LONDON - Thursday, February 11th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA has published a new report calling for the modernisation of telecommunications regulations. “A New Regulatory Framework for the Digital Ecosystem”, developed by NERA Economic Consulting for the GSMA, explores how the pace of regulatory reform has failed to match the speed of change in the digital world, in particular with the emergence of a range of internet-based services and applications and a converged digital ecosystem. The study recommends a forward-looking, technology-agnostic regulatory framework, driven by clear policy objectives around consumer protection, innovation, investment and competition.

“The telecoms regulations in place today are largely the same as those used to regulate the technologies and markets of the last century. There is no place for analogue rules in today’s dynamic digital age, where consumers face an expanded array of competitive choic ... Read more »

HONG KONG - Thursday, February 11th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Elliott1 today announced the release of the attached letter to fellow shareholders of Bank of East Asia, Limited (“BEA”). Elliott, which owns a shareholding of over 7% in BEA, believes that the BEA board should now finally focus on delivering proper value for BEA shareholders by conducting an auction process to explore the scope for a sale of BEA at an appropriate premium.

Elliott’s Perspectives on BEA - Key Points in the Letter

    Shareholders have long suffered from BEA’s entrenched executive management, which has mismanaged the business, resulting in weak underlying financial and operating performance and poor returns for independent minority shareholders
    Serial usage of the general mandate to place new shares on a selective basis to CaixaBank and SMBC for “strategic” purposes has assisted in entrenching the ... Read more »

TOKYO - Friday, February 12th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:2264), a leading dairy product company in Japan, today unveiled new research showing that daily consumption of yogurt fortified with the company’s proprietary probiotic Bifidobacterium longum BB536 prevents the intestinal bacterial imbalance induced by an animal-based diet. BB536 maintained healthy levels of beneficial bacteria, while preventing increases of harmful levels of bacteria such as Bilophila.

Recently, studies have demonstrated the importance of maintaining balanced intestinal flora to overall health. However, the modern, fast-paced lifestyle — with its lack of sleep and exercise, irregular dietary habits and continual stress — threatens bacterial balance. Eating an animal-based diet in particular has been shown to cause an increase in harmful bacteria, a condition known as dysbiosis. This problem is not confined to the United States ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany - Wednesday, February 10th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

    Five grants awarded to projects in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the USA, exclusively supported by Boehringer Ingelheim
    Winners chosen from over 500 entries by an independent Scientific Committee appointed by the ESC

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has announced five winners of the competitive research programme ‘Grants for Medical Research Innovation’, exclusively supported by an independent grant from Boehringer Ingelheim. The grants are awarded to research projects that will address areas of unmet medical need in thromboembolic disease.

“We were astounded at the quantity and quality of the proposals submitted. The judges had an extremely difficult task, even selecting five winners instead of four as originally planned”, said Professor Francesco Cosentino, from Karolinska, Stockholm, the chairpe ... Read more »