Author: Marie Jones

New research released by Globalization Partners and CFO Research, indicates that most businesses are undeterred by the impact of COVID-19 and are still moving forward with plans for new or expanded international operations. More than half of the respondents expressed interest in expanding or adding operations in the Asia-Pacific region. The findings also show that 83% of respondents said they are looking into a remote, global workforce model as a solution to the changes brought about by COVID-19. Despite the pandemic-induced economic crisis, 45% of respondents are either currently expanding globally or only slightly delaying their expansion and will do…

JCB International, Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., Japan’s only international payment brand, and 3C Payment, a leading global payment solutions provider, today announce the activation of JCB payment acceptance in over 85 locations of a well-established Hotel Group in Spain. This partnership strengthens JCB’s coverage across Spain and further enhances the payment brand’s goal to expand its network of 34 million merchant partners; and to provide a unique and seamless shopping experience to its 140 million global cardmembers. With over 30 years’ experience, 3C Payment provides integrated payment solutions for hotels, Quick Service Restaurants…

Captiva Verde Land Corp. (CSE: PWR) (the “Company”) is extremely pleased to announce that Solargram Farms Corporation (“Solargram”), a Canadian controlled private corporation, having corporate offices in Moncton, NB has officially received its Standard Cultivation Cannabis License from Health Canada. The license was issued in accordance with the Canadian Cannabis Act and Cannabis Regulations. 100% of the Solargrams shares are held in an escrow account ready to be transferred to Captiva Verde in exchange for 35 Million Captiva shares subject to a tight pooling agreement, subject to Health Canada approving the application by all the Captiva Verde officers and directors…

Global offering of 100,000,000 ordinary shares between HK$1.63 and HK$1.87 per share are expected to raise net proceeds of approximately HK$99.8 million Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings Limited (“Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, collectively referred as the “Group”) has recently announced the details of the proposed listing of its shares on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“HKEx”) (the “Global Offering”). Investment Highlights – Published an extensive portfolio of games and established successful partnerships with a significant number of publishers – An integrated major mobile game publisher and developer in China – Possessed…

Coquitlam, British Columbia, June 30, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Captiva Verde Land Corp. (CSE: PWR) (the “Company”) is extremely pleased to announce that Solargram Farms Corporation (“Solargram”), a Canadian controlled private corporation, having corporate offices in Moncton, NB has officially received its Standard Cultivation Cannabis License from Health Canada. The license was issued in accordance with the Canadian Cannabis Act and Cannabis Regulations. 100% of the Solargrams shares are held in an escrow account ready to be transferred to Captiva Verde in exchange for 35 Million Captiva shares subject to a tight pooling agreement, subject to Health Canada approving the…

Blockpass today heralded a number of published academic research papers that members of the Blockpass Identity Lab (BIL) at Edinburgh Napier University led or contributed to in recent weeks. Members of the Blockpass Identity Lab team exclusively published articles including “A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning” that will be presented at the 17th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business – TrustBus2020 in Bratislava, Slovakia on 14-17 September 2020. Lab Head William J. Buchanan OBE, Will Abramson, Owen Lo, Adam James Hall, Pavlos Papadopoulos and Nikolaos Pitropakis contributed to the paper. The paper details a…

Delivers Solid Performance Amidst Market Challenges; Revenue Increases +6.3%; Maintains Full-Year Dividend Per Share of HK4.5 Cents Jacobson Pharma Corporation Limited (“Jacobson Pharma” or the “Company”; Stock Code: 2633), a leading company engaged in the research, development, production, marketing and sale of generic drugs and proprietary medicines, today announced its annual results of the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively the “Group”) for the year ended 31 March 2020 (the “FY2020” or the “Reporting Period”). Resilient Performance under Distressed Economy Amidst the overwhelming business challenges from the distressed economy in Hong Kong, the Group delivered a solid performance by posting a…

The largest oncology healthcare group in China, Hygeia Healthcare Holdings Co., Limited (“Hygeia Healthcare” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”, stock code: 6078), is officially listed and commenced trading on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“SEHK”) at 9:00 a.m. this morning. Hygeia Healthcare opened at HKD22.80 per share on the first trading day and the highest share price recorded throughout the day was HKD27.70 per share, an increase of 21.49%. The closing price was HKD26.00 per share, which was about 40.54% higher than the offer price; the trading volume was about…

Migom Global Corp. (OTC: MGOM), a US publicly traded company focused on building synergistic ventures in international banking, has notified the SEC of the acquisition of Migom Bank (www.migom.com), an international full-service ‘neobank’ domiciled and regulated in the small Caribbean state of Commonwealth of Dominica. “Today, businesses across multiple jurisdictions and industries have faced numerous hurdles opening and maintaining simple operating bank accounts. Arbitrarily frozen funds, suddenly blocked accounts, and other previously rare limitations have become a commonplace occurrence in daily banking for many regular businesses. This type of practice is often disguised as “de-risking” in the name of compliance,…

With the sudden outbreak of COVID-19, businesses must make changes to their regular operations. Fidentity, powered by Zenwork, Inc, is committed to the health and safety of your employees and visitors. One result of that commitment is the new additions to the Fidentity System. These new features enable organizations to create a safe and secure environment for anyone entering the workplace. “As we saw the health risks multiply for anyone entering a place of business, we decided to speed up our implementation of several features we already had on the roadmap,” said Sanjeev Singh, Founder, and CEO of Zenwork, Inc,…

