Regional News

Philippine's efforts to combat COVID-19 pandemic lauded and supported by ADB

MANILA, Philippines, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lauded the Duterte administration, according to the Philippine Department of Finance (DOF), for its "proactive and preemptive" response to the coronavirus pandemic as it reassuredthe Philippines of its full su...

2020-04-02 15:17 2821

Acer Announces New Predator Triton 500 and Nitro 5 Gaming Notebooks Powered by the Latest 10th Gen Intel Core Processors

TAIPEI, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Editor's Summary * The new Predator Triton 500 and Nitro 5 both feature the new 10th Gen Intel®  Core™ processors[1], the latest NVIDIA® GeForce RTX SUPER and GTX GPUs, and fast display refresh rates of up to 300 Hz[1] on the Triton 500 and up to 144 Hz ...

2020-04-02 15:02 1267

Veoneer and Volvo Cars to Split Joint Venture to Pursue Separate ADAS and Autonomous Driving Strategies

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 2 , 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The automotive technology company Veoneer, Inc.(NYSE: VNE and SSE: VNE SDB), have following a strategic review, entered into a non-binding agreement with Volvo Cars to split their 50/50 joint venture Zenuity.   The parties have agreed in principl...

2020-04-02 14:53 2201

iQIYI Launches Long and Short-form Video Sharing Platform "Suike", Representing Strong Addition to iQIYI's Entertainment Offering

BEIJING, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 2, iQIYI, Inc. (NASDAQ: IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service inChina, launched Suike ("Suike" or the "App"), a diversified video-sharing platform that has an extensive offering on long and short f...

2020-04-02 14:52 6509

Electrolux Highlights Lower Emissions and Introduces New Framework in 2019 Sustainability Report

STOCKHOLM, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrolux, a sustainability leader in the appliance industry, reports a 75% reduction in CO2 emissions from its operations since 2005. To reflect the Group's new commitment to become climate neutral across the supply chain by 2050, and its increasingly ho...

2020-04-02 14:50 6879

Sai Life Sciences Becomes First India-headquartered Company to Join Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI)

HYDERABAD, India, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sai Life Sciences, one of India's fastest growing Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) , today announced its induction into the Pharmaceutical Suppl...

2020-04-02 14:47 3679

SpaceNXT(TM) MWC Series Helps Customers Avoid Costly and Time-consuming Qualification Campaigns

LONDON, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Addressing the need to create a streamlined procurement experience by shifting the testing responsibility away from the customer, Smiths Interconnect announces today the release of its  SpaceNXT™ MWC Series 

2020-04-02 14:37 2462

PHL adopting 3-pronged approach to mitigate social, economic effects of COVID-19, says Dominguez

MANILA, Philippines, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Duterte administration is implementing a three-pronged strategy to mitigate the social and economic impact of the current global health crisis anchored on providing emergency aid to marginalized and other vulnerable sectors, protecting health...

2020-04-02 14:23 1935

EdtechX Holdings and Meten International Announce Successful Merger Closing and Capital Raise

HONG KONG, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- EdtechX Holdings Acquisition Corp. ("EdtechX") (Nasdaq: EDTX), the world's first special purpose acquisition company focused on investing in the education services and education technology industry, andMeten International Education Group ("Meten"), a leadi...

2020-04-02 13:24 15957

Chengdu showcases high-tech products and applications online

CHENGDU, China, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chengdu city government recently held a matchmaking conference to display an array of new devices and equipment that can be utilized in the fight against COVID-19, as the world battles to get the pandemic under control. The conference was organize...

2020-04-02 12:44 2004

IBM Offers "Watson Assistant for Citizens" to Provide Responses to COVID-19 Questions

Engagements with government agencies, healthcare organizations and academic institutions around the world including inArkansas, California, Georgia, New York, Texas, Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Spain and UK ARMONK, New York, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- With COVID-19 affecting 206 countries...

2020-04-02 12:01 7574

Muong Thanh Group Sponsors 4-star Standard Rooms for Bach Mai Hospital & Supports 100 Tons of Rice to Help the Prevention of COVID-19

HANOI, Vietnam, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the call of "All citizens in support of preventingCOVID-19" from the Central Committee of the Vietnam National Nest Front, as well as showing part of the sharing, gratitude for the "white-collar soldiers",Muong Thanh Group will provid...

2020-04-02 11:50 2575

Benelux's Largest Solar Park with Sungrow 1500V Central Inverter Solutions Comes Online

LOMMEL, Belgium, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced that the Company's 1500V central inverter solutions have been operational stably for several months at a 100 MW Kristal Solar Park in Lommel,Belgium, which is the lar...

2020-04-02 11:00 1663

Indonesia Programmatic Viewability for Desktop Display Crosses 70% Mark

JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification released its Media Quality Snapshot for the year of 2019 Viewability is on the rise in Indonesia, ...

2020-04-02 11:00 1536

ActLight: Best Signal to Noise Photodiode Now as Matrix With No Crosstalk

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ActLight, the Swiss technology firm known for its best in class signal-to-noise ratio photodiodes, achieved another technology breakthrough: its new sensor array offer same signal-noise-ratio in absence of any crosstalk.

2020-04-02 10:00 4286

China's island province, Hainan, offers jobs to global talent

HAIKOU, China, April 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The southern Chinese island province ofHainan will offer more than 30,000 positions to global talent to promote free trade port construction, local authorities said at a press conference on Tuesday. The job openings are provided by the government, the...

2020-04-02 09:35 1635

Cloudera's Data Platform Empowers LINE to Deliver Secure, Data-Driven Innovation

Cloudera will enable LINE, a global mobile platform with its messaging app as its cornerstone, to accelerate insights-driven, customer-centric innovations with secure and governed data TOKYO, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudera, Inc., (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today ann...

2020-04-02 09:00 8859

WONTECH Receives FDA Clearance for 'SANDRO DUAL'

SEOUL, South Korea, April 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- WONTECH (Reno Kim, CEO of WONTECH,www.wtlaser.com ) a leading Korean laser and energy based medical aesthetic device company announced that its hybrid Nd:YAG & Alexandrite laser device, SANDRO DUAL received U.S. Food and D...

2020-04-02 08:13 1260

CAS Releases Open Access Dataset of Antiviral Chemical Compounds to Aid COVID-19 Discovery and Analysis

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific information solutions, is partnering with research and technology organizations worldwide to tackle the complex challenges presented by COVID-19. In support of calls to action...

2020-04-02 08:00 2892

#StrengthsTogether - Cappfinity Offers Free Strengths Profiles to Help People Across the Globe Discover Their Strengths

NEW YORK, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- During April, HR tech firm, Cappfinity, is giving away free Strengths Profiles to help people around the world use their strengths to build resilience, support others, and cope with the stresses created by the unfolding crisis. Based on two decades of posi...

2020-04-02 06:00 2103