NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (NEC APAC), the Asia Pacific regional headquarters of NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE 6701), established a “Regional Retail Business Support Center” (RBSC) in Malaysia in March 2013. To mark its launch, NEC Malaysia hosted a gala dinner and NEC solutions showcase at The Gardens Hotel Ballroom on 16 May 2013.

NEC Asia Pacific, a leading IT and network solutions provider and systems integrator, with its regional HQ based in Singapore, and a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation (HQ: Japan), announced today its plan to drive the adoption of its Smart Energy solutions and services across the Asia Pacific region.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Chongqing City, one of China’s four national central cities (*), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a strategic partnership in the smart city and cloud service areas.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and HCL Technologies Limited (HCLT) reached an agreement for NEC to obtain full control of NEC HCL Systems Technologies (NHST), a joint venture software company. Based on the agreement, NEC will acquire HCLT’s 49% share of NHST. As a result, NHST will become a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC. The subsidiary’s name is scheduled to become NEC Technologies India Limited in April 2013.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) is providing a security system for field trials of a “Non-stop Gate” system being carried out by Narita International Airport Corporation for two months beginning March 18.

NEC India, a leading network and IT solutions provider, announced a strategic alliance with Ramco Systems, an enterprise software product company focused on delivering ERP on Cloud, Tablets and Smart Phones. The partnership aims to serve the growing customer needs for SaaS based ERP to companies in the mid to large enterprise segmentsin India and could potentially expand into other geographic locations.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) is providing a complete prepaid electronic money (e-money) system that includes system servers, media (cards, smartphones, etc.) and payment terminals. Starting today, NEC’s “Integrated Electronic Money Solution” is available both inside and outside of Japan.

Video coding technology developed by NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), in collaboration with several partners, has been adopted in the final draft international standard for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) (*1), a new international video coding standard. HEVC is scheduled to be an international standard this coming May.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) was selected by NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) as a vendor to develop “High-Capacity Base Station Equipment” that supports DOCOMO’s proposed LTE-Advanced (*1) communications system.