HANGZHOU, China, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — China’s outbound and inbound travels showed fast and resilient rebounds during the recent long holiday to commence the year of the Rabbit, as witnessed by strong growth of popular cross-border digital payments. Between January 21 and 26, the year-on-year growth of outbound transaction volumes…

SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — In December 2022, FION launched the year’s hottest IP “Avatar” series of products. According to James Cameron, director of Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide, animals and plants on Pandora are huge and glow in the dark because they have developed gigantism and luminescence due to…

TOKYO, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Approximately 100,000 people from overseas visited teamLab Planets in Toyosu, Tokyo, between December 9, 2022 and January 9, 2023. (*1)Of the visitors across one month, around 60% , or 1 in 2 visitors, were non-residents visiting Japan (*1), and the number of visitors from overseas has tripled…

SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Singapore Management University (SMU), along with online education provider – Emeritus, has rolled out a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) programme that has been curated with a strong emphasis on real-world relevance for CXOs to meet the challenging times and rapidly evolving business needs and trends. The CEO programme will…

LONDON, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Acuity Knowledge Partners (“Acuity”), a leading provider of high-value research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector, today announces that funds advised by Permira, the global private equity firm, have acquired a majority stake in the business from Equistone Partners Europe (“Equistone”), one…

SEOUL, South Korea, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Wemade’s new MMORPG MIR M: Vanguard and Vagabond (MIR M) will be launched in 170 countries on January 31st. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=45306

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 (Bernama) — PETRONAS has signed two Project Development Agreements with ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc. (ExxonMobil) to jointly pursue Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) activation projects in Malaysia. Under the agreements, both parties will define next steps, including the maturation of technical scopes for the CCS…

TOKYO, Jan 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Toyota Tsusho Corporation (“Toyota Tsusho”), Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (“IIJ”), NEC Corporation (“NEC”), and NTT Communications Corporation (“NTT Com”) announced today the conclusion of a contract with Uzbektelecom, a state-owned telecommunications operator in Uzbekistan, for a telecommunications infrastructure development project (“the Project”) to provide data…

SEOUL, South Korea, Jan 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Wemade’s blockbuster mobile MMORPG MIR4 released a new battlefield, Snowfield Area, on January 26th. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=45302

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 27 (Bernama-PRNewswire) — Pfizer Malaysia launched the new Atrial Fibrillation (AF) awareness website, www.afjourney.com.my, together with the National Heart Association of Malaysia (NHAM) and Malaysia Stroke Council (MSC). Atrial Fibrillation is an irregular heartbeat where the heart may not pump enough oxygen-rich blood out to the body.The website sheds…