Sept 8, 2020 – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) signed a document to declare joining “The Valuable 500,” an international initiative to promote inclusion of handicapped persons on September 1, 2020, because the Company endorsed the aim and activities of the initiative. The Valuable 500 was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos held in January 2019. This international initiative was launched to promote inclusion of handicapped persons under an idea that “inclusive business creates inclusive society.” The Valuable 500 aims to encourage business leaders to make their own companies’ businesses inclusive ones in order to let handicapped persons…
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Digital healthcare will play a major role in changing people’s lives and health as the development of internet-based medical care in China grows, said Kuang Ming, CEO of Cloudr. Founded in 2014, Cloudr is a smart medical service provider engaged in chronic disease management. From favorable policies to market expansion, Cloudr has witnessed the progress of internet healthcare in China, Kuang said. Currently, the information revolution has not affected the medical industry and digital technology plays a small part, Kuang said, which signals “a huge opportunity for enterprises to innovate”. Recently, Cloudr signed a cooperation agreement with Tianjin Economic and…
Further Expands Scope of Business Operations Redsun Services Group Limited (“Redsun Services” or the “Group”), a fast-growing comprehensive community services provider focusing on the Yangtze River Delta, has today announced the acquisition of 51% equity interest in Chuzhou Yurun Property Management Company Limited (“Chuzhou Yurun”) at a consideration of RMB36.7 million, the Group’s first acquisition since its listing in July. Chuzhou Yurun is principally engaged in the provision of property management services in Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province and Hunan Province in the PRC. As at 7 September 2020, the aggregate GFA of properties under management by Chuzhou Yurun is approximately…
MANILA, Sept 4, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Habitat for Humanity today announced that its Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter is taking applications for ShelterTech accelerators in Southeast Asia and in the Andean region of South America. As the world’s leading platform for affordable housing innovation, ShelterTech brings together entrepreneurial minds to answer today’s most pressing global shelter challenges. ShelterTech gives participating startups and scaleups access to key industry players, from corporate executives and investors to academics, government officials and innovators. They provide mentorship, connections and funding, backed by Habitat for Humanity’s decades of experience as a leading affordable housing organization. By scaling…
Results of the week’s much-anticipated China Unicom Cat.1 large-scale tender have been released, with UNISOC winning the bid. According to published information, the procurement of 5 million Cat.1 sets was one of the largest among carriers to date. China Unicom’s procurement will have a positive impact on the entire Internet of Things industry, and will promote rapid Cat.1 development. The successful bid for this project once again confirmed UNISOC’s leadership in the Cat.1 field. With large-scale construction of 5G networks, decommissioning processes for 2G/3G networks, policy level migration to NB-IoT/4G (including Cat.1)/5G networks with cellular IoT services, Cat.1 is poised…
The leading Australian CRO for biotechs and Frost & Sullivan 2020 Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award winner Avance Clinical is pleased to share the news that its client Immunic Therapeutics has announced dosing of the first healthy volunteer in the company’s phase 1 clinical program of IMU-856, an novel treatment for patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases, including diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Immunic Therapeutics (Nasdaq: IMUX) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing selective oral immunology therapies aimed at treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. According to the public announcement released by Immunic Therapeutics on 20 August…
Greenbriar Capital Corp. (TSXV: GRB) (OTC Pink: GEBRF) (“Greenbriar”) is pleased to announce that it has earned net income of $2,771,759 or $0.12 per share for the three (3) months ended June 30, 2020. The unaudited Financial Statements and the respective Management Discussion and Analysis are available for viewing at www.sedar.com. About Greenbriar Capital Corp Greenbriar is a leading developer of renewable energy and sustainable real estate. With long-term, high impact, contracted sales agreements in key project locations and led by a successful, industry-recognized operating and development team, Greenbriar targets deep valued assets directed at accretive shareholder value. Greenbriar and its…
Regent Pacific Group Limited (“Regent Pacific” or the “Company” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”; Hong Kong stock code: 00575), a specialist healthcare, wellness and life sciences investment group, has signed legally binding Share Purchase Agreements with the shareholders and DLI ESOP award recipients of Deep Longevity, Inc. (“DLI”) to fully acquire DLI for a consideration of approximately US$3.79 million, by way of the issuance of approximately 422.69 million consideration shares, representing a dilution of approximately 18.70% of the issued share capital of the Company as to be enlarged by the allotment and issue of the consideration shares. Following…
Lean and sustainable hotel concept targets millennial-minded travellers seeking authentic local experiences. The first hotel under the brand – ASAI Bangkok Chinatown – will open on 15 September 2020. Sept 2, 2020 – Dusit International, one of Thailand’s leading hotel and property development companies, will begin rolling out its new ASAI Hotels brand this September with the opening of ASAI Bangkok Chinatown in the heart of the city’s renowned Chinatown district, followed by six more properties all operating under a thoughtfully lean hotel concept Dusit believes will be key to sustainable and profitable growth in the new normal. Designed to link…
Deep Longevity, a biotechnology company transforming longevity R&D through AI-discovered biomarkers of aging, came out of stealth today from Insilico Medicine with financing from prominent investors worldwide, the launch of the first AI system on the market for aging-related biomarker development, and collaboration with Human Longevity Inc. (“HLI”). Led by ETP Ventures and Human Longevity and Performance Impact Venture Fund (“HLPIVF”), the investment round includes participation from BOLD Capital Partners, Longevity Vision Fund, Oculus co-founder and former chief software architect Michael Antonov through Formic Ventures, and LongeVC. Other undisclosed investors include celebrity investors in artificial intelligence and some of the…
