HONG KONG, April 19 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- On March 23rd 2018, the world’s leading corporate stars reunited for a special occasion, the 40th Le Fonti Awards Gala and CEO Summit in Hong Kong. Le Fonti Awards are held each year in multiple locations (7 events in 2017) recognizing industry leaders in banking, business, economics, finance, sustainability, law, healthcare, insurance and e-commerce. This year, the Hong Kong Gala & CEO Summit was held at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, a luxurious venue located in the heart of Hong Kong, hosted by the influential and prominent TV presenter and MC, Agnes Zee.
The title at this year’s CEO Summit round table was Leadership & Innovation: skills and visions for growth. The summit focused on a discussion of the important drivers related to leadership skills and innovation which have recently impacted the East Asian companies and the skill sets required by their employees to meet the challenges facing a wide variety of industries, including education and training, ICT, real estate, and financial services, in the 21st century.
Among the Winners, E-Global Trade & Finance Group Inc. better-known as Forex4you triumphed in the Forex Investment Business with the following motivation: “E-Global Trade & Finance Group Inc. has become well-known as a dynamic investment company specialized in Brokerage services, including Internet online trading with currency contracts (Forex), stocks and commodity futures. The company offers lots of large information to introduce new users to Forex Trading and supports traders through training sessions”.
Commenting on the Le Fonti Awards, Forex4you Thailand Country Manager Janis Baltalksnis said: “We are honored to have received the Best Broker Award this evening as a mark of our excellence and continued innovation. Primarily, we would like to thank all of those that voted for us and of course all of our loyal clients that continue to work with us year in, year out.” You can see the full Video Interview at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3CAYPOgMhs
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Thursday, 19 April 2018
THE HEALTH INDUSTRY SUMMIT (THIS) TO PLAY A GREATER ROLE AS CHINA SET TO BOOST HEALTH INDUSTRY FOR A HIGHER LEVEL OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
SHANGHAI, April 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Health Industry Summit (tHIS) 2018 hosted by Reed Sinopharm, opened in Shanghai at the National Exhibition and Convention Center on 11 April 2018. This is the largest gathering of healthcare industry professionals in the world with well over 200,000 attendees from more than 150 countries and regions and over 7,000 exhibitors. In accordance to the President Xi's call for greater promotion of the health industry at the Boao Forum for Asia, this leading health industry event covering the entire industry value chain to cover key segments like medical devices, pharmaceutical production, drug distribution and natural health and nutrition is becoming China's solution to promoting technology innovations and academic exchange on the grandest scale. Now in its fourth edition, tHIS has been firmly established as the world's largest health industry event covering an over 350,000m2 exhibition space with 160 individual events and conferences alongside the main expo. Key events of the summit included China's top medical equipment and pharmaceutical exhibitions CMEF, PHARMCHINA and API China, which featured cutting-edge technologies such as VR, AR, wearables and AI as part of the new Intelligent Health exhibition, while traditional medicine was also highlighted at the show as China's own solution to treatment and prevention which runs parallel to modern medicine and drug development. Leading companies with a major presence included medical device giants like GE, United Imaging, Siemens, Philips and Mindray as well as major pharmaceutical groups in China including Sinopharm, Shanghai Pharma and CR Pharmaceuticals. The majority of the most innovative companies in the medical field chose the show as their Global or Asia Pacific new product launch platform and more than 600 new product launches took place during the 4-day show. The Health Industry Summit was organized by Reed Sinopharm, a joint venture between the world's leading event organizer Reed Exhibitions and China's state-owned medical & pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm (ranked 199th on the Fortune 500 list). The next edition of the event will be held in May 2019 in Shanghai. |
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Khot Infrastructure Holdings now Blockchain Holdings Ltd
KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) -- Khot Infrastructure Holdings Ltd announced change in the name of the Company to 'Blockchain Holdings Ltd' at its annual general meeting of shareholders held on April 9, 2018.
The company also announced the change of business from transportation infrastructure in Mongolia to developing proprietary indexes and ancillary data products for emerging blockchain and digital currency markets.
Other proposals put forward by the Board of Directors, as in the company's circular dated March 9, 2018 were approved, a statement said.
In addition, the company completed its non-brokered private placement of subscription receipts for gross proceeds of US$500,000 at a price of US$0.10 per receipt.
The proceeds of the Private Placement will be held in escrow pending the completion of the transactions approved at the meeting as each receipt will automatically convert into one common share of the company and will be used for the development of the company.
"With the closing of the debt settlements and private placement, the company is now positioned to launch its new cryptocurrency/blockchain proprietary indexing business," said Khot chairman, James Passin.
"Our strategic objective is to generate returns for our shareholders by carving out a role for the company in the exponentially expanding cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem,: he added.
Khot also said that it has reached agreement with its lenders to repay CAD$628,304.68 (US$499,586.29) in debt by the issuance of 6,283,047 common shares of the company at a price of US$0.10 per share.
