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...Guangzhou and Chengdu as well as the province of Sichuan and other local governments have set up funds this year to raise money for investment in areas prioritised by Beijing, including semiconductors, biotechnology...
...However, biotechnology has generally delivered strong returns for over a decade....
...Other people familiar with the government’s change of strategy on the VMIC drew comparisons with its sudden cancellation in September of a Covid-19 vaccine contract with French biotechnology company Valneva...
...Efforts to reinvent itself as a “fermentation biotechnology company”, however, have been met with investor criticism as rivals such as Anheuser-Busch and Asahi strengthen their core beer business....
...Last year a Hong Kong court heard accusations that KPMG conducted “appalling” audit work that allowed a $400mn accounting fraud by a US-listed Chinese biotechnology company, China Medical Technologies....
...The new ETF aims to provide investors with access to high-growth sectors in China such as biotechnology and clean energy....
...The new fund, which will lock up investors’ cash for a number of years, will aim to invest in companies that are between about six and 24 months away from going public, in areas such as biotechnology, medical...
...The available thematic models are cloud computing, cyber security, 5G “future connectivity”, electric vehicles, clean energy, fintech, digital health, biotechnology and drug discovery, staples, utilities...
...The Japanese company has sought to diversify from the shrinking domestic beer business by strengthening its biotechnology and pharmaceuticals divisions....
...“We want to turn Kirin into a fermentation biotechnology company. We need to grow a new business while the beer segment is still healthy,” he added....
...In November, Chinese biotech company Suzhou Abogen Biosciences and its partner Walvax Biotechnology received regulatory approval to test their mRNA vaccine candidate in a booster trial....
...Smaller producer Walvax Biotechnology is already conducting trials. But the entry of a larger player such as Sinopharm into the mRNA market could give the technology a significant boost in China....
...Smart reads The Theranos effect Female founders, particularly in the science and biotechnology space, still find themselves unfairly likened to Elizabeth Holmes, the infamous entrepreneur who is preparing...
...largest shareholders has launched a campaign to persuade the Japanese brewer to focus on making beer and ditch the “unrealistic hope” that it can thrive as a cumbersome conglomerate also encompassing food, biotechnology...
...Biotechnology groups listed in Hong Kong have tapped funds at a record pace in 2021 as buoyant markets and rising interest from global investors bolster the Asian bourse’s challenge to Wall Street’s hold...
...More recently, the Japanese group has sought to diversify from its beer business by strengthening its biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics divisions....
...Other exciting new technologies, such as quantum computing, self-writing software 2.0 and biotechnology, are also opening up possibilities for a new age of discovery and economic productivity....
...The Premier League, the world’s most valuable domestic football competition, has hired Prenetics, a Hong Kong-based biotechnology company, to conduct coronavirus tests on players twice a week....
...The Japanese group defended its strategy to diversify from its core beer business into biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, outlining for the first time profit targets for its “health science” businesses...
...Barclays has hired David Parrot for its biotechnology investment banking group. Parrot, who joins from SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, will be based in California....
...He highlighted biotechnology and manufacturing among other areas he would be discussing with South Korea but nuclear power is expected to top the agenda because of the urgency of attracting investors to...
...Hong Kong’s stock exchange is to publish final rules next week that will allow for ‘innovative’ companies ranging from biotechnology businesses to technology giants to list on the venue....
...The exchange is paving the way for a series of changes to allow riskier companies, such as biotechnology groups that have yet to generate revenue, to list on the market....
...will forecast cash flows for the developmental stage companies assuming approval then probability-weight those cash flows to estimate a current fair value,” said Evan McCulloch, manager of the Franklin Biotechnology...
...But shares in CSL jumped as much as 10.8 per cent after the biotechnology company raised profit guidance for the 2017 financial year....
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