SINGAPORE, NEW YORK and JAKARTA, Indonesia , March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PT Nirvana Wastu Pratama (" NWP Property "), Indonesia's largest and fastest-growing New Economy enabled consumer infrastructure platform co-founded by Warburg-Pincus and led by its CEO Timothy Daly , CRE Asia Pte. Ltd. (" CRE Asia "), a consolidated subsidiary of CRE, Inc., led by its president Tadahi...

Future Digital Awards for Best Steering of Roaming, Best SMS Firewall, and Judges Choice for Excellence in Telco Innovation CUPERTINO, Calif. , March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobileum Inc. ("Mobileum"), a leading global provider of analytics solutions for roaming and network services, security, risk management, testing and service assurance, and subscriber intelligence, is pleased to announce...

Recognizing those who have empowered and bettered the lives of girls and women through STEM education TOKYO , March 22 , 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clé de Peau Beauté, the luxury skincare and makeup brand, is proud to announce the recipient of the fourth 'Power of Radiance Awards', Amanda Simandjuntak from Jakarta, Indonesia , an exceptional woman who has dedicated herself to empowering girls w...

South Korea's antitrust regulator said Tuesday it has decided to approve a deal by Korea Seven Co., the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, to buy its smaller rival Ministop Korea Co. In January, the country's retail giant Lotte inked a deal to acquire a 100 percent stake in Ministop Korea for 313.3 billion won ($257 million). Korea Seven, an affiliate of Lotte, eventually bought Ministop K...

The last time South Korea defeated Iran in men's football was so long ago that Son Heung-min, the current national team captain and a transcendent star, was a raw 18-year-old who remained glued to the bench. Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo, two legends of the game long since retired, played the entire 120 minutes, as the teams needed an extra 30 minutes to determine the winner. The 1-0 South Kore...

About 58 percent of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 33 percent support the idea, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the poll of 1,018 adults, conducted by pollster Mediatomato on Saturday and Sunday, 58.1 percent said the presidential office should remain at Cheong Wa Dae and 33.1 percent said they b...

Six out of 10 South Korean companies want the incoming government of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol to focus on creating jobs to support the economic recovery, a survey showed. Of 157 local companies, 95, or 60.5 percent, picked job creation as the top policy priority for the new government, according to the Mono Research poll commissioned by the Federation of Korean Industries, the country's t...

South Korea is set to hold a ceremony launching a new 2,800-ton frigate with enhanced anti-submarine capabilities Tuesday, the state arms procurement agency said. The ceremony for the Chuncheon will take place at the shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. in Ulsan, some 410 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). Some 50 people, inclu...

South Korea's new COVID-19 cases spiked to over 350,000 on Tuesday, adding to concerns that infections could spike again as the accumulated caseload nears 10 million. The country reported 353,980 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight, raising the total caseload to 9,936,540, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The total caseload is expected to breach the grim milestone...

Seoul shares opened higher Tuesday on institutional and individual buying amid uncertainties involving the Ukraine-Russia peace talks and US interest rate hikes. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 5.71 points, or 0.21 percent, to trade at 2,691.76 points as of 9:15 a.m. Institutions and individuals' stock purchases worth 89.7 billion won ($74 million) helped offset 90 billion ...

- In Paris on March 22, 2022 , Petale Group, a European Fintech firm, is launching a global first: a pioneering approach to innovative financial services combining Web 3.0, digital finance and traditional asset management PARIS , March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- By introducing a first digital investment fund, a stable digital asset and an investment and payment application, Petale is position...

By Park Yuna (yunapark@heraldcorp.com)

A PKM Gallery, another prominent Seoul gallery, showed works by Yun Hyong-keun (1928-2007), Korea’s leading figure in dansaekhwa art movement. A small paintings by the artist, about 50 to 60 centimeters in height, was snapped up right away by a young buyer at about 100 million won. At the fair, PKM sold two small works by Yun. “The paintings are rare works by the artists in terms of their size,”...

About CapitaLand Investment Limited (International) ( www.capitalandinvest.com ) Headquartered and listed in Singapore , CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) is a leading global real estate investment manager (REIM) with a strong Asia foothold. As at 31 December 2021 , CLI had about S$122.9 billion of real estate assets under management, and about S$86.2 billion of real estate funds u...

Innovation contributes to reducing application backlog in Latin America's biggest economy by 80% COLUMBUS, Ohio , March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, recently completed a major project with The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) of Brazil to implement an enhanced examination workflow solution for chemistry patent applications usin...