1 there has been a marked increase in inflation expectations in North America, while in Western Europe expectations are for a modest increase in inflation. The consensus across all regions is that inflation will rise modestly, by up to three percentage points in coming years. • Operating costs: The GECS index of concern about operating costs increased and is now at its highest level since 2019 Q3. But concern remains below the level that would point to a sustained big rise in inflation. GECS is the largest regular economic survey of more than 1,000 senior accountants and finance professionals from around the world, and consistently captures the true scale of the global recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic, tracking the drop in confidence since the beginning and a new outlook in confidence triggered by the combined effects of vaccines and the fiscal stimulus. In Q2 2021, an expert panel 34 accountants took part in the GECS for Malaysia. GECS can be found here: https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/professional-insights/global-economics/gecs-q2-2021.html A RETURN TO NORMALITY? ACCOUNTANTS AND FINANCE PROFESSIONALS SEE GATHERING MOMENTUM FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN Q2 2021 KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 (Bernama) -- BrandSafway, a global leader in access and industrial services, has announced the appointment of Imran Hayat as executive vice president (EVP) and chief legal officer (CLO), effective July 19.
“Imran has an excellent track record as a global strategic general counsel,” said president and chief executive officer of BrandSafway, Karl Fessenden in a statement. “He has extensive experience building and managing legal, risk, compliance and governance teams, and developing strong partnerships internally and externally to drive enterprise and shareholder success. “His strategic mindset coupled with his deep domain expertise makes him a great addition to our team.” Most recently, Hayat served as EVP, general counsel and chief strategy officer for CHC Helicopter Corporation. Prior to CHC, he was in private practice where he advised some of the world’s pre-eminent public and private companies. “I’m excited to join the BrandSafway team. BrandSafway is a dynamic and growing company with a strong executive team and a great internal legal and risk team. The company is well-positioned for continued success,” said Hayat. Hayat earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and holds a bachelor’s degree in both economics and diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College in Los Angeles. More details at www.brandsafway.com. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 -- Fastly Inc, a global edge cloud platform provider, has announced the availability of JavaScript in Compute@Edge, allowing developers to build with even more flexibility in Fastly’s serverless compute environment.
With more JavaScript developers in the world than there are for any other development language, the availability of a faster, more secure way of building with JavaScript brings Compute@Edge’s safety benefits and speedy execution to more workloads globally. “When we launched Compute@Edge with a language-agnostic vision, JavaScript wasn’t one of the languages we evaluated for support, because at the time, it couldn’t compile to WebAssembly, meaning we wouldn’t have been satisfied with the security of JavaScript within our serverless compute environment,” said Fastly CTO, Tyler McMullen in a statement. “However, since we released Compute@Edge, JavaScript has been the most requested language to add, so it was top of our priority list once WebAssembly supported it.” Instead of relying on existing technologies for serverless compute - like reusable containers - Fastly built Compute@Edge using WebAssembly. This high-performance technology allows Compute@Edge to scale with startup times that are 100x faster than other serverless offerings on the market, so customers can now execute JavaScript code without having to worry about cold start times. With security in mind, Fastly developed a unique, highly-secure isolation technology that creates and destroys a sandbox for each individual request from JavaScript compiled through WebAssembly. -- BERNAMA |
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