KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (Bernama) — Aureo Gallery is hosting a showcase of the world’s only 24-karat gold artist Kim Il Tae’s artworks entitled “50 Golden Finites” from today until May 29.
The exhibition at Boathouse, Tasik Ampang features an exclusive collection of gold paintings valued at up to US$2 million (US$1=RM4.38) and rising.
Aureo Gallery founder Serena Chiam said the unveiling of Kim’s intricate masterpieces seeks to enthral Aureo Gallery’s prestigious art collectors and prospects.
“Six of Kim’s timeless golden chef-d’œuvres are on display prominently in the Dome area, accompanied by enchanting light projections and performances. Smaller paintings such as the Golden Horse and Tree of Abundance are being showcased at the Glasshouse,” Chiam said after the unveiling ceremony here today.
She said two glamorous brands – luxury camera manufacturer Leica and Mercedes-Benz dealer Hap Seng Star – are featured alongside this exhibition, with the former holding a product presentation and photography workshop in the Dome area and Hap Seng Star displaying an S-Class and offering EQA’s test drive to their most loyal customers.
“Following these timeless brands, Aureo Gallery will join the pedestal of opulence and elevate Kim Il Tae’s exquisite oeuvres in the world of art,” she said.
Under the Aureo Empowerment Movement, a portion of sales from Kim’s gold paintings will be given to charity organisations dedicated to helping vulnerable communities, including Fugee School, Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malaysia and A-HEART.
“Aureo Gallery strives to give back to the community that has so long been its home,” said Chiam.
For more information on Aureo Gallery and 50 Golden Finites exhibition, visit https://aureo.co/ and https://www.50goldenfinites.com/ respectively. Follow @aureogallery on Instagram and Facebook for more updates.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (Bernama) — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob is scheduled to join more than 700 media practitioners at the National Journalists Day 2022 (HAWANA 2022) celebration in Melaka this Sunday (May 29).
HAWANA 2022 Publicity and Promotions committee said in a statement today, Ismail Sabri is slated to deliver his opening speech at 2.30 pm at the event which will also be attended by journalists from several ASEAN countries.
According to the statement, among the highlights of this year’s celebration is the Melaka Declaration which outlines the direction of the country’s journalism and media industry.
The committee said professional journalists, individuals and organisations who have made significant contributions not only in journalism but also in shaping the minds of the people through their works will be honoured at HAWANA 2022 awards ceremony.
It said that a media forum will be held in the morning as a platform for editors-in-chief, editors and media personalities to discuss the future of the media industry, especially in the face of technological advances and an increasingly challenging environment.
Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa will deliver the closing speech at the forum, read the statement.
Meanwhile, it said, the Melaka state government will host a dinner event tomorrow (May 28) to celebrate media practitioners which will be attended by Melaka Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Mohd Ali Rustam.
HAWANA which is celebrated annually on May 29 is the recognition and appreciation from the government for media practitioners to honour their contributions in helping to develop the country and strengthen unity.
Themed ‘People’s Voice, National Aspiration’, HAWANA 2022 is organised by the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (K-KOMM) and implemented by the Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA) in cooperation with media organisations and the Melaka state government.
TOKYO, May 27 (Bernama) — Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida here on Friday and proposed that Malaysia-Japan ties be upgraded to comprehensive strategic partnership (CSP).
In the meeting at the Kantei, the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office, Ismail Sabri, accompanied by a high-profile delegation, held bilateral talks with Kishida to strengthen the long-established Malaysia-Japan relationship.
This is the first face-to-face meeting between Ismail Sabri and Kishida on bilateral talks since they assumed their posts in 2021.
Ismail Sabri and Kishida had earlier held the Japan-Malaysia conference via telephone on April 20 this year, which saw the two leaders touching on various regional and international issues.
“We wish to propose upgrading our ties from strategic partnership to comprehensive strategic partnership,” said Ismail Sabri at the bilateral meeting.
Malaysia-Japan ties had been upgraded from enhanced partnership to strategic partnership in 2015.
