Day: March 6, 2022

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WHO confirms several attacks on Ukraine health centres

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The World Health Organization has confirmed several attacks on health care centres in Ukraine and is investigating others, the agency’s chief said on Sunday. WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “The attacks caused multiple deaths and injuries. “Attacks on healthcare facilities or workers breach medical neutrality and are violations of international humanitarian law,” he said. READ ALSO: Taiwan president to donate a month’s salary for Ukraine relief efforts ReutersWHO confirms several attacks on Ukraine health centres Continue reading “WHO confirms several attacks on Ukraine health centres”

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NEP Opens Middle East Office To Serve Region’s Growing Live Broadcast Needs

The global media technology partner expands its presence and investment in the region with new technology solutions, facilities, and talent to support broadcasters, leagues, rights holders and producers in delivering live sport and entertainment.

ABU DHABI, March 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NEP Group, the leading media technology partner for content creators around the globe, announced that it has opened a new office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to meet the growing demand for its services, strengthening the company’s investment and presence in the Middle East. Located across from the famed Khalifa Park in Abu Dhabi, NEP Middle East FZ LLC (“NEP Middle East”) will provide a wide range of outside broadcast solutions, including both on-site and remote production services, to enable clients to bring live sports and entertainment to fans and audiences around the region and worldwide.

NEP is expanding on its already extensive experience and work, ranging from covering UAE National Day celebrations and New Year’s Eve concerts, to many sporting events including Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 and 2022, the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup and T10 Cricket, and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Fight Island. In addition, NEP’s Creative Technology business provides a full set of live event audiovisual solutions to clients throughout the MENA region.

Saeed Izadi, current head of NEP’s Singapore and India businesses, has been appointed President of NEP Middle East. He will oversee business strategy and operations for all three business units.

NEP also announced that Ammar Hina has joined the company as Business Development Director for the MENA region. Hina brings more than 16 years of industry experience to lead business development and operations NEP Middle East, serving as the key contact for clients, major events and cross-divisional initiatives. Throughout his career in broadcast and TV production, he has worked on some of the most prominent franchises in the sports industry, from FIFA World Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, AFC Asian Cup, UEFA Champions league, and European Qualifiers to the English Premier League live programming.

He joins NEP most recently from The UAE Pro League, the organizing body of the ADNOC Pro League and professional football in UAE. There he served as Director of Broadcast & TV Production where he formulated and oversaw the execution of the broadcast strategy for all competitions, identified market opportunities for content development and distribution channels, managed outside broadcast service provider and media rights holder relationships, and reported on viewership, fan experience, and stadium and venue development.

“I couldn’t be happier to welcome Ammar to NEP to spearhead our efforts for this very important market,” said Izadi. “His expertise is enabling us to build a strong team locally while delivering superior service and innovative solutions for our clients located in the Middle East as well as international clients looking to share the events taking place in this great region with the rest of the world.”

“Being in the Broadcast and TV production industry for many years, joining NEP Group is a huge step for me on both career and personal levels,” Hina said. “In my previous experiences in the industry and around the globe, whenever NEP is mentioned, it means ‘Quality & Clarity’. I always believed that NEP’s presence in the MENA region is needed, and NEP can set higher production standards in MENA. I am very excited to be part or NEP Group!”

Ammar Hina and the NEP Middle East team can be reached via email at ahina@nepgroup.com or by calling +971561102210. To learn more about NEP’s full range of end-to-end solutions or career opportunities with NEP Middle East, visit NEPGroup.com.

About NEP

NEP Group is the leading media technology partner for content creators around the globe. For more than 35 years, we have been delivering innovative products and services that enable our clients to make, manage and show the world their content—anywhere, anytime, on any platform. As a trusted partner working on some of the largest productions in the world, NEP offers a complete set of end-to-end solutions, from content capture to distribution—including a growing portfolio of transformational cloud-based, software-based and virtualized technologies. Our Live Production solutions range from AV services and live audience enhancements to traditional outside broadcast and cutting-edge centralized and cloud production. NEP’s Virtual Production solutions start at the creative stage and end with exceptional execution across ICVFX, augmented reality, LED stages and more. And, our Media Processing solutions provide the tools and products our clients need to ingest, edit, store, search, manage and distribute their digital assets to rights holders across multiple platforms.

Headquartered in the United States, NEP has operations in 25 countries with over 4,000+ employees. Together, we have supported productions in over 100 countries on all seven continents, and we’re still growing. Our clients range from the leaders in sport, music, film and TV, to major corporate brands, agencies, to new content owners and creators all around the world. Learn how we are helping clients bring their creative visions, content, live sports and entertainment to life at nepgroup.com.

