A new report reveals that astutely navigating work practices, spaces and culture will help respond to crisis, redefine the purpose and reinvent the future of work

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – July 23, 2020 – Plantronics, Inc. (“Poly” — formerly Plantronics and Polycom) (NYSE: PLT), a global communications company that powers meaningful human connection and collaboration, today issued a new report that highlights a granular shift in focus from “place” to “purpose” of work as businesses respond to the COVID-19 crisis, redesign their operations and reinvent the way they work. Out of city co-working spaces, ergonomic at-home work setups and virtual water cooler moments — the effects of this pandemic will epitomize a new age of hybrid working.

Drawing on experts in the future of work, workspace design and psychology, the Poly report, Hybrid Working: Creating the “next normal” in work practices, spaces and culture, sets out the path to the “next normal,” where employees enjoy flexibility and choice, and businesses thrive through motivated, collaborative and productive teams.

“The ongoing pandemic has upended the way businesses operate in the region, with organizations forced to either adapt, or risk being left behind. Looking beyond the first phase of workplace transition to adopt Remote Working, we are now witnessing a shift towards a new way of work – Hybrid Working. Businesses that stand to thrive in this ‘next normal’ will be those who prioritize human connections and collaborations as they look to reinvent current work practices, spaces and culture for their employees,” said Pierre-Jean Châlon, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, Poly.

Post-lockdown working practices

Triggered by COVID-19, businesses have the opportunity to challenge convention and redefine what ‘work’ really means. Hybrid working will introduce:

• New working patterns — new working policies that bring employees flexibility on when and where they work
• Outcome-based working — taking the onus off the hours and location, to being productive and delivering results
• Optimized investment — looking beyond the company office to create collaborative, technology-enabled personal workspaces anywhere

Tom Cheesewright, applied futurist and contributor to the Poly report, said: “Even before the pandemic, the nature of work was changing because the nature of business is changing. Today, few can claim that the technology is a barrier to changing practices, but the lockdown has highlighted the need for investment into the cultural and behavioral components of flexible work. The future is a flexible working environment that caters to the needs of all employees, giving them the most fulfilling work experience and in return allowing them to maximize the value they return to the organization.”

Hybrid working spaces

In the report, Sarah Susanka, architect and founder of Susanka Studios, also explores why creating the best environments for employees to be productive and collaborative will be vital to the new hybrid working era. Poly’s report sets out the following key global trends for hybrid working spaces that will emerge in 2020 and beyond:

• Home offices will be given as much attention as the kitchen — ergonomically organized and crafted into places that inspire
• A prevalence of co-working — organizations will invest in co-working spaces outside of cities to attract talent. Group collaboration and social connections with colleagues and others will lead to cross-fertilization of ideas and innovation
• Cityscapes will change — Will we continue to see high-rise office buildings? The city as a structure will stay as apartment living means the city is integrated into people’s lives; restaurants are an extension of their kitchen and gyms their workout space.

Managing cultural change

Megan Reitz, professor of leadership and dialogue at Hult Ashridge Business School in CITY, believes that businesses need to ‘hardwire’ fundamental habits into their teams’ culture to bring hybrid working teams together and ensure employees can speak up. For teams to be agile, innovative, ethical and compassionate, Poly’s report says that work cultures need to be:

• Inclusive — diverse teams do better, but you must be able to harness and appreciate difference.
• Inquiring — ‘one-size’ management doesn’t fit all. Employees will respond differently to hybrid working and managers must learn the skills to inquire, be curious and ask questions.
• Purpose driven — we are seeing a well-overdue widening of purpose and this focus on impact will serve as a compass in times of change and make for a more meaningful workplace.

Technology-enabled change

As organizations respond, redesign and reinvent their business models, technology will play a fundamental role in enabling the shift to hybrid working. “As teams become more disconnected physically and connected virtually, technology becomes the key that bridges communication between and across teams to optimize work efficiency and productivity,” says Chalon. “To stay ahead of the curve, businesses will need to respond, redesign and reinvent their practices and meet their challenges head on, adapting to whatever changes they face.”

