New offering enables users to borrow stablecoins with altcoin collateral, with fixed interest rate and no margin calls SINGAPORE , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matrixport, one of the world's largest and most trusted digital assets financial services platform, today announced the first-of-its-kind 'Non-Liquidation Loan' product for altcoins. This innovative lending product gives individual a...

Amgen is the inaugural sponsor of the NSG Tomorrow Programme that aims to support innovation among biotech startups in Southeast Asia SINGAPORE , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen , a leading global biotechnology company, and NSG BioLabs , Singapore's largest and leading biotechnology (biotech) incubator, today announced the launch of a 3-year Golden Ticket sponsorship. Amgen's Golden...

South Korean film attendance numbers nearly shot back up to the pre-pandemic level in May, data showed Wednesday, with a couple of big hits leading the charge. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), movies screened in the country amassed a combined 14.55 million admissions in May, the highest monthly figure since 16.84 million from January 2020 -- the last full month before the COVID-19 p...

South Korean LPGA stars will seek to end the country's major championship drought this week at the oldest of the five big tournaments. Twenty-two players from South Korea will compete in the US Women's Open, which tees off Thursday at Pine Needles Lodge & Country Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina. South Korea, long a dominant force in women's golf, has been shut out at the last six majors,...

Test your knowledge of Korea with our weekly quiz on the language, culture, history or anything K-related. Answer: ⓑ South Koreans can travel to far-flung, exotic destinations if they want, but there is one place that remains off limits -- North Korea. The irony of this is that the two countries are just 195 kilometers apart, from capital to capital. By road, it would be around a three-hour...

South Korea's new COVID-19 cases fell to below 16,000 Wednesday amid a slowing virus trend, as authorities take steps for a return to pre-pandemic normalcy. The country added 15,797 COVID-19 infections, including 44 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,119,415, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The daily cases have marked a steady decline since the a...

HOUSTON , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascend Performance Materials has completed its purchase of Formulated Polymers Limited, an engineered materials producer based in Chennai, India . The acquisition establishes Ascend's first production facility in South Asia . Ascend's Dharm Vahalia, managing director for India, and Mark Power, strategy and growth director, cut the ribbon on the compa...

Smoking rates have declined globally for the first time on record, according to a new report on tobacco use from a public health campaign group and US academics. However, the figures from the Tobacco Atlas report - described as a potential tipping point by the authors - also mask growing numbers of smokers in parts of the world, as well as increased tobacco use among young teenagers in almost ...

Poster will report data from the Phase I/II TORCH-2 Study that evaluates ATG-008 (onataseritb) and toripalimab in patients with advanced solid tumors TORCH-2 is the world 's first clinical study evaluating the combination of a dual mTORC1/2 inhibitor and an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody SHANGHAI and HONG KONG , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ( "Antengene"...

지난 회에 이어, 유용한 비즈니스 영어 표현들을 소개합니다. ‘비즈니스 영어’라는 게 따로 떨어져 존재하는 것은 아닙니다만, 일상 회화에서 흔히 볼 수 없는 표현들을 활용하는 것도 사실입니다. 저희 책 『나는 더 영어답게 말하고 싶다 비즈니스 편』에서 뽑은 표현들입니다. 1 A: I can’t believe that we’re paying $23 to ship a product worth only $11. B: If shipping charges keep eating into our budget, we should just start delivering the products ourselves. A: 단지 11달러의 가치가 있는 상품을 위해 23달러의 배송비를 써야 한다니 믿을 수 없어. B:...

South Korean girl group aespa has reached a global partnership deal with the US giant Warner Records, its South Korean management company said Wednesday, as the quartet looks to establish its presence in international markets. SM Entertainment said the deal with Warner covers music content distribution and marketing promotion. "We're thrilled to become a family of Warner Records, and we're grat...

WASHINGTON -- The countries that sign on to the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) will receive priority consideration for any future investment from American companies, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Tuesday. Raimondo also insisted that US businesses seeking to relocate out of China will look first look at those countries. "This is a perfect concrete example of the potenti...

South Korea's exports rose 21.3 percent in May from a year earlier on solid demand for chips and petroleum products, but they suffered a trade deficit due to high global energy prices, data showed Wednesday. Outbound shipments stood at $61.52 billion last month, up from $50.73 billion a year earlier, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. It is the highest...

WASHINGTON -- K-Pop sensation BTS visited the White House on Tuesday to talk with President Joe Biden about combating the rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans -- bringing superstar sizzle to an otherwise sad and scary topic. Band members J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin joined White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at her briefing with reporters on the final day of A...

South Koreans voted Wednesday to elect mayors, governors, local council members and regional education chiefs in nationwide local elections that could determine whether the newly inaugurated government of President Yoon Suk-yeol can powerfully push its agenda in its first years. Up for grabs in this year‘s local elections are 17 metropolitan mayoralties and provincial governorships, 226 lower-le...