NEC Malaysia launches next-generation UNIVERGE SV9000 series communication servers

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 (Bernama) -- NEC Corporation of Malaysia, a leading infocommunications technology provider, has announced the launch of its latest line of next-generation communication servers in Malaysia, the UNIVERGE SV9000 series, as well as the UT880, an innovative next-generation desk phone.
 
The new UNIVERGE SV9000 series includes the SV9100, SV9300 and SV9500 communication platforms that offer an integrated unified communications (UC) solution encompassing voice, video conferencing, instant messaging, unified messaging, contact centre, mobility as well as real-time collaboration. The UC solutions enable seamless integration with applications to enhance business productivity and efficiency.

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Consumer Health Industry Reaches US$216.4 Billion in Sales Globally in 2014

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 (Bernama)-- Global market research company Euromonitor International released today new data on the global consumer health industry.

According to Euromonitor's latest research, the consumer health industry experienced 5.7% growth (current/fixed currency terms) with US$216.4 billion in retail sales globally in 2014. Over-the-counter (OTC) remedies such as sleep aids, eye care, dermatologicals and digestive remedies performed very well with US$36 billion in sales globally. Sports nutrition grew strongly in the mass market with US$10 billion in sales globally, yet still represents the smallest category within the consumer health industry at 4.7% share.

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Beijing Hyundai Auto Finance Selects Unisys for New Service Desk Solution

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 (Bernama) --

- New solution will be integrated with core business systems to enable call center consultants to respond to customer queries more efficiently -

Unisys Corporation's (http://www.unisys.com/) (NYSE:UIS) Chinese subsidiary today announced that it has been selected by Beijing Hyundai Auto Finance (https://www.bhaf.com.cn/) to design, implement and support a new service desk solution for its call center. The solution is designed to improve the efficiency of consultants taking calls from customers seeking automotive financing or leasing.

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Conditions for first part of the transaction between Eolus and ewz fulfilled

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 (Bernama) -- All conditions for the completion of the first part of the transaction that Eolus has signed with ewz regarding the sale of 29 wind turbines have been fulfilled and the buyer have taken over the wind farms Ramsnas, Alered and Mungserod.

In conjunction with the takeover Eolus have received EUR 56 million of the total purchase amount of 95 million.

The fourth wind farm, Skalleberg, is under construction and the buyer ewz will take over the wind farm as soon as it is completed, which is scheduled to be during the first calendar quarter of 2015.

For further information contact:
Per Witalisson, CEO, +46 10 199 88 02
Johan Hammarqvist, head of communications, +46 10 199 88 10

Eolus Vind AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on January 20^th at 3.15 PM.

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Eppendorf Announces New BioFlo® 320 Bench Scale Bioprocess Control Station

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 21 (Bernama) -- The BioFlo 320 is truly a step into the future for Eppendorf as a bioprocess equipment manufacturer. New features including autoclavable and single-use vessel flexibility, intelligent sensors, and IP network communication for multi-unit control set it apart as the new premium choice in the bench scale bioprocess market.
 
Suitable for microbial and cell culture, scale up to scale down, batch, fed-batch, and continuous processes, the BioFlo 320 can meet the ever-changing needs of all segments of the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. It offers flexibility, better control, and maximum functionality while occupying a fraction of the valuable lab space of similar systems.

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MASkargo Selects Cloud-based Unisys Logistics Management System for Domestic and International Cargo Operations

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Bernama) --

Malaysian cargo carrier to replace legacy cargo management system with Unisys modern cloud-based service

Unisys Corporation(http://www.unisys.com/) (NYSE: UIS) today announced that Malaysian air cargo carrier MASkargo has selected the cloud-based Unisys Logistics Management System (LMS) to manage its domestic and international cargo services.

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FASTSIGNS® on Pace to Continue Strong Domestic, International Growth

Sign and Graphics Franchise Opens More Than 30 New Centers and Signs 45 New Agreements in North America; Signs on Master Franchisees in United Arab Emirates and North Africa
 
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Bernama)-- FASTSIGNS International Inc.—the worldwide franchisor of more than 570 FASTSIGNS^® sign, graphics and visual communications centers in eight countries—ended 2014 with 45 new franchise agreements signed and 31 new centers opened in North America, as well as reporting record system-wide sales. Robust growth is expected to continue through 2015 on all fronts.

