February 26, 2022

The 1000 Car Road Show | GAC MOTOR Nigeria Delivers Vehicles for LAGRIDE Project

GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On February 20, 2022, an awe-inspiring parade of 1000 GAC MOTOR vehicles crossed the Third Mainland Bridge into Lagos State, ready to begin service for the LAGRIDE public transport project.

The project, which features a large-scale government-sponsored ride-hailing platform, is the first of its kind instigated by the current Lagos government.

GAC MOTOR’s years of establishing a foothold in the local automobile market have paid off. It has been trusted to provide 1000 vehicles in the project.

Design, Comfort, Quality

As a designated supplier, GAC MOTOR has equipped Lagos with 1000 GS3s and GA4s.

In recent days, a thousand cars have appeared in a visually striking and enormous “roadshow” across the Third Mainland Bridge linking Lagos state to the Nigerian mainland.

The GS3 SUV and GA4 sedan feature intelligent Chinese technology capabilities, reliable quality of materials, and a design that prioritizes comfort. Both have spacious cabins that make them well-suited to extensive use by the public while maintaining a feeling of cutting-edge design and luxury.

Affordable Vehicles Will Boost Transport Business

LAGRIDE is a vital opportunity for GAC MOTOR to build an even stronger reputation through simple visibility and a more profound commitment to local economic development.

The project is designed to boost Nigeria’s public transport services, promote the development of the online ride-hailing sector, assist the Nigerian government in building a world-class online ride-hailing platform, and reform Nigeria’s transportation sector.

LAGRIDE is also a scheme of empowerment for Lagos residents. It will provide a thousand new passenger cars for purchase by eligible unemployed and taxi drivers equipped with perfect safety and insurance systems.

The cars also come with low initial deposits and long repayment periods, which reduce the employment threshold, provide employment opportunities, and reduce pressures associated with car purchases, promoting consumption and aiding overall economic development.

A Clear Commitment to Development in Nigeria

GAC MOTOR, as a brand, has been working to cultivate the Nigerian market for years and has committed to bringing ingenious design, superior quality, and advanced technology to the Nigerian people.

In 2021, GAC MOTOR won Nigeria’s prestigious “Automobile Company of the Year” award. The GS8 also won “Most Desirable SUV.”

The future looks bright for GAC MOTOR. Expect many more years of entrenched development in Nigeria and the broader African continent for the Chinese carmaker.

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February 26, 2022

Chinmay J. Upadhyat torna-se Vice-Presidente Regional, Sul da Ásia para Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group

TEMECULA, Califórnia, Feb. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (“Grupo”), parte do grupo de empresas Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japão), anuncia que Chinmay J. Upadhyat juntou-se ao Grupo como Vice-Presidente Regional, região do Sul da Ásia.

Chinmay ficará sediado na Nikkiso Cosmodyne India Private Ltd, seu grande centro de fabricação e competências em Gujarat, na Índia.

Esta importante adição à equipe de gestão é resultado do crescimento no contexto de mercado e está em linha com os objetivos da Divisão Industrial da Nikkiso, de melhor atender e dar suporte aos seus clientes no mercado do sul da Ásia.

Chinmay iniciou sua carreira em 1995 como Engenheiro de Produção na Anup Engineering e na Inductotherm India, depois atuou como gerente de contas por dez anos na Dresser Rand Índia. Desde 2008, ele foi Gerente Regional e Assistente Geral da Burckhardt Compression Índia, onde foi responsável pelas vendas e desenvolvimento de negócios de novas máquinas para o mercado indiano.

Com sua vasta experiência nos mercados de GNV, GNL, H2 e gás industrial na Índia, Chinmay liderará as equipes de vendas e serviços da Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases nesta importante região e embarcará em uma missão para fornecer crescimento de participação de mercado de forma sustentável e maneira lucrativa.

“Chinmay será um reforço perfeito para nossa equipe de gestão com sua grande competência em desenvolvimento de negócios, equipamentos, serviços, vendas, pós-venda e conhecimento de mercado”, de acordo com Emile Bado, Vice-presidente de Vendas e Desenvolvimento de Negócios do Grupo.

Chinmay é formado em Engenharia Mecânica pela Government Polytechnic, Ahmedabad, bacharel em Tecnologia pela JNRVD University, Rajasthan e possui MBA pela Sikkim Manipal University em Manipal.

SOBRE CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
As empresas da Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (agora parte da Nikkiso Co., Ltd.) fabricam equipamentos de processamento de gás criogênico e usinas para serviços de serviços de GNL, poços e gás industrial. Fundada há mais de 50 anos, a Cryogenic Industries é matriz da ACD, Cosmodyne e Cryoquip e o grupo é controlado em conjunto por aproximadamente 20 instituições operacionais.

