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XAG Goes Global with its P100 Agricultural Drone, Helping Farmers to Reap More

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

To meet farmer's need for a large-capacity drone, XAG officially makes its P100 Agricultural Drone available for sales globally.

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  • To meet farmer's need for a large-capacity drone, XAG officially makes its P100 Agricultural Drone available for sales globally.
  • As one of the fast-growing markets for agricultural drone, Vietnam becomes the first to witness the rising force of XAG P100.
  • "With two XAG P100 agricultural drones, two small teams consisting of only 4 to 6 people can finish the fieldwork much faster and easier.
  • XAG P100 Agricultural Drone is well credited for the level of its automation and precision, but what impresses farmers the most is the company's smart agricultural ecosystem.

THE VIKING SAIGON BEGINS INAUGURAL SEASON IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viking® (www.viking.com) today announced that its newest river ship, the Viking Saigon℠, has begun its inaugural season in Southeast Asia. Purpose-built for the Mekong River, the 80-guest ship sails between Kampong Cham, Cambodia and Mỹ Tho, Vietnam as part of Viking's popular 15-day Magnificent Mekong itinerary. With the 2022-2023 season now underway, regular sailing dates are available through March 2023; the 2023-2024 season begins in July 2023.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viking ( www.viking.com ) today announced that its newest river ship, the Viking Saigon , has begun its inaugural season in Southeast Asia.
  • With the 2022-2023 season now underway, regular sailing dates are available through March 2023; the 2023-2024 season begins in July 2023.
  • "We are also pleased to welcome back to Southeast Asia our first guests since early 2020.
  • With arrival of the Viking Saigon, we look forward to introducing even more curious travelers to this iconic waterway in the coming years."

BedBible.com Reports on 2022 Worldwide Sex Trafficking Statistics

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

NEW YORK, Feb. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BedBible.com has funded a report that spent two months doing in-depth research about worldwide sex trafficking.

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BedBible.com has funded a report that spent two months doing in-depth research about worldwide sex trafficking.
  • To put it into perspective, the sex trafficking industry is larger than the global cocaine market and almost as big as the global PC market.
  • Human trafficking is divided into forced labor and sex trafficking.
  • We've chosen to primarily focus on sex trafficking since this stands for 79% of all human trafficking cases in the world.

CO2-1-0 (CARBON) Corp and Solar EVN Ngoc Chau Signs MOU to Cooperate in Innovative Carbon Emission Reduction Program Using Blockchain-Crypto Technologies

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Monday, November 29, 2021

New York, Nov. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PHI Group, Inc. (www.phiglobal.com, PHIL), a company currently focused on PHILUX Global Funds, a group of Luxembourg bank funds, and developing the Asia Diamond Exchange (“ADE”) in Vietnam, is pleased to announce that CO2-1-0 (CARBON) Corp., a subsidiary of the Company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Solar EVN Ngoc Chau (www.solarngocchau.com) to cooperate in a new disruptive carbon mitigation program through worldwide environmentally sustainable projects.

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  • According to the MOU, Solar EVN and CO2-1-0 (CARBON) will cooperate in acquiring carbon credits from Solar EVNs projects and from other project owners in Vietnam.
  • Carbon credits will be digitalized into Carbon Tokens using blockchain-crypto technology and deploying IoT.
  • Solar EVN will provide project data to be processed into CARBONs data processing center and also support CARBONs due diligence processes.
  • Choky Simanjuntak, Founder and CEO of CARBON, added: We are warm-hearted and delighted to work together with Solar EVN.

New satellite data reveals increasing proportion of population exposed to floods worldwide

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

The analysis reveals that the proportion of global population exposed to floods has grown by 24% since the turn of the millennium, a tenfold difference from what scientists previously thought.

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  • The analysis reveals that the proportion of global population exposed to floods has grown by 24% since the turn of the millennium, a tenfold difference from what scientists previously thought.
  • Today, most flood maps rely on modelling that simulates floods based on available ground data, such as elevation, rainfall and ground sensors.
  • Despite representing less than 2 percent of floods, dam breaks had the highest increased incidence (177%) in proportion of population exposed.
  • The satellite data also uncovered previously unidentified increases in flood exposure in Southern Asia, Southern Latin America, and the Middle East.