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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Self Storage Awards Asia Gala Dinner announces winners at Self Storage Expo Asia 2025
HONG KONG, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Self Storage Association Asia announces the Self Storage Association Awards Asia 2025 winners in Tokyo. The Awards recognise Asia-wide and local excellence in self storage in customer service, the use of technology and other key industry metrics. Industry leaders across Asia are raising safety standards, customer service and good governance. Consumers, investors and governments can look to the award winners for the gold standard in self storage in Asia. Self storage is proving a vital industry for empowering small and large businesses to grow through flexible use of space for modern economies. The full list of finalists and details of the entries are at the Awards website at Multi-Site Operator Store of the Year recognises the best self storage site in Asia operated by a large company. Winner Asia & Singapore: Work+Store Regional winners: Hong Kong SAR: RedBox Storage The Philippines: Loc&Stor 24/7 Sucat Independent Store of the Year recognises the best self storage site in Asia operated by a smaller company. Independent Store of the Year & La Réunion Winner: IZIBOX Regional winners: The Philippines: INSTORAGE BY CLAIRMONT Jordan: Easy Storage Jordan Valet Storage of the Year recognises the best valet storage company in Asia providing door-to-door service. Winner Asia and Hong Kong: Valet Stored! Manager of the Year recognises an on-site manager who has outperformed their peers across Asia. Winner Asia and Japan: Quraz - Rumiko Uchida Regional winners: Singapore: Lock+Store - Soh Xun Ling Hong Kong SAR: The Store House - Walter Wu The Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiative Award (ESG Award) recognises excellence in initiatives advancing ESG goals. Winner Asia and Japan: Arealink Co.,Ltd / Hello Storage Regional winners: Singapore: StorHub Self Storage The Philippines: INSTORAGE BY CLAIRMONT Dubai: The Box Self Storage La Réunion: IZIBOX Hong Kong SAR: Storefriendly The Technology & Innovation Award recognises the implementation of technology in operations or customer service above and beyond industry standards. Winner Asia and Thailand: LEO Self Storage Regional winners: Vietnam: MyStorage Vietnam Hong Kong SAR: Storefriendly The Creative & Effective Marketing Award recognises novel thinking that delivers results in driving sales through marketing. Winner Asia and Singapore: Work+Store Regional winner: La Réunion: IZIBOX The Customer Experience Satisfaction Award recognises operators who have demonstrated outstanding service levels, customer care, and user experience, setting new standards in customer satisfaction. Winner Asia and Thailand: i-Store Self Storage Regional winners: The Philippines: INSTORAGE BY CLAIRMONT Hong Kong SAR: RedBox Storage About the Self Storage Association Asia The SSAA is the industry body representing and serving the self storage industry in Asia from Japan to Jordan. Its members comprise the best of class self storage operators, their suppliers and investors. The SSAA provides training, advocacy, intelligence, market reports and a networking platform to help operators to continue to improve and grow. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE SELF STORAGE ASSOCIATION
Korea Herald
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
'Veiled Musician' expands globally with SBS, Spotify
Asia-wide audition show selects top vocalists based solely on voice, with 12 countries joining Season 3 of the blind music competition The audition program "Veiled Musician," which selects top singers based solely on their voices, is expanding into a global project in partnership with Korean broadcaster SBS. "Veiled Musician" is a blind audition program where participants sing from behind a curtain, concealing their face, age and all other identifying details. The competition focuses purely on vocal talent and musicality. The series launched in 2018 under the title "Blind Musician" through Naver TV and YouTube. In 2023, the show was rebranded as "Veiled Musician" for its second season, which aired on Wavve and YouTube. This year, the show returns for its third season, teaming up with SBS and Spotify. Season 3 is set to unfold across 12 Asian countries. Hidden vocal talents will be discovered in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and Laos. The top three contestants from each country will gather in Korea to compete in a final round. Kim Yong-jae, head of the Global Business Center at SBS Prism Studio, stated, 'This is the first time in Asia that 12 countries will participate simultaneously in the same format, with leading local broadcasters airing the show. It marks a shift in the global stage for musical exchange -- from the West to the East -- with SBS at the center.' Season 3 of "Veiled Musician" is set to premiere in the second half of this year.
Business Times
27-04-2025
- Business
- Business Times
Singapore investors behind regional peers on climate governance and disclosures: investor group
[SINGAPORE] Investors in Singapore are behind their regional peers in several climate-related metrics, particularly on matters relating to climate governance and disclosures, indicated a recent review by the Asian Investor Group on Climate Change. The review, which polled 230 major Asian investors, found that Singapore investors were lagging on the following metrics: Linking board remuneration to the climate performance: Singapore scored an average of 28 per cent compared to an average of 35 per cent across Asia Disclosing climate transition plans: Singapore had an average of 28 per cent compared to an average of 35 per cent in the region Having biodiversity or nature disclosures or strategy: Singapore investors managed 17 per cent, significantly lower than an Asia-wide average of 33 per cent Disclosing physicals risks or adaptation actions: Investors here achieved 30 per cent, as opposed to 43 per cent across Asia Advocating for climate policy and regulation: Singapore investors registered 22 per cent, slightly lower than 25 per cent in Asia The review noted that for a sophisticated financial sector in a developed economy like Singapore, investors headquartered here can do better in other metrics where they have scored similarly with the regional average. One of these metrics is climate solutions investments, where Singapore investors did the same as their regional peers at 34 per cent. The other is setting asset-level targets that aligned with global climate goals. Singapore achieved an average of 28 per cent, slightly better than the regional average of 25 per cent. However, the report noted some areas where Singapore-based investors outperformed their peers on three metrics. A NEWSLETTER FOR YOU Friday, 12.30 pm ESG Insights An exclusive weekly report on the latest environmental, social and governance issues. Sign Up Sign Up These are: Recognition of climate risks and opportunities: This is becoming a mainstream practice in Singapore with 89 per cent of investors having done so, compared with a regional average of 75 per cent Conducting advanced climate scenario analysis: Singapore-based investors scored 72 per cent, much higher than the average score of 44 per cent across Asia Setting policies on fossil fuels or other high-emitting sectors: 61 per cent of investors here have policies which indirectly or directly support the transition to renewable energy and the electrification of industries, compared to an Asia-wide average of 43 per cent The data on Singapore investors were extracted from an assessment across Asia of how investors have progressed in integrating climate-related considerations in their investment processes. Out of the 230 investors reviewed – comprising 113 asset owners and 117 asset managers – the median assets under management was approximately US$100 billion. They had reviewed these investors on five focus areas: Climate governance, climate investment, climate corporate engagement, climate advocacy policy as well as climate disclosures. The review found that across Asia, institutional investors have been making progress with more advanced and detailed climate implementation across portfolios. 'However, the real economy still has a long way to go until investors align their portfolios with net-zero trajectories. A large portion of investors are yet to show enough progress across each of the five investor climate action focus areas above. Still, enhanced focus on these areas is becoming evident as investors across the region strive to manage climate risks and opportunities,' said the review.
