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KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — ‘A Bite of Dongguan’ documentary was recently broadcast on the Internet in China, presenting more than 130 kinds of Dongguan’s local ingredients and dishes.

According to a statement, the documentary was planned by the Information Office of Dongguan Municipality, and produced by China’s top food and cultural documentary team. 

Demonstrating the human interest of the ‘world factory’, it has received nearly 100 million reviews and obtained widespread attention.

Through a series of lively characters and stories, it reveals the diverse food culture of the manufacturing city, displays the well-kept tradition during the city’s fast development and shows local people’s attitude for life.

‘A Bite of Dongguan’ is inspired by the city itself, and the people filmed in the documentary. People living in the city, whether local or otherwise, have given Dongguan cuisine new features as being traditional, easy-going, embracing and pragmatic. 

The documentary allows locals to find their identity. It also functions as a communication platform for Dongguan to improve city image through local cuisine

Now, ‘A Bite of Dongguan’ has begun to be released overseas. It is hoped more people in the world will fall in love with Chinese cuisine and understand Dongguan, via its food.

— BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — The theme song of the 6th Asian Beach Games, as well as the slogan, nicknames, emblem and theme song of volunteers were released in Sanya, China recently.

Theme song lyricist, Zheng Hai said the song quoted the English slogan of the Games, ‘See ya in Sanya’, highlighting international elements and extending sincere invitations to athletes and tourists worldwide.

“The melody of the song is very consistent with Hainan’s geographical features, which reminds people of the spectacular ebb and flow of the sea,” said theme song singer, Chen Chusheng in a statement.

On the other hand, the volunteers’ slogan is ‘Meet in ABG, Bring Love to the World’, which implies that the ABG brings volunteers from all walks of life together in Sanya.

The nicknames of volunteers are ‘Deer Brother’ and ‘Deer Sister’, which not only include the Hainan Eld’s deer, which is the prototype of the ABG mascot, ‘Yaya’, but also incorporate the distinctive local dialect ‘Age’ (brother) and ‘Amei’ (sister).

The volunteers’ emblem, based on ABG’s emblem, is designed with an additional ‘loving heart’, which echoes the volunteers’ slogan and conveys the volunteers’ perception of ‘loving the ABG’.

The theme song of volunteers, entitled ‘Meet with You and Warm You Up’, is created in the style of a lyric pop song, promoting ‘Dedication, Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Progress’, vividly showing the demeanour of ABG’s volunteers.

— BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 — Mary Kay Inc has expanded its partnership with The Nature Conservancy to impact waterways and native species worldwide.

According to a statement, last year, Mary Kay had partnered with the conservation organisation to protect Texas fisheries and the Gulf of Mexico.

Beyond the Texas fisheries programme, Mary Kay will also support The Nature Conservancy’s programmes in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, China, General Ocean, Solomon Islands, Colombia, Canada and Europe.

In Northern Australia, Mary Kay will partner with indigenous communities to increase women’s role in conservation, including establishing a women’s camp at Fish River Station, a 445,000-acre property in the Northern Territory.

While in New Zealand, Mary Kay and The Nature Conservancy will engage with indigenous people in sustainable aquaculture, including supporting the implementation of restorative activities in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf to restore wild shellfish populations.

In the United Kingdom and Germany, the partnership will work to protect biodiversity and marine resources as they introduce the native European oyster. In Spain, they will work to create a water fund.

Mary Kay also sponsored EarthxOcean conference, bringing experts, researchers and conservations in a livestream to discuss topics such as the High Seas Initiative, coral reef restoration, ocean plastic solutions and sustainable fisheries.

— BERNAMA

GUANGZHOU, China, July 16 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — LintonPharm Co. Ltd., a China-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of T-cell engaging bispecific antibodies for cancer immunotherapy, today announced the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) authorized the company to proceed with a Phase III trial (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT04222114) for catumaxomab in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis, a form of advanced gastric cancer that has spread to the tissue that lines the abdominal cavity.

