Children’s Day Festival 2024 @ Royale Chulan Seremban – Grand Events Curated for The Young Ones

Children’s Day falls on the month of November every year. This year, let's embrace this special occasion together with Royale Chulan Seremban Hotel. The hotel will be organizing an exciting 2-day event to cater exciting activities and contests dedicated for all children. Starts from Saturday, 9th November 2024 and ends on Sunday 10th November 2024, this annual event aims to cater children with fun-filled activities and engaging contests throughout the 2 day.

This year, the renowned natural home and personal care brand - Bzu Bzu, will be generously distributing 2,000 door gifts to all children during the event.

A variety of contests and competitions will be held during the Children’s Day Festival 2024 at Royale Chulan Seremban Hotel. Including a colouring contest, dance competition, singing competition, and fashion show at Seri Negeri Ballroom 1.

Winners in these contests will have the chance to win exciting gifts valued at RM400, cash prizes by PTPN of RM500 for each in the colouring, dance, singing, and fashion show competitions, trophies, certificates, and four Legoland Malaysia theme park tickets, valued at RM800. The second and third-place winners will receive cash prizes of RM400 and RM300, respectively, along with trophy, certificates, prizes and two entrance tickets to Snowlim Wonderland Malaysia and gift prizes valued at RM300. Plus, no child will leave empty-handed, as all participants will receive tokens of appreciation and certificates, even if they don’t win. Contest fees start from RM25 nett per child, which includes specially prepared meals for all participants.

Additionally, at the Seri Negeri Ballroom 2, the Hotel collaborate with Brickmasters, renowned for organizing major Lego competitions across Malaysia, organizing the first-ever Lego competition in Negeri Sembilan, with over 500 participants expected each day. Registration at RM5 per contestant, the competition is open to all children, teens, and parents. Participants will compete for a chance to win one of 18 Lego box prizes! The Training Chess Centre Negeri Sembilan will host a chess tournament over two days in Ballroom 3. The event on November 9 is open to children up to 12 years old, while the tournament on November 10 welcomes participants of all ages, including adults. Trophies will be awarded to the winners on both days.

Panasonic Malaysia Champions School Hygiene with Groundbreaking Bidet Initiative

Good toilet hygiene plays a vital role in preventing the spread of infectious diseases, ensuring students feel safe and comfortable, and fostering an environment conducive to learning in schools.

We were honoured to attend the at the campaign launch event

Good news! Panasonic Malaysia has launched the “Panasonic Rakan Bersih Ceria” campaign to raise awareness and educate on good toilet hygiene standards and habits amongst primary school children in Malaysia. This is part of Panasonic’s efforts to address on-going concerns with school toilet cleanliness, as well as to improve lives and holistic well-being, in line with its corporate vision and tagline “Create Today. Enrich Tomorrow.” to set the stage for a cleaner and healthier future for all Malaysians.

Panasonic Malaysia Sdn Bhd managing director Keisuke Nishida and Education Ministry educational resources and technology division director Aniza Kamarulzaman, at the campaign launch, aimed at improving school hygiene standards and fostering healthier habits among students.

The launch ceremony was officiated by Mr. Keisuke Nishida, Managing Director of Panasonic Malaysia at Sekolah Kebangsaan Sentul 2, Kuala Lumpur on 1 October 2024.

“Panasonic Rakan Bersih Ceria” campaign goes beyond conventional measures and involves the installation of manual bidet seats in the school toilets to contribute towards improving their cleanliness and hygiene. More importantly, this campaign aligns with our government’s call to provide a safe, clean and comfortable environment for both students and teachers through the upgrade and maintenance of facilities in schools.

“We are very excited to launch this campaign with the Ministry of Education’s support to foster healthier and more hygienic habits among school children. Panasonic’s identity is rooted in Japanese culture. One of them is an emphasis on practicing cleanliness, which promotes better hygiene, reduces the spread of illnesses as well as improves overall health and well-being. More essentially, by instilling good hygiene standards early on, we empower children to take responsibility for their own hygiene and contribute towards maintaining a cleaner and healthier space for themselves and others,” said Keisuke Nishida, Managing Director of Panasonic Malaysia during the launch event.

“Through this campaign, we hope to share our culture of cleanliness and envision a future where hygiene is not just a practice, but a lifestyle and lifelong healthy habits as part of student development,” added Nishida.

Panasonic Malaysia Sdn Bhd managing director Keisuke Nishida (sixth from left), SK Sentul 2 headmistress Norhayati Mustafa, Education Ministry educational resources and technology division director Aniza Kamarulzaman and Panasonic Malaysia Sdn Bhd appliance product marketing general manager Shinichi Tsuda together with students of SK Sentul 2 at the campaign launch.

The campaign involved 25 participating primary schools across the Klang Valley. With good hygiene standards serving as the foundation of toilet cleanliness, and a healthier and more sanitary environment for all, Panasonic conducted informative and engaging workshops educating students the importance of hygiene education and good restroom practices. The workshops are also designed to have exciting activities to ensure students are well-prepared for life beyond the textbook and naturally lead them toward embracing a hygienic lifestyle.

Panasonic also distributed educational materials, including posters emphasizing clean, comfortable, and eco-friendly bathroom practices, with a specific focus on bidet usage.

GSK’s Arexvy is a Vaccine Approved to Protect Older Adults from Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Disease in Malaysia

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Sdn Bhd (GSK) announced that Arexvy (MAL24086007ARZ) has been approved in Malaysia for RSV, a common respiratory virus that can lead to serious negative clinical outcomes, such as lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) and pneumonia in older adults recently. i The RSV vaccine has been approved for older adults aged 60 and above in the country. This adjuvanted vaccine can transform efforts to reduce RSV’s burden on older adults, the healthcare system and society.

Me at the launch of GSK’s RSV vaccine.

The approval is based on positive data from a phase III trial, where the vaccine demonstrated high overall vaccine efficacy of 82.6% against LRTD. vii 94.6% efficacy was observed against RSV-LRTD in adults with co-morbidities. vii Across multiple studies, the vaccine was generally well tolerated with an acceptable safety profile. Some adverse events observed were injection site pain, fatigue, myalgia, and headache. These were typically mild to moderate and lasting within a few days after vaccination. vii

(from left to right) Dr Alap Gandhi, Country Medical Director of GSK Malaysia and Brunei; Ruxandra Nastasa, Vice President & General Manager of GSK Malaysia & Brunei; and Professor Dr Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail, Deputy Director & Consultant, Respiratory Physician Hospital Al Sultan Abdullah Universiti Teknologi MARA (HASA UiTM) at the launch of GSK’s RSV vaccine.

Whilst, RSV is a disease of all ages, in 2019, the impact of RSV in adults aged 60 years and older is significant, resulting in over 470,000 hospitalisations and 33,000 deaths in high-income countries. ii Adults with underlying co-morbidities, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, diabetes, and chronic heart failure (CHF) are at high risk for severe RSV. vii

Ruxandra Nastasa, Vice President & General Manager of GSK Malaysia & Brunei, delivering her speech at the launch of GSK's RSV vaccine.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an altered pattern of seasonal infections due to COVID-19 protection measures. iv Specifically in Malaysia, RSV infections occur all year round, with notable peaks typically occurring between July to August, as well as October to December. v