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(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Victoria Masterson, Senior Writer, Formative Content • Panamanian women, like women around the world, have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. • Panama was one of the first countries to partner with the Equal Pay International Coalition. • Now the government continues to introduce further measures to build women’s participat...

Healing properties of the stinky durian’s thorns Adrian Wilson 1st April 2021 Food scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU Singapore) have made an antibacterial gel bandage using the discarded husks of the popular durian tropical fruit. Known as the King of Fruits in Southeast Asia, but with a highly pungent odour many find distasteful – it has been banned on public transport in certain regions – the durian has a thick husk with spiky thorns. The husk is discard...

BITS Pilani Dubai unveils AED5m student scholarships DUBAI, March 8, 2021 BITS Pilani Dubai, UAE’s premier engineering institute, has announced merit scholarships worth AED5 million ($1.36 million) for candidates enrolling in the institute’s various programmes for the academic year 2021-2022.   The institute is the branch of the internationally reputed Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India, and the largest institution exclusively offering engineering programmes i...

Dubai institute unveils Dh5 million student scholarship programmes Nandini Sircar/Dubai AP file photo used to illustrative purpose Move aims to help and encourage students to finance their educational expenses BITS Pilani has announced new merit scholarships worth Dh5 million for candidates enrolling in the institute’s various programmes for the academic year 2021-22. The institute is the branch of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India. It is the largest institution ex...

Cool innovation: Singapore firm and academics create probiotic ice cubes Singapore ice supplier Uni-Tat Ice & Marketing has launched a probiotic ice cube product in several supermarkets across the island-state. Made from filtered water, each ice cube weighing 26g contains Bifidobacterium lactis ​at a CFU count of 2.8bn. The innovation is a result of its collaboration with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) via a project partially funded by government agency En...

While the Budgets in 2020 were cumulatively about preservation and adaptation during an emergency, Budget 2021 is about necessary structural ...

Published: 17 February 2021 A S$700mn extension to the Jobs Support Scheme, deeper investments in businesses, and more - these are some of the things HR, employers and employees can look forward to in the next few years, as part of Singapores Budget 2021 initiatives. Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat delivered his #SGBudget2021 speech in Parliament on Tuesday (16 February), putting forth a slew of measures to be ...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/497239.html (Natural News) How might a truly unbiased, independent investigation occur if the investigator enjoys a financial relationship with the powerful entity that is under investigation? This is the case with Marion Koopmans, a professor of public health virology at ErasmusMC and a scientific advisory group member for the World Health Organization (WHO). She was part of the team of WHO researchers who met with the Chinese to investigate the origins of the ...

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Government has a S$24 billion plan to help its firms and workers adapt to a post-COVID-19 world, and it includes raising ...

Singapore puts budget focus on transformation, innovation After tilting last years budget towards emergency support in light of the global pandemic, Singapores government will spend SG$24 billion ($18.1 billion) over the next three years to help local businesses innovate and build capabilities needed to take them through the next phase of transformation. February 16, 2021 -- 18:17 GMT (10:17 PST) | Topic: Innova...