KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) will host Medical Korea 2023 - The 13th Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference at Coex in Seoul from March 23 to 24.
Medical Korea 2023, one of the largest global healthcare conferences in Korea with the aim of the globalisation of the Korean healthcare industry, will be held as a large-scale offline event, the first time in three years after the COVID-19 outbreak. According to a statement, the KHIDI has designated ‘Endemic’, ‘Telemedicine’, ‘Personal Health Record’, ‘Medical Tourism’ and ‘Digital Therapeutics (DTx)’ as the top five keywords for global healthcare trends in 2023. The conference begins with keynote lectures by technology and healthcare futurist, Jamie Metzl; and Kakao Healthcare Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Hwang Hee. The lectures consist of four forums and six seminars covering various topics such as medical tourism trends, online training, personal health record, digital healthcare and scale-up strategies for regional global healthcare business, in attendance of 65 speakers. The invited speakers include Mohd Daud Mohd Arif (Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council CEO), Hiang Khoon Tan (SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute Director), and Kim Ju Han (Seoul National University College of Medicine Professor). Various programmes such as business meetings, exhibition and Government to Government (G2G) meetings are in place to promote the discovery of channels to attract new customers via exchanges between overseas buyers and domestic sellers, and the expansion into the overseas markets by the health industry. In the forums, participants can explore the latest trends in the global healthcare industry and opportunities for health care cooperation through medical tourism policies, as well as predict changes and innovations in health care caused by the spread of My Data. For more information on the conference at www.mkconf.org. -- BERNAMA
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ZHENGZHOU, China, March 29 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- On the morning of March 27, the Organizing Committee of Memorial Ceremony to Ancestor Huang Di in his Native Place held a press conference in Beijing, announcing that the Memorial Ceremony to Ancestor Huang Di in his Native Place will be held on April 22, 2023 in Xinzheng, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Online and overseas memorial ceremonies will be held at the same time.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230328005545/en/ The theme of the Memorial Ceremony to Ancestor Huang Di in his Native Place in the year of Guimao (2023) was "Peace, Concord and Harmony with the Same Root, the Same Ancestor and the Same Origin". The agenda of the ceremony included nine items recognized as national intangible cultural heritage projects announced by the State Council of China: gun salute in the grand era, dedication of flower baskets, offering incense with cleansed hands, worshipping rituals, reading of the worship texts, singing the chant, worshipping with music and dance, praying for the blessing of China, and harmony between heaven and earth. At that time, the CCTV-4 of China Media Group, Phoenix Satellite Television and key network platforms at home and abroad carried out the live global broadcast. This year is the first full opening of the park of Huang Di’s native place after planning and upgrading. The broadcasting of memorial ceremony will be the first time to present a panoramic view of the construction of the scenic area of Huang Di’s native place, which is a major highlight of the ceremony that is different from previous years. Before the start of the nine agendas of memorial ceremony, there will be a simple, rustic and solemn park opening ceremony in front of the Root-searching Gate of Huang Di’s native place, highlighting our reverence for our humanistic founder - Huang Di. Since the launch of online ancestral memorial ceremony in 2020, the global Chinese have made paying homage to Xuanyuan through the Internet an important feature of the ancestral worship ceremony of Huang Di’s native place. The online ancestral memorial ceremony despite of differences in geography and time has not only drawn much interactive participation, but also attract more and more young people to pay attention to and participate in the ancestral memorial ceremony. This year, the online ancestral memorial ceremony has been comprehensively upgraded according to the requirements of the Grand Ceremony, combining with new technologies. The online ancestral memorial platform standardizes the rituals and etiquette, maintains consistency between online and offline ancestral worship, strives to expand on contextualization, immersion, visualization and interaction, amplifying the effect of network communication and stimulating the powerful synergy of global Chinese praying for China. The platform aims to build "a national important site in the inheritance and innovation base of Chinese historical civilization", "a place for the children of Yanhuang to find their roots, a place for pilgrimage of Chinese culture, a place for experience of Chinese civilization, and a place for practice of Chinese national education". The demonstration of the cultural brand is based on the theme of "Tour in Henan·Reading China", highlighting the charm of "root" and "soul" of the culture of Huang Di, our humanistic founder. At the technical level, it uses technologies such as metaverse and XR (mixed reality) to launch XR light show, AI virtual technology videos, cultural IP, SVG special effects, interactive games and other products to integrate multi-dimensional communication as well as enhance the attractiveness and influence of the ceremony. