News by subject: ASI

2021, a year that marks the beginning of China's new five-year plan period and the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is knocking at the door. What are Chinese President Xi Jinping's expectations for 2021, especially...

The first-ever online "Hong Kong New Year Countdown Celebrations", organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB), concluded successfully. On New Year's Eve, locals and people in different parts of the world joined the countdown and celebrated the...

Island Pacific Supermarket with locations in California and Nevada, is the first Filipino supermarket chain to offer online shopping with same day grocery delivery and curbside pickup in the United States. With 2020 coming to an end, Island Pacific...

Remark Holdings, Inc. , a diversified global technology company with leading artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions and digital media properties, today announced that one of the largest commercial banks in China chose KanKan AI to upgrade its 169...

To ensure the festive season feels unique and immersive, Hong Kong retailers, businesses and artists have tapped into technology to bring Christmas to the city like it's never been done before....

Global Art Advisor is delighted to present the 2020 GA Forum & Global Luxury Cultural Awards in New York on December 15, 2020. This awards ceremony and global forum was organized by Global Art and Real Estate Association of Asian, followed the...

International Process Plants and Equipment Corp. (IPP) and Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co. Ltd. (BCMC--a unit of ChemChina), announced today that they have completed commissioning of SR Chemical Group's brand new Chlor-Alkali production...

Xoom, PayPal's international digital money transfer service announced its integration with NPIL's/NPCI's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a real-time payment system facilitating inter-bank transactions in India. Non-Residential Indians (NRIs) and...

iQIYI Inc. ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, is pleased to announce that it has recently entered into agreements with TV networks in South Korea and Australia to broadcast the suspense...

The Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards announced on December 15, 2020 that Imelda's Secret, a new novel by award-winning author Liza Gino, is the winner in its women's interest category. This is the second award Gino received for the same novel. Two...

Global health and beauty e-commerce leader iHerb receives Great Place to Work® certification. iHerb is proud to announce that they...

On behalf of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), we thank the trainees, clinicians, and the public?particularly people with kidney diseases, kidney failure, and kidney transplants?for their ongoing...

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) today announced a $7 million commitment to five community organizations to help advance racial equity as well as Tribal identity and support student mental wellness in communities most impacted by COVID-19. The...

Findings on diversity and inclusion?and actionable solutions? address looming U.S. workforce issues in the "ALL Report" released on Amazon today. The report was driven by labor shortages that are expected to cause annual revenue losses of $1.75...

Consumers are facing an income crisis and are scrambling to generate income from their accumulated assets.  With low interest rates there are few places to look to generate protected lifetime income streams.  The most misunderstood and underutilized...

Hillsboro Aero Academy, a U.S.-based leading provider of helicopter and airplane pilot career training, announced today that it had received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to conduct professional airplane pilot training...

S&P 500 boards appointed 413 new independent directors in the 2020 proxy year. Of that number, 59% were women and minority men, tying the 2019 record for most diverse new independent directors, according to a new study by Spencer Stuart, one of the...

As businesses look for new ways to thrive in a changing world of work, ADP is building upon its award-winning people analytics solution, ADP DataCloud, to help them innovate for the future. Announced today, the solution's new features address some of...

Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC, a Realogy brand, announced 10 brokerages joined the brand as part of its Inclusive Ownership program in 2020. This industry-first franchise approach, first announced in February, was created as a way to increase...

On Monday, December 14, Brentwood School (BWS), a private K-12, kicked off a year-long diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative with an online keynote event. The project includes multiple segments: community forums; surveys of students,...

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announces the inaugural cohort of the Entrepreneurs Access Network (EAN), a business accelerator and comprehensive, executive-level educational program designed to elevate scalable Black and Latinx-owned companies...

Recently, All China Federation Of Industry And Commerce (Hereinafter as ACFIC) released a list of China's Top 500 Private Enterprises for 2020. Jiangsu Guoqiang Galvanization Industrial Company (Hereinafter as JSGQ) was again on this list for the...

As the 2015 Paris climate accord welcomes its fifth anniversary, more than 70 world leaders addressed a one-day virtual climate summit aiming to rally momentum and call for much greater climate action and ambition. ...

RnB Press has announced the new broad availability of Photographic Memories: A Story of Shinjitsu as a resource for teaching the story of both unjust internment and patriotic resolve of Japanese in the United States during World War II. "We are...

The first snowfalls across Canada signal the start of an age-old Canadian tradition: snowman-building. Today, those snowpeople are as diverse as the Canadians who create them - sticks, carrots and spare buttons are now seen alongside items like snow...

Bianca Trinidad, the founder, and owner has launched Filiflavors. Filiflavors is a Pinay-owned e-commerce site that sells packaged curated boxes filled with your favorite Filipino snacks, ingredients, and more. The e-commerce site initially launched...

