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Malaria is one of the leading causes of illness and death around the world. The disease is primarily caused by the bite of mosquitoes carrying a parasite. In 2019, around 229 million malaria cases were reported with an estimated number of 409,000 deaths. Most of the reported cases occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Children younger than five years and pregnant women are most prone to malaria.
To prevent malaria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends spraying insecticides indoors and using bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide.
These interventions have one big flaw, however. They focus on minimising malaria infections indoors. Infections can still occur outdoors. And in some African countries resistance to insecticides – especially pyrethroids – is emerging. So new methods to control mosquitoes are needed urgently.
If China does take over Taiwan, it would be a disaster for all; hopefully Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) realizes that.
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is focusing on microchip wafer fabs, starting from buying raw wafers to diffusion, photolithography, implantation, etching, and physical and chemical vapor deposition, before reaching the finished wafers the front end of the process.
Taiwan also excels in packaging and testing, commonly known as the process’ back end. The whole process takes one-and-a-half to five months, commonly known as cycle time.
Although Taiwan ranks first in process integration in the world, the equipment used comes almost entirely from
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Sun, 16 May 2021 | Written By: Alec Malloy
Alec Malloy is a content writer with over 7 years’ experience spanning a range of commercial sectors.
Week Ahead: FOMC minutes, global PMI rush & UK CPI/Retail sales
Week Ahead
FOMC meeting minutes are released this week for April’s meeting as pressure mounts on Jerome Powell et al to take inflation seriously.
UK CPI data gives an insight into inflation there, while the first batch of post-lockdown retail sales data lets us see if shoppers are heading back to the British high street.
There’s a wealth of PMI data coming from the UK, US, and EU too. How will their economic recoveries compare?