Huawei Thailand wins ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards 2023’

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Huawei recognized as a leader at the forefront of accelerating competitiveness and sustainably steering Thailand towards the digital era

PUBLISHED : 29 Nov 2023 at 16:27

Huawei Thailand wins 'Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards 2023'

Mr. David Li, Chief Executive Officer, Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd., receives the prestigious HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s Trophy, in front of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s image, as Huawei is named the winner of the ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards 2023’ for the ‘Product/Service Excellence’ category.

Bangkok, 29 November 2023 – Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd. was honored today with the prestigious HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s Trophy at the ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards 2023’ in the ‘Product/Service Excellence’ Category by the Thailand Management Association in collaboration with the Sasin Graduate Institute of the Business Administration (Sasin School of Management) at Chulalongkorn University. The presentation of the royal award was arranged in front of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s image and made to Mr. David Li, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Thailand. On this occasion, Privy Councilor Jirayu Isarangkul na Ayudhya presided over the ceremony, together with Mr. Nithi Patarachoke, President of the Thailand Management Association (TMA), and Professor Ian Fenwick, Ph.D., Director of the Sasin School of Management. This honorary award reflects Huawei Thailand’s decades of devotion to product and service research and development, contributions towards improving Thailand’s infrastructure, and digital talent cultivation and inclusivity initiatives, with the aim of steering Thailand towards a fully realized and sustainable ICT ecosystem that will establish Thailand as a future digital hub of ASEAN.

Privy Councilor Jirayu Isarangkul na Ayudhya delivered a speech during the ceremony: “The ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards’ by the Thailand Management Association, in collaboration with the Sasin Graduate Institute of the Business Administration (Sasin School of Management) at Chulalongkorn University, is a prestigious accolade presented to Thailand’s leading corporations for their exemplary dedication to excellence. The awards do not only serve to recognize standout corporations for their achievements, but also to encourage other organizations to steer towards more effective business development and management strategies. At its core, the awards reflect the commitment from Thailand’s leading organizations towards comprehensive business management and will inspire all organizations to further develop their businesses and accelerate their overall competitiveness, thereby creating better standards and sustainable growth for organizations in Thailand.”

Mr. Nithi Patarachoke, President of TMA, also spoke during the ceremony: “Due to the rapid changes and advancements in technology that are directly impacting businesses around the world, it is more important than ever for Thai organizations to leverage their competitiveness. The TMA Excellence Awards were initially started by the TMA, with the ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards’ being established 21 years ago. The awards signify TMA’s commitment towards supporting the private sector in developing a solid foundation that can drive the country’s economic growth in both a tangible and sustainable way. The winning organizations were selected by an honorable committee and showcase perspectives on corporate excellence and business management that will help the country accelerate its competitiveness in the future”.

Mr. David Li, Chief Executive Officer, Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Added: Huawei Thailand is honored to receive a royal award at the ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards 2023’ for the ‘Product/Service Excellence’ category. This award reflects our commitment to propel Thailand and Thai society towards digital transformation in line with our mission to ‘Grow in Thailand, Contribute to Thailand’. Over the past 23 years, Huawei has remained steadfast in its commitment to ‘quality as the lifeblood of our enterprise’. This has subsequently won us the trust of our customers and partners, building Huawei into the success it is today. Facing the future, Huawei is committed to providing customers with high-quality products and services by strongly investing in the development of new and advanced products and services through cutting edge technologies such as 5G, Cloud, AI, IoT, Digital Power, and Cybersecurity. Huawei continues to work with its partners to develop industry-friendly solutions and stands as one of the country’s leading partners for digital, intelligent, and green transformation across all industries and helping our customers achieve their business successes.”

