[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Tarena International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TEDU) (“Tarena” or the “Company”), a leading provider of professional education services in China, today announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Bank of China Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. (BOCCFC) to provide financing services for Tarena students. Pursuant to the agreement, BOCCFC will offer student loans to Tarena students to assist them in paying for tuition fees. BOCCFC, in addition to Bank of Beijing Consumer Finance Company and CreditEase, becomes another third-party financing institution that has formed a cooperativ
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today opened the Samsung Innovation Museum (S/I/M) dedicated to exploring the past, present and future of the electronics industry, located in Samsung Digital City in Suwon, Korea. Visitors to the museum can experience the rich history of electronics from the earliest electrical creations of Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison and Graham Bell, as well as glimpse into the future to learn about innovations to come. “The Samsung Innovation Museum brings together some of the true historical masterpieces of electronics innovation. These inventions laid
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]WTAS Global announces locations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Moscow through the recent addition of the Taxperience Group. Founded in 2005 by Managing Directors Ruben van Aarle, Ramon van Aarle and Sam Abbing, Taxperience provides tax advisory and consultancy to businesses in the Netherlands, Russia and Europe with a focus on corporate and international tax as well M&A issues. “The addition of Taxperience to WTAS Global is part of a natural progression. We have a long standing relationship with Taxperience. They are trusted colleagues and part of a very h
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION (TOKYO:6413)(President & C.E.O.: Akira Hayama) will conduct a worldwide successive launch of two high-end, high-speed digital duplicator series from May 2014. The new products are RISO ME Series, a digital duplicator equipped with two drums, and RISO SE Series, a digital duplicator equipped with one drum. RISO ME Series can print two colors in a single pass. The print setting can be switched between dual-color and mono-color printing with a single button press in accordance with customer needs. RISO SE Series incorporates a high-speed print mode. T
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Researchers from LG Electronics (LG) and Swiss university ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) have developed a method to greatly increase the speed and efficient transmission of gas, liquid and water vapor through perforated graphene, a material that has seen an explosion of scientific interest in recent years. The findings open up the possibility in the future to develop highly efficient filters to treat air and water. Graphene, a versatile material composed of a one-atom thick layer of graphite, is the thinnest, lightest and strongest compound curr
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Toshiba Corporation (http://goo.gl/p8j1Ek) (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it will launch the world’s fastest[1] microSD memory cards, compliant with UHS-II[2], the ultra high speed serial bus interface defined in SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 4.20. Sample shipments for set manufacturers of smartphones and other mobile devices, and for chipset vendors, start today. The new microSD memory cards will be available in 32GB and 64GB capacities. The maximum read speed of 260 MB per second[3] and the maximum write speed of 240MB per second in the 32 GB cards and the maximum rea
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yoook]Gunvor Group Ltd (“Gunvor”) today released its full year 2013 results, ending 31 December 2013. For the year, Gunvor's EBITDA increased by 25% to US $719 mil., up from US $575 mil. the year prior. This represents an average 28% increase in EBITDA year-on-year for the last three years. Net profit for 2013 also increased year-on-year to US $308 million, up from US $301 million in 2012. It was impacted by depreciation and some exceptional items related to acquisitions. These results came on revenue of US $91 billion, which was a slight decrease from US $93 billion the year
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Incheon Business Agency (http://www.iba.or.kr, CEO: Gyung-Hwan Choi) successfully completed ‘Cuore del Design Incheon Korea’ held in Milan, Italy. Manager of ‘Cuore del Design Incheon Korea’ said, “More than 1,000 visitors visited the exhibition per day, and a large number of visitors showed deep interest asking questions about features and development processes of products as they viewed outcomes of symbiotic collaboration between public organizations and private companies. Incheon successfully launched an affirmative flare as an international design city.” The organizer