The meeting was held in conjunction with Ismail Sabri’s official working visit to Japan, during which he participated in the 27th International Conference on the Future of Asia, an annual gathering of political, economic and industry leaders from the Asia-Pacific, and met with business and corporate figures in Japan to attract investments to Malaysia.
Kishida was also playing host to a Malaysian prime minister for the first time after he was appointed Japan’s Prime Minister in October last year.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Look East Policy, which has contributed greatly to strengthening bilateral ties between Malaysia and Japan.
TOKYO, May 27 (Bernama) — Malaysia and Japan finalised three memoranda of cooperation (MoC) related to the aircraft industry, skilled workers as well youth and sports here today.
The exchange of the MOCs took place at the Kantei, or the Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, and was witnessed by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.
Ismail Sabri and Kishida had earlier met to discuss important issues in Malaysia-Japan relations in conjunction with the Malaysian Prime Minister’s official working visit to Japan.
On the Malaysian side, the exchange of MOCs was led by the International Trade and Industry Ministry (MITI) for the aircraft industry, the Human Resources Ministry for skilled workers and the Youth and Sports Ministry for youth and sports matters.
Senior Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said the aircraft industry MoC was a collaboration between Malaysia and Japan to strengthen aerospace activities.
Among the activities that would be involved are maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) as well as aerospace downstream activities.
“It will provide an opportunity for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be involved in the supply chain of the industry,” he told Malaysian journalists.
Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri S.Saravanan said the MoC led by his ministry was related to sending Malaysian specified skilled workers to Japan.
Through the MoC, over 1,000 Malaysians will have the opportunity to gain work experience in Japan and if the programme proved to be effective, discussions will be held with the Japanese government to increase the number of Malaysian participants, he said.
“It gives Malaysians the opportunity to gain experience and expertise in Japan for a period of time and when they return they will be able to contribute to related industries in Malaysia,” Saravanan said.
Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, meanwhile said the MOC undertaken by the ministry is related to youth exchange and development as well as sports.
Also discussed was cooperation in areas such as volunteer training for disasters such as floods, and also volunteerism in international sporting events, with Japan leading by example after hosting the Olympic Games in challenging conditions.
Japan was the host of the 2020 Olympic Games, but the prestigious sporting event had to be rescheduled to July last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tokyo 2020 created history after being the first Olympic games to have no official spectators.
A brand-new precinct that transforms some of Sydney’s oldest buildings and forgotten corners into a vibrant hub of light, music and ideas
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SYDNEY, May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Central Station and The Goods Line will be part of Vivid Sydney for the first time in 2022. Light projections, installations and music events will be held in the historic station building and along the adjoining revitalised walkway, and Central Station’s iconic clock tower will be illuminated. Two of Sydney’s great educational institutions nearby, the University of Technology Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum, will also host events for the Vivid Ideas program, including the fascinating Vivid Ideas Exchange.
VIVID LIGHT
Name: Vivid Reflections Artist: The Electric Canvas (Australia) Location: Western Forecourt of Central Station Interactive | Great for Families | Soul of Sydney
This interactive projection uses motion capture technology to turn a person’s movements into animated action, then beams them onto the landmark clock tower. Visitors will be transported, in fantastic and unexpected ways, to the places that make Sydney unique, from Bondi Beach to diverse cultural icons.
Name: Convergence Artist: Mandylights (Australia) Location: The Goods Line Tunnel Interactive | Art & Architecture
The largest-scale laser installation in Vivid Sydney history — with more than 100 custom-made laser units — creates a spectacular, immersive visual experience. The unused Goods Line tunnel becomes a portal to a spectacular convergence of lights, lasers and smoke effects that will leave guests wondering where the tunnel leads and what they’ll discover as they journey deeper underground.
Name: Frankly, My Dear… Artist: Sinclair Park (Australia) Location: UTS Business School (Dr Chau Chak Wing Building), Ultimo Road, Ultimo Art & Architecture
See the Frank Gehry-designed UTS Business School in a whole new light. By illuminating its windows with colour-changing cove lights and wall grazers, Sinclair accents the crumpled-looking exposed brick form with jewel-bright hues. Seen from the Goods Line, Frank Gehry’s unmistakable “paper bag” aesthetic suddenly looks as enticing as a bag of mixed lollies.
