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HONG KONG, June 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The iconic Victoria Harbour turns up the heat this summer as it hosts an array of incredible things to eat, see, do, and capture in photos right by the water.

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Must-See Spectacle: The Giant Rubber Duck Returns With A Friend

Summer in Hong Kong will see a diverse range of events come to the city, and the season is starting in an eye-catching fashion. In 2013, Victoria Harbour was home to Rubber Duck, a large-scale inflatable sculpture created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman and curated by Hong Kong creative collective AllRightsReserved, which became a symbol of summertime playfulness. This summer, the 18-metre-tall rubber duck returns for a two-week stay and it is being joined by an identical friend. DOUBLE DUCKS by Florentijn Hofman, organised by AllRightsReserved, will see two rubber ducks take pride of place in Victoria Harbour from 10–23 June.

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Must-Join Events: Traditional Festivals with Modern Twist and Live Entertainment

Traditional Festivals with a Modern Twist

An iconic Hong Kong summer tradition, the Dragon Boat Festival this year takes place on 22 June. Race meets on that day can be found citywide including at Stanley, where over 200 local and international teams compete in a series of races – with many paddlers in colourful costumes – amid a vibrant, carnival-like atmosphere.

The excitement continues to the weekend of 24–25 June with the Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Races, featuring over 160 teams from 10 countries and regions of about 4,000 best racers around the world paddling through Victoria Harbour cheered on by drummers and fans. Fans watching from the Avenue of Stars will be able to stop by the LINE FRIENDS Hello Hong Kong Dragon Boats Photo Spots. From 19 June for two weeks, this playful display invites visitors to stop by to pick up an exclusive souvenir and take a selfie with their favourite LINE FRIENDS characters in a dragon boat-themed exhibit.

Live entertainment lights up the harbourside

Summer is the perfect time for live outdoor entertainment, and Hong Kong has plenty on offer this season. Over five consecutive weekends from 8 July, the Wan Chai harbourfront welcomes the first-ever Harbour Chill Carnival. Organised by Hong Kong Tourism Board, this family-friendly event features live music performances from on a stage on the water, performing arts showcases, and exhilarating X Games demonstrations. Stay until sundown for a special edition of “A Symphony of Lights” multimedia light and pyro show that illuminates the Hong Kong skyline.

The party comes to Discovery Bay on 29-30 July for NextWave. Hong Kong’s first-ever beach carnival features an array of live performances and DJ sets by local and international artists, as well as food trucks, artisan markets and water sports.

The action returns to Central Harbourfront on 5–6 August for the S2O Hong Kong Songkran Music Festival, which brings the energy of Thailand’s famed New Year celebrations to the city for the very first time. Expect a top-tier line-up of DJs and thrilling water and light spectacles, accompanied by stunning visual effects and a 360-degree water splashing experience.

Must-Eat Treats: Savour classic Hong Kong fare by the harbourside

The Peninsula Hotel takes to the seas

Legendary harbourfront hotel The Peninsula is taking its famed afternoon tea to the lavishly appointed World Star cruise liner every weekend and public holiday until 2 July. Hop aboard for an afternoon of relaxation and indulgence, with delectable sweet and savoury bites, beverages, and live music in front of the iconic harbour and skyline.

Classic summer snacks

Snacking in Hong Kong is serious business – and one is never short of options when cravings strike. For a sweet treat, the iconic Mister Softee truck is a must-find along the harbour. Keep an ear out for the familiar nostalgic jingle as it wanders along the waterfront – if you are lucky enough to catch it, indulge in a cone of creamy soft serve for the ultimate summer heat-beater.

Beyond the classic cones, Hong Kong offers a variety of refreshing treats that showcase its unique cultural influences. Try favourites like grass jelly, red bean ice, tofu fa, sugar cane juice, or mango pomelo sago. Grab one to go and enjoy it al fresco with an iconic harbour view.

From high-octane dragon boat racing and music events to family-friendly fun, there are plenty of ways to experience an unforgettable summer in Hong Kong. Add these exciting events and activities to your bucket list for your next trip to Hong Kong to experience the best of what the city has to offer this season.

