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$220k referendum on Māori wards likely as petition achieves numbers 29 Jan, 2021 02:10 AM 4 minutes to read Concerned Citizens group member Ken Evans has been successful in gathering enough signatures to force a referendum on Māori wards. Photo / File A petition aimed at overturning a decision to establish a Māori ward in Tauranga has gained the numbers it needs. A referendum expected to cost ratepayers $220,000 is now expected to be held. In August, Tauranga City Council voted 6-4 to estab...

BELOIT, WI / ACCESSWIRE / January 27, 2021 / Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. (OTCQX:BHWB) reported net income of $3.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2020, a 17% increase over the $2.9 million earned the previous

BenevolentAI and AstraZeneca achieve collaboration milestone with novel AI-generated chronic kidney disease target - AI-generated target was identified through The Benevolent Platform and AstraZenecas scientific expertise and rich datasets LONDON, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BenevolentAI today announced that the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has selected a novel chronic kidney disease (CKD) target to advance to its drug development portfolio, making it the first AI-generated target f...

 27 Jan 2021 - 8:12 Minister of Commerce and Industry H E Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari (centre) cutting a cake along with Ambassador of India H E Dr. Deepak Mittal (second left) and his wife Dr. Alpana Mittal; Director of Protocol at Qatars Ministry of Foreign Affairs H E Ambassador Ibrahim Yousif Abdullah Fakhro; and Dean of Diplomatic Corps, Ambassador of Eritrea to Qatar, H E Ali Ibrahim Ahmed on the occasion of 72nd Republic Day of India. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula By Sanaullah Ataullah...

SunStar + January 24, 2021 THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) recorded significant strides in its priority goals for 2020, topped by the full automation of its frontline transactions and a 100-percent accomplishment rate on its target to modernize the agency’s risk management processes despite the operational challenges posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. In a statement Sunday, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III congratulated the BOC led by Customs Commissione...

(2) London, January 21, 2021 The Iveco Defence Vehicles manufacturing facility in Sete Lagoas, Brazil and the New Holland Agriculture plant in Croix, France have both attained Bronze status in the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) program. This represents a significant achievement for Iveco Defence Vehicles and New Holland Agriculture, global brands of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI). It is further testament to the success of the Company wide program aimed at achieving production proc...

(2) JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- oXya, a Hitachi Group Company, announced today that it achieved a global certification from Google Cloud as a Managed Service Provider (MSP). oXya was certified by Google Cloud in 2018, as an MSP in North America; the new certification expands oXyas MSP status to a global one. With this certification, Google Cloud recognizes oXyas abilities and professionalism to migrate customer workloads to the public cloud and manage them, no matter the cu...

Conservation Comment: Can the team of 5 million beat climate change? 18 Jan, 2021 03:01 PM 3 minutes to read Big Oil spent billions of dollars trying to deny climate change facts. Photo / Getty Images Wanganui Midweek COMMENT If there was one thing that the events of 2020 taught us, it was that if we put our collective minds to an issue, notably Covid-19 of course, we can achieve something truly worthwhile. I think, for us in Aotearoa, we had a combination of factors that got us through what ha...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police have registered 516 cases and arrested 751 accused during actions across the province to achieve the Financial Action Task Force targets, KP Police chief...

(1) Esker, a global cloud platform and leader in AI-driven process automation solutions for finance and customer service functions, today announced that its company headquarters in Lyon, France, received ISO 14001:2015 (ISO 14001) certification for its effective environmental management system by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA), a major vendor of independent assessment services. Esker was also awarded an EcoVadis Gold Medal for its performance in Corporate Social Responsibility (CS...