Author: Marie Jones

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…

TOKYO & COPENHAGEN, June 28, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd. and Nets Group, the Nordic-based payment service provider, announce the latest expansion of their partnership to bolster JCB Contactless acceptance in the Nordic region. JCB cardmembers can now use JCB Contactless on 244,000 merchant POS systems across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. This growing partnership with Nets marks a significant increase in JCB acceptance in the region, built upon the previous rollout to 18,000 Nets merchants in Finland in January 2020[1] and introduction of mobile payments in Denmark in 2016[2]. JCB cardmembers…

Net Profit Rose by 32% to RMB101.2 million in FY2021 Tat Hong Equipment Service Co., Ltd. (Tat Hong or the Company, together with its subsidiaries, the Group) (Stock Code: 2153), the first foreign-owned tower crane service provider established in the PRC, has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2021 (FY2021 or the “Year”). Results Highlights: — Total revenue increased by 6.4% to RMB793.0 million — Gross profit margin improved to 34.5% — Net profit rose by 32% to RMB101.2 million with net profit margin increased to 12.8% — EBITDA increased 4.6% to RMB394.7 million attaining EBITDA…

Avance Clinical, the leading Australian CRO for international biotechs and Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award recipient, announced the appointment of Andy Hu as Business Development Manager APAC, to support increasing biotech clinical trial demand from the region. Formerly with Informa Pharma Intelligence, the international biopharma data company, Andy will head up the APAC business development program for Avance Clinical. Andy says the main drivers for Asian biotechs looking to Australia are speed, data quality and access to international regulatory authorities. “They select Avance Clinical in Australia because its CRO data is accepted by the FDA, and it…

Singapore-based transport disruptor Bussr is joining the BMW Foundation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to participate in their global mobility and sustainability initiatives. The initiative will kick start with a global workshop panel of cross-sectoral leaders on June 23. The global workshop will “Explore how digital and socio-ecological transformations will change the ways in which humans interact with civic and social mobility, within the existing infrastructure as well as within entirely new infrastructure systems.” Uniquely qualified to present new ideas and perspectives on the topic of mobility, Bussr is one of the world’s leading innovators in the global transit…

When midsummer comes, the cultural and tourism markets of Pingtan in Fujian Province heat up again. During the three day Dragon Boat Festival (June 12-14), the Pingtan district received 158,400 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 76.63%, with tourism revenue of RMB 114.84 million, a year-on-year increase of 34.52%, and increases of 25.16% and 21.33% respectively compared with 2019. The Pingtan Tourism and Sports Bureau assure that during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the tourism market in the Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone was safe and orderly, and the tourism reception picked up steadily. During the festival, self-driving tourists were still the…

China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited (Mengniu or the Group, HKEx: 2319), one of the leading dairy product manufacturers in China, announced that it has issued its 2020 Sustainability Report, which highlights Mengniu’s practices and achievements in five key areas, including sustainability management, corporate governance, economy: more nutritious products, society: a better life, and environment: a more sustainable earth. In 2020, Mengniu adhered to its vision of “Promising a Healthier World” and its mission of “Producing More Nutritious Products, Guiding Consumers Towards a Better Life, and Safeguarding a Sustainable Planet”, and reaffirms its commitment to sustainable development. Mr. Lu Minfang, Chief…

– To assess and verify that Oxygen ‘does what it says it does’ functionally, and – To assess cybersecurity exposure and advise any needed remediation. Oxygen.org, the alternative market infrastructure ecosystem, has signed a strategic agreement under which Kudelski Security, a division of the Kudelski Group in Switzerland, will provide security assessment and architecture support for the Oxygen platform going forward. Kudelski will conduct a series of reviews and audits of the Oxygen Protocol functionality and interfaces, as well as collaborating with Oxygen to assess future enhancements, changes, or additions to Oxygen’s protocols. Beginning with prime brokerage, Oxygen will replicate…

In the morning on June 25th, 2021, the Board of Joy Spreader (HKG: 6988), a Hong Kong publicly traded company, made a voluntary announcement regarding its latest business performance and development that the Company has dedicated to serving the “618” e-commerce shopping spree on DouYin this year. The announcement says that according to the Company’s records and database, during the period of promotion event starting from June 1st to June 18th, Joy Spreader completed transaction matching with a total gross merchandise value (GMV) of approximately $350 MM HKD on DouYin short video platform. DouYin together with other short video e-commerce…

Report identifies opportunities especially in tech and sustainability HONG KONG, June 25, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – A research report identifying synergies and collaboration opportunities between the San Francisco Bay Area and China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) was published and presented at a webinar today by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, based in San Francisco, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). Entitled “Bay to Bay: China’s Greater Bay Area Plan and Its Synergies for US and San Francisco Bay Area Business,” the report analyses the trade, investment and policy landscape of the two bay areas, and identifies sectors with…

Pertama Digital has signed two MoUs to secure investment for its proposed digital bank Pertama Digital Berhad announced today that it has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Perfect Hexagon Commodity and Investment Bank Limited (PHCIB) and Alsirat Sdn Bhd (ASB) to secure investment for its proposed digital bank. Licensed as a Labuan investment bank under the Labuan Financial Services Authority, PHCIB is wholly owned under Perfect Hexagon Limited (“PHL”), a Hong Kong based entity. PHL is a global commodity and trade finance leader. PHL is also an Associate Participant of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad and a Liquidity Provider for…