Author: Marie Jones

Offer Price Ranges Between HK$3.52 and HK$4.22 per Offer Share Raises Funds of HK$1,023.2 million to HK$1,226.6 million Introduces Two Heavyweight Cornerstone Investors – Shanghai Huijin and YBN Investments Global New Material International Holdings Limited (Global New Material, together with its subsidiary the Group), the largest pearlescent pigment producer in the PRC*, has announced the details of its proposed listing on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX). The Group’s business principally focuses on the production and sales of a comprehensive portfolio of pearlescent pigment products. The products are sold to customers in the PRC…

GR Heritage Parts Project TOYOTAGAZOO Racing announces that it will reproduce additional spare parts for the A70(1) and A80(2) Supra under its GR Heritage Parts Project, and will sell them both in Japan and in North America, Europe, and other overseas countries. In support of customers who wish to continue driving older vehicles that are full of memories and that they truly love, the project reproduces spare parts that have been discontinued, and sells them as genuine parts. For the A70 and A80 Supra, this will be the first addition since spare parts were announced in 2020. From July 1,…

NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and Mavenir announced today that they have jointly collaborated in a live 5G Open RAN massive MIMO deployment as part of Deutsche Telekom’s initiative, “O-RAN Town”. Deutsche Telekom is a strong, highly active advocate of Open RAN, a founding member of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and one of the major operators who signed an Open RAN MOU earlier this year to prioritize deployments and foster greater investment in Open RAN technologies. The O-RAN Town project refers to the initial deployment of disaggregated RAN for serving approximately 65,000 residents in Neubrandenburg, a town north of Berlin, in preparation…

Scandium International Mining Corp. (TSX:SCY) (Scandium International or the Company) and Nevada Gold Mines (NGM), have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to initiate a joint technical and economic feasibility program at NGM’s Phoenix Mine, near Battle Mountain, Nevada. The purpose of this joint development program is to confirm the economic and technical viability of a critical metals recovery (CMR) project at the mine site. The LOI defines a detailed US$2.7 million spend program which includes bench test work, pilot plant testing, and feasibility study design work. The program is anticipated to require 15 months to complete. With program completion,…

Offer Price Between HK$8.60 and HK$9.78 per Share To Raise Proceeds Up to HK$1,947 and 2,214 Million A leading player in China’s independent esoteric clinical testing service provider – Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. (Kindstar Globalgene or the Company, together with its subsidiaries, the Group, stock code: 9960.HK), today announced the proposed listing of its shares on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Hong Kong Stock Exchange). Kindstar Globalgene plans to offer 226,405,000 Shares (subject to the Over-allotment Option), of which 203,764,500 Shares will be International Offer Shares (subject to reallocation and the Over-allotment Option), representing…

Declares Final Dividend of HK1.5 Cents Per Share Resilient Performance Albeit Market Challenges Jacobson Pharma Corporation Limited (Jacobson Pharma or the Company; Stock Code: 2633), a leading company engaging in the research, development, production, marketing and sale of essential medicines, specialty drugs and branded healthcare products, today announced the annual results of the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively the Group) for the year ended 31 March 2021 (the FY2021 or the Reporting Period). During the Reporting Period, the economy was hit hard by the pandemic with retail consumption stalled due to various social distancing measures and travel restrictions. At the…

2021-6-23 / Gelonghui – China Biotech’s cell therapy was approved by the NMPA to enter Phase I clinical trials as a Class I new drug, while the recent CAR-T cell therapy approval for product marketing in China means a new era of immune cell therapy has begun. According to the announcement of National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA), Axicabtagene Ciloleucel injection (FKC876), a CAR-T cell therapy product of Fosun Kite, was officially approved for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma (including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) non-specific type, primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL),…

Adjusted Net Profit* Increases by 13.3% to HK$54.6 Million JBM (Healthcare) Limited (JBM Healthcare or the Group; Stock Code: 2161), a leading branded healthcare products marketer and distributor in Hong Kong, has announced today the first annual results of the Group after its spin-off listing on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on 5 February 2021. Despite the unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Group posted a total revenue of HK$397.2 million during the year ended 31 March 2021 (Reporting Period), representing a growth of 4.1% from last year. Before taking into account…

Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group (PDG), Asia’s leading data center provider, today announced its plan to build one of the largest hyperscale facilities in Tokyo, Japan, with a total investment value of USD 1 Billion. Japan is the fifth market that the company has entered in since its formation 4 years ago. With this investment, PDG marks a major milestone in its plan to build a 600 megawatts (MW) portfolio across the region. The new campus at Saitama City will have close to 100 MW of critical IT capacity across two phases of 48.5 MW each. Saitama City is one of…

A new device harvests two types of energy during the daytime, making it cool on one end and hot on the other, to generate electricity around the clock. With further improvements, the device could be used in off-grid Internet-of-things sensors. The details were published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. Scientists have known for at least 200 years that electricity can be generated from a temperature gradient, a phenomenon called thermoelectric generation. Recently, researchers have developed thermoelectric conversion technologies by changing material parameters and introducing new principles. For example, researchers have found that magnetic materials can generate…