Para mais informações visite www.cryoind.com e www.nikkiso.com.

ASSESSORIA DE IMPRENSA:
Anna Quigley
+1.951.383.3314
[email protected]

February 26, 2022

Chinmay J. Upadhyat devient vice-président régional pour l’Asie du Sud de Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group

TEMECULA, Calif., 25 févr. 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (le « Groupe »), qui fait partie du groupe Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japon), annonce que Chinmay J. Upadhyat a rejoint le Groupe en tant que vice-président régional pour la région Asie du Sud.

Chinmay sera basé au sein de Nikkiso Cosmodyne India Private Ltd, son grand centre de fabrication et de compétence dans l’État du Gujarat, en Inde.

Cet ajout important à notre équipe de direction est le résultat de notre croissance dans l’environnement de marché et est conforme aux objectifs de la Division industrielle (Industrial Division) de Nikkiso visant à mieux servir et soutenir nos clients sur le marché de l’Asie du Sud.

Chinmay a débuté sa carrière en 1995 en tant qu’ingénieur de production chez Anup Engineering et Inductotherm India, puis a occupé le poste de gestionnaire de comptes clés pendant dix ans chez Dresser Rand India. Depuis 2008, il est directeur général adjoint régional de Burckhardt Compression India, où il était responsable du développement commercial et des ventes de nouvelles machines pour le marché indien.

Fort de sa vaste expérience sur les marchés du CNG, du GNL, du dihydrogène et du gaz industriel en Inde, Chinmay dirigera les équipes de ventes et services de Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases dans cette importante région, et s’engagera dans une mission visant à fournir une croissance durable et rentable des parts de marché.

« Chinmay sera un parfait ajout à notre équipe de direction avec ses compétences dans le développement commercial, l’équipement, l’entretien, les services après-vente et sa connaissance du marché », a déclaré Emile Bado, vice-président du développement commercial et des ventes du Groupe.

Chinmay est titulaire d’un diplôme d’ingénierie mécanique de Government Polytechnic, Ahmedabad, d’une licence en technologie de l’université JNRVD, au Rajasthan, et d’un MBA de l’université Sikkim Manipal à Manipal.

À PROPOS DE CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (aujourd’hui membre de Nikkiso Co., Ltd) et ses entreprises membres fabriquent des équipements et de petites usines de traitement de gaz cryogénique pour les secteurs du gaz naturel liquéfié (GNL), des services d’entretien de puits et du gaz industriel. Fondée il y a plus de 50 ans, Cryogenic Industries est la société-mère d’ACD, de Cosmodyne et de Cryoquip, ainsi qu’un groupe administré en commun comptant une vingtaine d’entités opérationnelles.

Pour tout complément d’information, veuillez consulter les sites www.cryoind.com et www.nikkiso.com.

Contact auprès des médias :
Anna Quigley
+1.951.383.3314
[email protected]

February 26, 2022

Huawei in Talks With South Africa on Labor Lawsuit

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s labor ministry says Chinese tech firm Huawei is non-compliant with the country’s employment policies.

Huawei is in talks with the ministry over infringements of the country’s employment policies that require 60% of staff to be local hires. It’s still unclear what a settlement could mean for Huawei and other foreign businesses operating in the country.

The ministry’s employment equity act sets requirements for the number of local hires, including those of disadvantaged backgrounds, at various levels within a corporate structure. And it does regular checks across industries for compliance.

“There is room to employ foreign nationals, especially on companies or employers that come to the country to invest… and also to transfer skills to South Africans. We do allow them to bring 40% of their employees…. We realized that 90% of its workforce, that Huawai is foreign nationals, which is against our employment policies,” says Fikiswa Mncanca-Bede, a lawyer for South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labor.

The labor department launched legal proceedings against Huawei earlier this month.

On Friday, the ministry confirmed it was in settlement negotiations with the tech firm on how to correct the discrepancies.

Huawei did not respond to requests for comment.

Mncanca-Bede says the government’s action should send a signal to all companies that non-compliance will not be tolerated.

“We’re not targeting Huawei, but we’re also coming for the big companies in South Africa, … because we want to ensure that transformation does not just become a talk, but it must be seen as a reality…. Transformation means even if you employ South Africans, who are the South Africans that were employing? Are they addressing the imbalances of the past?” Mncanca-Bede asked.

The employment equity act aims to correct historic inequalities in the country, including racial preferences from the apartheid era that benefited white workers.

But those regulations are still not playing out as planned in the workforce.

