All L.A. County Superior Court bench officers will be required to wear face coverings while on the bench or in courthouse public areas, the court said.

Semi-retired in Westwood, he'd rather stay at home, but begins each day taking a homeless tent census.

The need for food in L.A. County has reached record levels, putting food banks under pressure to deliver even while their normal supply chains are disrupted.

At least 100 protesters gathered outside the residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, with marchers calling for the economy to reopen and condemning the health orders enacted in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

MLB is expected to submit a proposal to players Tuesday to start the season in early July. The Dodgers and Angels would play at home and largely on the West Coast.

Learn how to take simple x/y coordinates, and create map polygons shaped like holiday images, that can be plotted using SAS/Graph's PROC GMAP.

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Watch the video and learn basic principles of modeling panel data using SAS/ETS.

SAS admins need to know about these menu options that may not be available in SAS Visual Analytics Viewer.

This paper highlights the many enhancements to SAS/ETS software and demonstrates how these features can help your organization increase revenue and enhance productivity.

 We introduced a Topics tab in the online documentation a few releases ago, and there are corresponding pages in our focus area that briefly describe the topic areas and the procedures that perform analyses for those areas.

This paper begins with a look at both optimization modeling and discrete-event simulation modeling, and explores how they can most effectively work together to create additional analytic value. It then considers two examples of a combined optimization and simulation approach and discusses the resulting benefits.

This paper provides recommendations for circumventing memory problems and reducing execution times for your mixed-modeling analyses, as well as showing the new HPMIXED procedure can be beneficial for certain situations, as with large sparse mixed models.

This paper provides a high-level tour of five modern approaches to model building that are available in recent releases of SAS/STAT.

This SAS Usage Note illustrates fitting a model containing a spline effect in PROC GLIMMIX. It discusses the spline basis output, the interpretation of the output, how to use the spline model to make predictions, and how to use the LSMEANS and ESTIMATE statements to compute quantities of interest.

You have just a few more days to submit your paper proposal for the 2017 SAS® Global Forum in Orlando on April 2–5. The call for papers ends and registration begins October 3.

This paper provides an example that shows you how to use multiple RANDOM statements in PROC NLMIXED to fit nested nonlinear mixed models, and it provides details about the computation that is involved in fitting these models.

In 2019, Moovaz secured an undisclosed amount of investment from Hustle Fund.

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Growthwell plans to use the funding to expand its alternative protein product range, among others.

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The startups in this cohort have raised over $39 million.

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Just last week, Sembcorp Cogen terminated its gasoil supply and storage agreement with Hin Leong.

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Oriente is the parent company of Finmas, Cashalo and Finizi, three online lenders operating in SE Asia.

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This marks the Series A round of funding for Helicap.

The post Japan’s Saison Capital leads $10m funding in SG-based fintech startup Helicap appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Archipelago's second fund will deploy 40-50% of its corpus in the Philippines.

The post PE firm Archipelago Capital eyes $250m for second Southeast Asia fund appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

All of the proceeds raised through the Ray of Hope platform will go directly to Beyond Social Services charity's COVID-19 Family Assistance Fund. 

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Proceeds will be used to buy agri-commodities from farmers in Vietnam, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Uganda.

The post Olam secures $176m loan from IFC, JICA appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

The fund will support initiatives that respond to community needs in Singapore amidst virus outbreak.

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The startup closed a bridge round with US-based SIG a few months ago.

The post SG-based healthtech firm mClinica seeks to raise $20m amid virus outbreak appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

The company went into receivership in February after DBS appointed KPMG as the receiver.

The post Singapore’s Hontop Energy in talks with banks to manage debt appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Headlines this week were dominated by more companies running into trouble amid the virus crisis.

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The $100 million Series C round was co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Temasek

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AsiaKredit provides consumer finance products to underserved consumers in the Philippines.

The post SG’s GoBear buys digital lender AsiaKredit to expand alternate consumer lending appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Singapore-based Ramblin' Brands raised a $4.4-million round from DSG Consumer Partners in 2016.

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The deal marks ARA Asset Management's entry into the fintech sector.

The post Singapore’s ARA, tycoon John Lim buy 52.08% stake in crowdfunding platform Minterest appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

The funding will be used by the company to expand its production capacity.

The post SG’s biodegradable plastic maker RWDC raises $133m in Series B round appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

An EY survey shows how competition in the M&A space is likely to come in from private capital players.

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KKR has about $58 billion in dry powder for new investments.

The post KKR sees Asia portfolio as driver for growth amid virus crisis appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Atento claims to be the largest customer relationship management and BPO player in Latin America.

The post GIC takes stake in LatAm outsourcing player Atento in debt-for-equity deal appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

China continued to dominate the megadeal market in the week, with car trader Chehaoduo alone bagging $200 million.

The post Editor’s take: The week that was – May 4-8 appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Despite the recent pressure of Covid-19, key SEA co-living operators said they would continue to expand this year.

The post Southeast Asian operators bullish on co-living growth prospects but see it as long-term play appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) returned nearly $200 million to Malaysia in May.

The post Malaysia recovers $323m of 1MDB fraud money, PM’s office says appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Most economists have cemented their expectations for the MAS to ease policy at its review scheduled for April.

The post Singapore inches towards first recession in two decades amid COVID-19, Malaysia travel ban appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

The Malaysian government announced a nationwide lockdown from March 18 to 31 to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The post Coronavirus lockdown gets dealmakers, entrepreneurs jittery in Malaysia appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

The firm is in talks with a host of investors in Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, apart from its home market.

The post Malaysian payments firm iPay88 in talks to raise $25m to expand ops appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

EPF has been open to increasing its overseas portfolio to diversify its investment risk.

The post Malaysia’s EPF said to have acquired London office block for $379m appeared first on DealStreetAsia.