Compagnie Financiere Tradition (“Tradition”) has today announced its acquisition of OM Wholesale Ltd (“OMW”). OMW is New Zealand’s only independent interbank broking business having been formed in a restructure preceding the sale of OM Financial Ltd to First NZ Capital Securities Ltd in 2018. The Wellington-based business of experienced foreign exchange and interest rate derivative brokers has been re-named Tradition Kiwi Brokers Limited. Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA is one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity-related products. Represented in 30 countries, Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA employs more than 2,300 people globally and provides broking services for…
Epazz DeskFlex desk booking software receives an influx of new customers in compliance with social distancing policies Epazz, Inc., DeskFlex (OTC: EPAZ), a mission-critical cloud computing software provider company, confirmed today that DeskFlex desk booking software is signing up about five new customers per week. The company receives strong interest from enterprises, governments, nonprofits, and hospitals. This increase in sales will be seen in the third quarter financials. DeskFlex meeting room booking software continuously adds new features and functions that help public and private organizations, schools, and enterprises transition to the “new normal” during the COVID-19 pandemic. DeskFlex meeting room…
CropLife Asia makes appeal to Region’s Food Supply Stakeholders with kickoff of FAO APAC Meetings As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) convened virtually to begin its Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, CropLife Asia took the opportunity to raise the growing threat posed by a number of factors to the region’s food supply and the critical need for shared, sustainable solutions driven by stakeholder collaboration across the food value chain. “Our regional supply of safe and nutritious food is being threatened like never before,” said Dr. Siang Hee Tan, CropLife Asia Executive Director.…
Applications for research projects are open from September 1 to November 30 for research and development themes related to the use of precious metals in new technologies TOKYO, Sept 1, 2020 – The TANAKA Memorial Foundation (Representative Director: Hideya Okamoto) announced that it will take applications for research themes for FY2020 Precious Metals Research Grants between September 1 (Tue) and November 30 (Mon). Applications will be accepted from Japanese educational institutions and public research institutes conducting research and development using precious metals. In this 22nd year of the research grant, recipients will receive 5 million yen for the Platinum Award, 2…
Entered into the Second Phase of Strategical Development to Create GOME’s Own Integrated Online and Offline Retail Ecosystem GOME Retail Holdings Limited (493.HK) today announced its unaudited interim results for the six months period ended 30 June 2020 (the “Reporting Period”). “Home Living” Strategy Speeds Up at Its All-out Efforts and Successfully Completed the First Phase of Strategical Development In the first half of 2020, the Group implemented steadily the strategy of developing into an Internet-based enterprise and strived to become an integrated solution, service solution and supply chain provider. During the Reporting Period, GOME made full use of the…
Expand Operating Management Business to East China Region Hydrogen Production Facility Commences Operation China Risun Group Limited (“China Risun”, or the “Group”, stock code: 1907), the global leading integrated coke, coking chemical and refined chemical producer and supplier in China, has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2020 (“1H2020” or “the reporting period”). Affected by the outbreak of COVID-19 and the decrease in international oil price, during the reporting period, the Group’s revenue recorded at RMB8,133.1 million. Gross profit amounted to RMB1,157.2 million and gross profit margin increased slightly to 14.2%. Profit attributable to owner…
Commercial Data Storage [CDS] application for token offering [STO] has been approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], with the filing available online at SEC’s public database, EDGAR. CDS is a smart agreement based on POTS (Proof of Traffic-measured Storage) consensus technology and focusing on distributed data commercial storage. CDS’ consensus design combines the IPFS distributed technology concept and the needs of financial data flow with POTS-based flow storage consensus technology. Through the design and recording of intelligent contracts and the preservation of digital information and content of CDS-based financial transactions, CDS can enhance confidentiality and security while…
Aptorum Group Limited (NASDAQ: APM, Euronext Paris: APM) (“Aptorum Group”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on novel therapeutics including the development of next-generation approach therapeutics targeting antimicrobial resistance, announced two sets of positive data showing both significant in vivo activities of its lead compound ALS-4 against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, one of the “super-bugs”) in wound infected and bacteraemia mouse models, respectively when compared to prevailing antibiotics. ALS-4 is currently undergoing final stages of IND enabling studies, which involves a 14-Day oral toxicity in rats and dogs, a functional observation battery study in rats and a cardiovascular telemetry and respiratory study…
Aptorum Group Limited (NASDAQ: APM, Euronext Paris: APM) (“Aptorum Group”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics including orphan diseases and oncology indications, announced further positive data from its latest in vivo studies showing significant activity against neuroblastoma tumor reduction when treated with its lead compound SACT-1 in combination with standard of care (SOC) chemotherapy. Separately, SACT-1 was also screened for its in vitro activity against over 300 cancer cell lines and showed positive results in a number of cancer types including in particular colorectal cancer, leukemia and lymphoma, etc. Our repurposed drug candidate, SACT-1 is undergoing…
Aptorum Group Limited (NASDAQ: APM, Euronext Paris: APM) (“Aptorum Group”or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the development of novel therapeutics to address global unmet medical needs, today provided a business update and announced financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2020. “I am pleased with the developments that were achieved during the first half of 2020 despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mr. Ian Huen, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Aptorum Group. “Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, we remained focused on advancing the development of our therapeutic programs. As announced today, further…