The Poly report, Hybrid Working: Creating the “next normal” in work practices, spaces and culture, is available for download here. The infographic is available here. 

About Poly

Plantronics, Inc. (“Poly” — formerly Plantronics and Polycom) (NYSE: PLT) is a global communications company that powers meaningful human connection and collaboration. Poly combines legendary audio expertise and powerful video and conferencing capabilities to overcome the distractions, complexity and distance that make communication in and out of the workplace challenging. Poly believes in solutions that make life easier when they work together and with our partners’ services. Our headsets, software, desk phones, audio and video conferencing, analytics and services are used worldwide and are a leading choice for every kind of workspace. For more information, please visit: www.poly.com.

Poly, the propeller design, and the Poly logo are trademarks of Plantronics, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Digital trade platform rich with physical & financial supply chain data creates new opportunities to fund suppliers

NEW YORK / SINGAPORE – Media
OutReach – July 23, 2020 – Infor, a global leader in business cloud
software specialized by industry, today announced that it is partnering with DBS
Bank, Southeast
Asia’s largest bank, to integrate digital trade financing capabilities into the
Infor Nexus global network of more than 68,000 businesses. The two companies’
first joint program recently went live with one of the world’s largest global apparel
companies, providing faster and more cost-efficient digital trade financing to
suppliers in the apparel company’s supply chain ecosystem, which comprises
mostly small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

“This
is an important relationship for Infor, where a common vision of data-driven
financing bonds us and presses us forward,” said Gary Schneider, Vice President
of Sales for Infor Financial Supply Chain Management. “DBS is a digital bank,
based in Asia, focused on supplier funding and liquidity. Its pursuit of digital
innovation and delivering greater value to supply chains, combined with our
cloud-based platform and local support team around the globe, makes for a
powerful partnership at a time when liquidity is a top priority for everyone.”

Sriram
Muthukrishnan, Group Head of Trade Product Management, DBS Bank, said, “We
continue to accelerate the deployment of our market-leading supply chain
financing and digital capabilities to ensure steady financing to SME suppliers
during these times of stress.  Data forms
the backbone of a successful digital strategy and its impact across multiple
industries globally has been growing exponentially.

“Our
collaboration with Infor enables greater transparency into complex supply
chains and provides insights into the transaction patterns between an anchor
and its ecosystem of suppliers,” he noted. “We leverage these insights to provide
quicker and more cost-efficient financing to suppliers much earlier in the
cycle, as compared to conventional post-shipment supplier financing programs.
This is especially relevant today, as we continue to operate in an environment
characterized by prolonged trade disruptions and tighter credit lines, where
optimal working capital management is key to survival.”

The
two companies’ next joint program for pre-shipment finance, expected to launch in
late 2020, will utilize supply chain data as the primary conduit to assess risk
and credit worthiness, as opposed to traditional models that result in the
majority of suppliers being under-funded or facing challenges to access
necessary capital. Infor provides extensive supply chain data, including
historic and real-time milestone information on the physical movement of goods,
to enable a data-driven representation of a supplier’s performance and credit
risk.

According to a research report from
Aite Group analyst Enrico Camerinelli (The Supply Chain Bank, 2018), “In
the next three years, the competitive frontier in corporate lending and supply
chain finance will be the creation of innovative credit risk models that banks
will use to leverage corporate supply chain process data. Banks will capture
and analyze events in the physical supply chain (source-to-pay, order-to-cash)
in order to generate a more comprehensive and realistic representation of a
company’s risk profile.”

Additional Resources

Watch the SCF Community’s recent webinar, “New ways to finance SMEs,” during which Infor and DBS discuss innovative
supplier financing tools to help reduce supply chain risk and friction. 