This year marks another successful year for Huawei Thailand as the company has been named the winner of the royal ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Awards’ for the second consecutive year: the winner in the ‘Product/Service Excellence’ category in 2023 and the winner of ‘Thailand Corporate Excellence Award’ in the ‘Innovation Excellence’ category in 2022. These prestigious awards stand as proof of Huawei’s dedication to supporting new and intelligent technologies, digital power, and digital transformation around the world. With regards to Thailand, Huawei is also fully committed to its mission to “Grow in Thailand, Contribute to Thailand” to drive Thailand towards becoming a sustainable future digital hub in ASEAN.

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Rashmika Mandanna: India actress urges women to speak up on deepfake videos

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Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna, who was recently targeted with a deepfake video, has urged people to not share such material.

She particuclarly urged young women to speak up if somebody bullied them with such material.

Ms Mandanna shared the message weeks after a deepfake video about her went viral on social media.

The star’s face was morphed onto an Instagram video posted by a British-Indian woman.

She had described the incident as “extremely scary” at the time.

On Monday, the actress, 27, said the support from her film industry colleagues made her realise that sharing of such videos shouldn’t be normalised.

“It [the support] made me feel safe, and secure,” she told the media on Monday.

“So I want to tell all girls out there that this is not normal. When something is affecting you, you don’t have to keep quiet.”

In a statement on X (formerly Twitter) soon after her deepfake went viral, Ms Mandanna wrote, “If this happened to me when I was in school or college, I genuinely can’t imagine how could I ever tackle this.”

The actor said she was grateful for the support of her family and friends and called for the issue to be addressed with urgency “before more of us are affected by such identity theft”.

India’s Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has called such deepfake videos a “new threat to democracy”.

Last week, Mr Vaishnaw chaired a meeting with social media platforms and artificial intelligence companies where he said the federal government would soon come up with a “clear, actionable plan” to tackle deepfakes.

The actress has worked in several langauges, including Hindi, Telugu and Kannada, and has also won a number of awards for her roles.

She will be next seen with actor Ranbir Kapoor in the Bollywood film Animal, which is due for release on 1 December.

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Taiwan’s Golden Horse film awards sees return of Chinese stars

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Beijing banned its entertainers from joining Golden Horse, dubbed the Chinese-language Oscars, after a Taiwanese director voiced support for the island’s independence in an acceptance speech in 2018.

China claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory and has long blacklisted its stars over any perceived backing for the island’s independence.

There were no mainland films in the 2019 nomination list and several Hong Kong movies dropped out that year, while big commercial productions were conspicuously absent at both the 2020 and 2021 awards.

But on Saturday, the red carpet was graced by Hu, nominated for best actress in the education drama Carp Leaping Over Dragon’s Gate.

Dressed in a shimmering gown holding a pineapple in her hands, she was accompanied by Chinese film director Yan Xiaolin and some of the film’s cast.

“Our film’s (Chinese) name is Pineapple and Taiwan’s audiences have told me that pineapple means good luck” in Taiwanese culture, Hu said in a brief televised interview.

Hu lost to Taiwan’s 12-year-old Audrey Lin (Trouble Girl), the night’s biggest dark horse who became the youngest ever best actress winner in Golden Horse history.

Lin also saw off Hong Kong’s Jennifer Yu (In Broad Daylight) and Chung Suet-ying (The Lyricist Wannabe), who both attended Saturday’s event.

Taiwanese Hsiao Ya-chuan bagged best director for his family drama Old Fox, while compatriot Wu Kang-ren claimed best actor for playing a mute man in the Malaysian film Abang Adik.

The award for best documentary short film went to The Memo, a video diary of the pandemic lockdown made by a filmmaker couple trapped in a small Shanghai apartment.

Attendance by the mainland Chinese actors was a departure from previous years.

In 2022, Chinese star Cya Liu – nominated for best actress for Hong Kong crime thriller Limbo – gave the ceremony a miss, with no reasons given.

Chinese director Huang Shuli collected the best documentary short film award in person last year – a rare appearance by a mainland filmmaker since the fallout.

