CORETEL NETWORKS BECOMES NTT COM'S FIRST MANGAGED ICT SERVICES PARTNER IN ASIA

TOKYO, April 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- NTT Communications (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TYO:9432), and CoreTel Networks (CoreTel) a rapidly growing Asia-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) based in Singapore, announced a start of a partnership cooperation that will allow CoreTel as a very first partner of Global Management One (GMOne) to provide NTT Com’s managed services to their customers. Both companies believe that this partnership will deliver further expansion of mutual opportunities across the region.

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FOOMA JAPAN 2017, ASIA'S LARGEST TRADE SHOW OF FOOD MACHINERY AND FOOD-PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, SET FOR JUNE 13-16 IN TOKYO

TOKYO, April 5 (Bernama-AsiaNet) -- 
 

- Expanded, Enhanced Exhibition for over 100,000 Visitors - The International Food Machinery & Technology Exhibition (FOOMA JAPAN), a comprehensive trade show for food machinery and food-processing technologies, will be held from June 13 (Tue.) to 16 (Fri.), 2017, in Tokyo, this time with further expanding its exhibition area to roughly 15,000 square meters. It brings together exhibiting companies in all fields of the food manufacturing process, from raw material processing to packaging and distribution, focused on food manufacturing and processing machinery. This year marks the 40th anniversary of this annual exhibition that has a long history and tradition in Japan. Over 700 corporations will take part in FOOMA JAPAN, which speaks to its size as one of the largest exhibitions in Asia. This lively exhibition is visited by almost 100,000 people each time, and more overseas visitors are coming every year in search of excellent food-manufacturing and processing machinery. (Photo: http://prw.kyodonews.jp/prwfile/release/M104335/201703240256/_prw_PI1fl_WVz4e0Ur.jpg) A broad range of world-renowned, cutting-edge Japanese technologies FOOMA JAPAN 2017 will bring together cutting-edge products, technologies, services and information on the theme of "The Compass for the Future of Food." It will feature world-renowned, cutting-edge food-processing technologies from Japan that boost production efficiency and quality, as well as technologies related to safety and health, energy conservation, and the environment. Visitors can also view and interact with many real machinery demonstrations that closely resemble foodstuff factories and also sample foods. Many of these exhibitions are of machinery for manufacturing Japanese foods that are popular overseas, such as sushi and noodles, as well as food-manufacturing robotic systems developed by world-renowned Japanese manufacturers specialized in industrial robots. Dedicated venue support for overseas visitors FOOMA JAPAN offers a wide range of services to visitors from overseas countries. Inside the venue, exhibiting company staff members who can speak English, Chinese, Korean and other languages wear "Bilingual Badges" on their chests. English-, Chinese-, and Korean-speaking staff members are also stationed at the Information Desk to answer inquiries and questions from visitors. Moreover, visitors can relax and enjoy free drinks at the International Lounge. Venue photographs, exhibiting company names and exhibited products from FOOMA JAPAN 2016 are available on the official website, where you can get a sense of the overwhelming scale of FOOMA JAPAN, one of Asia's largest exhibitions. Pre-registration for visitors began for FOOMA JAPAN 2017 on April 3, 2017, on the official website (http://www.foomajapan.jp/english/index.html), where you can also make hotel reservations. Please check the website for the latest information on this wide range of services. About organizer The Japan Food Machinery Manufacturers' Association (FOOMA) was established in 1948 (received recognition as a corporation in March 1967 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, currently the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) to develop the Japanese food machinery industry. FOOMA is organized by leading Japanese food machinery manufacturers and the sole association for Japanese food machinery industry in Japan. Lately, FOOMA has nearly 400 members and focus on their missions not only for development of the Japanese food machinery industry but also for contribution to healthy life in the whole world by Japanese food technology. SOURCE: The Japan Food Machinery Manufacturers' Association --BERNAMA

HONORARY EXECUTIVE CHEF HIROCHIKA MIDORIKAWA WAS AWARDED THE FRENCH CUISINE CHEF PRIZE,

HONORARY EXECUTIVE CHEF HIROCHIKA MIDORIKAWA WAS AWARDED THE FRENCH CUISINE CHEF PRIZE,

RedHill Biopharma Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for YELIVA® for the Treatment of Cholangiocarcinoma

TEL-AVIV, Israel, April 5 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ:RDHL) (Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange:RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development and commercialization of late clinical-stage, proprietary, orally-administered, small molecule drugs for gastrointestinal and inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted YELIVA^® (ABC294640) Orphan Drug designation for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma.

The Orphan Drug designation allows RedHill to benefit from various development incentives to develop YELIVA® for this indication, including tax credits for qualified clinical testing, waiver of a prescription drug user fee (PDUFA fee) upon submission of a potential marketing application and, if approved, a seven-year marketing exclusivity period for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma.

YELIVA^® is a Phase II-stage, proprietary, first-in-class, orally-administered sphingosine kinase-2 (SK2) selective inhibitor with anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities, targeting multiple oncology, inflammatory and gastrointestinal indications. By inhibiting the SK2 enzyme, YELIVA^® blocks the synthesis of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), a lipid signaling molecule that promotes cancer growth and pathological inflammation.

SOURCE : RedHill Biopharma Ltd.

