Author: Marie Jones

TOKYO, Dec 27, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE: 4004) announces that it was resolved at the Board of Directors meeting held today that the Company will choose to be listed into the Prime Market, which will be created by the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (TSE) as a new market segment on April 4, 2022, and submit application for admission into the Prime Market. On July 9, 2021, SDK received the result of the first-stage judgement on the Company’s eligibility for the Prime Market from TSE, and we confirmed that the Company has cleared criteria for maintaining its listing on the…

Spritzer wants everybody to have roaring good health in the coming Year of the Tiger by encouraging drinking more natural mineral water during this festive season through the Spritzer Drink, Win & Huat Contest. The contest runs from 01 December 2021 to 15 February 2022, making this a total of 11 weeks with attractive weekly cash prizes to be won. Prizes include one (1) Grand Prize of Proton X70, eight (8) Weekly First Prize Winners of RM888 cash, and thirty-eight (38) Weekly Consolation Prize Winners RM128 cash. The participating products in the contest are Spritzer Natural Mineral Water, Distilled Drinking…

SGX Catalist-listed Hatten Land Limited (“Hatten” or the “Company” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary Hatten Edge Pte. Ltd. (“Hatten Edge”) has entered into a Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement (“CCA”) with global leading information and communications technology (ICT) provider Huawei International Pte. Ltd. (“Huawei International”). Highlights: – Utilising their respective capabilities in technology, operational resources and business networks, Huawei and Hatten will jointly explore and develop business opportunities in key areas such as Cloud Computing, Virtual World solutions, Digital Entertainment, Data Centres, Renewable Energy, Fintech Infrastructure, among others – The partnership is…

SJ Power Inc. is a social enterprise and facemask manufacturer with a brand name of ‘Singramy’ well-known for its quality products and using domestic materials only. Engaging in a lot of international activities as well, in October, SJ Power donated a total of 100,000 masks including Singramy KF94 masks, to the chief director of the International Buddhist Confederation for children in Myanmar who have been hit hard by COVID-19. The Myanmar ambassador expressed his sincere gratitude to the company, saying “The same as here in Korea, children in Myanmar now get back to school. We hope to be able to…

Faceless, a unique set of 2345 non-fungible tokens [NFTs], launched on Ethereum blockchain, has announced its decision to create the first fashion show on the budding metaverse space. Uniting high-end fashion, fostering community bond, and integrating technology, Faceless aims at setting up the first generation of fashion leaders in the growing NFT and metaverse industries. With plans to launch the first fashion show of the metaverse at an undisclosed date, over 300 unparalleled and Haute clothing pieces have been designed for the FW 21/22 collection. Unprecedentedly, owning an NFT attracts the ownership of the piece of clothing attached to the…

SGX-listed Metech International Limited (“Metech” or the “Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), is pleased to announce that its joint venture company, Asian Eco Technology Pte. Ltd. (“AET”) has entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Ningbo Meishan, which Zongheng Capital is one of the ordinary partners. Ningbo Meishan with intention to provide funding of US$100 million in AET’s lab-grown diamond business activities through debt and/or equity financing. Highlights: – A lab-grown diamond is a diamond: chemically, physically and optically identical to a mined diamond, hence without the need for mining, lab-grown diamonds are a sustainable source of…

ALT 5 Sigma Inc., a global fintech that provides next generation blockchain powered technologies for the trading, clearing, settlement, payment, and insured custodianship of digital instruments, announced today it has formed an exclusive partnership with BankLine, the only crypto-friendly banking solution that offers a portfolio of redundant depository institutions willing to serve the varied needs of the crypto industry. Through the partnership, ALT 5 Sigma will provide its flagship products, ALT 5 Prime Enterprise, ALT 5 Liquidity and ALT 5 Pay. ALT 5 Prime Enterprise is a complete “white label crypto exchange” with best price execution and a branded Visa/Mastercard…

SkyChain Technologies Inc.(TSXV-SCT) (OTCQB-SKTCF) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Weichong (Richard) Du to Director and Chairman of the Board of the Company and appointment as CEO. Mr. Bill Zhang has stepped down as CEO of the Company and remains a Director of the Company and CEO of the operating subsidiaries: MiningSky Technology Ltd., MiningSky Technologies (Manitoba) Inc., and Skyrendering Technologies Inc. Concurrent with the appointment a company controlled by Dr. Richard Du has entered into a private placement of 4,761,905 shares at a price of $.42 per share for total proceeds of $2,000,000. Funds from…

World FinTech Summit – KSA which took place on 6 December 2021, attracted some of the prominent voices in the FinTech space such as Ihab Hawari Chief Information Technology Officer, Aljabr Holding; Yahia Kafi, CFO, ALJ Enterprises; Ali Alomran, Financial Technology Expert; Faisal Alyousef, Chief Business Officer, Saudi Financial Technology – Alinma Bank; and Loredana Matei; Founder, Finsight.news to name a few. More than 200 FinTech experts, business leaders, industry experts, innovators, government officials, and startups from around the world attended the summit, which featured informative keynotes and networking sessions where they shared ground-breaking insights into FinTech industry and future…

Ev Dynamics (Holdings) Limited (the “Company”, Stock Code: 476, together with its subsidiaries, collectively “Ev Dynamics” or the “Group”), a provider of new energy vehicles and integrated technology solutions, continues to expand its international development strategy following the submission of a draft registration statement on Form F-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for confidential review in relation to its proposed offering of American depositary shares in the United States. Mr. Miguel Valldecabres Polop, CEO of Ev Dynamics, said, “We are delighted with the proposed Nasdaq listing as it represents another step forward in the expansion of…