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The bars you must visit the next time you’re in Delhi

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The accolades took many by surprise but instilled a new confidence in the bar community. Minaskhi Singh of Sidecar found the industry has grown because of the awards. “You get a lot of attention… it’s great for attracting new people. It’s a whole lot of pressure too, but good pressure as well.”

Priyanka Blah, founder and editor of Dram Attic and Academy Chair of 50 Best, attributed Delhi’s burgeoning bar scene to high disposable incomes, buoyant tourism, and affordable commercial property rents compared to other Indian cities.

Both sides of the counter ‒ the cocktail lovers and bartenders ‒ drive innovation. The deep-pocketed and well-travelled cocktail-guzzling consumer is looking to replicate international bar experiences from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Europe in their neighbourhood. “They are interested in what goes into their drink, where it comes from and are happy to pay top dollar for something unique and exciting,” said Priyanka.

“At the same time, Indian bartenders, bar managers and bar owners are also travelling,” added Santanu Chanda of Home Bar. “There are a lot of (guest) shifts happening between Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore, which encourage an exchange of culture, ideology and drink philosophy, which is helping Indian bars.”

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Singaporean photographer clinches top prize at global competition with image of mollusk and plastic bag

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His photograph was selected among 21,474 entries from 96 countries submitted in 2023, with the winners announced during the award ceremony in the Netherlands on Saturday. The winner of each category receives a cash prize of €500 (US$543).

In his acknowledgement video screened at the awards, Toh said that the sobering truth was “like a man with a torn poncho, this cartoonish-looking creature is unable to escape the consequences of man-made ecological disaster and the wrath of nature”.

“I observed the creature for a while, noticing its fearful, uncertain, and sorrowful demeanour.

“Its distress was probably due to its confusion on realising the lifeless nature of this desolate vessel it is clinging onto for survival.”

The nature lover noted in the press release that nautili are known to latch onto passing jellyfish as a form of travel or to leach on their food.

“I found out from the locals that families would dump trash at a nearby mountain, which would then be scattered into the ocean during the typhoon season,” he said.

“I hope this photo conveys the impact of human behaviour on nature and the urgent need for proper sanitation for this community to bring about the much-needed change to protect our environment,” Toh said in the video.

Following his win, Toh said that he will be launching a new company, Ugly Diving, which will offer underwater photography workshops, freediving courses and underwater portrait photography. 

The award is not Toh’s first. He also won the Photo of the Year prize at the Asia Dive Expo (Adex) Voice Of The Ocean Competition – an underwater photography and videography competition – in 2022 and 2023.

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Aria Awards: Troye Sivan wins big and Kylie Minogue wins with Padam Padam

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Troye Sivan won big at the Aria Awards, while Kylie Minogue’s Padam Padam won best pop release on Australia’s biggest night in music.

Sivan took home four awards, including song of the year for Rush and best solo artist, at the ceremony in Sydney.

“This has been the most insane week of my life, like ever,” he said accepting the award for song of the year.

It comes days after the singer received two Grammy nominations for best pop dance recording and best music video.

Sivan said: “I try and play it cool like this is all normal, but it’s really tripping me out, and it’s so exciting.

“I’ve been doing this for like ten, eleven years at this point and so to feel this much energy and love – I’m confused but so happy.”

The Perth-raised singer, along with his producer Styalz Fuego, also won best engineered release and best produced release.

This year the 28-year-old’s album Something To Give Each Other was not eligible for album of the year category as it was released after nominations were finalised, making it a potential for the award next year.

Minogue won her first Aria award in 21 years beating Sivan to win best pop release for her hit single Padam Padam.

“This is just unbelievable, and I am super super happy,” she said accepting the award in a video in another location.

The award brings Minogue’s number of Aria Music awards to seventeen.

In February, she will be facing-off against Sivan again after she also received a Grammy nomination for best pop dance recording.

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Earlier in the night, Taylor Swift took home most popular international artist – voted for by fans.

The ceremony was also marked by calls for a ceasefire in the Middle East.