Name: We Dream the City Artist: Essem Projects: Michael Killalea (Australia) / Sarah Barns (Australia) Location: The Goods Line at Powerhouse Museum Soul of the City
As visitors stroll along The Goods Line, the back wall of the Powerhouse Museum comes alive with an animated vision of Sydney’s streets through time, creating a 130m-long meditation of the forces that have shaped Sydney. This moving mural uses footage from the ABC, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, the former Maritime Workers Union, the Transport for NSW Historical collection and more.
Name: A Mirrored City Artist: WITCH+GHOST: Isabel Hudson (Australia) / Trent Suidgeest (Australia) Location: The Goods Line, Ultimo Interactive | Great for Families | Soul of the City
Discover a city within the city, where shimmering surfaces beckon. Visitors weave their way through a series of building-like forms covered in dichroic film. This playful installation invites people on a journey through many vignettes of Sydney life. Will they recognise Oxford Street, the Northern Beaches, a game of backyard cricket or the late-night allure of Kings Cross?
Name: Shard Artist: Lumos Creatives: Christian Lovelady (Australia) / Wakara Gondarra (Australia) / Baykali Ganambarr (Australia) / Watjarr Garmu (Australia) / Tristan Garner (Australia) Location: The Goods Line Near Novotel Sydney Central Indigenous & First Nations
This trio of light sculptures acts as a platform for the stories of Yolngu dancers Baykali Ganambarr, Wakara Gondarra and Watjarr (Marko) Garmu, with LED screen technology giving them a new way to express themselves that truly brings their language to fresh eyes and ears. Watch as the fire dances, the yidaki (traditional didgeridoo) sings and poetry is spoken.
Name: Smash Artist: Creative Road Art Projects Pty Ltd: Marilyn Minter (United States) Location: The Goods Line Near Novotel Sydney Central Agents of Change
An arresting video projection of a pair of bejewelled stilettos stomping and splashing through puddles of silver paint. It’s a play on the Vivid Sydney 2022 theme of “Soul of the City,” as a “sole” of a different kind can be seen as a catalyst for change.
The Grand Concourse of Central Station becomes an impromptu concert hall with a different band performing every week. Stop by for some swing, bluegrass, jazz, pop and more on the way to or from the Light Walk.
The city’s best spinners will hit the decks during Vivid Sydney on a new stage set up among the Light Walk along The Goods Line. There’s a different DJ playing every night including Stereogamous, Kate Monroe, Stephen Ferris, Peewee Ferris and LUEN.
VIVID IDEAS Vivid Ideas Up Late Powerhouse Museum 9, 2 & 16 June, 5-9 p.m. Free
Celebrate who and what makes Sydney unique through talks, music, performance and art at Vivid Ideas Up Late. The Powerhouse Museum will host three events in the series: Beautiful Freak in the Machine (2 June), Ballroom & the West Ball (9 June), and Queer Sydney (16 June).
Join some of the world’s greatest minds at the Vivid Ideas Exchange, with more than 60 events covering everything from racism and cults to death, climate change, space and drugs. This series of talks, seminars, screenings and workshops is designed to spark debate among the creative community.
EXCLUSIVE VIVID SYDNEY OFFERS & EXPERIENCES
Many of the restaurants in the Kensington Street dining precinct have special offers during Vivid Sydney, including a complimentary Fire & Ice dessert at Eastside Bar & Grill; a complimentary bottle of Sicilian wine with the degustation menu at Olio; a complimentary serve of Rainbow Dumplings with any whole duck at Holy Duck; and 15% off selected cocktails at Cartel, Gin Lane and Blossom Bar.
Step off The Goods Line at Darling Square to refresh with a limited-edition Vivid Sydney drink at Bubble Nini Tea. The Milky Way milk tea and Super Nova sparkling fruit drink both come with light-up coasters and glow-in-the-dark straws to take home.
Hello Auntie in Darling Square is serving up a Vivid-inspired Disco Ball cocktail complete with LED ice cubes.