Media contacts:

Steve Bauer

Infor

(628) 444-5101 (office)

(650) 670-7135 (mobile)

steven.bauer@infor.com

Phyllis Tan

Infor

+65 9799 9133 (mobile)

phyllis.tan@infor.com

Michelle Tan

Group Strategic Marketing and Communications

DBS Bank

+65 9770 1886

michelletanyz@dbs.com

About DBS

DBS
is a leading financial services group in Asia with a presence in 18 markets.
Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS is in the three key Asian axes of
growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank’s “AA-” and “Aa1”
credit ratings are among the highest in the world.

DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking.
As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing
business in the region’s most dynamic markets. DBS is committed to building
lasting relationships with customers, and positively impacting communities
through supporting social enterprises, as it banks the Asian way. It has also
established a SGD 50 million foundation to strengthen its corporate social
responsibility efforts in Singapore and across Asia.

With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and
empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. The bank
acknowledges the passion, commitment and can-do spirit in all our 28,000 staff,
representing over 40 nationalities. For more information, please visit www.dbs.com.

About Infor

Infor is a
global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. With 17,300
employees and over 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries, Infor software
is designed for progress. To learn more, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor
customers include:

• The top 20 aerospace companies
• 9 of the top 10 high tech companies
• 14 of the 25 largest U.S. healthcare
  delivery networks
• 19 of the 20 largest U.S. cities
• 18 of the top 20 automotive suppliers
• 14 of the top 20 industrial
  distributors
• 13 of the top 20 global retailers
• 4 of the top 5 brewers
• 17 of the top 20 global banks
• 9 of the 10 largest global hotel
  brands
• 7 of the top 10 global luxury brands

• The US ranks the highest
  globally in creating an enabling environment supportive of longevity and
  healthy ageing with an overall score of 76.1 out of a possible 100
• Canada (3rd) and Brazil (11th) score
  above the global average of 50.4, while Argentina (13th) and Mexico (14th) have
  further room to improve their response
• Countries with the oldest
  populations are better positioned to address the needs of older people across
  the globe
• Although high-income countries
  are more prepared, upper middle-income countries such as Brazil are making clear
  progress
• Older people’s views are not
  well represented in policy consultation
• Availability of health and
  social care remains a concern with supply of services increasingly failing to
  keep up with demand

HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 22 July 2020 – More
people are living into old age than ever before. In 2018 The World Health
Organization predicted that by 2020 there would be more people aged over 60
years than there are children under 5 years. This prediction is on track to be
correct,and numbers in the older cohort continue to rise. This has
created challenges in providing health and social services for burgeoning older
populations and governments across the globe have been slow to react.
Priorities are now shifting from solely addressing the health of older people,
to how societies can maximise this opportunity and provide effective, inclusive
environments in which to age.

This report from The Economist Intelligence Unit describes
findings from the “Scaling Healthy ageing, Inclusive
environments and Financial security Today” (SHIFT) Index“, a benchmarking analysis around ageing
societies, supported by Amgen. The SHIFT
Index benchmarks against a set of national-level leading practices in
creating an enabling environment supportive of longevity and healthy ageing for
societies in the 19 countries comprising the Group of Twenty (G20). The SHIFT Index captures the multifactorial
variables that impact ageing across three domains: adaptive health and social
care systems; accessible economic opportunity; and inclusive social structures
and institutions.

The research found that no G20 country is
fully prepared to support healthy, financially secure, socially-connected older
people. The US, Australia, Canada and South Korea ranked highest in our index
with scores in the 70s out of 100 (see table below). Broadly, those countries
with a higher proportion of people aged over 50–including the three highest ranking countries plus South Korea,
Germany, France and Japan–are implementing more
leading practices to enable inclusive environments. Wealthy countries may find
it easier to respond, but wealth is not a prerequisite for providing supportive
environments. The best scoring health systems tend to be high-income countries,
but upper-middle income Brazil, and lower-middle income Indonesia are also
making strides to improve health systems.

