Kyalio launches Asia’s maiden Day-to-Day Endo-Laparoscopic VR Surgical Library

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 -- Kyalio and the Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA), a leading surgical association with over 2,600 members, jointly launched the Day-to-Day Endo-Laparoscopic Virtual Reality Surgical Library recently.

A first in Asia, the multi-platform VR Surgical Library, which utilises real-scene Virtual Reality, addresses the importance of continuous surgical training and enables cross-border surgical education to be sustained even in the face of COVID-19.

The library also supports long distance surgical training for young surgeons in developing countries and remote areas, according to a statement.

“The VR Surgical Library is major step forward in using technology to make surgical education accessible for surgeons around the world,” explained Prof Davide Lomanto, who is leading the digital education programme at ELSA.

“Continuous learning helps members to become more effective in their own surgical practice. Our partnership with Kyalio amplifies our global surgical education efforts in an affordable and accessible way."

VR technology allows learners from worldwide to gain exposure to a wide range of cases by placing them beside leading experts in the operating theatres, enhancing their knowledge and skills to improve surgical outcomes in their own practices.

More than half a million young surgeons in Asia stand to benefit from this technology.

Headquartered in Singapore, Kyalio was established in 2019 with the mission of creating affordable yet advanced technologies for large scale surgical education.

More details at www.kyalio.com.

-- BERNAMA

TFP GROUP OF COMPANIES TO BRING FINTECH SOLUTIONS TO THE B40 COMMUNITY AND UNDERSERVED SEGMENT VIA ONECALL

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) -- TFP Solutions Bhd (“TFP”), an ACE Market-listed financial technology (“Fintech”) provider, via its subsidiary - MBP Solutions Sdn Bhd offers a OneCALL Mobile Fintech solution in Malaysia that focuses on the bottom 40% household income group (“B40”) and the underserved community.

Unlike most mobile operators, OneCALL mobile FinTech helps to empower its users with an everyday FinTech lifestyle & the ability to generate passive income from its value-added products.

YM Puteri Munawarah Syammiyah binti Munir, the Group Executive Director of TFP, said, “The OneCALL mobile FinTech solution is curated to help the B40 community and the underserved segment to have easy access to some of the financial services.

The FinTech solutions offered will include a built-in and approved co-branded e-Wallet powered by MobilityOne eM-ONEi, which helps users to make prepaid top-up purchases conveniently, data plan top-up and other payment services. Furthermore, the e-Wallet can be used as a salary account and receive passive income from promoting our value-added products. There is also the remittance feature that allows foreign workers to easily send money back to their families in their home countries. 

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#MYMUDAH INITIATIVE EXPANDED TO FACILITATE DELIVERY OF 5,000 START-UPS AS TARGETED IN MALAYSIA DIGITAL ECONOMY BLUEPRINT (MYDIGITAL)

PETALING JAYA, July 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) has expanded the scope of #MyMudah initiative to collect and address regulatory concerns from start-up companies. The facilitation supports the government’s aspiration to create at least 5,000 start-ups by 2025 and increased market entry for new businesses as stipulated in Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDigital). Start-up companies are strongly urged to register regulatory challenges impeding their business growth at http://mymudah.mpc.gov.my/. Addressing the legislative issues relevant to start-ups is expected to ease their business operation in ensuring that innovation does happen within a supporting business environment.

#MyMudah has so far collected more than 450 issues from various sectors via the Unified Public Consultation (UPC) portal. Regulatory concerns for the service sector recorded the highest number of issues registered at 62%, followed by the construction industry at 23.6%. Issues registered from the agriculture industry are currently at 8.2%, whereas from the manufacturing and mining & quarrying sectors are at 5.1% and 1.1% respectively.

#MYMUDAH INITIATIVE EXPANDED TO FACILITATE DELIVERY OF 5,000 START-UPS AS TARGETED IN MALAYSIA DIGITAL ECONOMY BLUEPRINT (MYDIGITAL)

HATCH RAISES ONE MILLION CANADIAN DOLLARS FOR COVAX, UNICEF

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) -- Hatch employees came together in an eight-week-long campaign to raise funds in support of COVAX, helping them progress towards their goal of procuring and delivering two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines globally.

According to a statement, via the employees’ generous donations and a corporate match, one million Canadian dollars was raised. (1 Canadian dollar = RM3.336)

COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organization, alongside key delivery partner, UNICEF.

Its aim is to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, and guarantee fair and equitable access for every country.

UNICEF is working with manufacturers and partners on the procurement and delivery of vaccine doses, as well as freight, logistics, and storage for countries.

With Hatch’s donation, UNICEF will be able to fully vaccinate (two doses) more than 187,000 people worldwide.

“To end this pandemic, we need to think globally and act locally to make a difference beyond our families and our company—this is the basis of real positive change around the world,” said Hatch’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John Bianchini.

