VIDEO RELEASED ON LAKE BIWA AND OTHER FAMOUS SPOTS IN JAPAN'S SHIGA PREFECTURE, SHOWN IN SEVEN RAINBOW COLORS FOR FIRST TIME: RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO AND PURPLE

OTSU, Japan, March 2 (Bernama) -- The Biwako Visitors Bureau, located in Shiga Prefecture, which forms part of the Kansai region in the western part of Japan's main island, has released a video titled "Rainbow-Colored, Beautiful SHIGA: Shiga - Biwako." (Biwako or Lake Biwa is the largest freshwater lake in Japan.)

Various locations from around Shiga have been put together in this video to depict a day full of color. Many famous spots appear in the video, ranging from the sight of Shirahige Shrine painted red by the setting sun to the blanket of green lotus leaves in Kohoku Mizudori Park. The video shows these wonderfully picturesque Shiga locations in vivid, rainbow colors.

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PANASONIC TO EXPAND WIRING DEVICES AND CIRCUIT BREAKERS PRODUCTION FACTORY IN VIETNAM

Aiming to double the production capacity of wiring devices and circuit breakers in FY2020

 

BINH DUONG, Vietnam, Feb 28 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Panasonic Corporation today announced that it will expand its wiring devices and circuit breakers factory of Panasonic Eco Solutions Vietnam Co., Ltd. (PESVN), located in Binh Duong Province of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. An additional factory building will be constructed adjacent to the existing factory to enhance its responsiveness to the rapid increase in demand for wiring devices and circuit breakers in Vietnam in the recent years. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on February 25^th. Takashi Ogasawara, Power Components Business Unit Director, Energy Systems Business Division, Eco Solutions Company in Panasonic Corporation, and Takashi Ogura, General Director of Panasonic Eco Solutions Vietnam Co., Ltd. attended the event.

The Vietnamese plant launched full-scale production in November 2014 as a new manufacturing site for wiring devices and circuit breakers in Southeast Asia, following the ones in Thailand and Indonesia. The new factory will be built on a 3,000-square-meter area adjacent to the existing factory to substantially expand the production capacity of wiring devices and circuit breakers. Currently, the existing factory produces approx. 53 million wiring devices and approx. 13 million circuit breakers annually. With an additional factory, the plant aims to double its production capacity in FY2020. There are also plans to explore the purchase of an area of approx. 18,000 square meters adjacent to the current factory premises to add to the factory in the future in order to address any further increase in demand.

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ULLINK ADDS FULL MIFID2 SUPPORT WITH UL APPIA 8 RELEASE

Leading FIX engine extended with support for MiFID2-compliant timestamps and FIX tags

LONDON, March 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, today announced a new release of its leading FIX engine, UL APPIA. Version 8 of UL APPIA adds support for generation and processing of microsecond granularity timestamps and new FIX tags, recently ratified by the FIX Trading Community, which must be sent along with electronic orders to support MiFID2 trade and transaction reporting requirements.

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SUNDANCE ENERGY AUSTRALIA LIMITED ANNOUNCES SALE OF ANADARKO BASIN ASSETS

DENVER, March 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sundance Energy Australia Limited (ASX:SEA) (NASDAQ:SNDE) (“Sundance” or the “Company”), a U.S. onshore oil and gas exploration and production company focused in the Eagle Ford in South Texas, is pleased to announce the divestiture of its assets located in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma for a sale price of US$18,500,000. The Company’s Anadarko Basin assets include approximately 18,500 net acres and 68 gross (29.3 net) operated and non-operated producing wells. The Company’s previously released production guidance for 2017 reflected this anticipated divestiture. The assets being sold include all of the Oklahoma wells and acreage owned by the Company. 

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CHANGE MAKERS: 2 IN 5 ALUMNI CURRENTLY WORK IN AN INDUSTRY THEY HADN'T CONSIDERED PRIOR TO ENROLLMENT

New Study Shows Graduate Business Programs Inspire New Career Pathways

RESTON, Va., Feb 28 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- More than half of graduate business school alumni are currently employed in an industry or job function they did not have experience in prior to entering business school, according to a report released today by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a nonprofit organization of leading graduate business schools. Findings from the Council’s 2017 Alumni Perspectives Survey show that 2 in 5 (39 percent) alumni currently work in an industry they hadn’t considered prior to starting business school; they learned of the opportunity while enrolled in a graduate business program, with 88 percent sharing that they are satisfied with their job and employer.

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NEURALSTEM ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF NSI-189 PRECLINICAL DATA IN JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

-NSI-189 Showed Durable Functional Recovery in a Rodent Model of Ischemic Stroke-

-NSI-189 Promoted Synaptic Remodeling After Stroke-

GERMANTOWN, Md., March 1 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neuralstem, Inc. (Nasdaq:CUR), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of nervous system therapies based on its neural stem cell technology, announced the recent publication of preclinical data on NSI-189 in Journal of Cellular Physiology.  The study demonstrated that NSI-189 improved behavioral function recovery and enhanced hippocampal synaptic plasticity in stroke-induced animals during the 12-week treatment period, which was maintained up to 24 weeks post-stroke.

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A.M. BEST REVISES OUTLOOKS TO NEGATIVE FOR TUGU INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

HONG KONG, Feb 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "bbb" of Tugu Insurance Company Limited (TIC) (Hong Kong). TIC is owned by PT Tugu Pratama Indonesia (TPI).

The negative outlooks reflect TIC's limited business profile, poor and increasingly volatile underwriting performance and negative operating cash flows.

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