“There are atrocious things happening in the world right now that I think as a community we should be putting our minds, heart and bodies behind to stop it any junction that we can,” said Genesis Owusu who won album of the year and best hip-hop release with Struggler.

“Ceasefire now… free Palestine,” he added.

Nic Cester, frontman of rock band Jet who were honoured with an induction into the Aria Hall of Fame, also touched on the conflict: “It’s impossible to turn on the news at the moment and not to be confronted by the destruction being committed through war, racism and politics.”

The organisers of the Aria Awards bill it as the “premier event” in Australian music.

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Kerry, Zeng, Bou and Stern win sustainability honors

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STOCKHOLM – The Nobel Sustainability Trust, with the support of the Instittue of Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich, has presented medals recognizing outstanding contributions in sustainabity to John Kerry, the US Special presidential envoy for climate, and Robin Yuqun Zeng, Chairman of CATL, the world-leading battery company.

NST and TUM IAS also presented an award for outstanding research and development in the field of energy to Elena Bou of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and an award in leadership and implementation to Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the first year these two awards have been presented.

The recipients of the sustainability awards were selected by an independent committee managed by the Technical University of Munich. This committee includes professors appointed by various institutes and universities from around the world. The sustainability awards will be presented annually to individuals or institutions that have facilitated significant developments in or made outstanding contributions to the implementation of sustainable solutions for communities.

In 2022, TUM became NST’s academic partner. The TUM Institute for Advanced Study is responsible for selecting the academic award winners. The awards were handed over at the Nobel Sustainability Trust summit at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich on November 9.

Nobel Sustainability Trust Chairman Peter Nobel remarks:

It is with great joy and pride that we jointly announce, here in Munich, the awardees for the first sustainability awards in energy and leadership and the medals, presented for the second time this year, for outstanding contribution in sustainability. The future of humanity and its survival largely hinge on our abilities to use the Earth’s resources and leverage technological innovations in a sustainable manner. We believe the sustainability awards and medals will play a pivotal role and become a powerful symbol within the sustainable field. Our objective is to inspire and mobilize individuals and organizations worldwide to develop sustainable technologies in key resource areas such as energy, water, and agriculture. Such efforts require substantial intellectual engagement and financial support.

President of the Technical University of Munich Thomas Hofmann says:

TUM’s core strategy is to promote the concept of sustainability and its implementation via promising and marketable technologies. I am pleased that we at TUM are helping to push sustainability even further with the sustainability awards and to demonstrate that science and technology are the keys to sustainability.

John Kerry, US special presidential envoy for climate

John Kerry, a US politician, served in the Senate (1985–2013) and later was secretary of state (2013–2017) in the administration of President Barack Obama. Kerry is one of the world’s most effective climate champions. As secretary of state in 2015, he helped negotiate the Paris Agreement on climate change. In 2019 Kerry was a key figure in the creation of World War Zero, an organization dedicated to fighting climate change. In 2020 he was named special presidential envoy for climate in the administration of President Biden. Kerry has been crisscrossing the globe rallying foreign allies and adversaries to make bolder commitments to fight climate change, urging governments and industries to bring concrete plans to boost renewable energy and cut greenhouse emissions by 2030.

Robin Zeng, Chairman of CATL

Robin Zeng established CATL in 1999 and built it the world’s leading company in the field of lithium-ion batteries for consumer electronics. In a new endeavor in 2011 he established CATL, a world leading power battery provider and a global leader of new energy innovative technologies. The company has made continuous breakthroughs in key technologies of EV and energy storage batteries, providing premier solutions and services for new energy applications worldwide. CATL’s global market share of power battery ranks first in the world for six consecutive years. It also ranks first in the global market share of energy storage battery production.