Five board of directors were elected until the next annual general meeting - James Passin, Don Padgett, Jeremy Gardner, Wayne Lloyd and Gregory Kallinikos. The company also thanked Kenneth Farrell, Erin Chutter and Orgilmaa Siizkhuu for their contribution.
The company also announced the change of business from transportation infrastructure in Mongolia to developing proprietary indexes and ancillary data products for emerging blockchain and digital currency markets.
Other proposals put forward by the Board of Directors, as in the company's circular dated March 9, 2018 were approved, a statement said.
In addition, the company completed its non-brokered private placement of subscription receipts for gross proceeds of US$500,000 at a price of US$0.10 per receipt.
The proceeds of the Private Placement will be held in escrow pending the completion of the transactions approved at the meeting as each receipt will automatically convert into one common share of the company and will be used for the development of the company.
"With the closing of the debt settlements and private placement, the company is now positioned to launch its new cryptocurrency/blockchain proprietary indexing business," said Khot chairman, James Passin.
"Our strategic objective is to generate returns for our shareholders by carving out a role for the company in the exponentially expanding cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem,: he added.
Khot also said that it has reached agreement with its lenders to repay CAD$628,304.68 (US$499,586.29) in debt by the issuance of 6,283,047 common shares of the company at a price of US$0.10 per share.
Five board of directors were elected until the next annual general meeting - James Passin, Don Padgett, Jeremy Gardner, Wayne Lloyd and Gregory Kallinikos. The company also thanked Kenneth Farrell, Erin Chutter and Orgilmaa Siizkhuu for their contribution.
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Cisco unveils new email security services to protect employees devices
KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) -- Cisco Systems Inc announced Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints -- a new email security services to protect users from fraudulent emails and protect employees' devices from ransomware, cryptomining and fileless malware.
With this Cisco is now one of the few organizations paving the way toward eliminating email identity deception, senior vice-president of Product for Cisco\'s Security Business Group, Jeff Reed said.
Cisco AMP's new malicious activity protection stops ransomware execution, killing the processes and preventing propagation, as well as the threat investigation with Cisco Visibility - a new cloud application built to simplify and accelerate security investigations.
Cisco in a statement said nearly all endpoint security solutions claim to block 99 per cent of malware and Cisco AMP -- a cloud-managed endpoint security solution, able to prevent attacks and helps uncover the one percent of threats, that possibly would cripple a business.
The company has also concluded an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Agari to market and sell new services that enhance its email security product, which are; Cisco Domain Protection and Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection.
Cisco Domain Protection used to automate the process of using email authentication to prevent phishing, protect brands from fraud and maintain email governance by analyzing, updating and taking action against senders misusing their domain to send malicious email.
While the Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection adds sophisticated machine learning capabilities to Cisco Email Security to block advanced identity deception attacks for inbound email by assessing its threat posture.
"Cisco understands that protecting employees and their endpoints requires more than just antivirus. Attackers leverage the Internet, email and the network as vectors for breaching the endpoint," said Reed.
"We deliver greater employee protection using cloud-delivered defense against threats hosted on the Internet. Cisco is also now one of the few organizations paving the way toward eliminating email identity deception," Reed added.
Further details about the new services can be accessed at www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/.
With this Cisco is now one of the few organizations paving the way toward eliminating email identity deception, senior vice-president of Product for Cisco\'s Security Business Group, Jeff Reed said.
Cisco AMP's new malicious activity protection stops ransomware execution, killing the processes and preventing propagation, as well as the threat investigation with Cisco Visibility - a new cloud application built to simplify and accelerate security investigations.
Cisco in a statement said nearly all endpoint security solutions claim to block 99 per cent of malware and Cisco AMP -- a cloud-managed endpoint security solution, able to prevent attacks and helps uncover the one percent of threats, that possibly would cripple a business.
The company has also concluded an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Agari to market and sell new services that enhance its email security product, which are; Cisco Domain Protection and Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection.
Cisco Domain Protection used to automate the process of using email authentication to prevent phishing, protect brands from fraud and maintain email governance by analyzing, updating and taking action against senders misusing their domain to send malicious email.
While the Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection adds sophisticated machine learning capabilities to Cisco Email Security to block advanced identity deception attacks for inbound email by assessing its threat posture.
"Cisco understands that protecting employees and their endpoints requires more than just antivirus. Attackers leverage the Internet, email and the network as vectors for breaching the endpoint," said Reed.
"We deliver greater employee protection using cloud-delivered defense against threats hosted on the Internet. Cisco is also now one of the few organizations paving the way toward eliminating email identity deception," Reed added.
Further details about the new services can be accessed at www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/.
Subsidized Japanese Cuisine Training Program for non-Japanese chefs
KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) -- Japanese Cuisine and Food Culture Human Resource Development Committee invites non-Japanese chefs for a Japanese Cuisine Training Program, subsidized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
The Ministry will pay the flight round ticket to Japan, tuition for the Japanese language school and culinary school and accommodation cost for staying in Japan, a statement said.