The two-stage, multi-center, open-label, randomized, controlled registrational clinical trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of an intraperitoneal infusion of the bi-specific antibody catumaxomab into the abdominal cavity in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis. LintonPharm also recently received Clinical Trial Application (CTA) authorization for the same indication from the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and the Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS).

“We are excited to re-initiate clinical development of catumaxomab which we believe may have benefit in a broad range of cancers,” said Robert Li, co-founder and CEO of LintonPharm. “Our initial development strategy is based on a robust foundation of clinical data that support the therapeutic potential of catumaxomab in advanced gastric cancer.”

Catumaxomab was the first T-cell engaging bispecific antibody approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in 2009 for the treatment of malignant ascites, a fluid buildup in the peritoneal cavity that indicates the presence of malignant cells. It was later voluntarily withdrawn from the market for commercial reasons.

“Gastric cancer is the sixth most common cancer globally. Approximately 70 percent of patients are located in China and the majority of these patients are diagnosed with late stage disease. Given this high unmet need, we are hopeful that catumaxomab will offer a new treatment option to gastric patients,” said Dr. Horst Lindhofer, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of LintonPharm.

About Advanced Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

Gastric cancer is the sixth most common cancer globally with an estimated incidence of 1,033,701 cases and 782,685 deaths in 2018.¹About 70 percent of gastric cancer patients are located in China, with 679,100 new cases and 489,000 deaths² in 2015. More than 70 percent of Chinese patients are diagnosed with late stage (stage III or IV) gastric cancer. Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is one of the primary causes of death in late stage gastric cancer. Approximately 20 percent of patients are diagnosed with PC before or during surgery, and more than 50 percent of patients are diagnosed with PC after cancer reduction surgery. The prognosis for gastric cancer with PC is extremely poor, with an expected survival of less than one year³. Current therapies for gastric cancer include trastuzumab for Her2 positive patients and systemic chemotherapies (1^st line and 2^nd line). There are limited options for patients who fail frontline therapies, especially for those who developed PC.

About Catumaxomab

Catumaxomab is a trifunctional bispecific antibody which originated from Lindis Biotech’s Triomab platform. The antibody binds to a transmembrane glycoprotein on the tumor cell–the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM)–and CD3 on the T-cell, and also recruits immune accessory cells through FcγR binding. Catumaxomab kills tumor cells by engaging T-cell and accessory cell mediated cytotoxicity and has potential to induce long-term vaccinal effects against tumor cells due to the unique FcγR binding and activation profile.

Catumaxomab was first approved by the EMA in 2009 for the treatment of malignant ascites (MA). MA is manifested as the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, which develops from the proliferation of peritoneal carcinomatosis tumor cells in the cavity. There are various cancers that generate MA, for example ovarian, gastric, pancreatic and colorectal cancers. Patients with MA are usually diagnosed in the advanced stages of disease and their quality of life is greatly impaired. Currently, these patients face an extremely poor prognosis with a median overall survival of one to six months.

About LintonPharm

LintonPharm Co., Ltd. is a clinical-stage, research-oriented biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative T cell engaging bispecific antibodies with the goal of turning malignant cancers into manageable and possibly curable diseases. The company’s lead development program is with catumaxomab, a clinically validated bispecific antibody which was the first approved T-cell engager, and its associated Triomab technology platform. LintonPharm, in collaboration with Lindis Biotech, is also developing a next generation bispecific antibody platform known as Fleximab which aims to provide better CMC developability and less immunogenicity. The LintonPharm pipeline includes several treatments in development for blood cancer and solid tumors that use the Triomab and Fleximab platforms. For more information, please visit www.lintonpharm.com.

References

1. Freddie Bray et. al., Global Cancer Statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries. CA Cancer J. Clin. 2018; 68: 394-424.
2. Wanqing Chen et. al., Cancer Statistics in China, 2015. CA Cancer J. Clin 2016; 66: 115-132
3. China anti-cancer Association, Gastric Cancer, China Experts Consensus on Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Prevention and Treatment;Chin J Gastrointest Surg, May 2017, Vol. 20, No. 5.
    

