Author: Marie Jones

Moscow and Tokyo – (ACN Newswire) – Russian Agricultural Bank, Panasonic Russia and JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., have launched first co-branded bank card on the base of the international payment system JCB. In partnership with Panasonic, Russian Agricultural Bank is now offering credit and debit cards that are issued and serviced free of charge. The co-branded cards will join the Club Panasonic Loyalty Program on special terms and receive 10,000 welcome bonus points. For any purchases made with the card, the cardholders will be given bonus points which can be used to receive a discount…

HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – Digital identity creation platform Blockpass has announced it is listing its native utility token, PASS, on four confirmed exchanges. Having begun with Cryptopia this week, PASS in the coming weeks will be listed on Gatecoin, HitBTC and Lykke with more exchanges to follow. PASS tokens are ERC20 standard tokens that function as discount vouchers for the Blockpass identity application. Blockpass will issue a finite number of 1 billion PASS tokens of which 250 million PASS tokens will be available for purchase during the Initial Token Distribution Event (TDE) from authorised distributors up until November 30 this year.…

– Enhanced Northpoint City North Wing leads net property income growth – 9 months year-to-date DPU of 9.153 cents is 2.5% higher year-on-year SINGAPORE – (ACN Newswire) – Frasers Centrepoint Asset Management Ltd. (FCAM), the manager of Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT), is pleased to announce distribution per unit (DPU) of 3.053 cents for the period from 1 April to 30 June 2018 (3Q18), up 1.8% y-o-y. This brings the nine months year-to-date DPU to 9.153 cents, 2.5% higher than the same period a year ago. Unitholders can expect to receive their DPU for 3Q18 on 29 August 2018. The Ex-Date is 30 July…

– Attributes stellar performance to projects secured over the past 12 months. – Declares its first interim dividend pay-out of 0.5 Singapore cents per share. SINGAPORE – (ACN Newswire) – Riding on the same growth trajectory that saw it achieve record revenues and net profits for the last three consecutive financial years, Singapore-listed CITIC Envirotech Ltd (“CEL”, SGX:CEE), a leading membrane-based water and wastewater treatment and recycling solutions provider, has recorded a more than two-fold increase in sales and earnings during Q2, ended 30 June 2018. The Group’s Q2 net profit leapt 125% YoY to S$43.5 million, on the back of revenue which…

SINGAPORE – (ACN Newswire) – The Board of Directors of CITIC Envirotech Ltd. (“CEL”, SGX:CEE) wishes to announce that the Company has secured a RMB 134 million Public-Private-Partnership (“PPP”) project in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, China. The project involves the design, construction and operation of a 45,000 m3/day municipal wastewater treatment plant using Membrane Bioreactor (“MBR”) technology to treat the wastewater to grade 4 surface water discharge standard. A project company, CITIC Envirotech Water Resource (Maoming) Co., Ltd, with a registered capital of RMB 40,160,670 will be set up to undertake the project. CEL will own 70% of the project company, while the local…

— Per Capita Book Fair Spend in at HK$810 — Sports and Leisure Expo also Draws to a Close HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – The 29th Hong Kong Book Fair and the second Hong Kong Sports and Leisure Expo, organised by the HKTDC, concluded today with the seven-day Book Fair attracting a record number 1.04 million visitors. Apart from purchasing their favourite books, readers also participated in various cultural events while the on-site seminars and Art Gallery exhibitions received enthusiastic responses. “The Hong Kong Book Fair continued to receive great support from readers this year, attracting more than one million visitors during…

– Next to the Hong Kong Book Fair, Japan Pavilion – Featuring Anime and Culture! HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – The 2nd Hong Kong Sports and Leisure Expo opened today at the HKCEC. Organised by the HKTDC, the seven-day expo (18-24 July) is held concurrently with the Hong Kong Book Fair. The Expo features over 130 exhibitors showcasing a broad selection of sports and leisure products from more than 160 brands, with more than 50 on-site demonstrations and events. Visitors can visit both fairs with one ticket. Product Demos and New Activities to Trial This year’s Expo features a variety of thematic…

– The only Asian blockchain company working with the UNFCCC to create a universal transparent carbon credit trading market; – Xarbon partners with UNOPS to support low-carbon economy development; – Co-invested USD18 million on OLED lighting project to offset carbon emission; HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – Xarbon Sustainability Limited (“Xarbon” or the “Company”), a Hong Kong based sustainability technology company using blockchain to improve carbon credit trading market transparency, is pleased to announce today that the Company will have a strategic partnership with the United Nations Office for Project Services (“UNOPS”) to support low-carbon economy development. On the other hand, the Company…

Theme of the Year: “Romance Literature”; 310 Cultural Events HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – The 29th Hong Kong Book Fair, organised by HKTDC, opened today and runs until 24 July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) in Wan Chai. This year’s fair welcomes a record number of 680 exhibitors from 39 countries and regions, showcased across 14 thematic zones, including the “General Books Pavilion”, “English Avenue”, “International Cultural Village”, “Children’s Paradise” and “E-books & e-Learning Resource”. These zones display a variety of high-quality reading materials. Meanwhile, precious manuscripts of renowned writers are exhibited at the Art Gallery located at…

HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – NIRAKU GC HOLDINGS, INC. (“NIRAKU” or the “Group”; stock code: 1245), one of the largest and leading pachinko hall operators in Japan, has today announced that it has entered a Master Lease Agreement with Shum Yip Land Company Limited through NPJ China Yokocho Co., Ltd. to open a Yokocho food alleyway within a newly-opened city complex, UpperHills in Shenzhen. Managed by NPJ China Yokocho Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of the joint venture between the Group and PJ Visionary Pte. Ltd., a company incorporated in Singapore, the Shenzhen UpperHills Yokocho aims to showcase a variety of…