Elena Bou, medalist for outstanding research and development in energy

Elena Bou co-founded EIT InnoEnergy in 2010 and, since 2011, has served as innovation director and member of its executive board. In her position, she leads the development of major InnoEnergy efforts in creating and accelerating startups and scaleups in the energy field, including the investment process in such ventures. EIT InnoEnergy is a knowledge and innovation community supported by the European Institute of Technology, which has supported since its foundation around 450 companies in the sustainable energy field, focusing on energy storage, sustainable buildings and cities, renewable energies, smart electric grid, energy efficiency, energy for circular economy and energy for transport and mobility.

As an associate professor in the Department of Operations, Innovation, and Data Sciences at the Spanish business school Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE), Elena Bou is active in researching and teaching in the field of knowledge and innovation management. She holds a PhD in management sciences from ESADE and is the author of several publications in the fields of knowledge management, collaborative innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Nicholas Stern, medalist in leadership in implementation

Lord Nicholas Stern is an expert in the economics of climate change. He has been chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science since its foundation in 2008.

Over the past 20 years, he has made an outstanding contribution to international climate policy, and to promoting the transition to sustainable, inclusive, and resilient economic development and growth. His report “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review,” published in 2006 and commissioned by the British Government, had a broad impact nationally and worldwide on decision-makers and business leaders.

Through his advisory role at the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Economic Forum he improved the understanding of the costs of inaction on global climate change.

In his research activities, Nicholas Stern focuses on the topics of economic development and growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition. His many honorary degrees, prizes, citations and publications in the most renowned journals testify to a high level of recognition from his peers.

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Koh Kut falls victim to slump in vacationers

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Koh Kut falls victim to slump in vacationers

Trat: The number of tourists from European countries visiting Koh Kut district fell by 50% this year, according to the chairman of tambon Koh Kut administrative organisation.

Dechathon Chan-ob, the TAO chairman and operator of a resort on the island, said about 160,000-170,000 tourists visited Koh Kut district last year, generating hundreds of millions of baht in revenue.

The district is home to the beautiful islands of Koh Kut and Koh Mak.

Almost 100,000 tourists visited Koh Kut this year, which was the highest since the Covid-19 pandemic, he said, adding the return of tourists was in part due to the easing of travel from the mainland to the island.

However, the number of foreign visitors especially from Europe dropped by 50% this year and despite the usual uptick in activity during October, the sector remained sluggish.

“Usually foreign tourists visit the island in large numbers in October and November, but business is slow, looking at the numbers reported by restaurants, car and motorcycle rental services,” he said.

Mr Dechathon said the likely factors were the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall last month and the Hamas-Israel violence which seems to be escalating.

He said that during the cold season, most tourists visiting Trat are foreigners while Thais head to the northern region, but added that he hoped to see an uptick in domestic visitors in December when the temperature rises.

The TAO chairman urged the Srettha government to launch tourism promotion schemes similar to those implemented by the Prayut administration, adding the visa exemption policy might not be enough to draw foreign tourists.

Non Suwatnanon, chairman of Koh Mak TAO, said the number of visitors at Koh Mak rose by 20% this year after the island received two awards.

Koh Mak recently won recognition from the Green Destinations Foundation and its partners as being among their Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories 2022.

The island won second place in the category of Governance, Reset & Recovery behind Normandy in France at the Green Destinations Story Awards held at ITB Berlin 2023 in Germany.

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Earthshot Prize: Asia leads the way in quest to repair planet

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By Suranjana Tewari
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In a village in Western India, women collect onions that have been stored in the orange metal dryers that are transforming their lives.

It is simple, almost rudimentary, technology. But they help the farmers to process excess or lower quality crop – which would ordinarily go to waste – into valuable products that can increase their profit.

The dryers have been deployed around 400 villages and are made by India’s S4S Technologies, one of five organisations that won the Earthshot Prize this week. The £1m ($1.2m) award was started by Britain’s Prince William in 2014 with the aim of finding and scaling up innovative solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges.

“S4S, along with women farmers, are creating a new food ecosystem that reduces wastage and mitigates the increase in greenhouse gas emissions while meeting the world’s food needs,” co-founder of S4S Technologies Nidhi Pant said in a statement after the award ceremony in Singapore.