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Arecont Vision® Showing MegaView® 2 IP Megapixel Bullet Cameras With New Features and Functions at Intersec

Now ONVIF Conformant, with STELLAR™ Low Light Technology and On-Board Storage
 
Intersec 2015
 
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Bernama)-- Arecont Vision^®, the industry leader in IP megapixel camera technology, has added a number of significant features to the company’s popular MegaView^® 2 true day/night bullet style megapixel cameras.
 
New features of the MegaView^® 2 IP bullet camera being debuted at Intersec 2015 include Arecont Vision’s groundbreaking STELLAR™ (Spatio TEmporal Low Light ARchitecture) Low Light Technology, optional on-board storage; CorridorView™; and non-integer scaling.

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FTZ.my To Help Entrepreneurs Tap Online Marketplace

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Bernama) -- Operion Ecommerce and Software Sdn Bhd has launched FTZ.my, a general classified website, that encourages budding entrepreneurs to leverage on online facilities without having to spend money on setting up e-commerce website and maintenance.

The e-commerce and Internet marketing company said FTZ.my was in line with government's masterplan for small and medium enterprises to help entrepreneurs learn, adapt technology and compete in this borderless world.

"It provides business start-up and micro entrepreneurs an access to a more friendly online platform and post items or products efficiently within two minutes.

"With free registration, users can post unlimited advertisements immediately after submitting photographs and advertisementS," it said.

The online platform provides buyers with convenience and overview of multiple categories ranging from properties to vehicles, electronics, clothing and apparel, among others.

-- BERNAMA

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Disney Consumer Products Gears Up For A Powerful Year From Pixar

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 (Bernama) -- Disney Consumer Products today unveiled exclusive details about the new global toy lines celebrating Disney∙Pixar's Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, debuting theatrically in the U.S. on June 19, 2015, and Nov. 25, 2015, respectively. Both movies will have robust toy lines from best-in-class licensee TOMY, whose innovative approach, strength in international markets and ability to reflect Pixar's unique storytelling in its product lines made them the ideal choice for Pixar Animation Studios' most exciting year yet.
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Intertek Singapore's Safety Culture Earns bizSAFE Level 4 Certification

Customers benefit from the enhanced quality and assurance delivered.
 
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 (Bernama)-- Intertek (LSE: ITRK), a leading provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of industries around the world, is pleased to announce the achievement of bizSAFE level 4 certification under Oil and Gas Sector in Singapore.
 
Intertek’s safety and quality culture laid a solid foundation for achieving bizSAFE certification. BizSAFE is a five-step guided programme conducted by Singapore Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSHC). Intertek Singapore, an important strategic location for Asia Pacific operations, employs a team of safety experts who act as guardians for the management of potential safety and health risks. These experts are tasked to carry out the PLAN, DO, CHECK, and ACT (PDCA) management method for workplace safety and health management performance in the organisation.

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PHOTO RELEASE -- PWC NAMES SIGAL ZARMI VICE-CHAIRWOMAN AND NETWORK CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (Bernama) -- PwC announced today that Sigal Zarmi has been named Vice-Chairwoman and Network Chief Information Officer (CIO) for PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited.

A photo accompanying this release is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=29999

Ms. Zarmi is responsible for the delivery of IT services to the PwC network, developing and implementing PwC's IT transformation strategy, and creating the technology roadmap for PwC Global IT enterprise-wide systems.

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ISOLA ASIA PACIFIC (TAIWAN) INC. CERTIFIED TO ISO 50001 ENERGY MANAGEMENT STANDARD

The Company's Taoyuan and Yangmei Manufacturing Facilities Have Been Recognized for Their Energy Management Systems

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (Bernama) -- Isola Group S.à r.l., a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), announced today that its subsidiary, Isola Asia Pacific (Taiwan) Inc. has received ISO 50001:2011 certification by SGS, the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. This certification recognizes that the company has integrated energy management into its overall efforts to improve quality and environmental management at its manufacturing facilities located in Yangmei and Taoyuan, Taiwan. This recognition follows Isola's recent announcement regarding its Taoyuan facility achieving the Green Factory Label from Taiwan's Industry Development Bureau (IDB) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs that recognized Taoyuan as the first "green" copper-clad laminate (CCL) factory in the country.

