VODAFONE AND STARHUB RENEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT FOR SINGAPORE

LONDON, Nov 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vodafone and Singapore’s StarHub have agreed to renew their strategic partnership for a further three years, building on a successful relationship that has seen significant collaboration in Singapore and throughout Vodafone’s global markets.

 

Over the past five years, the Vodafone and StarHub partnership has expanded across enterprise services covering mobile connectivity as well as co-branding and knowledge sharing initiatives.

Under the renewal, which commences today (30 November 2016), all StarHub mobile customers can continue to benefit from advanced mobile voice and data roaming propositions, including high-speed data on Vodafone’s 4G networks. Similarly, Vodafone customers visiting Singapore can enjoy high-speed roaming on StarHub’s 4G LTE-Advanced network.

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ASIA'S TOP COSMETICS REVIEW SITE @COSME ANNOUNCES THE BEST COSMETICS AWARDS 2016

TOKYO, Dec 1 (Bernama) --  - Award-winning Lineup Reflects Japan's Beauty Trends in 2016 - istyle Inc. (TSE First Section, Company Code: 3660) -- which is the Tokyo-based operator of @cosme, one of Asia's largest beauty and cosmetics information sites -- announced the winners of this year's "@cosme THE BEST COSMETICS AWARDS 2016 " on December 1, 2016, a lineup that reflects Japan's beauty trends this year. (Photo1: http://prw.kyodonews.jp/prwfile/release/M103196/201611286644/_prw_OI1fl_5AYQ7bH2.png) About @cosme: @cosme is one of Asia's largest beauty websites, with a loyal user base of Japanese women. The information and reviews posted on @cosme make it useful for women's daily beauty, earning it widespread support. About @cosme THE BEST COSMETICS AWARDS: The awards recognize the products that have gained the most support from consumers, based on reviews written by members of @cosme who have actually used the products. Because the awards represent the viewpoint of consumers themselves, winning products attract attention from both users and those within the cosmetics and beauty industry. ADDICTION's "THE EYESHADOW" wins Grand Prize: The 2016 Grand Prize went to "THE EYESHADOW" which, produced by ADDICTION, received the most favorable response from users on @cosme. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=28051

SBI LIQUIDITY MARKET GROWS ITS SMARTTRADE IMPLEMENTATION WITH ADOPTION OF PRICING AND DISTRIBUTION MODULES

TOKYO, Nov 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, announced today that SBI Liquidity Market, a Japanese leading FX infrastructure solution and liquidity provider, complemented its FX platform based on smartTrade's LiquidityFX, with smartTrade's award-winning pricing and distribution modules.

SBI Liquidity Market is adding smartTrade's sophisticated market making solution to the existing implementation of LiquidityFX connectivity, aggregation and order routing in order to grow their business outside Japan and provide liquidity to the rest of Asia. This addition combines smartTrade's flexible pricing and powerful distribution modules with the powerful distribution system over multiple channels. Those modules integrate margin credit functionalities which allows their clients to trade larger amounts, leveraging their cash margin, while allowing SBI Liquidity Market to easily monitor and manage their risk coverage in real time.

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KITERETSU NOW LAUNCHES ZOOKEEPER GLOBALLY ON THE INSTANT GAME

TOKYO, Nov 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- KITERETSU inc. is very honored to announce that ZOOKEEPER is selected to the one of 17 very first launch titles for the Instant Games, the latest feature from Facebook. ZOOKEEPER is now available worldwide on the Instant Games.

This Instant Games version of ZOOKEEPER is a simple match 3 puzzle with clearing the stages, and it can be enjoyed with your Facebook friends by competing the best score.

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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES NEW LINE-UP OF LOW ON-RESISTANCE MOSFETS FOR LOAD SWITCHES IN MOBILE DEVICES UTILIZING A HIGH POWER DISSIPATION, SMALL-SIZE PACKAGE

TOKYO, Nov 29 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Corporation's (TOKYO:6502) Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the addition of new products that utilize a newly developed high power dissipation, small-size "TSOP6F" package to its line-up of small low on-resistance MOSFETs for charging circuit load switches in mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. Sample shipments of the first product in the new line-up, the 20V P-channel single MOSFET "SSM6J801R," start today. Mass production is scheduled to start from the end of December.

Toshiba has developed the new 2.9mm x 2.8mm small-size package "TSOP6F" to meet demand for smaller devices for charging circuit load switches and LED drive circuits in mobile devices. Despite having the same mounting space and land pattern as the existing SOT-457 package, the new package realizes power dissipation of 1.5W.

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SEMINAR ON SUCCESSFUL AGEING : 'MOBILIZING COMMUNITIES TOWARDS ELDERLY WELLBEING'

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Bernama) -- The population of the elderly who are 60 years old and above in Malaysia is increasing gradually from standing about 7.9% in 2016, to an estimation of 15% in 2030.

With an aim to develop and enhance the policies and programmes for the elderly in Malaysia, the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (MWFCD), has officially agreed to collaborate with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to jointly implement the project namely ‘Successful Ageing: Social Support System and Community Based Programmes in Malaysia’ for two years, i.e. from January 2016 until January 2018.

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THIRD COUNTRY TRAINING PROGRAMME (TCTP) ON SME DEVELOPMENT

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Bernama) -- "Keys to assist the private sector are Watch, Listen and Discuss: investigate and analyze industries, decide the policy direction and its tools through hearing needs of the industries, and verify the policy through interviews with company managers." Mr. Koichiro Yokoo, Senior Advisor to Director General, JICA talked at his lecture at the beginning of TCTP on SME Development for African Countries which started on 20 September for approximately 2 weeks. Mr. Yokoo has been seconded from METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) Japan to JICA since 2015 and advised on formulation of SME promotion policy. In the lecture the participants and Mr. Yokoo exchanged various opinions on the effective policy implementation.

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