Long Awaited Rooster Baby Arrives After 13 Years

SUBANG JAYA, Jan 31 (Bernama) -- Sunway Medical Centre (SunMed) celebrated the birth of their first rooster baby for 2017 with a little surprise for little Mia Kong and her parents.

The SunMed team alongside Elfy, welcomed baby Mia with a gift.

Evonne Hooi, 32 and her husband Nicholas Kong, 36, have been married for 13 years.

We have been trying for years, even through in-vitro fertilisation, but nothing worked out for us. I guess God was waiting to send us our perfect Mia this Chinese New Year, said a beaming Evonne.

They called her, their little miracle baby , after being childless for more than a decade. Mia was born weighing 2.82 kg on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

-- BERNAMA

NASDAQ REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER 2016 WITH RECORD REVENUES(1); ANNOUNCES SEGMENT REALIGNMENT AND REBRANDING OF FIXED INCOME

-Net revenues were a record $599 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, up 12% year-over-year.  Subscription and recurring revenues² in the fourth quarter of 2016 represented 75% of total net revenues.  

-Revenues in non-trading segments³ in the fourth quarter of 2016 grew 11%, including organic revenue growth of 5%⁴.
-At December 31, 2016, the company achieved $38 million in annualized run-rate cost synergies for the acquisitions completed in 2016 out of a targeted $60 million expected upon completion of integration.
-Fourth quarter GAAP 2016 diluted loss per share was $1.35.  Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.95.  GAAP diluted EPS declined $2.23 from the fourth quarter of 2015, while non-GAAP diluted EPS increased $0.06, or 7%.
-Non-GAAP results exclude $646 million in pre-tax charges primarily related to the write-off of the eSpeed trade name.
-Nasdaq realigned reporting segments to better reflect client orientation.  A new Corporate Services segment incorporates Listing Services and Corporate Solutions while Market Technology is now a stand-alone segment.

NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016.  Fourth quarter net revenues were $599 million, up $63 million or 12% from $536 million in the prior year period, driven primarily by a $54 million positive impact from acquisitions.  Organic growth in non-trading segments was 5%⁴ as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. 

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PICASSO ESTATE SOLD TO SCEPTER CHAIRMAN RAYO WITHANAGE

MOUGINS, France, Jan 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The sprawling estate and final home of Pablo Picasso in Mougins, France was sold for an undisclosed sum to Brunei financier Rayo Withanage. The Mayor of Mougins confirmed in an official press release the sale as reported by The Wall Street Journal.   A resident of Bermuda and London, Mr. Withanage is the founder and chairman of Scepter Partners, a direct investment and merchant bank for sovereign investors. He is also a founder of The BMB Group alongside HH Prince Abdul Ali Yil Kabier of the Brunei Royal Family. The high profile estate L’Antre du Minotaure (the Den of The Minotaur) is widely regarded as one of the finest properties in the south of France.  http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=28363

TOSHIBA LAUNCHES 600V/650V SUPER JUNCTION N-CHANNEL POWER MOSFETS WITH IMPROVED EMI PERFORMANCE

TOKYO, Feb 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Corporation’s (TOKYO:6502) Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the launch of 600V/650V super junction N-channel power MOSFETs with improved EMI performance for use in industrial and office equipment. The new “DTMOS V series” will start with a line-up of twelve products. Sample shipments start today with mass production shipments scheduled for the middle of March.

 
The new series maintains the same level of low on-resistance and high speed switching performance of Toshiba’s current “DTMOS IV series,” while an optimized design process improves EMI performance by approximately 3 to 5dB^[1]. Also, reducing the on-resistance per area (R_ON x A) performance made it possible to add a new 650V 0.29Ω product into the DPAK package line-up. Products in the new series are suited for use in power supplies for industrial and office equipment that require high efficiency and compact size, adaptors and chargers for notebook PCs and mobile devices, and PCs and printers.

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KEIO PLAZA HOTEL TOKYO HOSTS HINAMATSURI GIRLS' DOLLS FESTIVAL EXHIBITION

Displaying 6,500 Hanging Decorations and Japanese Bonsai

TOKYO, Feb 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo, one of Japan's most prestigious international hotels located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, will host a special exhibition of traditional Japanese arts to celebrate traditional Hinamatsuri girls' doll festival by displaying various traditional art ornaments in the hotel from February to March, 2017. This annually held exhibition has been extremely well received by guests, and this year features some 6,500 finely hand woven silk doll decorations, Japanese art ukiyoe items depicting scenes of "Japanese female culture", and "Bonsai" miniature decorative sculptured plants to give visitors a taste of Japan's traditional arts representative of the "Hinamatsuri Girls' Doll Festival".

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NASDAQ CORPORATE SOLUTIONS AND EUROLAND IR PARTNER TO PROVIDE ENHANCED FEATURES FOR INVESTOR RELATIONS WEBSITES

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 31 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq Corporate Solutions announces its partnership with Euroland IR to offer investor relations (IR) professionals worldwide with enhanced features for their IR websites. The partnership was formalized in December 2016 and brings comprehensive stock quotes, interactive charting and other IR website modules to thousands of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions clients across EMEA, Asia and the Americas. This upgrade for clients is already underway and follows the release of Nasdaq’s next generation IR website platform powered by Drupal 8 open source technology.

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A.M. BEST AFFIRMS CREDIT RATINGS OF FIDELITY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

SINGAPORE, Jan 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Fidelity Life Assurance Company Limited (Fidelity Life) (New Zealand). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.

 
The ratings reflect Fidelity Life’s strong risk-adjusted capitalization, as measured by Best’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR), and favorable operating performance.

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