Indian farmers are contending with the impact of climate change every day, and they are not alone. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified the Asia-Pacific as the region most vulnerable to climate change, with 13 out of 30 countries on the continent facing significant fallout.

Home to multiple low-lying coastal cities which are exposed to flood and typhoon risk, the region also faces dramatic increases in heat and humidity; extreme rainfall is forecast in some areas, while drought is anticipated in others.

But Asia is also home to a great deal of innovation, actress Cate Blanchett said on the “green” carpet ahead of the Earthshot Prize ceremony. “There are so many people out there of all age groups and demographics, from all cultures, actually doing things within their own communities, in their own regions to tackle issues caused by the very rapidly changing climate,”

Turbocharging solutions

The founders of Hong Kong-based GRST, which won in the “Clean Our Air” category, are anticipating the transition to electric vehicles around the world with their eco-friendly lithium ion battery technology. They plan to use the prize to scale up their operations – GRST produces its batteries in China where it also sells them but plans to expand to Canada, Europe and Singapore.

“During the battery production, there’s a lot of emissions and toxic chemicals that go into the conventional way of doing it. We’ve replaced those with water and water-soluble materials, so [it’s] very clean and much lower energy usage. But the important point is at the end of life, our batteries are [more] easily recycled than water so we can minimise the need for future mining,” they said at the award ceremony.

Prince William poses with the winners during the 2023 Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony in Singapore.

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Meaghan Brosnan was in the US Coast Guard for 20 years before joining WildAid, which won in the “Revive our Oceans” category.

WildAid is working with communities and governments around the world – including in China, the Philippines and Palau – to combat illegal fishing and protect ecosystems in marine protected areas. “We’re also working with some local communities to modify their fishing nets, so that they will not capture and drown sea turtles,” Ms Brosnan said.

Aadith Moorthy, from the Indian state of Karnataka, is the founder of Boomitra, another Earthshot Prize winner. Mr Moorthy works with farmers to improve their agricultural practices by checking soil health and maximising crop diversity.

He was passing through an Indian village in 2017 when he came across the funeral procession for a farmer who had taken his own life because of crop failure. This tragic moment eventually inspired Boomitra, which means “friend of the earth”.

Noting that Boomitra currently works with about 150,000 farmers and on some five million acres of land around the world, he stressed that “two more zeros” need to be added to these statistics in order to move the needle on climate change.

Solutions hub

The energy for innovation and solving the planet’s problems was palpable amongst participants and trustees on the green carpet.

“What we all need in the climate space is both action and hope. And the finalists that we see, they provide both,” former New Zealand Prime Minister and Earthshot trustee Jacinda Ardern said ahead of the ceremony.

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Christina Figueres – who headed UN climate negotiations for six years and played a key role in the talks that led to the Paris Climate Agreement – told the BBC that she wanted to take Earthshot to Asia because the region “leads the world into the future”.

Noting the rate of growth in the region, as well as the demand for energy both in population as well as in industrial productivity, Ms Figueres praised the “brilliant, disruptive efforts” of people and organisations in the Asia-Pacific to address environmental challenges in a timely fashion.

Prince William also expressed hopes that the Earthshot Prize would expand into a global movement, in which governments are more engaged in green sectors so that climate change would be easier to tackle.

“Our winners and all our finalists remind us that, no matter where you are on our planet, the spirit of ingenuity, and the ability to inspire change, surrounds us all,” he said.

Additional reporting by Daniela Relph and Nikhil Inamdar.

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Legendary singer Tom Jones to hold Singapore concert in March

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It’s Not Strange, a hit song by Tom Jones, helped him achieve fame after his career began in the 1960s. Since then, &nbsp has sold more than 100 million albums, amassed 36 Top 40 touches, and won numerous Grammys and NBP Awards. Jones, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time, received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 for his contributions to song.

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