For more information on Vivid Sydney and to book tickets, go to www.vividsydney.com. Get social using @vividsydney #vividsydney.
MEDIA CONTACT: Wayne Mitcham, Āmio Limited M: +64 21 499 550 E: wayne@amio.nz
About Vivid Sydney
Vivid Sydney is an annual celebration of creativity, innovation and technology, which transforms Sydney for 23 days and nights. Staged for its 12th year in 2022, Vivid Sydney fuses mesmerising art displays and 3D light projections with exhilarating live music performances and deep-dive discussions from some of the world’s brightest minds, as well as the Sydney Opera House Lighting of the Sails. Vivid Sydney is owned, managed and produced by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency.
CVG is one of many businesses affected by the large-scale government lock-downs in Shanghai that began in March as a result of rising COVID-19 cases
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NEW ALBANY, Ohio, May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CVG announced on Thursday that it has restarted operations at its Shanghai plant in China. In March, the company became one of thousands of manufacturers in the region that were forced to halt production as the result of restrictions aimed at stemming the spread of COVID-19.
Production at the Shanghai plant resumed on May 20 at 50% capacity under a “closed-loop” system — where employees must receive a negative COVID test and then live on-site within the factory — to minimize the risk of spreading the virus within the city.
CVG plans to continue ramping up production over the next few weeks in accordance with the local lifting of restrictions, led by Deputy Mayor of Shanghai Zong Ming, who has stated that the city hopes to fully open in June.
The shutdown in March had immediate impact on CVG’s OE seating customers in Asia and abroad, who were either facing similar manufacturing restrictions or unable to ship and receive products due to congestion in Shanghai’s port, which is the largest port in the world. CVG responded quickly, moving to air shipping to limit supply chain disruptions for its customers. The company was recently able to reinstate ocean freight through both the Shanghai and Ningbo ports.
“We may not have control over this pandemic or the delays in production it causes, but we can adapt quickly and create alternate solutions to mitigate the impacts,” said CVG President and CEO Harold Bevis. “We’ve had our customers’ needs front-of-mind in every decision we’ve made — from providing alternate means of shipping to working closely with some of our top customers to mirror production in our Thailand and Mexico operations in order to provide alternate supply.”
CVG’s local seat production in Asia includes the manufacturing of medium- and heavy-duty seating solutions for some of the region’s largest vehicle manufacturers and represents an $80 million accretive business for the company. Globally, seat-part supply from Shanghai impacts $170 million worth of production for the company within the U.S., Mexico, UK, Thailand and Australia.
In combination with the war in Ukraine which immediately impacted production at the company’s facility in L’viv, CVG faced first-quarter interruptions that have continued into the second quarter. CVG is actively resolving these setbacks and expects second-half operations to be back to pre-war, pre-COVID status, barring any new unforeseen events.
About CVG
At CVG, we deliver real solutions to complex design, engineering and manufacturing problems across a range of global industries by innovating, constantly adding value, and treating our customer’s bottom line as if it were our own. Information about our company and products is available at www.cvgrp.com.
LIVERPOOL, England & NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Global Employer Brand Agency, Ph.Creative, has launched an exciting new recruitment technology company featuring a flagship enterprise-level careers website SaaS platform. ‘Happy Dance‘ is set to disrupt a sector that Ph.Creative believes has underinvested and overlooked careers websites in favor of larger technology products required to drive an end-to-end recruitment process.
“Happy Dance has evolved from the tools we use to fulfill the employer brand needs of our client partners,” says Jim Taylor MD, of the new enterprise. “We’ve been building engaging and responsive websites for years and realized there was a major gap in the market that we could fill: an enterprise-level SaaS that didn’t test the sanity of its users with less-than-adequate admin and positively zero design thinking.”
Happy Dance was originally built by Ph.Creative for its own use. “We’d perfected the system to the point where it was so intuitive, so easy to use, launching as a standalone just made sense. The existing options all come from big, back-end technology operators: they’re systems designed in the dark. By contrast, we’re from an agency world that’s purpose built to be responsive and accommodating. It’s what we do for a living, after all.”