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HANGZHOU, China, July 14, 2020 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/–

On July 6, eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou launched the “Hangzhou Liangzhu Day” and the first Hangzhou Liangzhu Culture Week, which is also the exclusive festival for the “youngest” (latest selected) of Hangzhou’s three world heritages, according to Hangzhou municipal government.

At the 43rd World Heritage Conference held one year ago in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City was included in the World Heritage List. Hangzhou has decided to set July 6 as “Hangzhou Liangzhu Day” and June 24 as “Hangzhou West Lake Day”. These two days are the dates when the two renowned sites in Hangzhou were officially included in the World Heritage List.

From the West Lake to the Grand Canal and then to the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, Hangzhou already has three world cultural heritages, indicating that Hangzhou is an ancient city with different cultural heritages demonstrating the clear and complete context of Chinese history and culture.

In Hangzhou, the three sites are all located in urban development centers. This also makes Hangzhou pay special attention to citizens’ sense of participation and the symbiosis between human beings and nature in the process of comprehensive protection of the three world heritage sites. An integrated and symbiotic protection method that combines cultural heritage, urban development and urban residents has gradually been formed after years of exploration.

“Liangzhu” means a beautiful continent in water in Chinese. City and water have always been symbiotic in development. The ancestors who laid the foundation of the city always lived by water, and Liangzhu ancient city is no exception. The peripheral water conservancy hub of Liangzhu ancient city is the earliest large-scale water conservancy project site discovered so far in China. It includes complicated irrigation systems and agricultural development and maintenance. It was of amazing significance in an era when human beings had not domesticated horses.

After the inclusion into the world heritage list, it is the common responsibility of all parties to effectively protect these heritage sites.

“The first priority is to protect, and the second is to share the fruits of conservation.” This is the principle of the management team for the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, which is responsible for contacting 24 villages in the reserve during the year to coordinate site protection and life and production.

At the same time, Hangzhou has set up a “special zone” model for the protection of large sites, which has maintained the integrity and authenticity of the sites to the greatest extent, including the construction of the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City Park. Now the park has preserved and restored the original wetland ecosystem in a large area and restored the ancient country style at that time. Moreover, the routine inspection and technological early warning of 114 square kilometers of heritage areas and buffer zones are strengthened by means of scientific and technological assistance in data collection and analysis.

This kind of shared growth and integration between heritage sites and cities, cities and people have also been shown in the protection of West Lake in previous generations. Today, when wandering in the mountains and rivers of the West Lake, the mark of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature can be found everywhere.

As early as 13 centuries ago, Bai Juyi, a famous poet and government official in Hangzhou, built water conservancy projects in Hangzhou, organized people to raise dams and store water to irrigate farmland. Su Causeway, a famous scenic spot in the West Lake, is also named in memory of Su Dongpo, a famous Hangzhou official and writer, who ruled the West Lake 10 centuries ago. Since 2002, the West Lake, also Hangzhou’s most important scenic spot, has become the city’s central park, with more than 130 scenic spots along the West Lake Park open to the public free of charge.

Park So-Hyun, the chief examiner of the West Lake’s world heritage application and an expert of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), marveled at the good coordination of Hangzhou’s urban development and lake protection at the West Lake. She said that the aborigines themselves are the components of the cultural landscape, and they share the responsibility of heritage protection with the management team.

The harmonious relationship between Hangzhou and the West Lake has never been broken since ancient times. Different generations of officials and locals in Hangzhou have a consensus to return the lake to the people and protect the West Lake, which is a collective conscious act that has lasted for thousands of years.

In the final analysis, the protection of cultural heritage cannot be separated from the efforts of city residents. It can be seen that the protection of the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City and the West Lake has really become everyone’s business in Hangzhou. In the harmonious coexistence of human beings, nature and cities, and in the continuous protection of cultural heritage, the philosophy of the Chinese nation, its unique aesthetic taste and traditional temperament have also been continuously inherited.

Source: Hangzhou Municipal Government

—BERNAMA