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Jul 27, 20201 min read
3M AFFECTED IN BANGLADESH FLOODS
More than three million people across 21 districts are affected by the monsoon flooding in Bangladesh.
By The Financial District
Jul 27, 20201 min read
HURRICANE HANNA BATTERS TEXAS
As Hurricane Hanna batters Texas, the governor has issued a disaster declaration for 32 counties as winds hit the coast at 145 kilometres an
By The Financial District
Jul 27, 20202 min read
NARCISSISTS CAN’T CORRECT ERRORS SINCE 'THEY DON’T MAKE ANY,' SAYS US STUDY
A study conducted in Oregon, Chile and Singapore has shown that it is practically useless to correct narcissists when they make mistakes sin
By The Financial District
Jul 27, 20202 min read
EARLY QUAKE ALERT SYSTEM IN JAPAN FUMBLES
A familiar scene has played out around the country, much to the chagrin of the Japan Meteorological Agency. After an early earthquake warnin
By The Financial District
Jul 26, 20201 min read
INDONESIA EXCEEDS WHO PROTOCOL
The Jakarta provincial administration has claimed that the COVID-19 testing capacity, using the polymerase chain reaction method, in the cap
By The Financial District
Jul 26, 20202 min read
MODIFIED VERSION OF COVID SPIKE PROTEIN TO HASTEN VACCINE PRODUCTION
A scientific team at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully redesigned a key protein from the coronavirus and the modification c
By The Financial District
Jul 26, 20201 min read
HEAVY RAINS DEFORM STRUCTURES IN CHINA’S THREE GORGES DAM
In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province “deformed sl
By The Financial District
Jul 26, 20203 min read
COSTLY DATING APPS
The women say they met him on different dating sites.
By The Financial District
Jul 25, 20201 min read
GERMAN COVID APP ROASTED OVER OPERATING PROBLEMS
Germany's official app for tracking coronavirus cases did not function properly or even at all on millions of Android smartphones over a per
By The Financial District
Jul 25, 20201 min read
RUSSIA PLANS LUNAR RESEARCH BASE WITH CHINA
Russia is planning to set up a research base on the moon, most likely in collaboration with China, the head of the Russian space agency Rosc
By The Financial District
Jul 25, 20201 min read
MEXICAN PAPER SEEKS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR CUBAN MEDICAL BRIGADES
Mexico's La Jornada newspaper called on Friday (Saturday, July 25, 2020 in Manila) to grant the Nobel Peace Prize to the Henry Reeve Cuban m
By The Financial District
Jul 25, 20203 min read
EON REALITY ANNOUNCES NEW SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING INITIATIVE TO DRIVE ENGAGEMENT IN ONLINE EDUCATION
The new inverted classroom structure helps students become topical experts. EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Realit
By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20202 min read
APPLE CO-FOUNDER STEVE WOZNIAK SCORES YOUTUBE FOR SCAM VIDEOS
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a legal attack against Google’s YouTube video site for allowing con artists to use him as a pawn
By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20202 min read
MANILA GETS GLOBE HELP FOR DISTANCE LEARNING
With the new normal in distance learning due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the city government of Manila, with help from Globe Telecom, will pr
By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20201 min read
SURGICAL MASKS, COVID WASTE POLLUTING OCEANS
Environmentalists have warned that a global increase in use of single-use masks, latex gloves and other protective gear for use against the
By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20201 min read
2 JAPANESE DOCS HELD OVER ASSISTED DEATH OF TERMINALLY-ILL PATIENT
Two male doctors were arrested Thursday on suspicion of assisting a woman suffering from a terminal disease to die by giving her a lethal dr
By The Financial District
Jul 24, 20202 min read
SAVANTS USED MOON CRATERS TO IDENTIFY EARTH ASTEROID SHOWER 800-M YEARS AGO
An asteroid measuring over 100 kilometers in diameter caused disruption that led to a shower of meteorites hitting Earth and the moon some 8
By The Financial District
Jul 23, 20202 min read
ARMENIA TO HAVE FIRST SOLAR POWER PLANT
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group; and the European Union (EU) have agreed to su
By The Financial District
Jul 23, 20201 min read
PHILIP MORRIS HAILS US FDA DECISION
Philip Morris International has hailed as a “historic moment for public health” the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to author
By The Financial District
Jul 23, 20201 min read
US INKS COVID-19 VACCINE DEAL WITH PFIZER
The Trump administration will pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion for a December delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine the pharmaceut
By The Financial District
Jul 23, 20202 min read
DAM COLLAPSE IN CHINA STIRS TALK OF ‘BLACK SWAN’ DISASTER
The dam at a small reservoir in China’s Guangxi region gave way last month after days of heavy rain in a collapse that could be a harbinger
By The Financial District
Jul 23, 20201 min read
WORLD LOST 420-M HA OF FORESTS IN 30 YEARS: FAO
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported in its latest Global Forest Resources Assessment report (FRA 2020) released on T
By The Financial District
Jul 22, 20201 min read
JAPANESE COVID-19 SALIVA TEST YIELDS RESULTS IN 30 MINUTES
A safer, less invasive test to detect novel coronavirus infections by analyzing a patient's saliva has been developed in Japan that shows re
By The Financial District
Jul 21, 20201 min read
COMET NEOWISE
A rare cosmic event is taking place in the skies above the Earth. Neowise, a comet which was only discovered in March this year, has been vi
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