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Over 7,300 industry talents at HKTDC FILMART and EntertainmentPulse

HONG KONG, Mar 16, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – FILMART and EntertainmentPulse, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), assembled more than 7,300 leading entertainment figures from 41 countries and regions. The four-day content marketplace successfully showcased a great variety of cross-media, cross-genre content and brought numerous business opportunities for participants. […]

A Reimagined Vision of The Future of Digital Banking

DUBAI, Mar 16, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – “Our challenges have changed but we still share similarities with ancient banking times, when we were all looking for fast-paced abilities to adapt banking delivery to our lifestyle challenges,” said Noelia Romanillos – Head of Financial Services GTM South Europe & UKI at ServiceNow – […]

Defense minister: Poland broke up spy network

Poland's defense minister Mariusz Blaszczak speaks to the press during a two-day meeting of the NATO alliance's defence ministers at the NATO Headquarter in Brussels on Feb 14, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) WARSAW – Poland has broken up a espionage network operating in the country, the defense minister said on Thursday, after private broadcaster RMF […]

US conducts first maritime drills with West African forces

Rear Admiral Milton Sands, Commander of the US Special Operations Command Africa greets Ghanaian soldiers during Flintlock 2023 at Sogakope beach resort, Ghana on March 14, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) SOGAKOPE, Ghana – The West African troops silently pulled their small boats up to a rust-stained ferry and swarmed up its sides on grappling hooks […]

Brazilian researchers find plastic rocks on remote island

This file photo taken on Nov 29, 2015 shows Aratu crabs on the shoreline at Tartarugas Beach, Trindade Island, Brazil. (PHOTO / AFP) TRINDADE ISLAND, Brazil – The geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated scientists for years, but the discovery of rocks made from plastic debris in this remote turtle refuge is sparking […]

Greeks walk off the job to protest over deadly train crash

A woman crosses the empty rails during a 24-hour nationwide strike in Athens, Greece, March 16, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) ATHENS – Flights to and from Greece were grounded and ships remained docked at ports on Thursday, as Greek workers walked off the job to protest over the country's deadliest train crash on record which […]

Cyclone Freddy toll passes 300 as Mozambique counts bodies

Mourners arrive for a mass funeral procession for mudslide victims at Chilobwe township’s Naotcha Primary school camp in Blantyre, Malawi, on Mar 15, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) MAPUTO — The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy has passed 300 people as the body count continues to rise, with authorities in Mozambique taking several days to […]

Mexico launches appeal in suit against US gun makers

A Mexican army soldier guards the Tamaulipas State Prosecutor´s headquarters in Matamoros, Mexico, March 8, 2023. A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast […]

‘US would quickly extradite Brazil’s Bolsonaro upon request’

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023 on March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. A senior US official on March 15, 2023 said any request from Brazil to extradite Bolsonaro would be handled "expeditiously". (PHOTO / AP) WASHINGTON – A senior US official declined […]

EU aims to produce 40% of bloc’s clean tech by 2030

In this file photo dated Juy 18, 2022, European Commission vice-president in charge for European green deal Frans Timmermans (front) attends the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS — The European Union (EU) aims to produce 40 percent of its own clean technologies by 2030, European […]

Russian, US defense chiefs discuss drone incident on call

This combination of pictures shows US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left) and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. (PHOTOS / AFP) MOSCOW – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held a phone conversation on Wednesday to exchange views on the causes and consequences of a US drone crashing into the […]

Sunak’s swimming pool makes a splash in UK budget

A handout photo released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak standing at the despatch box and speaking during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons, in London, on March 15, 2023. (PHOTO / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) LONDON – As British finance minister Jeremy Hunt […]

UK Budget: Hunt tries to jolt economy with pension reforms

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses for the media with his traditional Red ministerial box as he leaves 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons to deliver the Budget in London, March 15, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) LONDON – Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt sought on Wednesday to revitalize Britain's stagnating economy with […]

Autonomous A2Z is Officially Listed in Global Ranking as a Nationally Representative Autonomous Driving Start-up

Seoul, Korea, March 16, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – Korea’s NO.1 Autonomous Driving Start-up ‘Autonomous A2Z’, Ranks No.13 in the World in Autonomous Driving Technology. On March 1st, Guidehouse Insight, a global market investigating organization, announced the overall global ranking of autonomous driving technology. As American tech giants appeared on the list, namely, Intel Mobileye and Google Waymo […]

TANAKA Establishes New Overseas Subsidiary in Seoul, Korea

TOKYO, Mar 16, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Koichiro Tanaka), which operates the TANAKA Precious Metals manufacturing business, announced that TANAKA Kikinzoku Korea Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul, Korea on November 10, 2022, as a new base for sales strategy […]

Avantor Named Best Bioprocessing Company in Chromatography at the Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Excellence Awards

Singapore, Mar 16, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Avantor, a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences, education, government and advanced technologies & applied materials industries, has been accorded the Best Bioprocessing Company for Chromatography at the Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Excellence Awards 2023 (ABEA). Narayana Rao Rapolu, […]

田中貴金屬工業在韓國首爾設立當地法人

TOKYO, Mar 16, 2023 – (亞太商訊 via SEAPRWire.com) – 田中貴金屬集團旗下經營製造事業的田中貴金屬工業株式會社(總公司:東京都千代田區、董事長:田中浩一朗)宣布,作為在韓國營業戰略的新據點,於2022年11月10日(週四)在韓國首爾設立「韓國TKK株式會…

Record-Breaking Series A Achieved by Emerging European Leader in Crypto, SwissBorg

Lausanne, Switzerland, March 16, 2023 –  (SEAPRWire) – With just 2 weeks to go, European-based crypto investment platform, SwissBorg, has accumulated almost 14,000 investors across three jurisdictions in its Series A fundraise – one of the largest on record for an early investment round. SwissBorg has quickly become a major European player in crypto, having acquired over a million […]