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Tap to Ride! Monterey-Salinas Transit Becomes 1st in California to Offer Riders the Ability to Tap to Pay with Visa
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 1:00PM IST (7:30AM GMT)
As part of a statewide initiative to improve and simplify the transit experience, riders who tap to pay will be guaranteed best fares for the trips they take
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Today, in collaboration with Visa, Caltrans, Cybersource, Littlepay, and SC Soft, Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST) became the first transit agency in California to offer bus riders a contactless payment option. As cities begin to reopen, public transportation will play a critical role in recovery, and contactless payments can help provide a safe and easy experience for riders and transit operators seeking limited physical touchpoints and interactions. MST riders can now simply tap their contactless credit, debit, prepaid card or payment-enabled device on rea
Covid-19: US backs waiver of patent on vaccines – a proposal first made by India, South Africa
The move will essentially allow more drugmakers to manufacture the vaccines. Representative image. | Brendan Mcdermid/ Reuters
The Joe Biden administration in the United States on Wednesday announced support for waiving patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines.
The move came after the US came under intense pressure to waive protections for vaccine manufacturers, especially amid criticism that rich nations were hoarding Covid-19 vaccines. India and South Africa have been leading the fight within the World Trade Organization to allow more drugmakers to manufacture the vaccines.
“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a statement. “The [Biden] administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service
Uganda is frying its maize seed; there’s little left to plant
Wednesday May 05 2021
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Many domestic investors are also moving domestically in areas where there is low or no tax, like the agro-economy or the green sector. There is a positive effect to this, with sections of the agricultural economy showing impressive results, and also the beginnings of what looks like a clean energy revolution, but the downside is that these sectors are reaching over capacity.
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“MPs ignore Museveni, vote Shs420b for trips”, Daily Monitor reported. In a mid-April address to first-time Members of Parliament, President Museveni pooh-poohed overseas travel by parliamentarians as “lavish” and a form of “pure corruption”.
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