BEIJING , June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rongcheng City is China's largest kelp cultivation hub, with the cultivation area reaching 10,000 hectares. Photo shows fishermen harvesting kelp in Rongcheng, east China's Shandong Province. The annual production of Rongcheng's kelp accounts for 80 percent of the total output of Shandong Province , more than 40 percent of China's total. Original...

From Fashion Shows to Fine Dining, The Spirit of Revelry Shines with Celebratory Offerings for Luminaries and Tastemakers in the Glamorous Traditions of The House of Astor HONG KONG , June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Regis Hotels & Resorts in Asia Pacific is inviting guests to its "House of Celebration", inspiring guests to relive the timeless and storied festivities of the Astors, the ic...

BANGKOK , June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NEXTDC Limited (ASX:NXT), Australia's leading data centre as a service provider has announced its entry into the Malaysian market with its first data centre development in Kuala Lumpur (KL1), a new, world-class data centre facility right in the heart of the Klang Valley metropolitan region, the cultural, financial, and economic centre of Malaysia . ...

BEIJING , June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- During the 31st China International Information and Communications Exhibition (PT Expo) on June 5th , Hengtong Optic-Electric held the Hengtong Optic-Electric New Product and Global ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Report Release Conference for 2023. The event marked the official release of the "2022 Hengtong Optic-Electric ESG Report." This ...

SINGAPORE , June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yang Bing , the Chief Executive Officer of OceanBase, attended a panel discussion at ATxSummit in Singapore this week and emphasized the importance of openness, reliability, and accessibility for the future development of the technology industry. OceanBase, an Ant Group company, is a distributed relational database provider that serves over 400 cust...

QINGDAO, China , June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hisense, the leading consumer electronics and home appliances company, is delighted to announce its official partnership with the Nations League Finals 2023. The sponsorship will be the third time Hisense has been a partner of the finals and comes in the wake of new sales figures that indicate Hisense's comprehensive sports marketing strategy to be...

ISTANBUL (AFP) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed former Wall Street executive Hafize Gaye Erkan as central bank governor on Friday, signalling a possible shift from his unconventional policies to fight soaring inflation. Erkan -- a former chief executive of US real estate finance firm Greystone, co-CEO of First Republic Bank and managing director at Goldman Sachs -- will be the...

The National Election Commission (NEC) decided Friday to accept the state auditor's inspection into a hiring corruption scandal involving high-ranking officials. The election watchdog initially refused to comply with an inspection by the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) last week, citing its status as an independent agency. But the commission reversed its position amid grown criticism from th...

President Yoon Suk Yeol and OpenAI Chief Sam Altman engaged in an hour-long conversation at the presidential office in Seoul on Friday, discussing various aspects of artificial intelligence, including the trajectory of AI development, potential risks, solutions, and collaboration opportunities between the US firm and Korean startups. "ChatGPT fever is spreading worldwide,” Yoon told Altman durin...

The K-Agricultural and Fishing Villages fair also kicks off on the sidelines of the event., and will be held for the same period in the same location. The fair has chosen 300 booths from 80 government agencies and companies this year, with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, the Rural Development Administration, and the Korea Forest...

Stray Kids sold more than 4.61 million copies of its third full-length album, breaking K-pop records for the first of week sales, said label JYP Entertainment Friday. This dethrones Seventeen whose 10th EP “FML” logged 4.55 million in April. The eight-piece act’s LP “Five-Star” sold over 5.13 million units in pre-orders, raising expectations for a mega hit. Its previous album, EP “Maxident,” fr...

South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy, Kim Gunn, and his US counterpart, Sung Kim, will meet in Washington on Monday to review joint work on disarming North Korea, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said in a statement Friday, amid heightened inter-Korean tensions. Last week, Pyongyang failed to put into orbit what it claimed was a military reconnaissance satellite, a launch that some believe was actuall...

Kim Tae-hyo, President Yoon’s deputy national security adviser, reaffirmed the country’s push to prioritize diplomacy with countries that value freedom -- the administration’s signature foreign policy that has essentially put the country in a US-led coalition against China and Russia. At a forum Friday to mark Yoon’s first anniversary of taking office in May 2022, Kim described freedom as a “cor...