ERSTE GROUP BANK AG SELECTS NASDAQ'S BWISE FOR INTERNAL AUDIT, INTERNAL CONTROL AND FINDING MANAGEMENT PROCESSES

VIENNA, Austria and NEW YORK, April 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq BWise (Nasdaq:NDAQ), a global leader in enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC), announced today that it has been selected by Erste Group, one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Eastern Europe and headquartered in Austria, to support and further enhance their internal audit, internal control and finding management processes. Erste Group, serving 15.7 million clients in over 2,700 branches, will look to add additional features and functionality to their group-wide Internal Audit and Findings Management processes. The internal control system repository powered by BWise will replace an existing solution with a more enhanced and sophisticated software platform. “We are proud to have been selected by Erste Group,” said Richard Jansen, Managing Director, BWise Germany GmbH. “Erste Group's objective to implement multiple GRC-related initiatives via one single standard software platform very much underlines the strength of the BWise products and services. Our GRC platform provides multiple role-based solutions for audit, risk management, information security and regulatory compliance which are integrated within the GRC platform and help departments across an organization to reduce GRC technology costs. We have been delivering successful projects in the D-A-CH region for many years in various sectors and I’m pleased to welcome a key player in the Austrian banking industry today.” The rich and complete functionalities, user friendliness and powerful reporting capabilities of the BWise solutions convinced Erste Group to select Nasdaq BWise as their trusted partner for their GRC journey to support each step of the internal audit and internal control cycle and eventually make them more time and cost efficient. In time, the potential of seamlessly adding new GRC initiatives coming from other departments to the same platform can be unlocked at any desired stage. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=28816

SUNWAY MEDICAL CENTRE - INVITRO FERTILISATION PUBLIC FORUM AT BORNEO CONVENTION CENTRE, SARAWAK

KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 (Bernama) -- Sunway Medical Centre is organizing an in-vitro fertilisation public forum on Saturday, 22 April 2017 from 12:30pm - 5:30pm at the Borneo Convention Centre in Sarawak. 

 

The public forum is aimed at educating couples on infertility and understanding the facts associated with it.

Couples can meet Dr. Kannappan Palaniappan, Consultant Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Fertility Specialist of Sunway Medical Centre; and Ms. Yee Siew Yin, Fertility Centre Manager, Sunway Medical Centre. Also on hand will be Dr. Edawati Dahrawi Edrus, Consultant Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sarawak General Hospital.

The forum is titled, Is Infertility a ‘Women’s Problem?’ and will debunk myths surrounding fertility, and help couples learn how to start a family via in-vitro fertilization. After the talks, couples can pose their questions to the experts and find out more about the different options available to address infertility. The doctors and embryologists will also be available for free consultations during the forum.

The forum is complimentary but registration is required. Do register by 19 April 2017 at sunmedpr@sunway.com.my or call 03 7491 1113 or 03 7491 1275. For more information, please visit www.sunwaymedical.com.

SOURCE : Arcis Communications 

TGS ANNOUNCES FURTHER EXPANSION OF NORTH-WEST AFRICAN ATLANTIC MARGIN 2D SEISMIC SURVEY

ASKER, Norway, April 4 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TGS announces a further expansion of its NWAAM multi-client library in the MSGBC Basin with plans to acquire more than 11,000 km of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data together with magnetic and gravity data, in Senegal and Gambia. This expansion is being undertaken in cooperation with Petrosen in Senegal and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in Gambia. The investment is being undertaken together with PGS and GeoPartners.   Acquisition of this further phase of NWAAM 2017 has commenced and continues seamlessly from Phase 1. The NWAAM 2017 seismic survey has been designed to infill, extend and complement the TGS NWAAM 2012 2D survey which helped with recent commercial discoveries in the MSGBC basin. A 12 km deep-tow streamer will enable the recording of high quality broadband 2D seismic data, which will image the pre-rift, syn-rift and post-rift plays evident in this basin.

"This further expansion of our NWAAM data library confirms TGS' continued commitment to the leading frontier basin in Africa. We are excited to be part of the ongoing exploration and upcoming development of this basin,” commented Kristian Johansen, CEO for TGS.

This survey is supported by industry funding and is being undertaken with the seismic vessel, BGP Dong Fang Kan Tan 1.

A PDF accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/8055ea29-20a6-4093-acc6-6d212f0bac2f 

Company Summary

TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) provides multi-client geoscience data to oil and gas Exploration and Production companies worldwide.  In addition to extensive global geophysical and geological data libraries that include multi-client seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, digital well logs, production data and directional surveys, TGS also offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products, and data integration solutions.

For more information visit TGS online at www.tgs.com. 

Forward-looking statements and contact information

All statements in this press release other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, which are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict, and are based upon assumptions as to future events that may not prove accurate. These factors include TGS' reliance on a cyclical industry and principle customers, TGS' ability to continue to expand markets for licensing of data, and TGS' ability to acquire and process data products at costs commensurate with profitability. Actual results may differ materially from those expected or projected in the forward-looking statements. TGS undertakes no responsibility or obligation to update or alter forward-looking statements for any reason.

TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSLO:TGS).

TGS sponsored American Depositary Shares trade on the U.S. over-the-counter market under the symbol "TGSGY".

For additional information about this press release please contact:

Sven Børre Larsen
Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +47 90 94 36 73
Email: sven.larsen@tgs.com

Will Ashby
VP HR & Communication
Tel: +1 713 860 2184
Email: will.ashby@tgs.com

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

SOURCE : TGS

--BERNAMA