As a whole, the G20 countries perform best
in providing adaptive healthcare systems and worst in providing inclusive
social structures and institutions, indicating that countries still have work
to do to shift the focus towards building more welcoming societies for older
adults as they age. Countries also have room to improve in providing more
accessible economic opportunities to older workers.

Despite clear progress made, governments
have more work to do to make sure their health systems are adaptive to the
needs of older adults as they age, while also fostering inclusion and ensuring
individual economic security. A key
barrier to addressing this is lack of robust age-disaggregated data collection
by governments in areas such as dedicated health professionals, the extent of
isolation and loneliness as well as mental health.

The SHIFT
Index reveals several priority areas that may form the basis of policy
responses to develop more accessible and inclusive societies for older people:

1. Collect better data: Countries
   should collect and publish detailed, age-disaggregated health and economic data
   annually so policymakers can develop evidence-based programs and policies.

2. Address poverty among older
   people: Some older adults choose to work longer, others must. Governments can
   ensure the financial health and security of older adults by creating more
   inclusive work environments. This starts with removing barriers to working
   longer that exist in some markets.

3. Prevent a care crisis among the
   elderly: The provision of care for older adults–both formal and informal–and
   the accessibility of, or access to, long-term care is ill-defined and is an
   area for further research.

4. Enable older people’s voices to
   be heard: The views and needs of older people are not routinely collected and
   they are not represented well in policy consultation.

5. Address age-related
   discrimination: Few countries categorise age-discrimination as a crime outside
   of employment practices. Fighting discrimination as well as physical, emotional
   and financial abuse of older adults, will encourage greater social cohesion
   across generations.

6. Support training and upskilling
   of older people: Supporting older people with the skills and help needed to
   navigate increasingly complex and digitised health and social care systems
   should be an area of focus.

Jesse Quigley Jones, managing editor at The
Economist Intelligence Unit and editor of the report, said, “The challenges
that ageing populations present for economies and health systems have long-been
understood, yet provision of inclusive, supportive environments for older
people has not been a high-profile policy priority. Although wealth has emerged
as a theme in the Index as a contributing factor towards healthy ageing
indicators, it is not necessarily a prerequisite for providing supportive
environments. Lower-income nations can take low-cost measures that improve
ageing societies, such as enacting inclusive work environment policies and
fostering inclusive and enabling social environments.

With older people particularly vulnerable
to the health and societal impact of the covid-19 pandemic, it is more
important than ever for older people to lead healthy, independent lives for as
long as possible and avoid the need for institutional care. While our data were
collected pre-pandemic, the priorities identified in the report are now thrown
into sharper light and may serve as a wakeup call for governments across the
globe for providing adaptable, accessible and inclusive environments in which
populations can age.”

For
the whitepaper, infographic and index workbook, please visit
ageingshift.economist.com

About the research

Shifting demographics: a global study on
inclusive ageing is a report by The Economist
Intelligence Unit, supported by Amgen. It considers policy efforts to address
active and inclusive ageing in 19 countries based on a first-of-its-kind index
that benchmarks each country’s performance across accessible and affordable
healthcare, social connectivity among older adults, and finance security practices
and policies.

The “Scaling Healthy ageing, Inclusive
environments and Financial security Today” (SHIFT) Index and the related
research programme whose findings form the basis for this report were informed
by extensive research and guided by an international panel of experts from
across academia, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
international financial institutions.

The following 19 countries (comprising
the G20 and excluding the EU) are included in this analysis: Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the UK and the US.
These were selected to broadly represent the world: covering roughly 65% of the
population and 75% of global GDP.

About The Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist
Intelligence Unit is the world leader in global business intelligence. It is
the business-to-business arm of The Economist Group, which publishes The
Economist newspaper. The Economist Intelligence Unit helps executives make
better decisions by providing timely, reliable and impartial analysis on
worldwide market trends and business strategies.

