July 2022

GENUI Acquires Majority Stake in Magnolia and Invests in Future Growth

magnolia logo BASEL, Switzerland, July 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Investment company GENUI and Magnolia, a leading software vendor in the global digital experience and content management markets, today announce that GENUI acquires a majority stake in Magnolia and injects significant growth capital into Magnolia. Magnolia is an emerging vendor pioneering the vision of “composable” […]

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Freshworks Helps Businesses Deliver More Delightful Customer Experiences with a New Integration with Google’s Business Messages

Freshchat conversational messaging capabilities expand to Google’s Business Messages as customers engage on Google Maps and Google Search to seek out support SAN MATEO, Calif., July 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH), a software company empowering the people who power business, today launched an integration with Google’s Business Messages for Freshchat®, Freshdesk Omnichannel® […]

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Unidentified men target the homes of executed Myanmar activists

The homes of two democracy activists executed by Myanmar’s junta over the weekend were attacked by groups of unidentified men on Wednesday, according to residents who described the assailants as military supporters yelling obscenities and threatening the lives of the activists’ family members. A source in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon told RFA Burmese that around 40 men in seven trucks pulled up to the home of former National League for Democracy (NLD) lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw on Bo Aung Kyaw Street in Kyauktada township at around 12:30 p.m. and began hurling projectiles at the building. “They were throwing stones and tomatoes

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Calls amplify for ASEAN to punish Myanmar for dissidents’ executions

Calls are mounting for ASEAN to punish Myanmar’s junta for executing four political prisoners, with one analyst proposing that the Southeast Asian bloc undertake the unprecedented move of suspending Naypyidaw as a member. Meanwhile on Wednesday, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi echoed her Malaysian counterpart in calling for a special discussion on Myanmar at a ministerial-level meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations scheduled for next week. On Tuesday, the 10-member association issued its harshest criticism of the Burmese junta to date, calling the executions of the four dissidents “highly reprehensible,” while Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah branded the

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NGOs: Thailand may be planning to deport Uyghurs to China

Thailand has moved dozens of Uyghurs from around the kingdom to a single facility in Bangkok, a security official confirmed Wednesday, raising fears among NGOs that the government may deport them to China after three detainees escaped earlier this month. Thai authorities had moved the Uyghurs to the detention center in Thailand’s capital for their own good, according to Panitan Wattanayagorn, the chief security adviser to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha. “I understand it was a relocation for security reasons and to improve their living conditions,” Panitan told the RFA-affiliated BenarNews by phone, but he did not respond to a question

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Myanmar military kills 6 in Sagaing, PDF kills 7 in Magway

Military troops have killed at least six people in a raid on a village in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, residents said Wednesday, amid reports that an anti-junta paramilitary group killed seven people in an attack intended as revenge for the executions of four democracy activists. Sources from Salingyi township’s Yae Mein (South) village said the bodies of six men were discovered when residents returned to the area on Wednesday following the raid a day earlier. Four of the men were identified as Chit Shwe, 70; Aung Moe, 35; Aung Khaing, 40; and Moe Oo, a 30-year-old member of the anti-junta People’s

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New Report: Millions of Lives at Risk from Surging HIV/AIDS Epidemic

The United Nations AIDS program says progress is stalling on ending HIV/AIDS as a public health crisis by 2030 and action is needed to get it back on track. The UNAIDS program issued its assessment in a new report pointing to recent data that showed 1.5 million people were newly infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That is over a million more new infections than the global estimate set by the United Nations. The report found that in the span of a year, the AIDS pandemic took one life every minute, around 650,000 deaths. Mary Maby, the director

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