Over 100 world's' top gerontech solutions and launch of inaugural SUSS Geronpreneurship Innovation Festival to promote successful ageing along Singapore's International Ageing Week SINGAPORE, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ Ageing Asia 2023 - The World Ageing Festival (14th Edition) is co-organised for the first time with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), featuring the inaugural Geronpreneurship Innovation Festival, with 2,000 global industry leaders from 21 countries and 3,000 seniors expected to attend. This business and academia collaboration sends a strong signal of confidence for the growth of Singapore's silver economy, opening the doors for cross-sector and public-private partnerships to build a strong and robust ageing ecosystem for the future of ageing. By 2025, the Asia Pacific ageing market is projected at US$4.56 trillion. Top sectors that will lead the growth include technology innovations for health and wellbeing, assisted living, manpower and
The OPEC+ oil producers alliance that includes Russia kept output unchanged at its last meeting on Dec. 4 as markets struggle to assess the impact of a G7 price cap on Russian oil and a slowing Chinese economy. "The People's Republic of China welcomed the Kingdom’s role as a supporter of the balance and stability in the world oil markets, and as a reliable major exporter of crude oil to China," the joint statement carried on Saudi state media said.
FIRST DELIVERY. The Philippines' first Covid-19 vaccines are 600,000 doses of Sinovac donated by China on Feb. 28, 2021. The following day, the country began its nationwide inoculation program, initially vaccinating front-line medical workers. (PNA file photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The Philippines' continued partnership with China will help the country succeed in the fight against the prevailing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said Friday. During the formal ceremony for the second batch of laureates of the Award for Promoting Philippines-China Understanding (APPCU) at Dusit Thani Manila in Makati City, Marcos acknowledged China as the Philippines' "strongest" partner and a "good friend". Marcos emphasized the need to maintain the Philippines' good relations with its allies to ensure the country's solid recovery from pandemic shock. "Certainly in the Philippines, we can
MANILA - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a project to make cross-border securities transactions in Asia and the Pacific more efficient and secure through the use of blockchain technology. Working with leading blockchain companies, ADB will seek to develop ways to directly connect central banks and securities depositories in the Asean+3 region within a blockchain network. The region consists of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) plus Japan, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea. Directly connecting the institutions within a blockchain network could reduce both transaction costs and settlement risks -the possibility that securities are not exchanged within an agreed timeframe. Cross-border securities transactions in the Asean+3 region are currently processed through a global network of custodians and correspondent banks, which go through global centers in either the United States or Europe. As a result, intraregional transaction settl