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We have conversations with Pieter Limburg from Mobilo; Sejal Ravji, director of Pascual Innoventures; and Rob Rogers, senior advisor food safety & regulations of Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection.

Focus on advancing the work on the priorities of the G20 sustainable development agenda, by increasing synergies with other G20 tracks and preparing the...

Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has announced a new strategic partnership with EVRYTHNG.

20 May 2021 - 18:51 JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Public Works Ministry says it has stopped surveying the Kabul-Jalalabad second highway due to security reasons but local people and officials say there is no security problem on the route and the ministry is making excuses to delay its construction. Local residents, officials and provincial council members say they have assured providing security for the road and there are no any threats left with recent operations conduct...

It took less than a year for researchers to develop a vaccine against Covid-19. The search for an HIV vaccine began almost 40 years ago. The unprecedented pace at which the Covid-19 jabs were developed and the scientific breakthroughs they required have re-energised those efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. But they have also raised critical questions about what could have been if the search for an HIV vaccine had met with the same resources and political will as the coronavirus pandemic. Consid...

Global health challenges threaten the United States’ health and economic security, a reality made painfully clear over the past 14 months. Many low- and middle-income countries lack adequate domestic resources to invest in public health and, at the same time, face mounting debt burdens that impede their ability to raise new funding for essential investments. The Covid-19 pandemic is a call to action to rethink how the United States prioritizes pandemic preparedness and investments in public...

Wang Zhao—AFP/Getty Images Chinese honor guards are reflected in the glass of a bus as they prepare for the arrival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, September 2, 2016, ahead of the 11th G20 leaders’ summit. What Can We Expect from China at the G20? A ChinaFile Conversation by Sophie Richardson, Joanna Lewis, Li Shuo, John Delury, Philipp Ivanov, Ho-fung Hung, Lina Benabdallah, Yaqiu Wang, Chen Weihua, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Gregory Chin, ...

10 minute read Ministers from Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, the European Union, Fiji, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malawi, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, United Arab Emirates, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, and h...

The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been especially damaging to the economic well-being of women worsening gender inequality.

Investing in digital up-skilling of APECs workforce critical: report 24th February 2021 APEC Illustration —  A digital readiness checklist has been designed to help APEC governments, employers, and academia understand their levels of preparedness for jobs in the digital age and to support their efforts to up-skill and reskill workers amid COVID-19. (ANTARA/HO-APEC Secretariat) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Hiring of workers with digital skills has grown substantially in the last three y...