Up to 5%1 return rate leading in private market; First-in-market2 inheritable annuity with comprehensive protection HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – FTLife Insurance Company Limited (“FTLife”) has launched a new annuity product “IncomePro” Annuity Plan (the “Plan”), offering another choice to Hongkongers interested in investing in private deferred annuity products. With the population aging and birth rate declining in Hong Kong, and following the launch of the first public annuity plan by the government early this month, FTLife is introducing the “IncomePro” Annuity Plan which offers a return rate of up to 5%1, the highest in the private market. The Plan also has…

HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – Shares of 7Road Holdings Limited (“7Road” or the “Group”), a leading developer and operator of online games in China, successfully commenced trading on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“SEHK”) today, under the stock code 797. In connection with the Global Offering, a total of 666,680,000 Shares were offered. GF Capital (Hong Kong) Limited and CCB International Capital Limited are the Joint Sponsors of this listing. About 7Road Holdings Limited 7Road Holdings Limited (“7Road” or the “Group”) is a leading online game developer and operator in China, and casual shooting…

Targets to Diversify the Business Scope, Extend the Development of the Business to Trading or Supply of LNG & Set its Market Footprint in Greater China Region HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – Northern New Energy Holdings Limited (“Northern New Energy” / the “Company”; stock code: 8246) today announces to propose to change its English name to “Zhonghua Gas Holdings Limited” and, to adopt “Zhonghua Gas Holdings Limited” as the new dual foreign name in Chinese of the Company, which will be subject to the approval by the shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting. The new company name will vividly reflect its mission,…

SYDNEY – (ACN Newswire) – Asia-Pacific specialist CRO Novotech announced today it has partnered with the Asian Eye Institute, Inc (AEI), a private eye center in the Philippines, to facilitate high-quality and rapid feasibility, start-up and recruitment processes for its ophthalmology clients. The AEI has conducted over 100 clinical trials and investigator-led research and has become one of the leading sites in Asia for research in ophthalmic drug and devices. Under the terms of the MOU, the AEI will provide its professional and clinical trial expertise to Novotech managed studies including feasibility, principal investigator selection, patient recruitment and execution of ophthalmology studies. Novotech…

Twice As Fast – Among the World’s Fastest Blockchains LONDON – (Media OutReach) – DasCoin, the Currency of Trust and the store of value within DasEcosystem, has achieved a remarkable milestone by implementing Graphene technology to provide the DasCoin Blockchain with a 50% blocktime speed reduction. This incredibly fast new speed of three seconds per block ranks the DasCoin Blockchain amongst the fastest on the planet. With an expectation that higher volume will be required through the ecosystem’s future payment solution and the wider use of DasNet, scalability and speed are key strategic goals for the DasCoin development team. The blockchain will further…

Major finding on the tuberal nucleus broadens our understanding of the brain’s role in regulating metabolism and food intake, and offers a new avenue of research that can help combat obesity SINGAPORE – (ACN Newswire) – Researchers at A*STAR’s Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) have identified a new region of the mouse brain called the Tuberal Nucleus (TN), which affects appetite and body weight. It is notable that the TN is of a similar structure to the Nucleus Tuberalis Lateralis (NTL) in the human brain, of which the function is unknown. The A*STAR researchers’ discovery of the role of TN in affecting appetite and…

Charlestown, St. Kitts and Nevis – (ACN Newswire) – Modern Finance Chain, a public smart contract platform with merchant payment integration and multi-blockchain support, announced today that, effective immediately, former Ripple VP, Brian Rankin, is taking the role of a VP of Banking Integrations in the capacity of a Senior Advisor. Brian Rankin, technology operations and client services specialist in blockchain and distributed ledgers and a former VP of Clients Services at Ripple (XRP), led the original Ripple 21-person international team that includes project management, business architecture, integration engineering, and customer success. He built Ripple’s professional services team from the ground up, leading…

Conduct world’s first demonstration of drone-based deliveries along power-line routes TOKYO – (JCN Newswire) – TEPCO Ventures, Zenrin and Rakuten announced today that they have begun examining the utilization of Drone Highways, or the airspace above infrastructure such as power transmission lines, for drone logistics. The three companies also announced that they safely carried out the world’s first demonstration test utilizing a Drone Highway on July 27. TEPCO Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., and map publisher Zenrin formed an alliance on March 29, 2017 to confirm the use of Drone Highways for safe drone-based deliveries. The…

HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – Higgs, a leading financial technology company specializing in blockchain technology, collaborated with Ausvic Capital Limited (“Ausvic Capital”) and Token Foundry to organize a summer showcase about blockchain industry. Ausvic Capital focuses on the investment on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, while Token Foundry is a leading blockchain technology company in the industry. The companies join hands to make every effort to promote the connection between blockchain and each field in the real world in order to exert its infinite possibility and to build a more innovative, equal and efficient world. Token Foundry is a company owned…

Blockpass Taps Infinito Wallet for a 2M PASS Token Airdrop ahead of Lykke, HitBTC, Gatecoin Listings HONG KONG – (ACN Newswire) – In the lead-up to PASS token’s listings on Lykke, HitBTC and Gatecoin exchanges, Blockpass (http://www.blockpass.org) is conducting an airdrop of 2 million PASS tokens, starting 12 July. The airdrop is being implemented through Blockpass’ joint venture partner Infinito Wallet – a universal cryptocurrency wallet. Infinito will have an airdrop link on the wallet dashboard on 12 July. The wallet is available in both Android and iOS app stores. Infinito Wallet natively supports the PASS token as well as a long list of leading cryptocurrencies,…