“We’ve seen and heard so many horror stories from Employer Brand and Talent managers about systems they’d tied themselves into – the hidden costs, the clunky interfaces, the shockingly bad SEO and deathly slow load times,” continues Taylor. “We felt like we had to do something to help. I mean, why wouldn’t you?”
Happy Dance is a SaaS product, refined with input from 20+ F500 founding customers—including the likes of Dominos, DAZN, King Games and Tipico— and it is ready for launch.
“This tech is head and shoulders above anything else in the Talent Acquisition marketplace, and when you mix that with the world-class design capability, the results are a 10x improvement. I’ve used it in my last 2 companies, and I’d highly recommend it to TA Leaders serious about high performance.” – Graeme Johnson, Talent Director of the Merlin Entertainment Group
Happy Dance offers talent attraction and brand leaders a flexible careers website design with all the features, functions, and integration options enterprise-level businesses need to manage the candidate experience at scale. In addition, the CMS (Content Management System) has a real next-generation capability to analyze and grade content for bias, sentiment and readability, as well as SEO; all built into the admin controls.
Users benefit from all the tricks learned from years in this sector. Happy Dance puts it all at their fingertips, maximizing the inclusivity, engagement and search engine performance of their careers website, without lengthy admin delays for updates. It’s about time!
“Our site was delivered on time, to specification and within budget—despite a tight timeline! The team really knocked it out the park.”–Nick Katsefaras, Enterprise Systems Manager, Dominos US.
SEO is nothing new to the world of marketing, yet it’s been slow to catch on significantly within recruitment marketing by comparison. It’s not down to education or understanding, it’s more likely due to the prohibitive constraints of existing career website platforms. What Happy Dance delivers is yet another innovative opportunity has been refined and fine-tuned as part of the Ph.Creative tool set – www.jobpagegrader.com.
Job Page Grader ranks a job description page according to several key criteria. It’s already freely available to anyone, delivering insights from over 100,000 submissions, collected over the last three years:
“This is big data used intelligently. It’s helped us to design a much better mousetrap,” said Bryan Adams, Founder and CEO of Ph. Creative.
The Happy Dance offering is a combination of SaaS technology with a concierge service:
Get real design flexibility and say goodbye to the limitations imposed by restrictive templates
Enjoy lightning-fast pages, that are 100% SEO ready, with 301 mapping to make sure they retain their search engine ranking
Discover proper personalization, multilingual, quick-apply and mobile-first interface design
Manage your own content, 24/7, so you aren’t waiting for an admin team in a warehouse on the other side of the world to respond to your change requests
Discover pain-free implementation, delivered 100% ready to rock ‘n’ roll
Get features and functions that elevate the experience and create first impressions that force candidates to apply.
According to Dave Hazlehurst, partner at Ph.Creative, the move into SaaS fits with the parent agency’s ‘experience by design’ business model: “In an industry that talks obsessively about the candidate experience, there’s been this gaping hole in the market when it came to enterprise-level business. Happy Dance is here to plug that gap.”
The feature list, which includes a tech development roadmap, prioritizes what talent and brand leaders really want. Happy Dance combines methods learned from empathetic listening with a real understanding of how candidates move through a website.
“This is a careers website product that delivers agency-style collaboration and a commitment to getting the basics right, with robust next-generation features at the scale only SaaS can offer. We think the current choices in the marketplace are somewhat incapable of delivering on the basics well, regardless of the odd whistle and bell that’s hyped. We’re looking forward to going head-to-head with our new competitors in what is now a really exciting space,” says Bryan Adams, CEO & Founder of Ph.Creative.
Ph.Creative, known as the ‘Defenders of Happiness’, say the product brand name, Happy Dance represents that ‘new careers website’ feeling they share when they design, configure and launch something special with each new client partner.
“I’ve seen multiple clients express pure joy and happiness when they realize they are never going to have to deal with the website technology they’d spent years struggling with. This makes us all want to do a little happy dance!“ added Paul Mason, Head of Digital Sales at Happy Dance.
Happy Dance is available for demonstration at www.happydance.love where you’ll also find case studies and information with regards to features, implementation processes and what Happy Dance customers have to say about this exciting new technology.
