The Singapore office of global legal practice Eversheds Sutherland today announced the appointment of Gerard Ng as a partner in the Banking and Financial Services Practice group. With over 20 years of experience, Gerard is a specialist in len...
New LIBOR transition publications On 16 January 2020, the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates published a set of documents outlining priorities and milestones for sterling LIBOR transi...
Background The Procuring Authority has engaged the International Finance Corporation, acting through its Public Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Services division, to act as lead transaction advisor in relation to the Project. The RFQ will ...
Read our full newsletter in PDF Keep calm and breathe With 2019 coming to a rapid close, and because of the significant impacts that recent environmental trends and changes have on the Mining and Natural Resources Sector, we have decided to consolid...
The BEE Commission’s report 2018, between 2017 and 2018, had no significant change in the levels of transformation, with black ownership reflecting a decline to 25.2% from 27% and current management control still sitting at 38% for blac...
Background On 9 January 2020, REPDO invited developers to prequalify via a request for qualifications (“RfQ”) for the third round of the NREP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Third round of the NREP There will be four photovoltaic (&ldquo...
Weare delighted to have partnered with the International Renewable Energy Agency and the Terrawatt Initiative in the development of the Open Solar Contracts which were launched recently at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. The publication...
Following the detection of a new coronavirus strain of pneumonia in Wuhan, China in late 2019 (now named ‘COVID-19’), the subsequent scale of the outbreak and the measures undertaken by various governmental authorities to contain it, hav...
Following the detection of a new coronavirus strain of pneumonia in Wuhan, China in late 2019 (now named ‘COVID-19’), the subsequent scale of the outbreak and the measures undertaken by various governmental authorities to contain it, hav...
This year, the Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD), a platform for informal political discussion on climate policy related issues, took place online on 27 and 28 April 2020. One of the highlights of this year’s edition of the Petersberg Climate ...
(MENAFN - CDN Newswire) The comprehensive research study on [To enable links in your articles, contact MENAFN Click here ] presents a thorough marke... ......
(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT, May 9 (KUNA) -- Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ana... ......
(MENAFN - Jordan News Agency) Amman, May 9 (Petra) - The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohammed Ississ, said the only way out to address the consequences o... ......
(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Riyadh, May 9, 2020, SPA -- An official source at the Ministry of Interior stated that, in light of the health authoriti... ......
(MENAFN - Jordan News Agency) Amman, May 9 (Petra) �� Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Wissam Rabadi Saturday discussed with British... ......
(MENAFN - Jordan News Agency) Amman, May 9 (Petra)- Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Wissam Rabadi, discussed with the British ... ......
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Doha: Qatar is expected to be affected by northwesterly fresh to strong wind starting Monday, May 11 to Thursday, May 14, sai... ......
(MENAFN) On Friday, Lebanese authorities affirmed the existence of 12 new coronavirus cases, increasing the overall number of people tested positive f... ......
(MENAFN - Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 9 Trend: The May edition of the influential Russian magazine "Natsionalnaya Oborona" (National Defe... ......
Hundreds of paramilitaries kept people off the streets and virtually all stores have been closed for at least a week. On Friday night, security forces fired tear gas at stone-throwing residents who ventured...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two men were arrested for the strangling deaths of three sisters who...
Former President Obama during a private call on Friday night with his former aides tore into the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis, calling it an “absolute chaotic disaster.” The blistering assessment, confirmed to CNN by three former Obama administration officials, came on a call intended to encourage members of the Obama Alumni Association to engage with former Vice President Joe BidenJoe...
In late February, China expelled three Wall Street Journal correspondents after the newspaper’s publication of an opinion column that Beijing condemned as racist. ......
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday dismissed rumours about his ill-health, saying that he is healthy and has been working as the country fights coronavirus crisis. "I am completely healthy and am not suffering from any disease," Shah tweeted in Hindi. In his post, the Home Minister said that...
Nanjing University life science faculty's discovery of the anti-tumor mechanisms of high-salt diet was recently reported by Nature Communication and hailed by colleagues as a disruptive step of progress. Professors Zhang Junfeng and Dong Lei's team at the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology of School of Life Sciences published in the online journal on April 7, 2020, the paper 'High-salt diet inhibits tumor growth in mice via regulating myeloid-derived suppressor cell differentiation' (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15524-1). The publication drew widespread interest from at home and abroad. The Nature Research Cancer...
