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SPECIAL HOKKAIDO TRAIN UNVEILED
Hokkaido Railway Co. on Monday unveiled a new special multipurpose express train to mark the 140th anniversary of the railroad on Japan's...

By The Financial District
Sep 3, 20201 min read


REVIEW OF VACCINES SOUGHT
Citing criticism of government agencies and increasing public distrust of vaccines, several prominent physicians and experts are calling...

By The Financial District
Sep 2, 20201 min read


CHINA BOOSTS R&D SPENDING BY MORE THAN 10%
China continued its years-long run of double-digit percentage increases in spending on research and development (R&D) in 2019, but the...

By The Financial District
Sep 2, 20202 min read


RENEWABLES SNARE 40% SHARE OF ENERGY MIX IN UK
Renewable energy is expanding fast in the United Kingdom, slashing carbon emissions and electricity costs across the board, according to...

By The Financial District
Sep 2, 20201 min read


SANOFI STOPS TESTS ON ITS COVID-19 VACCINE KEVZARA
French pharma giant Sanofi said Tuesday that international Phase 3 clinical tests of its Kevzara drug for serious Covid-19 cases had...

By The Financial District
Sep 2, 20201 min read


BRAZILIAN CHICKEN IMPORT BAN STAYS
The country is staying the ban on Brazilian chicken imports due to the findings in China on the findings of traces of COVID-19 in chicken...

By The Financial District
Sep 1, 20202 min read


SAVANTS SEE DOWNSIDES TO COVID VACCINES FROM RUSSIA, CHINA
High-profile COVID-19 vaccines developed in Russia and China share a potential shortcoming: They are based on a common cold virus that...

By The Financial District
Sep 1, 20201 min read


AUSSIE TEAM DEVELOPS METHOD TO DETER WATER THEFT
An Australian team has devised a method to reduce water theft, which covers between 30% and 50% of the world’s water supply is stolen...

By The Financial District
Aug 31, 20202 min read


SWEDISH SAVANTS FIND DOMESTICATED CHICKENS HAVE SMALLER BRAINS
Researchers from Sweden’s Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become...

By The Financial District
Aug 31, 20202 min read


DAR CITES HYBRID RICE FARMING
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has cited the innovations in rice farming to come up with a “food-secure and resilient nation” as part...

By The Financial District
Aug 31, 20202 min read


COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS BECOME THE CATALYST FOR EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION
Just as corporate businesses are transforming the way they operate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so must higher educational institutions.

By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20201 min read


WIX HELPS BRING FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND REMOTE LEARNING INITIATIVE TO PHILIPPINES
Over 43,000 e-learning sites built and launched in two days on Wix

By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20202 min read


VACCINE VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
On Wednesday, two Sacramento research groups said they need more volunteers for their ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials.

By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20202 min read


CDC SQUASHES COVID TESTING FOR EXPOSED BUT ASYMPTOMATIC PERSONS
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that people exposed to COVID-19 but not symptomatic may not need...

By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20202 min read


MIT, OXFORD SAVANTS UNVEIL COVID-19 DETECTION DEVICE
A new tool out from researchers at Oxford and MIT provides a traffic-light system for assessing risks during the pandemic so we don't...

By The Financial District
Aug 27, 20202 min read


MOBILE APP ADDRESSES MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS
A pioneer app-based health intervention system was rolled out to provide social services to Filipino migrant workers in Macau, the...

By The Financial District
Aug 27, 20202 min read


CANADIAN BREWER TURNS TOILET WATER INTO BEER
Brewing beer uses a lot of water: from the irrigation needed grow barley and hops to the aqua that ends up in the bottle...

By The Financial District
Aug 26, 20202 min read


DIGITALIZATION TO GOVERN SUBSIDY DISTRIBUTIONS
Digitalization will be the focal point of a planned distibution of subsidy for affected households and workers.

By The Financial District
Aug 26, 20203 min read


SKEPTICISM ZAPS BLOOD PLASMA THERAPY VS COVID-19
A day before Republicans convene to nominate him for a second term, President Donald Trump spent Sunday (Monday, August 24, 2020 in Manila)

By The Financial District
Aug 25, 20201 min read


US FACES LAPTOP SHORTAGE AS SCHOOLS CONDUCT ONLINE CLASSES
Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year’s most crucial back-to-

By The Financial District
Aug 25, 20202 min read


PURDUE TEAM CLAIMS FOOD COLORING DYES CAN BATTLE COVID
A team of researchers from Purdue University in the US believes aerosols of foodcoloring dyes could potentially kill COVID-19 viruses linge

By The Financial District
Aug 25, 20202 min read


CUBA TO BUILD MORE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABS
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health is currently expanding the molecular biology laboratory network with the construction of facilities in M

By The Financial District
Aug 24, 20201 min read


CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRIAL UNDERWAY AT SACRAMENTO HOSPITAL
A clinical trial for a novel coronavirus vaccine got underway at UC Davis Health in Sacramento on Thursday.

By The Financial District
Aug 22, 20201 min read


SMC CHIEF WANTS CRABS TO PREVENT FLOODING AT PLANNED AIRPORT
San Miguel Corp., the Philippines’ largest company, wants to stop perennial flooding north of Manila where it’s planning to build a P735.6 b

By The Financial District
Aug 22, 20201 min read
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