NEW YORK and HONG KONG, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that Sina (Nasdaq:SINA), a leading online media company serving China and the global Chinese community, is now an official vendor of Nasdaq Last Sale (NLS) and Nasdaq Global Index Data Service (GIDS) in China. Sina was the first company in mainland [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — OmniComm Systems, Inc. (OTCQX:OMCM), a leading provider of patient-centric, clinical data management technology, signed four additional contracts in December 2017, to provide OmniComm’s proprietary TrialOne clinic automation solution to several major hospitals and contract research organizations (CROs) in China. OmniComm now has a total of 11 TrialOne [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The record-setting sales at local duty-free shops last month were due heavily to private vendors, a likely sign of an abnormal and fleeting pickup in business, industry sources said Wednesday. The duty-free stores recorded sales of US$1.38 billion in January, up 42.4 percent from the same month a year [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade deficit in the tourism sector hit a new record high last year, data showed Wednesday, due largely to a drop in Chinese visitors and a growing number of South Koreans traveling abroad. The country’s tourism-related earnings came to US$13.32 billion in 2017, down 22.5 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign students enrolled in South Korea showed a record-high growth rate last year, propelled by a rise in those from China, a tally from a state-run educational body showed Monday. The number of foreign students registered at South Korean universities rose 18.8 percent from a year [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The top economic policymakers of South Korea and China agreed to boost bilateral tourism and economic cooperation, Seoul’s finance ministry said Friday, in a sign that Beijing may stop its retaliation against South Korean companies over the stationing of a U.S. missile system. The agreement came after talks between [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kang Byung-min, a 33-year-old office worker living in Geumho in center-east Seoul, starts his day with a morning ritual that he admits has become somewhat obsessive but unavoidable. He turns on the palm-sized monitor placed against the window to check the day’s fine dust level. He checks air quality [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior officials of South Korea and China have agreed to step up cooperation to fight regional environmental issues, including fine dust, the foreign ministry said Friday. During a meeting of the South Korea-China joint committee on environmental cooperation in Changdong, China on Thursday, the foreign ministry’s Director-General for environmental [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China have agreed to expand car ferry operations between the two nations to cope with growing demand for maritime shipping and travel, Seoul’s oceans ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said the agreement was reached in a meeting of senior maritime officials in [...]
SUZHOU, China, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In its ongoing battle to attract the best and stay ahead of the rest, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) is setting its sights on the cream of overseas Chinese talent in Silicon Valley. SIP executives have been targeting attendees at a top artificial intelligence (AI) industry event, the Intelligent [...]