“There’s rampant violation of regulations by big companies and small company, and South African companies, not just, you know, these international companies. I would definitely say in relation to all of our labor laws, there’s enforcement problems. I think that the Department of Labor is under resourced,” said Kgomotso Musanabi, a law lecturer at the University of Johannesburg.

In addition to inequities, South Africa is experiencing rampant unemployment, with upwards of 35% of people being jobless.

Musanabi says it’s even worse among the country’s youth.

“I think that government is trying to make an attempt to ensure that all South Africans are employed. But not only that South Africans are employed, but that they acquire sort of globally relevant skills that they need to compete in international markets, particularly tech skills,” Musanabi said.

Companies that are non-compliant face fines.

But labor lawyer Johanette Rheeder says for companies as big as Huawei, those fines are a drop in the bucket and unlikely to have a broader chilling effect.

“In South Africa there’s in many businesses also an attitude of we’ll fix it when we’re caught out. Bigger businesses that’s got a better a better social conscience, if I can call it that, do comply…. The middle size and the smaller businesses who just can’t afford to comply with all of these legislations, so they basically fix it when they offered when they caught out,” Rheeder said.

Instead, she says bridging education and skills gaps in the country — rather than going after foreign workers — is the best way to address unemployment and inequity.

“The biggest, biggest thing that we can do in my view in this country is to upskill people… there are some strategies that [are] in place, but it’s always the struggle between upskilling our local people and not giving jobs to foreigners,” Rheeder said.

The labor department said talks with Huawei are expected to conclude Friday.

Source: Voice of America

February 26, 2022

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia vetoes UN resolution deploring ‘aggression’ in Ukraine

Russia, as expected, vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that “deplores in the strongest terms” the country’s “aggression” against Ukraine and demanded the immediate withdrawal of its troops.

Eleven of the council’s 15 members voted for the motion, which was co-written by the United States and Albania.

China, India and the UAE abstained.

The resolution was always doomed to fail because of Moscow’s veto power as a permanent member of the council.

Still, the debate offered the chamber an important opportunity to voice its condemnation of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale offensive against Russia’s neighbor.

“Let me make one thing clear,” US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after the vote. “Russia, you can veto this resolution, but you cannot veto our voices, you cannot veto the truth, you cannot veto our principles, you cannot veto the Ukrainian people.”

The wording of the draft text put before the Security Council was watered down in the hours before the vote to gain more support.

The word “condemns” was replaced by “deplores” and a reference to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows members to take military action to restore peace, was deleted.

The resolution reaffirmed the sovereignty of Ukraine and called for Russia to “immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine.”

Ultimately, almost 70 countries co-sponsored the resolution.

Russia, which currently holds the rotating Security Council presidency, will likely face another vote on a similar resolution before the wider UN General Assembly which could be passed by a substantial margin, although it would be non-binding.

“Make no mistake, Russia is isolated. It has no support for the invasion of Ukraine,” said Britain’s ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward.

Before the vote, Thomas-Greenfield described the attack as “so bold, so brazen, that it threatens our international system as we know it.

“We have a solemn obligation to not look away … At the very minimum, we have an obligation to object,” she said.

“Vote yes if you believe Russia should be held to account for its actions. Vote no or abstain if you do not uphold the charter and align yourselves with the aggressive and unprovoked actions of Russia.

“Just as Russia had a choice. So do you,” she pleaded.

Russia, which currently holds the rotating Security Council presidency, will likely face another vote on a similar resolution before the wider UN General Assembly which is formed of all 193 member countries.

Moscow does not have a veto there and the resolution could be passed by a substantial margin, although it would be non-binding.

The General Assembly held a similar vote in 2014 condemning Russia’s seizure of Crimea, which obtained 100 votes in support.

Moscow had earlier vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning its actions in Crimea. Thirteen countries supported it with China abstaining.

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK

February 26, 2022

Drug dealer arrested

MPUMALANGA – A 42-year-old suspected drug dealer, who is on bail, was arrested on Friday, 25 February 2022 by the Hawks’ Secunda based Serious Organised Crime Investigation, Secunda Crime Intelligence and Secunda K9 Unit for unlawful possession and dealing in drugs in Bethal, Mpumalanga.

Information was received and operationalized about a drug dealer who was peddling drugs at Jabulani Street next to the mall in Bethal. On arrival, the team found a male in possession of pieces of rock cocaine and dagga. He was arrested and detained at Bethal SAPS. The suspect was on bail after he was previously arrested for similar charge on Major Investigation Dream-On as per Bethal case.

During the previous bail hearing, the investigation officer opposed bail but the court granted him. The suspect will appear in the Bethal Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 28 February 2022.

Source: South African Police Service