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RMU, WHO to launch mental health diploma for GPs

The News International 16 Feb 2019

Muhammad Umar, Professor Emiratus Malik H Mubbashar, Director at WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health Research and Training and Director Center for Global Mental Health Pakistan Professor Fareed Aslam Minhas and other stakeholders....

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Export statistics achieving rebound

China Daily 15 Feb 2019

Wang Zhi, director of the Research Center of Global Value Chains at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, said that the vigorous growth of energy and resources product imports has benefited from domestic market demand and eased resource constraints in economic development....

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Treasury yields inch higher as China-U.S. trade negotiations extend to next week

Market Watch 15 Feb 2019

Treasury yields edged higher Friday in New York as investors looked past bonds to riskier assets while digesting apparent progress in Sino-U.S ... What did yields do? ... Trump and Congress developments will play a major role in activity,” wrote Tom di Galoma, managing director of Treasurys trading at Seaport Global Securities, in a Friday research report....

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US-China trade talks in Washington to be held next week

DNA India 15 Feb 2019

... uncertainties of the China-US trade situation is forcing the market to take risk aversion measures, but also reflects that China's dependence on US trade is sliding, Bai Ming, deputy director of the MOFCOM's International Market Research Institute, told the Global Times....

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Mobile diabetes screening for Cheyyur villagers

The Hindu 14 Feb 2019

In 2017, the University was awarded funding from the National Institute of Health Research ... Colin Palmer, Director, NIHR Global Health research team, said, “The mobile clinic has the potential to break the barriers to early diagnosis and we are excited to see the results.” .......

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Cryptocurrency ICOs are alive and well

A Bit of News 14 Feb 2019

hosted 22 completed token sales — about a fifth of the 113 sales globally during the period, according to CoinSchedule’s data prepared for Bloomberg ... In Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, regulations are generally more lax, said Lex Sokolin, global director of fintech strategy at Autonomous Research....

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Could the rumoured deal between M&S and Ocado to offer grocery deliveries be a costly wrong turn for the High Street stalwart?

This is Money 14 Feb 2019

Whether it's a king-size mattress, letterbox-friendly wine or a funeral, there's not much you can't buy online these days ... 'It doesn't make economic sense for M&S to sell food online,' argues Patrick O'Brien, UK research director at Global Data, who explains that making money from a food delivery service is 'a major problem' ... Low cost portfolios....

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Need a breath of fresh air? Hotels to the rescue

Indian Express 13 Feb 2019

“Interior air quality can be abysmal,” said Beth McGroarty, research director for The Global Wellness Institute, a nonprofit organisation for the wellness industry ... According to data released last year by the World Health Organization, 9 of 10 people globally breathe polluted air....

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Veeam, the Dominant Market Leader, Announces Record 2018 Results

Market Watch 13 Feb 2019

Veeam launched its Global Resell agreement with NetApp ... "The data protection and replication software market remains a dynamic, competitive industry with global revenue exceeding $7 billion and forecast to grow 4.3 percent annually,” said Phil Goodwin, Research Director, IDC....

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ILO warns quality of jobs is sliding for global workforce

This is Money 13 Feb 2019

ILO Research Director Damian Grimshaw said 2 billion people, or 61 percent of the global workforce, were in informal employment, typically vulnerable jobs with low pay and no social protection ... Women overall were much less likely to be in the global labour market, with a 48 percent labour force participation rate compared to 75 percent for men....

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Pioneering Physician-Scientist to Receive 2019 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research

The Baytown Sun 13 Feb 2019

12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) announced today that Steven A ... National Foundation for Cancer Research Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Global Programs & Communications E-mail ... SOURCE National Foundation for Cancer Research....

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DHL Global Connectedness Index: Globalization Hits New Record High

The Saratogian 13 Feb 2019

In spite of growing anti-globalization tensions in many countries, connectedness reached an all-time high in 2017 ... Altman, Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of NYU Stern’s Center for the Globalization of Education and Management ... DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry....

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Are We Heading Towards a Synchronised Global Slowdown?

CounterPunch 12 Feb 2019

Prior to the global financial crisis (GFC) that started in the summer of 2007, the IMF used to define a global recession as global growth of less than 2% or 3% depending on who the director of research at the time was ... Olivier Blanchard, the director of research of the IMF between ......