Taiho Pharmaceutical Obtains Approval to Manufacture and Market NK1 Receptor Antagonist Arokaris® I.V. Infusion 235mg in Japan
Taiho Pharmaceutical Obtains Approval to Manufacture and Market NK1 Receptor Antagonist Arokaris® I.V. Infusion 235mg in Japan Tokyo, Japan, and Lugano, Switzerland March 28, 2022 – Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Taiho”) and Helsinn Group (hereinafter “Helsinn”), announced today that Taiho has been granted approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to […]
Philips convenes the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 2022
March 28, 2022 Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today convenes the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) 2022 and publishes the agenda with explanatory notes. The agenda of the AGM 2022 includes proposals to appoint Mrs. Herna Verhagen and Mr. Sanjay Poonen and to re-appoint Dr. Paul Stoffels and Dr. […]
Much of Shanghai locked down as mass COVID-19 testing begins
BEIJING China began locking down most of its largest city of Shanghai on Monday as a coronavirus outbreak surges and amid questions about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy.Shanghai’s Pudong financial district and nearby areas will…
Military tribunals hand down harshest sentences to young adults for opposing junta
Many of the 175 activists sentenced to death or long prison terms by the Myanmar junta’s secret military courts operating inside the country’s most notorious prison are between the ages of 23 and 27 — an apparent effort to undercut the youth activism d…
Building Forward Together: Towards an inclusive and resilient Asia and the Pacific
This report, released two years after COVID-19 began spreading around the world, considers how countries have been responding to this complex and still evolving pandemic, and highlights key elements of a forward-looking policy agenda aimed at putting c…
S Jaishankar lands in Sri Lanka for bilateral talks, BIMSTEC Summit
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived in Colombo on Sunday to hold bilateral talks with Sri Lanka’s top leadership and attend the seven-nation BIMSTEC summit.This is his first visit to the island nation since India extended an economic relief …
Big preparations underway for Bangkok’s first governor, council elections in many years
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has set aside about 343 million baht for the holding of the Bangkok gubernatorial and city councillor elections on May 22nd, the first such elections in nine and 12 years respectively, and will deploy about…