More information
can be found at www.eiu.com or www.twitter.com/theeiu

About Amgen

Amgen focuses on
areas of high unmet medical need, and leverages its expertise to strive for
solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives.
A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s
leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients
around the world, and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway
potential.

For more
information, visit www.amgen.com or www.twitter.com/amgen.

In Support of “One Country, Two Systems” Promoting the Core Values of Patriotism

MACAU, CHINA – Media OutReach – 22 July 2020
– Alvin Chau, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Suncity Group, together with Gina
Lei, Senior Vice President of Corporate & Community Relations of Suncity
Group and other delegates, paid a visit to the Liaison Office of the Central
People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region on July 21, and
was warmly received by officials including Yao Jian, Deputy Director of the
Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special
Administrative Region, Chen Guokai, Director General of Economic Affairs
Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the
Macao Special Administrative Region, Dai Ruming, Deputy Director General of the
Social Work Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government
in the Macao Special Administrative Region, and Zuo Xianghua, Director of
Economic Affairs Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s
Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region.

Alvin Chau, Chief Executive Officer and
Director of Suncity Group, together with delegates, paid a visit to the Liaison
Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative
Region and was warmly received by Yao Jian, Deputy Director of the Liaison
Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative
Region, with Chen Guokai, Director General of Economic Affairs Department of
the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special
Administrative Region, Dai Ruming, Deputy Director General of the Social Work
Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the
Macao Special Administrative Region, and Zuo Xianghua, Director of Economic
Affairs Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in
the Macao Special Administrative Region also in the meeting.

As a token of appreciation, Alvin Chau
received the Certificate of Donation from the Liaison Office of the Central
People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region for his effort
in this fight against the pandemic.

Deputy Director Yao expressed welcome
and, as a token of appreciation, presented a Certificate of Donation to Suncity
Group for the Group’s effort and contributions in the fight against the
pandemic. He re-affirmed the Group’s swift response as the Group dedicated its
effort through a series of donations, showing the patriotic spirit of Macao
compatriots. As the anti-pandemic measures have become a new normal, it becomes
even more important for Suncity Group to strengthen itself and contribute its
effort towards the city.

Alvin Chau stated
that as a Macau enterprise dedicated to charity and community affairs,
patriotism is part of Suncity Group’s core value. And in the face of the
pandemic, it is essential that the Group, adhering to President Xi’s call on
entrepreneurs, takes on its social responsibilities and support the country and
the Special Administrative Region in implementing the anti-pandemic measures.
Facing the new normal, Suncity Group is confident that together with the Macau
society, we will surely emerge victorious and, staying true to the core value
of patriotism and support for “One Country, Two Systems”, contribute to the
prosperity of Macao and the Chinese nation.

Since the early stages of the pandemic, under the
coordination of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in
the Macao Special Administrative Region, Suncity Group donated to Hubei
Province MOP 30 million to purchase urgently needed medical resources for Wuhan
hospitals, such as medical equipment, reagents, medicines, protective
equipment, decontamination equipment, especially consumables such as masks that
a large amount are required. In addition, to relieve the scarcity of protective
masks for frontline officers on vital posts, Suncity Group purchased 20,000
surgical masks, which are donated to Immigration and Customs officers at Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoints. In the name of himself, Alvin Chau
donated, through the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in
the Macao Special Administrative Region, another MOP 30 million and about
60,000 respirators to Hubei Province in support of the country’s anti-pandemic
measures. As a gesture of gratitude, Alvin Chau received the Certificate of
Donation from the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special
Administrative Region for his effort in this fight against the pandemic.

High-resolution
images can be downloaded in the gallery:

https://dropbox.suncity-group.com/url/july22

About Suncity Group

Suncity
Group was founded in 2007. Since establishment, Suncity Group has been striving
to provide the extraordinary VIP entertainment service for our guests, and we
then opened a number of VIP Clubs in various 6-star hotels and resorts
throughout Macau with the rapid growth of our business. Meanwhile, we
successively set up exclusive VIP Clubs in Manila, Seoul, Incheon, Phnom Penh
and Da Nang, etc.

