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TOYOTA MOBILITY FOUNDATION TO EXPAND PROVISION OF MOBILITY SERVICES TO HEALTHCARE WORKERS
Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), an independent not-for-profit foundation aimed at enabling mobility for all, announced today that they wil
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May 11, 20202 min read


40% OF MARKETS IN THE UK MAY NOT SURVIVE - NEW NATIONAL SURVEY REVEALS
The additional burden of the lock-down on high streets across the UK has seen some major retail casualties, with thousands of jobs at risk a
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May 11, 20201 min read


APPLE, GOOGLE CONTACT TRACING APP SNUB
Silicon Valley is stumped as many states like New York, California, and Massachusetts, as well as large cities like Baltimore and San Franci
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May 11, 20201 min read


US STATES GRAPPLE WITH HUNGER CRISIS AMID PANDEMIC
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a crisis that many Americans had never imagined, with the number of hungry citizens rising from 37 million
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May 11, 20201 min read


THAILAND’S LIFTING OF BAN ON ALCOHOLIC DRINKS SPURS PANIC-BUYING
Thailand’s sudden lifting of a ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks imposed last April has spurred panic-buying. The ban, which was in effect
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May 11, 20201 min read


A THIRD OF US AIRLINE WORKERS TO LOSE JOBS IN LAST QUARTER
Up to a third of the 750,000 pilots, cabin crews, flight attendants, baggage handlers, mechanics and others are bound to their jobs once the
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May 11, 20201 min read


THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) PUSHES FOR "GREEN RECOVERY" POST COVID 19 PANDEMIC
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sounded the call for a “green recovery” program and address climate change in the post-Covid 19 pa
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May 11, 20201 min read


AUDI IS PREPARING ITS FIRST PURELY DIGITAL WORLDWIDE MARKET LAUNCH FOR THE NEW A3 FAMILY USING CLX
About 15,000 sales and service employees as well as about 20,000 service technicians at retail partners around the globe have to be prepared
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May 11, 20202 min read


DON’T LIFT OR EXTEND PH LOCKDOWN SANS MEDICAL PLAN
ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro has asked the Duterte administration to set into motion a viable medical plan against the COVID-19 pandemic
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May 11, 20201 min read


3-DRUG COCKTAIL SUPPRESSES COVID-19 QUICKLY
As the world races to produce a vaccine against COVID-19, Hong Kong researchers have found a new route to suppress the deadly virus by using
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May 10, 20201 min read


SEX WORKERS IN SPAIN SUFFER
Spain’s sex workers, many of them from Latin American countries, have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, losing clients and getting thr
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May 10, 20201 min read


US STUDY: IF ONLY 80% OF AMERICANS WORE MASKS, INFECTIONS WOULD DROP
A new study spearheaded by a US computer scientist, a physician from London, a bioinformatician from Cambridge, an economist from Paris, and
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May 10, 20202 min read


US TO BUY $3-B FARM GOODS AS PRODUCERS LOSE BILLIONS
President Trump vowed on Saturday, May 9, to purchase at least $3 billion worth of dairy, meat and crops from farmers, who have been losing
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May 10, 20201 min read


UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA REPORT: PANDEMIC WILL LAST TWO YEARS
A new report by the University of Minnesota predicts that the COVID-19 pandemic will not depart anytime soon from the US heartland and warns
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May 10, 20202 min read


OBAMA PILES ON TRUMP’S ‘CHAOTIC DISASTER’ RESPONSE
Former US President Barack Obama has ridiculed US Donald Trump’s COVID-19 pandemic response, calling it a “chaotic disaster” in a 30-minute
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May 10, 20201 min read


TRUMP ADMIN. WALKS BACK ON SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE
Two days after agreeing to the text of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for a truce among warring parties worldwi
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May 10, 20201 min read


CDC REPORT JUNKED BY TRUMP ADMIN.
The 60-page reopening guidelines crafted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US were junked by President Trump an
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May 10, 20201 min read


CNN BUSINESS REPORTS 80-M CHINA JOB LOSS
he 6.8% contraction of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of this year is the worst economic performance of Beijing
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May 9, 20201 min read


GOVERNMENT URGES FISHERFOLK TO CATCH MORE SARDINES
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has encouraged fishermen to take advantage of the fine weather and the lifting of the f
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May 9, 20201 min read


WITH DIOR HAUTE COUTURE ATELIERS CLOSED, SEAMSTRESSES "TELECOUTURE!"
Dior workshops have been closed since March 17. But that certainly does not mean that work has stopped. While some discover the world of tel
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May 9, 20201 min read


US UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SOARS TO 14.7% IN APRIL 2020
The US unemployment rate officially hit 14.7% in April, with 20.5 million jobs vanishing into thin air as COVID-19 companies shut down, hitt
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May 9, 20201 min read


SONY INTRODUCES SUPPORT MEASURES FOR FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Sony has announced support measures for frontline healthcare professionals engaged in the fight against the COVID-19 in Japan. The measures
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May 9, 20201 min read


COVID-19 VIRUS MAY LINGER IN SEMEN OF INFECTED MEN
Chinese researchers have found that traces of the deadly COVID-19 virus linger in the semen of men who have recovered from infection, spurri
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May 9, 20201 min read


UBER, LYFT LAY OFF EMPLOYEES
With the Covid 19 pandemic playing out that disallows close contacts due to the danger of transmission of the virus, ride-share companies li
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May 9, 20201 min read
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