I Want You (IWY) NFT, an emerging secret society within the metaverse, has announced the launch of its platform. A collection of 7,777 unique NFTs spotlighting characters created from over 150 traits, they are all custom-made and registered on the Ethereum blockchain. There is a chance of exactly zero cost that everyone will have the opportunity to own one of these NFTs by simply participating in competitions, giveaways, and becoming wholly involved in the project. IWY has introduced the Meta Prize system, a mechanism for no-loss prize money funds based on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Ethereum blockchains. Modeled…

AEON Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited (“AEON Credit” or the “Group”; HKEX: 00900) announced today its unaudited results for the nine months ended 30 November 2021 (“nine months of FY2021/22”). Despite the unprecedented headwinds from the pandemic, the launch of various promotion programs to capture recovering credit card spending, resulted in sales for the nine months of FY2021/22 increasing by 21.0% year-on-year. However, this surge in credit card sales had yet to start pushing revolving credit card balances and personal loan receivables back up to pre-pandemic level. As a result, revenue was down 8.3% year-on-year to HK$770.3 million. Nonetheless, due…

DigitalX Limited (ASX:DCC)(OTCQB:DGGXF) (‘DigitalX’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to announce that after an extensive executive search process it has appointed highly experienced finance industry executive Lisa Wade as Chief Executive Officer. HIGHLIGHTS – Lisa Wade, former Head of Digital Innovation and Sustainability at National Australia Bank, appointed new Chief Executive Officer – Lisa has over 30 years’ experience in finance and financial markets and has a strong background in blockchain project development – Appointment positions DigitalX with a team and leadership capable of executing its next phase of growth and development – Lisa was recently recognised as ‘Gender &…

HUMAN Protocol has announced the full launch of the HUMAN App: a web-based application that demonstrates how work published to the Protocol can be accessed and completed by distributed workforces. The HUMAN App is a gateway to work processed on the Protocol. Users access it to complete data-labeling tasks, and earn HMT for each task successfully completed. It is not only a functional product, but also a complete open-source implementation that lets teams building on HUMAN quickly create their own solutions. The App’s beta period registered over 200,000 users, which will now automatically migrate to the launch version. “The HUMAN…

The method of signing a contract while signing on printed-paper in the past had various problems such as the risk of loss of the paper as well as the risk of forgery. Due to these problems, as the form of contracts gradually evolves, the progress of electronic contracts without restrictions on time and place is being activated. In particular, the public ledger can be used to secure reliability as well as transparency. Accordingly, the Ethereum Signature Project is building an electronic contract platform based on a blockchain, a further advanced form. In the case of electronic contracts through Ethereum Signature,…

Tianyun International Holdings Limited (“Tianyun International”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) (Stock Code: 6836.HK), a leading manufacturer of processed fruit products in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), today announced the successful acquisition of a parcel of land located in Honghe Prefecture of Yunnan Province, PRC. The land has an area of 130,000 square metres and is located in the Mile Green Food Processing Park. The total consideration is about RMB61.12 million. As a key step of the Group’s development within the tropical climate zone in China, the Group plans to set up a production base (the “Yunnan Production…

JWD InfoLogistics PCL (SET: JWD) Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Charvanin Bunditkitsada discusses the company’s strategy and outlook in The Executive Talk by ShareInvestor.com. 1. What have you learned, and what opportunities have you found from the Covid-19 crisis? Since the Covid-19 first appeared last February (2020), everyone has been in a panic. The logistics industry in Thailand and globally was almost frozen, especially in Q2. To cope with it, JWD, for the very first time, launched the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to keep our operation going on track. We could not stop, because it would affect our customers. Since then,…

The Myanmar Government looks forward to re-start development projects and accelerate bilateral economic and technical cooperation with the People’s Republic China (PRC), its largest trading following disruptions caused by the pandemic and recent social unrest. The Ministry of Information (MOI) and Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations (MIFER) said in a joint statement that Myanmar enjoys a special ‘paukphaw’ or kinship with its close neighbour and has received substantial economic and technical support from the PRC over 71 years of bilateral ties. Having achieved national stability in recent months, and with the health situation stabilizing after receiving substantial vaccines…

The award presentation ceremony of “Listed Company Awards of Excellence 2021” organized by Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ) has been recently held. A total of 34 companies listed in Hong Kong were awarded, including 5 blue-chip companies, 27 main board companies and 2 GEM companies. Among them, CENTRAL CHINA MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED (“CCMGT” or the “Company”, stock code: 9982.HK) received the award for the first time. Ms. Wu Wallis (Alias Li Hua), Non-Executive Director of CCMGT, attended the award ceremony and gave a speech. CCMGT has always been following the corporate mission of “providing quality living standards for the people…

Heartland Industries is proud to announce that their team has secured a grant from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Heartland’s ‘Hemp4Soil’ program was selected as the recipient of a $360,000 grant over 3 years to develop their soil innovation program. This grant will allow Heartland to partner with farming communities to advance research on soil health and carbon sequestration. Heartland’s research will be one of the most sophisticated programs to date that investigates the benefits of industrial hemp on soil health. This research will provide actionable conclusions that will impact the future of farming and regenerative agriculture. Out…