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (Bernama) — Global Liver Institute (GLI) convened largest number of community events worldwide in the six years of International NASH Day, a time where global healthcare experts and community members step up and raise awareness of the most common liver disease in the world, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and it is more severe form, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

“By releasing new, multilingual resources to help patients access NASH diagnostics and treatment, leading even more awareness and educational events worldwide, and continuing to foster opportunities for patients to step up and speak out, GLI and its partners are stepping up for those with or at risk of NASH this year.

“We have been heartened through collaboration with the broader patient advocacy community on health technology assessment (HTA) and regulatory processes. Together we have made certain that the patient voice is the clear, powerful force that it ought to be,” said GLI President and Chief Executive Officer, Donna R. Cryer.

Fatty liver disease is a condition in which excess fat builds up in the liver, which can lead to scarring and cirrhosis (permanent damage that impairs liver function). An estimated 25 per cent of the global population, or about two billion people, are affected by NAFLD, and 20 per cent of those with NAFLD progress to NASH.

While NASH can develop at any point in life, many of the factors that heighten an individual’s risk of developing NASH are well-known, including overweight or obesity, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

According to GLI in a statement, despite established risk factors, too often patients in high-risk groups are still not triaged, not screened and not connected to the care they require.

Clear, strong connections between primary care providers, specialists and intervention support are all critical, and within reach, to help more patients find and stop the progression of NASH while they have the opportunity.

International NASH Day 2023 is endorsed by 30 medical specialty societies worldwide, and more than 50 global organisations, from research institutions to community organisations to medical centres and more, will be hosting events to inform and educate their communities.

— BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 (Bernama) — ALTY Orthopaedic Hospital, one of Malaysia’s comprehensive single-specialty Orthopaedic Hospital and the Eureka Robotics Centre at Cardiff Metropolitan University have joined hands to introduce Malaysia’s first Tokku Zone to enable the offering of service robots in a single-specialty orthopaedic hospital.

The Tokku Zone is a special area for Robotics Empirical Testing and Development (RT Special Zone) originating from Japan. The Zone has already been established in areas such as Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka City, Kitakyushu City and Cardiff City.

By entering the Tokku Zone, patients and healthcare staff are able to co-exist with service robots within the area and aid in solving real-life problems with Artificial Intelligence (AI) together. The special area that has been established in ALTY is currently on its Level 6, where patients and staff can interact with the robots in place.

Upon entering the Zone, patients will be given the choice to either interact or decline to engage with the humanoid robots.

Additionally, the Zone further assists in supporting staff, researchers, policymakers and manufacturers to shape the enhancement, practical needs, risks and governance of service robots.

“At ALTY Orthopaedic Hospital, we are believers of utilising cutting edge technology to advance the work we do for our patients. In line with it, ALTY is among the first in Malaysia to have an established Tokku Zone for Robotics Empirical Testing and Development. The second and third Tokku Zones in Malaysia are at University Malaya and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), drawn by EURKEA Robotics Centre.  

“By integrating this zone into ALTY, our team of experts will be working alongside healthcare service robots to further enrich our patients’ experience when they visit ALTY. Additionally, the technology also provides nurses with assistance on selected routine operational tasks which will in turn have a positive impact on productivity,” said Dr Savitha Dharan, Chief Executive Officer, ALTY Orthopaedic Hospital. 

 “ALTY is a progressive and innovative specialist hospital in South East Asia, commissioning patient-centred care by nurses we have privileged to support. This Healthcare Robotics as a Service (HRaaS) collaboration is pioneering and embracing thoughtful integration and initial AI transformation for enhanced nursing care services in Malaysia and Wales,” stated Dr Esyin Chew, Director of EUREK Robotics Centre (www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/eureka)

Additionally, the integration of service robots to enhance patient engagement and quality of service is in line with ALTY’s recent accreditation of MSQH which was achieved within a year of official opening. 

The service robots currently in place function to assist nurses with services of hospital introduction, patient social engagement and awareness-based education programmes.