“As a global company, we are engaging great people who make a difference every day in their communities, with our clients, and with each other. Together, we saw the imperative to support the world’s largest mass health campaign to stop the COVID-19 virus and move forward into a better future.”

Hatch recently sponsored the ‘This is our Shot’ movement, a consortium of grassroots organisations, Canadian businesses, associations, healthcare professionals, community leaders, and influencers focused on educating and inspiring Canadians so that vaccine hesitancy is replaced with confidence.

More details at www.hatch.com.

-- BERNAMA

The Globe and Mail's Sophi.io bags WAN-IFRA's North American Digital Media Award

KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 -- Sophi.io, The Globe and Mail’s artificial intelligence-based automation, optimisation and prediction engine, has won WAN-IFRA’s 2021North American Digital Media Award in the category of Best Paid Content Strategy.

The North American Digital Media Awards honour news publishers that have delivered cutting-edge, unique and original digital media projects in the past year, according to a statement.

Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Globe and Mail, Phillip Crawley said: “Winning a WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Award for the second year in a row demonstrates Sophi's ability to show the publishing industry what the future looks like.

“We are proud to be able to bring these AI and ML-powered tools to organisations across the globe.”

Sophi was developed by The Globe and Mail to help the newsroom make important strategic and tactical decisions. It is a suite of tools that includes Sophi Automation and Sophi for Paywalls as well as Sophi Analytics, a newsroom decision-support system.

Sophi is an artificial-intelligence system that helps publishers identify and leverage their most valuable content.

It has powerful predictive capabilities – using natural language processing, Sophi Dynamic Paywall is a fully dynamic, real-time, personalised paywall engine that analyses both content and user behaviour to determine when to ask a reader for money or an email address, and when to leave them alone.

As the North American award winner, Sophi is now a contender for the WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards, where the winners from North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, India, and the Middle East compete.

More details at https://www.sophi.io.

-- BERNAMA

​JDMAS TARGETS RMB 10 MIL IN SALES FOR BELANJAWAN 2021 INITIATIVE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MOF & MDEC TO SUPPORT MSMES THROUGH CROSS-BORDER E-COMMERCE

​KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 (Bernama) -- JDMas Commerce, platform for the Malaysia Flagship Store on JD Worldwide, part of China’s largest online & offline retailer is honoured to be selected as a partner for Belanjawan 2021, an initiative under the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). The partnership was announced by the Government of Malaysia on 5th of July 2021, and is effective from 1st July 2021 until the end of the year.

Belanjawan 2021 or B2021 features two unique initiatives to support micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), namely Go-eCommerce OnBoarding and Shop Malaysia Online (SMO). It aims to help local businesses to adopt e-commerce as the new way of doing business as well as widen their market reach.

JDMas has the capabilities and expertise to transform traditional business through its cross border eCommerce platform with JD.com, China’s largest retailer and the world’s third largest. These include digital promotions, epayments in China, cross border freight, warehouse and last mile logistics via JD’s sophisticated and holistic ecosystem in China.

MSMEs will also unleash the potential of their Malaysian brand with exposure to over 1 billion of JD’s registered users in China. This enables Malaysian brands and products to not only gain traction quickly but to scale their business in the world’s second largest economy.

JDMAS TARGETS RMB 10 MIL IN SALES FOR BELANJAWAN 2021 INITIATIVE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MOF & MDEC TO SUPPORT MSMES THROUGH CROSS-BORDER E-COMMERCE

NTHU team shines bright at the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 -- A team from NTHU’s Department of Computer Science has won the Championship in the online group of the 2020-2021 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge, outperforming over 300 teams representing prestigious universities worldwide.

According to a statement, the team won the competition for the second straight time following the victory in 2019.

ASC of China is one of the three most important worldwide supercomputer competitions for university teams along with the SCC of the United States, and the ISC of Germany.

Team adviser, Professor Jerry Chou said supercomputer competitions hone students’ ability to use software and hardware in solving various real-world problems.

In addition to basic skills, participants must also have strong knowledge of various related fields and know how to apply it in different situations — a strength which his teams have consistently demonstrated over the years.

This year’s team consisted of juniors Wang Tzuwen, Huang Wenyuan, and Chang Chenghsun, and sophomores Mou Chanyu and Chiang Liyuan.

Team captain, Tzuwen said the team began preparing for the competition in the summer of 2019, with training provided by senior classmates Hsiao Yicheng and Lin Ente.

He said competing online was more challenging, because the cloud platform wasn’t made available until the competition began. In addition to deciding on the optimal division of labour, the team had to quickly install and become familiar with the software so that they could start their computations.

NTHU, currently ranking second in the world, is a force to be reckoned with, in the circle of supercomputer competitions. The team also won several awards at SCC, including the Championship in 2010, 2011 and the Highest LINPACK Award in 2007, 2008, and 2014.

-- BERNAMA