Adhering to
the spirit of “Innovating With Diversity, Striving For Success”, Suncity Group
spared no effort to develop high-end entertainment services and products as
well as roll out global VIP loyalty program for the selected members to enjoy
entertainment, travel, catering services, luxury shopping and motion picture.
Today, the scope of our business covers most sectors, especially in the fields
of global travel, film production, concert and event planning, catering and
luxury goods.

As a Macau
born and bred enterprise, Suncity Group is not only devoted to develop the
Asian market, but also oriented to expand the global network. In the future, we
will surely continue to diversify our VIP entertainment services, attract more
exclusive members and make every effort to promote our business in every corner
of the world.

Official Website | www.suncitygroup.com.mo/en

Turns out criminal businesses need hosting services and cybersecurity protections too

HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 22 July 2020 – Trend Micro
Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the global
leader in cloud security, today released new insights analyzing the
market for underground hosting services and detailing how and where
cybercriminals rent the infrastructure that hosts their business. This first
report of a planned three-part series details the market for buying and selling
these services, which are the backbone of every other aspect of the
cybercriminal business model, whether that includes sending spam, communicating
with a command and control server, or offering a help desk for ransomware.

Over the past five years, increased use and
abuse of compromised assets has formed a whole new market. There are varied
types of underground hosting and associated services used by cybercriminals to
operate their businesses, including bulletproof hosting, virtual private
networks (VPNs), anonymizers, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
protection. Such services could variously be used to protect availability,
maintain anonymity, disrupt forensics, obfuscate physical location, and enable
IP spoofing, among other things.

“For
over a decade, Trend Micro Research has dug into how cybercriminals think, as
opposed to focusing only on what they do, which is critical when it comes to
protecting against them,” said Robert McArdle, director of forward-looking threat
research at Trend Micro. “Today we release the first of three-part in-depth
series on how these criminals approach their infrastructure needs, and the
markets that exist for such commodities. We hope that providing law enforcement
and other stakeholders with a go-to resource on this topic will help to further
our collective mission of making the digital world a safer place.”

Cybercrime is a highly professional industry,
with sales and advertisements leveraging legitimate marketing techniques and
platforms, all driven by cost to some extent. For example, one advertisement
was found for dedicated, compromised servers based in the US starting at just
$3, rising to $6 with guaranteed availability for 12 hours. Although many of
these services are traded on underground forums, some of which are invite-only,
others are clearly advertised and sold via legitimate social media and
messaging platforms such as Twitter, VK and Telegram.

In
fact, the line between criminality and legitimate business behavior is increasingly
difficult to discern. Some hosting providers have a legitimate clientele and
advertise openly on the internet but may have resellers that sell exclusively
to the criminal underground — either with or without the company’s knowledge.

In the
case of bulletproof hosters, which are more definitively linked to cybercrime,
they are generally regular hosting providers trying to diversify their business
to cater to the needs of specific customers. For a premium price, they’re
prepared to push to the absolute limit of what the law allows and prosecutes in
their local jurisdiction.

Understanding
where and how these services are sold, and consequently impacting the cost of
these sales, is arguably our best strategy to help make a lasting and
repeatable dent in the cybercriminal underground market. Parts two and three of
the series will further investigate the types of underground services and
infrastructure offered, and the operational security and motivations of the
actors who sell such services.

To read the complete first report, please visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/hacker-infrastructure-and-underground-hosting-101-where-are-cybercriminal-platforms-offered  

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity
solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Our
innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layered
security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. All our
products work together to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide a
connected threat defense with centralized visibility and control, enabling
better, faster protection. With more than 6,000 employees in over 50 countries
and the world’s most advanced global threat intelligence, Trend Micro secures
your connected world. For more information, visit www.trendmicro.com.hk.