TOKYO, June 28, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004) has developed “WelQuick(TM),” a film-type binding material to bond dissimilar materials together, such as bonding between resins and metals, with excellent quickness and strength. SDK has already started to provide potential customers with samples of WelQuick. In recent years, manufacturing industry’s requirements for materials such as lightness, heat-resistance and strength have been advanced so much that almost no single material can meet such sophisticated needs. Therefore, there has been a progress in introduction of composite structure into components, in which dissimilar materials such as resins and metals are bound together. This…

Xiaomi-backed online brokerage Tiger Brokers (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Tiger Brokers Singapore) today announced that it has received approval-in-principle to be admitted as a Clearing Member of The Central Depository (Pte) Limited (CDP). Tiger Brokers has also received approval-in-principle from Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST) as well as Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX-DT”) for admission as a Trading Member. Tiger Brokers expects to use these approvals-in-principle to improve the user experience and services it offers to clients. Tiger Brokers looks forward to developing its partnerships with CDP, SGX-ST and SGX-DT and strengthening its presence in the Singapore market. Eng…

– New Honda Prologue EV to go on sale in North America in MY2024 as highly competitive SUV with functionality expected by Honda customers – “Prologue” model name symbolizes 1st in a new series of volume Honda BEV models – Honda targets 100% of auto sales in North America to be full electric by 2040 – Honda initiates communication strategy to engage prospective EV customers Honda today announced that its first new volume battery-electric vehicle will be named “Prologue,” signaling a new electrified era that will lead to the company’s vision for 100% zero emission vehicle sales in North America…

The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team is celebrating victory in the first Safari Rally Kenya to be held as part of the FIA World Rally Championship for nearly 20 years. Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia pulled off a superb fightback to take their fourth win from six events and extend their championship lead, while Takamoto Katsuta scored his first ever WRC podium to complete a one-two finish for the Toyota Yaris WRC. The event lived up to its reputation as an extremely demanding rally, with many of the crews experiencing difficulties over the weekend. Ogier was seventh overall…

NTT Corporation (NTT), its subsidiary NTT DATA Corporation (NTT DATA) and NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today the acceleration of activities to promote the global adoption of 5G solutions tailored for enterprises. The three companies aim to develop these solutions to accommodate market demand that helps to drive the creation of successful business models and business. These activities will be conducted in “Enso – The Space for Creators” (Enso Lab), which has been established at NTT DATA Deutschland’s Munich laboratories. 1. Background Current wireless network base stations are mainly equipped with integrated hardware and software based on the specifications of certain…

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has released a white paper on the 5G Open RAN Ecosystem that will support the construction of flexible networks capable of leveraging 5G wireless communication to meet the diverse needs of operators and related companies. DOCOMO, which aims to commercialize highly flexible and scalable virtualized RAN (vRAN) in 2022, is collaborating with 12 partners toward verifying vRAN performance and providing Open RAN to telecommunications carriers worldwide. The white paper explains the aims and benefits of the Open RAN Ecosystem and introduces examples of envisioned applications based on DOCOMO’s unique perspective as the world’s…

Rakuten Mobile, Inc., NEC Corporation and Intel Corporation announced today that they have achieved a performance of 640 Gbps per server for the containerized User Plane Function (UPF) on the containerized 5G SA core network jointly developed by Rakuten Mobile and NEC running on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Containerized UPF performance is crucial to maximize the value of 5G deployment. This is because the control plane (C-plane) and user plane (U-plane), which were historically collocated, are completely decoupled in the disaggregated 5G architecture. This enables an independently scalable UPF which is key to private networks, edge computing, hybrid cloud…

Infina, Vietnam’s leading digital investment platform, has secured seed funding, raising an oversubscribed 7-digit seed round with 1982 Ventures, Saison Capital, Venturra Capital, 500 Startups, Nextrans and prominent angel investors. Infina, on a mission to democratize investments for Vietnam’s population of 97 million, will use the funds to fuel growth and expand its product offerings. Infina is well-positioned to tap into the growing retail investing opportunity in Vietnam. Approximately 500,000 trading accounts were opened in the first 5 months of 2021, which represents a 20% record increase over the full year 2020 figure. This growth is due in…

BitDeer, the leading cryptocurrency mining and cloud services provider, is launching presales of its flagship product, Antbox, a mobile crypto mining farm. Antbox, also known as Deerbox, is the first of its kind, a plug-and-play mobile mining farm with low energy consumption, and at the same time practical. The Antbox enables customers to set up a fully equipped mining business in half the time of a traditional mining farm and at approximately 50% of the cost. With the growing popularity of cryptocurrency, we’ve seen increased interest in becoming a miner. However, the days of running Bitcoin mining software on a…

Infina, Vietnam’s leading digital investment platform, has secured seed funding, raising an oversubscribed 7-digit seed round with 1982 Ventures, Saison Capital, Venturra Capital, 500 Startups, Nextrans and prominent angel investors. Infina, on a mission to democratize investments for Vietnam’s population of 97 million, will use the funds to fuel growth and expand its product offerings. Launched in January 2021, Infina is the latest to join the boom of investment apps across the region. Amid the pandemic, the startup currently serves tens of thousands of users and has seen its assets under management (AUM) rise more than fourfold. Infina’s financial partners…