HANOI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 11 October 2023 – Vingroup’s Chairman, Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong, announces that he will donate 99.8 percent of VinES Energy Solutions Joint Stock Company’s shares to VinFast. The merger is designed to enhance VinFast’s self-sufficiency in battery technology and its production chain, while increasing its competitive edge in the ever-growing electric vehicle market.
HONG
KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 27 July 2020 – Over the past five months, students from Hong Kong and New Haven
have been participating in a stay-at-home filmmaking program that guides them
to create short films about their experiences during the pandemic. The
initiative, called Film Stylo, was started by Jeremy Hung, founder of Babel
Film Workshop, amid an arts residency at Yale, and has resulted in an
international archive of student films documenting this historic time.
Jeremy Hung speaking at a welcome reception for Yale-China Arts Fellows at Yale University. Photo: Emily Chew / Yale-China Association https://bit.ly/2TWD9bq
In January, Jeremy
arrived at the university for a fellowship administered by the Yale-China
Association and supported by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New
York. Jeremy had begun working with US students to promote arts and cultural
exchange, but school closures in March abruptly cancelled his plans. Under
lockdown at home, Jeremy launched Film Stylo as an online filmmaking initiative
to address students’ emotional wellness and foster intercultural empathy
through filmmaking.
Over 200 students
worldwide have since signed up. “Many of our students have produced their best
work as a result,” said Kieran Ryan, Head of Film at King George V School. The
films have been shared with other student filmmakers across the globe. “I feel
like I can relate to others who participated in the initiative,” reflected
Yareli Calderon Romero, a junior at a New Haven Public School. “It made my
experience feel a lot better and less lonely.”
Dr. Eunice Yuen, a Child
Psychiatry Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center, has also contributed to the
initiative’s design. “One of our goals is to foster the psychological concept
of mentalization through self-reflection, sharing, and discussion,” Dr. Yuen
said. “Mentalization helps students nourish a healthy sense of self and others
in the world, promoting empathy, diversity, and inclusion in our next
generation of students.”
After his fellowship,
Jeremy plans to develop Film Stylo into a global filmmaking platform that
provides visual literacy education and facilitates arts and cultural exchange
between classrooms around the world. “The pandemic has made it clear that
students’ lives today are dominated by technology, so it’s more important than
ever that we teach them to keep sight of what makes us human,” said Jeremy. “As
the world’s most powerful communication medium, filmmaking is the best way of
doing that.”
Babel Film Workshop
began advocating and advancing visual literacy education for Hong Kong students
in 2018. Since then, it has provided opportunities for hundreds of students to
engage in the most powerful communication medium in the world by teaching film
as a universal language. Its team of filmmakers and educators is dedicated to
promoting film culture as a crucial way to increase our empathy of others. Visit
us at www.babel.com.hk and get our updates on Facebook and Instagram.
NEW YORK, US – ACCESSWIRE – 14 September 2021 – Focus Financial Partners Inc. (NASDAQ:FOCS) (“Focus”), a leading partnership of independent, fiduciary…
Introduces Chartwell Capital as strategic investor
HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 5 October 2020–Jia Group Holdings Limited (“Jia Group” or the “Group”, HK stock code:
8519) announced that the Group completed the placing of 172 million new shares
at HK$0.08 per share, and the net proceeds of the placing are approximately
HK$13.2 million. The placing received positive responses and was
oversubscribed, reflecting capital market’s optimistic view on the Group’s
operations and prospects. In addition, the Group is delighted to introduce
Chartwell Capital as strategic investor. Upon completion of the transaction,
Chartwell Capital will hold approximately 5.2% of the enlarged share capital of
Jia Group.
The net proceeds
from the placement of new shares will be used to develop the cloud kitchen
business of the Group; upgrade the sales channels of the Group including “JIA
Everywhere”, the online/offline delivery platform of the Group; invest in
potential PRC or overseas food and beverage related investment opportunities;
develop new catering outlets of the Group and brand management; and repay loan
to further strengthen financial capability.
Ms. Wong Pui Yain,
Chairperson of Jia Group, said, “Our group is a leading F&B operator with
strong brand value and growth potential in the Greater Bay Area. Our new
catering tech business will disrupt the food scene that help our Group capture
growth opportunity. In addition, we are
very pleased to have Chartwell Capital as one of our strategic investors of the
Group. Chartwell’s many years of experience will help our group broaden capital
base and capture growth opportunities to achieve optimal shareholder value.”
Mr. Ronald Chan,
Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Chartwell Capital Limited, said, “We
are delighted to become a strategic investor in Jia Group and support its cloud
kitchen development to broaden its sales channels and brand positioning. We see
the management team proactively repositioning the company for a post-pandemic
business environment. As patient investors, we see the shareholder value they
are creating by improving their profitability and operating efficiency over the
long-term.”
About Jia Group
Jia Group is a
well-established restaurant group in Hong Kong. From Michelin starred dining
rooms to cool and calm spaces where no reservations are needed, restaurants and
bars under the Group have their own characteristics, spanning both Eastern and
Western fare, with commonality being their authenticity.
Today, the Group
has more than 10 restaurants and bars in Hong Kong, including Duddell’s Hong
Kong, Louise, Andō, MONO, 22 Ships, 208 Duecento Otto, Potato Head Hong Kong,
Chachawan, Duddell’s Hong Kong Airport, serving a variety of cuisines including
Chinese, Thai and French dishes under different brands and themes, offering an
international portfolio of authentic dining experience. To learn more about the
Group, please visit Jia Group’s website at https://www.jiagroup.co
About Chartwell Capital
Founded in 2007,
Chartwell Capital seeks overlooked and undervalued investment opportunities in
the Asia-Pacific region. As a long-term and friendly investor, we aim to unlock
and create sustainable value for our invested companies. From implementing
stronger ESG and corporate governance, setting the right corporate performance
metrics, giving recommendations on succession planning to cultivating new
business relationships, our goal is to leverage on our business intelligence
and regional networks to deliver superior returns to our stakeholders and the
wider community. To learn more about the company, please visit Chartwell
Capital’s website at http://www.chartwell-capital.hk