The training program consists of Japanese language training and basic Japanese culinary training followed by eight months practical restaurant training in premium Japanese cuisine and sushi restaurants in Japan.
Participants are expected to acquire knowledge and skills of Japanese cuisine to promote Japanese cuisine, food culture and Japan-produced ingredients globally.
Submit application by May 15 and the training period will start from July 2 to end of February 2019.
More details about the training program can be accessed at http://www.tow.co.jp/program/
The Ministry will pay the flight round ticket to Japan, tuition for the Japanese language school and culinary school and accommodation cost for staying in Japan, a statement said.
The training program consists of Japanese language training and basic Japanese culinary training followed by eight months practical restaurant training in premium Japanese cuisine and sushi restaurants in Japan.
Participants are expected to acquire knowledge and skills of Japanese cuisine to promote Japanese cuisine, food culture and Japan-produced ingredients globally.
Submit application by May 15 and the training period will start from July 2 to end of February 2019.
More details about the training program can be accessed at http://www.tow.co.jp/program/
West Corporation acquires Nasdaq's public relations and digital media businesses
KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) -- West Corporation has completed the acquisition of the public relations and digital media businesses from Nasdaq for approximately US$335 million. (RM1.3 billion).
"This partnership adds tremendous value and capability for thousands of clients as West continues to deliver and invest in global omni-channel digital media products and services. We are extremely confident in our ability to grow and enhance this business, " said president of West Corporation, Rob Wechsler.
Both companies have agreed to an exclusive multi-year partnership, offering eligible Nasdaq-listed clients seamless access to press release distribution, web hosting, and webcasting solutions as part of the terms of the transaction, a statement said.
The products and services included in the acquisition are -- GlobeNewswire, a global press release distribution platform and media contacts database with analytics; Web Hosting service, built for investor relations and external communications functions; Webcasts, a multimedia service that publishes webcasts, webinars, video presentations; Media Intelligence, a media monitoring and analyst-curated daily news reporting service; and Influencers Database, a service to identify and connect with relevant traditional and social media profiles.
The acquisition broadens West´s portfolio for organisations across all industries to help enterprises more effectively communicate with their investors, customers and employees through targeted, timely delivery of relevant messaging, statement from West said.
Nasdaq is dedicated to provide corporate clients with successful interaction with the capital markets, accompanied by strategic C-Suite and board solutions that provide investor relations intelligence and governance insights and collaboration, a statement from Nasdaq said.
The completion of the transaction will enable Nasdaq to focus on strengthening technology, data and analytics capabilities within its core investor relations and governance, risk and compliance solutions, which are an important component of Nasdaq's relationships with its corporate clients.
Clients from Nasdaq IR Insight, Nasdaq Boardvantage and Nasdaq BWise will continue to receive services to help them navigate the capital markets, manage their relationships with investors and establish a strong governance foundation, the Nasdaq statement said.
West Corporation is a leading technology enablement company helping its clients to more effectively communicate, collaborate and connect with their audiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative solutions. More information at www.west.com and http://business.nasdaq.com
--BERNAMA
"This partnership adds tremendous value and capability for thousands of clients as West continues to deliver and invest in global omni-channel digital media products and services. We are extremely confident in our ability to grow and enhance this business, " said president of West Corporation, Rob Wechsler.
Both companies have agreed to an exclusive multi-year partnership, offering eligible Nasdaq-listed clients seamless access to press release distribution, web hosting, and webcasting solutions as part of the terms of the transaction, a statement said.
The products and services included in the acquisition are -- GlobeNewswire, a global press release distribution platform and media contacts database with analytics; Web Hosting service, built for investor relations and external communications functions; Webcasts, a multimedia service that publishes webcasts, webinars, video presentations; Media Intelligence, a media monitoring and analyst-curated daily news reporting service; and Influencers Database, a service to identify and connect with relevant traditional and social media profiles.
The acquisition broadens West´s portfolio for organisations across all industries to help enterprises more effectively communicate with their investors, customers and employees through targeted, timely delivery of relevant messaging, statement from West said.
Nasdaq is dedicated to provide corporate clients with successful interaction with the capital markets, accompanied by strategic C-Suite and board solutions that provide investor relations intelligence and governance insights and collaboration, a statement from Nasdaq said.
The completion of the transaction will enable Nasdaq to focus on strengthening technology, data and analytics capabilities within its core investor relations and governance, risk and compliance solutions, which are an important component of Nasdaq's relationships with its corporate clients.
Clients from Nasdaq IR Insight, Nasdaq Boardvantage and Nasdaq BWise will continue to receive services to help them navigate the capital markets, manage their relationships with investors and establish a strong governance foundation, the Nasdaq statement said.
West Corporation is a leading technology enablement company helping its clients to more effectively communicate, collaborate and connect with their audiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative solutions. More information at www.west.com and http://business.nasdaq.com
--BERNAMA
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