For more information on ALTY’s public posture screening tour and other activities in conjunction with the ALTY-Mate Bone Care Month, visit our Facebook page or www.altyortho.com

About ALTY Orthopaedic Hospital

ALTY (‘Adding Life to Years’) Orthopaedic Hospital, formerly known as HSC Medical Center is your one-stop specialist centre providing you and your loved ones comprehensive modern care on all orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions.
As a holistic, premier orthopaedic hospital, we specialise in surgical and non-surgical treatments, offering cutting edge solutions through our Spine and Joint Clinics. With contemporary facilities and state-of-the-art equipment, patient well-being and recovery is at the heart of what we do. 

Our dedicated team of renowned orthopaedic specialists with decades of experience in practice as well as other highly trained healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses and other support staff aim to provide an exceptional standard of personal and professional care to patients.

#ALTYortho #feelitinyourbones #AddingLifeToYears

For more information, visit https://www.altyortho.com/

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 (Bernama) — Lotus Pharmaceuticals, a multinational pharmaceutical company, has announced a global collaboration with Alvogen, a privately owned United States (US)-based pharmaceuticals company, and NRx Pharmaceuticals Inc (NRx), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.

According to a statement, the global collaboration agreement covering the development and commercialisation of NRX-101 for suicidal treatment-resistant bipolar depression (S-TRBD) for global markets.

“This is an exciting transaction for Lotus. The addition of NRX-101 to our pipeline is completely in-line with our strategic objective to drive heightened innovation that addresses significant unmet medical needs,” said its Chief Executive Officer, Petar Vazharov.

Under the terms of the agreement, relating to NRX-101 for the US market, NRx is entitled to receive an initial payment of US$10 million upon achieving both a successful read-out from the ongoing Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in S-TRB and completion of a Type B meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (US$1=RM4.59)

NRx would receive an additional payment of US$5 million upon receipt of FDA approval for NRX-101 as well as bonus milestone payments of increasing amounts up to US$330 million based on reaching certain net sales targets.

In addition to success-based payments, NRx is eligible to receive a royalty on net sales between 12 per cent and 16 per cent contingent on certain sales thresholds for the US market and other success-based payments for markets outside of the US.

Lotus will acquire worldwide rights for NRX-101 for treatment of S-TRBD and will be responsible for commercialisation of NRX-101 in markets outside of the US through their direct commercial presence in certain Asian markets or through Lotus’s export division where the company currently markets an extensive portfolio of products through top-tier partners.

Lotus will partner with Alvogen to commercialise NRX-101 for treatment of S-TRBD in the US market through Alvogen’s Almatica label. Almatica is the CNS-focused division of Alvogen that currently markets six branded products.

Alvogen and Lotus have committed to fund the next registrational study in suicidal treatment-resistant bipolar depression to support approval of NRX-101 contingent upon successful results of the ongoing Phase 2b/3 clinical trial and completion of a Type B meeting with the FDA.

— BERNAMA

Equatic emerges from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Institute for Carbon Management with carbon dioxide removal agreement from The Boeing Company

LOS ANGELES, June 1 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Carbon removal company Equatic recently spun out from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Institute for Carbon Management to deploy the first technology that combines carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal and carbon-negative hydrogen generation. Addressing both legacy and future emissions in a single process, the multi-product climate solution enables decarbonization at the scale, speed and cost necessary to mitigate climate change.

Alongside the launch, Equatic is announcing that it has entered into a pre-purchase option agreement with Boeing, a leading global aerospace company. Under the agreement, Equatic will remove 62,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and will deliver 2,100 metric tons of carbon-negative hydrogen to Boeing.

“The world has two unprecedented challenges: how to remove and permanently store gigatons of carbon dioxide and how to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels,” says Lorenzo Corsini, Principal Advisor at Equatic. “Equatic’s first-of-its-kind technology solves both. It combines basic principles of chemistry with the natural capabilities of the world’s best carbon removal tool, the ocean, to create the most promising solution for scalable decarbonization — cost-effectively and at a globally-relevant scale.”

The oceans are the world’s largest reservoir of carbon dioxide. One quarter of the world’s daily CO₂ emissions are drawn down into the ocean. Equatic’s technology accelerates and amplifies this natural cycle to remove and durably store CO₂. The entire removal and sequestration process happens within the boundaries of an industrial carbon removal plant, enabling Equatic to precisely measure CO₂ down to the gram.