All hotels will offer COVID-19 tests for just HK$785*

HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 22 July 2020 –
As part of Dorsett Hospitality
International’s ongoing commitment to the local community under
#DorsettCares, the Hong Kong-based hospitality group is the first hotel group
to partner with leading global genetic testing and digital health company
Prenetics to offer the local community, associates and hotels guests in Hong
Kong a peace of mind with 24/7 access to the Project Screen by Circle COVID-19
test, recommended by the World Health Organisation and officially recognised by
the Hong Kong government, as we collectively fight to contain the city’s third
wave.

Hong Kong-based Prenetics
is one of three laboratories who have been assigned by the government to help
with mass community testing. Their ‘Do-It-Yourself’ test kit has an analytical
accuracy of 99.9% based on validated studies by the National Health Commission
and the US FDA. They also provide all the testing for the English Premier
League and have carried out over 40,000 COVID-19 tests for players and coaches
without which the season would not have resumed. The largest private laboratory
in Hong Kong, Prenetics have boosted its capacity up from 5,580 to 22,000 tests
in Hong Kong per day.

Dorsett has test kits
available for purchase at its 9 hotels in Hong Kong for only HK$785* with
results available within just one to two business days. Furthermore, the hotel
group will be sponsoring over 50% off of each COVID-19 test for all their
associates and in some instances, full sponsorships of COVID-19 test kits should
testing be required from any hotel staff to ensure we continue to do everything
we can to make our employees feel safe.

Since the first outbreak
back in February, all nine of Dorsett Hospitality International’s hotels in
Hong Kong — and worldwide — have implemented preventive and anti-epidemic
control measures, including use of hospital-grade Ecolab disinfectant cleaner 2.0,
increased cleaning and disinfection frequency of public areas and facilities
every hour and temperature screening for those coming in and out of the hotels.

To date, Dorsett
Hospitality International has provided accommodation for healthcare workers and
frontliners in London, Hong Kong and China and donated supplies used in
hospitals and quarantine centres in Malaysia. We will continue to support the
communities in each city where we have a presence as part of our #DorsettCares’
commitment to our esteemed associates and guests around the world.

* The COVID-19 test kit is being
sold at HK$985 with the cost breakdown and features listed below: 

• Prenetics PCR
  COVID-19 test: HK$785
• Sample Pick-Up to
  Laboratory Fee: HK$200
• Private, secure
  digital results provided within 24 to 48 hours of receipt in their laboratory
• Individuals with
  positive results will be provided a telehealth physician consultation

About Dorsett Hospitality International

Dorsett Hospitality International is one of
Asia’s fastest-growing hotel groups. As a Hong Kong hospitality brand, we are
proud to have an international footprint in 25 major cities worldwide with a
total of 56 properties with our strategic partners TWH and AGORA Hospitality,
including Dorsett Hospitality International’s 3 core brands: Dorsett Hotels
& Resorts, d.Collection, and Silka, each with their own distinct identity
and offerings to cater to diverse travel needs. Since the group’s establishment
in Hong Kong in January 2007, we have grown by leaps and bounds with hotels
across China, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and
Continental Europe; more properties are planned in the development pipeline.
For more information on Dorsett Hospitality International, visit: www.dorsett.com.

About Prenetics

Prenetics is a leading global genetic testing
and digital health company. Prenetics operates its direct to consumer genomics
business via its two brands, CircleDNA in Asia and DNAFit in Europe. The
company has a team of over 150 people and is spread across ten offices in Asia,
Europe and South Africa.

Prenetics has received over USD 50-million in
strategic funding from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, Ping An and more.
Prenetics’ mission is to help people lead healthier, more active lives by
empowering them with personalised, predictive, and preventive measures in the
form of the latest, proven innovations in DNA and mobile technology. For more
information, visit www.prenetics.com and www.circledna.com