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Allied World Announces In-House Trade Credit Insurance Platform; Completes Acquisition Of Latin American Underwriters Holdings Ltd.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced today the commencement of its in-house trade credit and political risk insurance platform with the completion of its previously-announced acquisition of its former program administrator, Latin American Underwriters Holdings Ltd. ("LAU"). LAU has underwritten trade credit insurance and political risk coverages solely for Allied World since 2010, and underwrote $28.5 million of gross premiums in 2013.
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Sleepy's Deploys Descartes For Home Delivery

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Sleepy's, the largest privately-owned specialty mattress retailer in America, has transformed customer service by offering a highly-differentiated buying and delivery experience using Descartes' advanced home delivery appointment booking and mobile solutions.
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Cadwalader Expands Greater China Corporate Practice

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama )-- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a leading law firm to global financial institutions and corporations, announces the appointment of a team of three partners and four counsel to its Greater China practice, based in Hong Kong.

Led by partner Michael Liu, who has 30 years of experience advising on a range of corporate transactions in Hong Kong and London, the team is one of the most experienced in the Hong Kong legal market. With long standing and in-depth experience advising Hong Kong, PRC and international corporations, as well as financial advisors and investment banks on a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters, the team also includes partners Jane M. S. Ng and Stephen Chan, counsel Simon Berry, Olivia Wong, Terris Tang and Eva Tam, and several associates. Michael, Jane, Simon, Olivia and Eva have already started at the Firm.

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Tsuneishi Delivers Its 200th Bulk Carrier

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (Bernama) -- TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd., headquartered in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture, delivered its 200th KAMSARMAX class 82,000-mt D/W bulk carrier, on Wednesday Jan 7.

Built particularly by TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING, Inc. in China, the carrier was delivered to buyer KAMBARA KISEN Co., Ltd, said TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING in a statement issued today in Hiroshima, Japan.

The KAMSARMAX class bulk carrier was the international maritime industry's first vessel to increase the deadweight of Panamax bulk carriers (vessels whose structural dimensions make them capable of traversing the Panama Canal) from the 70,000-mt class to more than 80,000-mt.

With higher fuel efficiency due to enhanced features that reduce wave and wind resistance, this class of vessel has been well received well by many customers both in Japan and overseas.

"We would like to express our profound gratitude to our many customers and suppliers for their significant support that has allowed us to build 200 KAMSARMAX class bulk carriers since 2005.

"We will devote the passion and energy of our group's shipbuilding bases in Japan, the Philippines, and China into pursuing fuel efficiency, propulsion performance, and easy cargo handling in every ship we design and deliver, paving and leading the way in the worldwide maritime industry," commented Kenji Kawano, President of TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING in the same statement.

As of the end of December 2014, the company's order book reflects a number closely approaching 300, making the KAMSARMAX class vessels the best-seller for TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING.

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Jesper, The New Algomi Head Of Asia-Pacific Operations

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 (Bernama) -- Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, has revealed the next step of its global expansion with the recruitment of Jesper Bruun-Olsen as its Head of Asia-Pacific operations.

Jesper will join immediately and is given the responsibility of establishing Algomi's APAC presence in Singapore and Hong Kong in 2015, expanding the Algomi Honeycomb network to facilitate APAC bond market liquidity, said Algomi in a statement issued today in London and Singapore.

Previously, Jesper was at Tradeweb from 2001 to 2012 as Managing Director of Asia-Pacific. Jesper was part of the earliest team that established Tradeweb in Europe, while in 2004 he was appointed to head up the company's expansion into APAC where he was initially based in Japan and later Hong Kong.

Most recently, he held the position of Managing Director at OANDA in the region.

"As the size of the APAC corporate bond market continues to grow significantly, we have also seen that there has been more emphasis placed on voice trading versus electronic.