“To mitigate ongoing and accelerating climate change in the timeframe necessary to avoid irreversible consequences, we need truly disruptive carbon management technologies,” says Lord John Browne, Founder, and Chairman at BeyondNetZero, and the former CEO of BP who is now the Chairman of Equatic’s Advisory Board. “Equatic’s breakthrough technology absorbs carbon dioxide via the oceans and has the added benefit of generating green hydrogen as a by-product. The good news is that the costs are low enough to allow unprecedented scaling and adoption globally.”

Equatic currently operates two carbon removal pilots in Los Angeles and Singapore. One hundred percent of the CO₂ removed from these pilots has been pre-sold, including via pre-purchase agreements with global payment solution provider, Stripe. Equatic expects to reach 100,000 metric tons of carbon removal per year by 2026 and millions of metric tons of carbon removal for less than $100 per metric ton by 2028.

Furthermore, Equatic will become a dominant producer of carbon-negative hydrogen — hydrogen created from processes that reduce atmospheric CO₂. The hydrogen will be sold as a clean energy source to decarbonize industrial processes, produce electricity for the transportation sector, create Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) and fuels for trucking, and power the Equatic technology itself.

“The aviation industry has an important role to play in global decarbonization efforts. Reaching aviation’s sustainability goals will require a multi-faceted approach and Boeing sees immense value in Equatic’s technology,” said Sheila Remes, Boeing’s Vice President of Environmental Sustainability. “SAF is enormously important to reaching the commercial aviation industry’s net zero by 2050 goal, and we are excited to partner with Equatic on both green hydrogen feedstock and carbon dioxide removal.”

Equatic emerges from UCLA with over $30M in initial funding including grants and equity investments from organizations such as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation, the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the National Science Foundation, YouWeb Incubator, The Nicholas Endowment, Singapore’s Temasek Foundation, PUB: Singapore’s National Water Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

Equatic’s Technology

Equatic’s carbon removal plant uses four inputs–seawater, air, rock, and renewable electricity–to remove and store CO₂ while simultaneously generating carbon-negative hydrogen. Equatic passes an electrical current through seawater (electrolysis) and then passes atmospheric air through the processed seawater (direct air capture); these steps trap CO₂ in solid minerals and as dissolved substances that are naturally found in the oceans, ensuring that the trapped CO₂ will remain stable for 100,000+ years. Finally, Equatic uses rock to neutralize the processed seawater and ensure that the ocean’s chemistry is preserved.

This patented process is the key to delivering scalable, high-quality carbon removal, durable and permanent storage, and accessible, carbon-negative hydrogen fuel. It allows for:

●   Gigaton-Scale Carbon Removal and Storage. Carbon removal requires CO₂ (1) capture, (2) transport, and (3) permanent storage. Seawater is unique in that it can do all three at once. Equatic amplifies this natural carbon cycle to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere by leveraging the size and scale of the oceans and allows the oceans to serve as an enormous storage reservoir of CO₂.
●   Multi-Product Solution. The hydrogen gas that is co-produced can be used to power the process itself, or sold as a carbon-negative fuel source. Combining CO₂ removal and hydrogen production within a single industrial footprint and the same process equipment significantly reduces the cost associated with both. It also enables Equatic to create a clean fuel to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, thereby avoiding fossil fuel-related emissions.
●   Industry-Leading Monitoring, Verification and Reporting. Equatic offers a contained solution that does not rely on the open ocean. As such, Equatic is the only ocean-based carbon removal company that transparently measures removal with extreme certainty. This enables the company to sell highly-sought, high-quality, permanent carbon removal credits.

To learn more about Equatic, visit equatic.tech. For open positions, visit equatic.tech/careers.

About Equatic
Equatic is a carbon removal company leading the industry in combined carbon dioxide removal and carbon-negative hydrogen generation. Using a patented seawater electrolysis process, Equatic amplifies the ocean’s inherent ability to absorb and store massive amounts of carbon. Formerly known as Project SeaChange, the technology was created and developed at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Institute for Carbon Management. Equatic operates two pilots in Los Angeles and Singapore, respectively, and works with industry pioneers, national agencies, and government leadership to scale climate solutions at unprecedented rates. The company sells high-quality carbon removal credits and is the only ocean-based carbon removal company that measures removal with unprecedented certainty.

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