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Chang Tuan-chun breaks record in Taitung ironman triathlon

Taiwanese Chang Tuan-chun (???) won the individual race in the ironman triathlon in Taitung on Sunday, breaking the record set by another Taiwan athlete two years ago, according to the county government.

Chang clocked 3 hours, 52 minutes and 48 seconds on the 113-kilometer route of the 2022 MaiCoin IRONMAN 70.3, the county government said in a statement.

A four-time winner of the ironman triathlon title at Taiwan’s National Games, Chang on Sunday smashed the 3:58:53 record set by Taiwanese triathlete Hsiao Yu (??) in the 2020 edition of the Taitung race, the statement said.

The Taitung triathlon comprised a 1.9 km swim, a 90 km bike ride, and a 21.1 km run in Taitung Forest Park and Flowing Lake.

Chang Chia-chia (???) finished first in the women’s division, clocking 4:53:05, while her sister Chang Ting-ting (???) placed second with a time of 5:15:19.

Meanwhile, Hung Kuo-chan (???), the first visually impaired Taiwanese runner to participate in the Boston Marathon, also joined the Taitung triathlon event.

Some 200 foreign residents in Taiwan and about 1,500 Taiwanese athletes participated Sunday in the Taitung triathlon, which was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel

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President lauds Presbyterian Church’s contributions to Taiwan

President Tsai Ing-wen (???) on Sunday paid tribute to the Presbyterian Church’s contributions to Taiwan at an event marking the 150th anniversary of the appointment of one of the church’s first missionaries in the country.

Tsai delivered the remarks at a prayer service held by the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan in honor of George Leslie MacKay, a Canadian minister who spent three decades in the country from late 1871 until his death in 1901.

In addition to establishing more than 60 churches in Taiwan, MacKay is widely remembered as the founder of Aletheia University, originally called Oxford College, in New Taipei’s Tamsui District, as well as the predecessor to MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taipei.

In her speech, Tsai noted that MacKay had faced significant challenges as a missionary in Taiwan in the 1870s, a time when local residents’ knowledge of Christianity was extremely limited.

To overcome these difficulties, MacKay learned to communicate fluently in the local dialect of Hokkien, while also making important contributions in areas such as education and medicine, she said.

While MacKay devoted “a lifetime of compassion” to Taiwan, the Presbyterian Church has continued to carry on the legacy of his good work, Tsai said, citing the key role of the church’s leaders in Taiwan’s transition to democracy.

Aside from praying for the country, Presbyterians have demonstrated their love for Taiwan by taking “practical action” in social undertakings related to education, medicine, and the environment, she added.

Sunday’s event was also attended by Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (???), Legislator Wang Ting-yu (???), and Jordan Reeves, executive director of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei.

Despite MacKay’s greater prominence today, the first Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan was Scottish-born physician James Laidlaw Maxwell, who arrived in 1865 and whose medical and missionary work was centered in what is today Tainan and Kaohsiung.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel

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CNFI to make energy policy proposals in wake of nationwide blackout

The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI) said Sunday that it will put forward some new energy policy proposals to the government, as the nationwide blackout on March 3 had caused substantial losses to industrial businesses.

In a press release, the federation said that apart from the impact in the lives of the general public, the power outage resulted in estimated losses of NT$10 billion (US$355 million) to 48 industrial parks and 521 companies nationwide.

The semiconductor, optoelectronics, petrochemical and steel industries took a huge hit, with petrochemical companies in Kaohsiung’s Linyuan Industrial Park suffering the biggest losses, the CNFI said.

Taking into consideration the two other major blackouts that occurred in May last year, the CNFI said, it is evident that the country’s current energy policies need to be revised as soon as possible.

Amid the trade war between the United States and China, Taiwan has grown as an investment hub in recent years, but that has also driven up Taiwan’s energy consumption, the CNFI said, adding that the problem needs to be addressed if Taiwan is to retain that status.

To that end, CNFI Chairman Wong Wen-yuan (???) said, the federation is working with industry leaders and energy experts in Taiwan to come up with practical and scientific recommendations for improving the government’s energy policies.

The recommendations could be used not only to resolve Taiwan’s energy crisis but also to help realize its goal of becoming a carbon neutral country by 2050, Wong said.

Meanwhile, the government should also review its energy policies, in recognition of the industrial sector’s role as an integral part of the country’s development and the need for a stable energy supply, the CNFI said.

The federation said, however, that it knows energy policies have become more complicated due to climate change.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel

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