China Dynamics (Holdings) Limited (the “Company”; (Stock Code: 476), together with its subsidiaries, collectively “China Dynamics” or the “Group”), a provider of new energy vehicles and technology integrated solutions, is committed to business expansions, continuously establishing its foothold in the PRC market while actively expanding towards overseas, and seizing opportunities to create synergies for the Group. Thanks to the growing sales orders in motor vehicles and better economies of scale, the Group recorded a revenue of approximately HK$5.1 million for the year ended 31 March 2020, or a year-on-year growth of 70%. Looking ahead, the Group will continue to seize…

Tianyun International Holdings Limited (“Tianyun International”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) (Stock code: 6836.HK), a leading seller and manufacturer of processed fruits products in China, is pleased to announce that the Group’s subsidiary Shandong Tiantong Food Co.,Ltd. (the “Tiantong Food”) was highly recognized for its distinguished brand and product quality and being elected on “2020 Most Valuable Chinese Brands List” for four consecutive years and given with a brand value of RMB 1.53Billion. The increasing brand value confirms the market’s high affirmation of the Group. 2020 China Brand Value Evaluation information is released online recently. On the premise of…

Tobacco harm reduction advocates across Asia-Pacific called on the Parliament of Australia to abort, not delay, the planned ban on imports of liquid nicotine for vaping to provide smokers with alternatives to combustible cigarettes. Factasia, a non-profit regional tobacco harm reduction consumer advocacy, said e-cigarettes or vapes, along with other smoke-free nicotine products such as heat-not-burn tobacco products and snus, have the ability to significantly reduce the health risks of millions of Australian smokers. “This is a technology that needs to be regulated, not restricted and banned. Adult consumers should be able to access a choice of regulated devices and…

Connecting suppliers with global buyers in challenging times Although there are signs that the COVID-19 outbreak is stabilising in some parts of the world, the demand for online sourcing continues to grow as physical trade fairs are still unable to be staged. To help companies rise to the challenge, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is organising hktdc.com Sourcing Summer Virtual Expo from 29 June to 24 July, providing an effective way for more than 22,000 suppliers to connect with some 500,000 global buyers. HKTDC Deputy Executive Director Benjamin Chau said: “Our Spring Virtual Expo in April was successful in…

@BLACKPINK launch Tweet #HowYouLikeThat new release – Trends in 50 countries, Worldwide #1 Seoul – (Media OutReach) – Leading Global K-Pop band #BLACKPINK (@BLACKPINK) released their comeback single #HowYouLikeThat on June 26, 6PM KST, opened their official Twitter account and posted their first Tweet. Retweeted over 250K times with 600K Likes, Tweet volume related to ‘BLACKPINK’ reached 5M for 12 hours, and the hashtag of their new song title #HowYouLikeThat trended worldwide No 1 and trended over 50 countries. On 30 June, Twitter will host a ‘BLACKPINK LIVE comeback party’ as a #TwitterBlueroom Q&A session, to talk about their comeback and current…

This announcement is made by Asia Pioneer Entertainment Holdings Limited (“APE”; 8400.HK) on a voluntary basis. The purpose of this announcement is to keep the shareholders of the Company and the potential investors informed of the latest business development of the Group. The board of directors wishes to inform the shareholders and the potential investors that the Group intends to commence sports and sports-related entertainment businesses, including sponsorship and promotion of sports events and operating sports entertainment venues in Macau, through APE Sports and Entertainment Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in Macau. The Group is a total…

June 26, 2020 – Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004), its Group companies, and their cooperative companies continued to perform aluminum can recycling activity in fiscal 2019 (April 2019 – March 2020), collecting approximately 4.43 million cans: equivalent to about 67.8 tons of aluminum when converted at the rate of 15.3 grams of aluminum per can*. Showa Aluminum Can Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of SDK, started its aluminum can recycling activity in 1972. The activity spread across the Showa Denko Group in 2001, continuing until today. In SDK, we have in-house program to educate employees about aluminum can recycling and officially commend workplaces…

Virtual Events on July 1 and July 7 will Demonstrate How to Use Accelerated Analytics To Build 5G Network Resilience, Increase Revenue, Improve Customer Experience June 25, 2020 – OmniSci, the pioneer in accelerated analytics, today announced a series of virtual events in connection with its recent membership in the TM Forum (https://www.tmforum.org/), the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration. A Virtual Leadership Summit will take place on July 1, followed by a virtual demonstration on July 7 during the Catalyst Digital Showcase. TM Forum Catalyst project “AI Driven Business Assurance for 5G” on July 7 will highlight how telecom…

Singapore eDevelopment Limited’s (SeD; SGX:40V) wholly owned subsidiary Impact Biomedical Inc. has announced proven in vitro success with Equivir and 3F Biofragrance against COVID-19 in independent laboratory testing. Impact Biomedical and Global Research and Discovery Group Sciences (GRDG), in independent Biosafety Level 3 containment facilities, challenged its compounds with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Equivir proved successful as a treatment, as well as a prophylactic protecting the cells from infection by the virus. Currently, there are no COVID-19 prophylactics. 3F Biofragrance proved successful as a surface disinfectant, killing the virus in concentrations as low as 1/5000 after 15 seconds. These in vitro…

Two key offerings on the new platform – Security operations centre-as-a-service (SOCaaS), and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) ONESECURE, an innovative cybersecurity company providing a wide range of managed security services, including 24×7 monitoring and alerting, today announced the upgrade of its security Information and event management (SIEM) to RSA NetWitness Platform, as part of its continuous commitment towards innovation. RSA NetWitness Platform enables accelerated threat detection and response through data collection and analysis across more capture points and computing platforms encompassing physical, virtual and cloud, and enriching this data with threat intelligence and business context. The upgrade, which will be in full implementation starting…