SINGAPORE, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Orchard Road Business Association (ORBA) announced the winners of its Best Dressed Building Contest 2015, which ran from 20 November 2015 – 5 December 2015. orchardgateway won the Voters’ Choice Award, while ION Orchard clinched the Judges’ Choice Award. Six other malls received merit awards for their decorations – [...]
TOKYO and ZURICH, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – TDK Corporation (“TDK”, TSE: 6762) and Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG (“Micronas”, SIX: MASN) jointly announced today that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which TDK will launch an all cash public tender offer for all publicly held registered shares of Micronas for CHF [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — PrivCo has just released the 2015 PrivCo Asia 20: Asia’s Largest Privately Held Companies by Revenue Report. PrivCo screened its proprietary Private Company Financial Database with information on over 850,000 private companies to rank the 20 largest private companies in Asia, based on 2014 revenue. The top 20 [...]
SINGAPORE and BARCELONA, SPAIN, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today signed a memorandum of intent to identify and nurture Singapore-focused start-ups to participate in the Cisco-Technopreneur Action Group, Platform Accelerated Start-ups (TAG.PASS) Smart Innovation [...]
MANILA, the Philippines, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Toronto, Vancouver and Singapore emerged as the top three cities in APEC in which to live and do business, according to a new study launched today at the APEC 2015 CEO Summit. The PwC study gives city leaders a view of where they are now, and it [...]
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — PRA Health Sciences (PRA) (NASDAQ:PRAH) is pleased to announce that it is relocating to a new office in Singapore to support its expanded operations in the region. The move will allow PRA to consolidate its workforce and be strategically located near many of its clients in the area. [...]
MANILA, the Philippines, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Asia Pacific CEOs believe prospects for business growth over the next 12 months are dimming fast. Ahead of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting November 18-19, business leaders have a number of concerns, according to PwC’s fifth annual APEC CEO Survey. Volatility in the financial [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — On the morning of November 4, 2015, the Premiere of the Second Session of 2 Days & 1 Night (Chinese Version) in Korea and the Promotion of the Most Beautiful Tourist Routes in Sichuan was held at THE PLAZA Hotel in Seoul and sponsored by the Tourism Administration of [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Taboola®, the world’s leading discovery platform, today announced an exclusive, media partnership with Purplefriends, a full-service marketing agency based in the Republic of Korea, and a member of Yello Digital Marketing (YDM), one of Asia’s leading digital marketing groups. The collaboration will expand on [...]
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ:INTL), a leader in the development of specialized financial services in commodities, securities, global payments, foreign exchange and other markets, today announced that its Singapore-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Pte. Ltd., received its Capital Markets Services License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and with it [...]