"Algomi is well placed to help firms operating in APAC, and firms wanting to tap APAC market liquidity in their quest for increased velocity in regional bond markets," explained Jesper Bruun-Olsen in the same statement.

In November 2014, Stu Taylor took part in a Mayor of London and UK Trade & Investment global roadshow in Singapore and Malaysia, which aimed to help London headquartered SMEs export to overseas markets, and promoted London as a Fintech hub.

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Intertek Attains Approval by the Transported Asset Protection Association Asia (TAPA) as an Independent Audit Body

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- Intertek, a leading quality & safety solutions provider to industries worldwide announced that they have been approved as an Independent Audit Body (IAB) by the Transported Asset Protection Association Asia Pacific (TAPA Asia Pacific). Intertek will now be able to perform audits to TAPA Asia Pacific members against TAPA Standard.
 
TAPA, Transported Asset Protection Association is an association of security and logistics professionals and related business partners. TAPA has security standards for the purpose of addressing the emerging security threats that are common to the high value industry supply chain such as those in the high-tech industry. TAPA standards are recognized by some countries LEA as evidences of best practices for safety & security.

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Nasdaq To Acquire Dorsey Wright & Associates

Will Become a Leading Provider of Smart Beta Indexes With Addition of Model-Based Strategies

Acquisition Expected to be Accretive at Closing

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it will acquire Dorsey, Wright & Associates, LLC (DWA), a market leader in data analytics, passive indexing and smart beta strategies. DWA will add to Nasdaq's robust index portfolio, bringing model-based strategies and analysis to support the financial advisor community, and further strengthening Nasdaq's position as a leading smart beta index provider in the U.S. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015.

DWA will increase Nasdaq's capacity for growth in the index business across asset classes and geographies, with substantial opportunities in index licensing. The combined group will bring together DWA's 17 ETFs and Nasdaq's 69 licensed smart-beta ETFs focused primarily on dividend and income strategies. As a result, Nasdaq Global Indexes will become one of the largest providers of smart beta indexes with nearly $45 billion in assets benchmarked to its family of Smart Beta indexes and more than $105 billion benchmarked to all Nasdaq Indexes. 

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I2c And Corporate Prepaid Solutions Partner To Bring The Benefits Of Prepaid To Australian Companies

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- i2c, Inc., a global provider of card processing and emerging financial services solutions, and Corporate Prepaid Solutions (CPS), a global prepaid program manager, have launched the uChoose corporate rewards gift card in Australia. The uChoose program is the first collaboration between i2c and CPS, who are planning additional corporate prepaid programs in various global markets.

The uChoose card, powered by i2c's global processing platform, is a turnkey solution for companies who wish to offer a Visa-branded gift card. Companies can choose from a variety of card designs or customize the card to align with their brands. The card can be used anywhere Visa is accepted, offering recipients the freedom to spend their gifts at millions of merchant locations worldwide.

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TCL Brings Ultimate Home Entertainment Experience to CES 2015

TCL TV+ Strategy and New Quantum Dot TVs Come to Las Vegas
 
2015 International CES
 
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 (Bernama)-- TCL Multimedia today announced it is rolling out an all-new TCL TV+ strategy at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas. Continuing to build bigger, better and more interactive home entertainment experiences, the world’s third largest television manufacturer will also be showcasing incredible innovations such as the world’s largest 110’’ 4K Ultra HD Curved TV and the new 55” 4K UHD Quantum Dot TV.

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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Commences Operations in Hong Kong, Announces Local Office Appointments

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (Bernama)-- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced that it has received an insurance license to carry on all classes of General Business in and from Hong Kong and filled several key positions in its newly established Hong Kong office. BHSI's recently appointed President of Asia, Marc Breuil, is also based in this new office.
 
"We are pleased to commence operations in one of the world's premier insurance marketplaces. With a stellar leadership team, a highly experienced underwriting group, and a strong balance sheet, we are well equipped to provide sound, sustainable insurance solutions to meet the needs of brokers and customers in Hong Kong,” said Peter Eastwood, President of BHSI.

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