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230328005545/en/ Contact Zhang Yi Tel.: 0086-371-67182663 E-mail: [email protected] Source : Memorial Ceremony to Ancestor Huang Di --BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 (Bernama) -- Environmental restoration disruptor, AirSeed Technologies has announced its partnership with leading impact investment manager Conscious Investment Management (CIM) establishing a carbon sequestration fund of up to AU$200 million. (AU$1=RM2.94) According to a statement, AirSeed and CIM expect the restoration and carbon sequestration projects to generate meaningful upfront revenue to AirSeed over the next five years in service provider revenue to conduct planting. This is AirSeed's first large-scale contract with a leading impact investment manager and will be key to creating one of the largest carbon sequestration funds of its kind. It validates the company’s value proposition for large-scale application of its hyper productive planting solution. To support this, AirSeed is launching its Series A capital raise to provide additional funds to execute this milestone contract and scale the business to maximise on this transformative opportunity. “Securing an agreement to work with CIM as it establishes one of the largest carbon sequestration funds of this type is important validation of our value proposition for large-scale application of our solution and brings us significantly closer to our 100 million planting goal by 2024. “Launching our Series A funding round will drive AirSeed's delivery of this massive opportunity and continue the transformation of our business to meet the rapidly growing appetite for reforestation and replanting opportunities at the scale necessary to help shift the dial on climate change,” said its Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Andrew Walker. Meanwhile, CIM's Partner Alex Debney said: “We are delighted to welcome AirSeed as a new impact partner in the environmental sector. We look forward to delivering carbon sequestration and native Australian reforestation at institutional scale by working closely with AirSeed.” AirSeed has also confirmed highly respected climate transition and business specialist Mara Bún as the latest addition to the Board. With a long track record in climate, nature and impact campaigns and solutions, Bún is Chair of Australian Impact Investments and a non-executive Director of Australian Ethical Investments and GreenCollar, Australia's largest environmental markets investor. AirSeed is on track to achieve 100 million pods planted by 2024. Pilot projects already underway in Australia across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland covering more than 650 hectares and include one of the largest environmental planting to date in Australia. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Chiba Prefecture offers various ways to enjoy "hanami" or cherry blossom viewing for tourists visiting Japan during the cherry blossoms season.
Narita International Airport, which is conveniently located in Chiba for overseas visitors to explore the surrounding areas, is one of the unique cherry blossom viewing spots, according to Chiba Prefectural Government in a statement. Cherry blossoms, known as "sakura" in Japanese, bloom for about one to two weeks from late March to early April in Chiba. There are three unique sakura spots enabling foreign tourists to embark on cherry blossom adventures namely, Sakura-no-Yama Park, Mobara Park and Kominato Railway. At Sakura-no-Yama Park, visitors can enjoy close-up views of aeroplanes taking off from and landing at Narita International Airport, best enjoyed lounging under the trees with favourite snacks and drinks. To explore beyond urban Tokyo on a cherry blossom hunt, Mobara Park is a place to go. The park is dotted with 2,850 cherry trees, which is on Japan's TOP-100 CHERRY BLOSSOM SPOTS list published by the Japan Cherry Blossom Association. The red-coloured "Benten Bridge" over the pond in the middle of the park, surrounded by pink and white cherry blossoms, offers a great photo opportunity, and visitors can enjoy picnicking and strolling in the park. Additionally, taking a ride on the Kominato Railway is like a trip through a countryside dream, whereby this local, diesel-powered line connects Ichihara City and Otaki Town and features commanding views along the way. In spring, "nanohana" (canola) flowers and cherry blossoms are in full view along the railway line. Itabu Station is a popular sightseeing spot for heavily photographed cherry trees and visitors are recommended to start at JR Goi Station for the Kominato Line's first stop for a leisurely journey through Chiba's picturesque spring. -- BERNAMA KAWASAKI, Japan and SINGAPORE, Mar. 28, 2023 /Kyodo JBN/ --
