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Thursday, 11 Mar 2021 08:39 AM MYT Alkaline water has a higher pH level than regular water. pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a solution is. — AFP pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. SINGAPORE, Mar 11 — Alkaline water systems are gaining popularity in Singapore, with companies recording annual jumps in sales of up to 30 per cent over the years.  But even as the popularity of these machines climbs, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) called out the “unfair practices” of one such company, Triple Lifestyle Marketing, a...

 E-Mail Neuroendocrine tumours are cancers that begin in specialised cells called neuroendocrine cells. These cells have traits similar to those of nerve cells and hormone-producing cells. Neuroendocrine tumours, while rare, can occur anywhere in the body. Most affect the cardiothoracic region, eg lungs, appendix, small intestine, pancreas as well as the rectum. There are many types of neuroendocrine tumours: some grow slowly while others develop very rapidly. Neuroendocrine tumors are characterised by abundant production of somatostatin receptor 2, a naturally circulating hormone that is an...

The Straits Times New NTU endowment fund in honour of late engineering dean kicks off with $1m donation Late Emeritus Professor Chen Charng Ning was founding dean of NTU's then School of Civil and Structural Engineering.PHOTOS: NANYANG TECHNOLOGIVAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE/FACEBOOK, JASON QUAH PublishedDec 30, 2020, 12:32 pm SGT https://str.sg/JRDz They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited access to all stories...

Posted by Administrator on by James Kynge in Hong Kong and Jonathan Wheatley in London It has not taken long for the wheels to come off the Belt and Road Initiative. As recently as May 2017, China’s leader Xi Jinping stood in Beijing before a hall of nearly 30 heads of state and delegates from over 130 countries and proclaimed “a project of the century”. This was not hyperbole. China has promised to spend about $1tn on building infrastructure in mainly developing countries around the world — and finance almost all of this through its own financial institutions. Adjusted for infla...

I’m a bit late to write up a solid article in the Financial Times: China pulls back from the world: rethinking Xi’s ‘project of the century.’ It discusses how China has substantially dialed down its once much-trumpeted Belt and Road initiative, in which it planned to fund massive infrastructure projects, largely along the former Silk Road, so as to provide land routes for exports and imports. It looked to be a geopolitical masterstroke, simultaneously reducing China’s exposure to having the US mess with China’s trade in the China Sea and other naval choke points; creating a co-dep...