ArisGlobal, the leading provider of life sciences software that automates core drug development functions for over 300 life sciences companies, today announced Suzhou Zelgen Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (Zelgen), an international pharmaceutical, has...

The Yuelai Design International Forum (YDIF) 2020 & Industrial Design Innovation Exhibition will be held at Yuelai International Exhibition City in the Liangjiang New Area on Dec. 8, according to a press conference of the organizing committee....

CARsgen Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced updated safety and efficacy results from its ongoing global clinical studies of CT053, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for patients with...

The already strained relations between China and Australia further worsened this week, as Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked for an apology from China after a Chinese diplomat tweeted an image that mocked Australia's recently exposed war...

China and US conflict, editing sphere loses and decrease of the economy. This was not what we had been expecting in 2020. Being the leader in the admissions editing sphere and working on the market since 1997, EssayEdge has felt the impact of...

Hidehisa Otsuji, chairman of the Parliamentary League for Animal Welfare, along with 10 members of the league, submitted a request letter to Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide in The Prime Minister's Official Residence, turning a historic page on animal...

Scholars at Risk, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting academic freedom, celebrates its 20th anniversary with the announcement of its 2020 Courage to Think award and the release of its annual Free to Think report. Both debuted at the group's virtual...

The explosion of new television platforms across broadcast, streaming and cable has led to an increase in on-screen representation of diverse identity groups, according to Nielsen's latest Diverse Intelligence Series report: Being Seen on Screen:...

Corporate leaders from Salesforce, Google, PayPal, VISA, BlackRock, Cisco, Adobe, Horizon Therapeutics, KPMG and others, all serving in their personal capacity, have volunteered to come together to support the work of the Asian University for Women...

The American Buddhist Study Center (ABSC) said today that its fundraising fine art virtual auction is open for bidding and that bidding will close at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6.  Titled "Illuminating Reflections," the auction features 25 pieces (ten...

SiriusXM and 88rising, the pioneering Asian-focused music and media company, announced today the launch of 88rising Radio, an all-Asian, multi-genre music channel available across North America. The channel...

SiriusXM and 88rising, the pioneering Asian-focused music and media company, announced today the launch of 88rising Radio, the first all-Asian, multi-genre music radio channel available across the U.S. The channel will debut tomorrow, December 3 at...

Eat Beyond Global Holdings Inc. ("Eat Beyond" or the "Company"), an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing the strategy behind its recent investments in Singapore food techs, SingCell Tx Pte...

Day One of Kaminski Auctions December sale features two important collections of Chinese and Asian antiques.  The first is from the estate of the acclaimed author on Chinese cultural traditions and textiles Beverly Jackson of Santa Barbara,...

The New York Buddhist Church (NYBC) is pleased to announce it will present a fundraising celebration of the New Year's season with an online series of demonstrations, workshops, readings, and performances, from Dec. 20 through Jan. 1.  Focusing on...

Taiwan Design Center (TDC) was upgraded to Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) in 2020. Not only has it gone through transformation of organizational structure and system, TDRI has also redesigned its logo and established the overall visual...

Serial Entrepreneur Andre Robinson is championing the success of minority businesses with the upcoming launch of his new platform, BuySellBlack. Touted as a 'Market for All', BuySellBlack platform is created for minority communities to support...

realme has proven itself once again to not only be a reliable smartphone brand but one that excels and pushes past limits as it hit the 50 million mark in sales, just 2 years since it was established. Not long after reaching this milestone,...

The Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival, organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB), goes ahead with an "online + offline" format for the first time to give audiences at home and abroad a new gastronomic experience not bound by time and geographical...

Korea International Trade Association (KITA) and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) announced that they have prepared the online exhibition of outstanding Made-In-Korea products on Tradekorea.com. This online platform is reaching out...

Korea International Trade Association (KITA) and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) announced that they have prepared an online exhibition of outstanding Made-In-Korea products on Tradekorea.com. This online platform is reaching out...

Automechanika Shanghai 2020 is just around the corner, and SONTIAN Automotive Motor System Co., Ltd. is on the verge of making the exhibition event one of the most glamorous ever recorded.  A peek into some of the intuitive innovations SONTIAN is...

Corporate board members and Wall Street are increasingly recognizing the need for a more diverse boardroom, not only to respond to public demand, but also to bring a fresh perspective to outdated corporate strategies. BoardProspects, an innovative...

Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership (MMAAP) Foundation announced its 2020 Research Project Awards in Senior Health (under the Irma and Paul Milstein Program for Senior Health) and Dermatology in Atopic Dermatitis. MMAAP Foundation's Research...