CHITOSE Group (hereinafter "CHITOSE"), an entity formed by biotechnology startups managed by CHITOSE BIO EVOLUTION PTE. LTD. based in Japan and Singapore, announced on March 28 that the construction of a 5-hectare microalgae production facility called "CHITOSE Carbon Capture Central (hereinafter 'C4')" was completed and the production of microalgae has been started in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. CHITOSE plans to establish the stable, continuous, and large-scale production of microalgae. CHITOSE's production technology aims at proceeding with the development of applications for a wide range of industrial materials, including fuels and plastics. This project is funded by the Japanese government-funded New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) (*1). Photo1: C4's facility: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/ M107621/202303174016/_prw_PI1fl_ZXcgff2s.jpg Long version (2:45): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRtqAb07K-0 Short version (0:40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5l0LaaC7k8 CHITOSE aims for zero carbon emission through the photoautotrophic microalgae production and through the MATSURI (meaning "festival" in Japanese) project, which is designed to establish a microalgae-based industry replacing the petroleum-based industry (*2). At the same time, CHITOSE aims at developing diverse products used in daily life from microalgae, including fuels, plastics, foods and toiletry, in collaboration with its business partners. C4 is expected to demonstrate the efficient and scalable production of microalgal biomass (utilizing photobioreactor technologies). At C4, gas exhausted from a neighboring coal-fired power plant is used as a carbon source, and the produced microalgal biomass will be used for sustainable production of SAF and other products. C4 is expected to produce 350 dry tons of microalgal biomass per year, fixing 700 tons of CO2 per year. Towards 2030, CHITOSE is planning to expand the production to 2,000 ha and is currently in the process of raising funds for this plan. In algae production on a scale of 2,000 ha, approximately 140,000 dry tons of microalgal dry-biomass per year will be produced, and the production cost will be less than USD2.5 per kg biomass. Hence, the produced microalgal biomass will be used as a raw material for various products. Further, CHITOSE is aiming to expand the production to over 10,000,000 ha, which is approximately 1/20 of the world's maize-harvested area and will produce 700 million dry tons of microalgal biomass annually. The production cost will potentially fall to less than USD0.5 per kg biomass. CHITOSE will continue to promote zero carbon emission and realize a sustainable society. Notes: (*1) Adopted as a Green Innovation Fund project for development of bio-jet fuel production technology, development of microalgae base technology, and R&D of power plant exhaust gas and Flexible plastic film-type photos under the outdoor environment of tropical climate (*2) Autotrophic and heterotrophic production In autotrophic production based on photosynthesis, sunlight and inorganic carbon, CO2, are used as energy and carbon sources, respectively. Autotrophic production, therefore, is considered as sustainable energy/material production. In heterotrophic production, organic compounds such as sugars are used as both energy and carbon sources. Although the system is able to offer stable production, it is considered as a CO2-emitting conversion process. - C4's grand opening Date: 9:00-10:00, Tuesday, April 4, 2023 Venue: C4 in Kuching, Sarawak State, Malaysia Outline: C4-opening ceremony to be attended by government officials from Sarawak State and Japan; C4 site tour also to be organized by CHITOSE - C4-launching ceremony Date: 10:30-13:30, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Venue: C4 in Kuching, Sarawak State, Malaysia Outline: C4-launching ceremony with the Premier of Sarawak, local partners and MATSURI partners from Japan and a networking event and a C4 site tour organized by CHITOSE Related press release: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/attach/202303174016-O1-yVaKx2NF.pdf About MATSURI The MATSURI project aims towards the establishment of an advanced microalgae-based industry. CHITOSE has considerable expertise in large-scale microalgae production technologies, and is leading the MATSURI project collaborating with Japanese progressive enterprises. As what MATSURI means in Japanese, CHITOSE keeps leading a festival to develop a sustainable society. Photo2: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/ M107621/202303174016/_prw_PI2fl_Qey2HEwS.jpg https://matsuri.chitose-bio.com/ MATSURI Gallery: https://matsuri.chitose-bio.com/pages/gallery About CHITOSE Group CHITOSE Group is a family of biotechnology companies leading the global bioeconomy. To live in abundance beyond the next millennium using the ability of living things, CHITOSE pursues the possibilities of biotechnology through technological and business development collaborating with its business partners all over the world. https://chitose-bio.com/ About CHITOSE BIO EVOLUTION PTE. LTD. (head office that oversees entire Group) Established in October, 2011 Head Office located in Singapore CEO: Tomohiro FUJITA, Ph. D. About CHITOSE Laboratory Corp. (responsible for the project) Established in November, 2002 Head Office located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan CEO: Tomohiro FUJITA, Ph. D. COO: Rie KUGIMIYA Source: CHITOSE Group (CHITOSE BIO EVOLUTION PTE. LTD.) --BERNAMA |
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