Afraid of contracting the COVID-19, a family in the Indian state of Karnataka, abandoned their mentally-challenged, dead relative's body last week. This is when, three policemen took the job upon themselves to give the deceased a dignified burial. Tweeps are saluting them for their "thoughtful" gesture. The 44-year-old deceased man, was killed earlier this week when...
Repatriation flights and naval warships help return some citizens after long delays Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Relieved Indians are arriving at airports across the country on the first flights to bring home those stranded abroad, along with those who will arrive on...
Narrated by Zhang Minghong I walked into the studio of the Beijing TV on October 30, 2019 and participated in the recording of a TV program to talk about my life after retirement from the Chinese military over 30 years ago. In fact, I am a very ordinary Chinese veteran. I have been retired from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) for nearly 30 years and have been earning a living by loading and unloading and riding a tricycle in Ya'an, a city in the western part of China's Sichuan Province. During this time, I haven't done anything incredible. I think the reason why the TV station invited me to participate in the show has to do with the belief that I have persisted for so many years....
Google’s 3D animals are the best antidote to lockdown boredom. Here’s how to get them and the comprehensive list of what you can find. ......
News & Events 9th May 2020 Protocol will help businesses and workers to return to work safely following COVID-19 closures The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) have been charged with oversight and enforcement The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, today Saturday, 9 May 2020 published the National 'Return to Work Safely Protocol'. The Protocol clearly and comprehensively sets out the steps and processes that businesses must take to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. The Protocol was developed and agreed in consultation with the members of the Labour Employer Economic Forum, which is the forum for high-level dialogue between government, and...
The U.K. is expected to require incoming airline passengers to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the country due to concerns about the coronavirus, according to local reports. The only passengers who are exempt from the new protocol, expected to...
We have begun an independent investigationinto the contact the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) had with a man before he suffered a life-changing injury in Haringey, north London on Monday 4 May 2020. The MPS made a mandatory referralto us following the incident when police on patrol approached a man, in his 20s, on Burgoyne Road, N4. Such a referralis usual practice when a person is seriously injured following direct or indirect police contact. We understand that the man ran off and police officers chased and then Tasered him as he jumped over a wall. The man fell and suffered serious injuries. He was arrested for drug related offences and was taken to hospital where he was assessed as...
An Italian nurse working on the frontline against the Chinese coronavirus was brutally sexually assaulted by an African migrant after finishing her shift and heading to her home. ......
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned that the risk of a hard Brexit is increasingly likely for the United Kingdom as London has so far made almost no progress in talks with the European Union (EU) on the future trade relationship, criticizing Britain for disregarding the agreed political agreement. In an interview with Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper on Saturday, the German top diplomat expressed his concern amid floundering trade talks between London...
Turkey has neutralised over 1,300 terrorists across five different operation areas since the beginning of 2020, the country’s national defense minister said. In...
news V Sunday of Easter. Eucharistic Liturgy, online at 8pm (GMT 2) from the church of Sant'Egidio May 9 2020 - ROME,...
Glenn Hutchinson has been in touch to tell us how his passion for the Spireites began when he visited Saltergate as a youngster in the mid-50s... I first visited the ground when I was about 7/8 in 1954/55 with my dad. Caught the bug and been a Spirerite ever since. When I was...
The settlement report said that in strange and reprehensible statements that reflect the Zionist colonial and racist ideology, the American ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, urged the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz to accelerate the announcement of the annexation of areas in the occupied West Bank to Israel. He told an Israeli newspaper that “if the government of Israel announces this, the United States will be prepared to recognize, in the coming weeks, Israel’s sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria, and that it will recognize 30% of the occupied West Bank as areas of Israel within the deal of the century in the...
Learn about yet another Little Known Character in America with this week's column from Cal Campbell! ......
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Many people saw more than the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery’s life when a video emerged this week of white men armed with guns confronting the black man, a struggle with punches thrown, three shots fired and Arbery collapsing dead. The Feb. 23 shooting in coastal Georgia is drawing comparisons to a much darker period of U.S. history — when extrajudicial killings of black people, almost exclusively at the hands of white male vigilantes, inflicted racial terror on African Americans. It frequently happened with law enforcement complicity or feigned ignorance. The footage of Arbery’s death was not the only thing that rattled the nation’s conscience. It took more than...
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. TOP OF THE HOUR: — Belarus hosts large military parade despite sharply rising coronavirus infections. — Germany says Europe must acknowledge it wasn’t well prepared for virus. — Seoul shuts down nightclubs, bars after spread of virus linked there. ___ PATNA, India — About 70 people fled from a quarantine center in the Indian state of Bihar’s Nawada district, alleging poor facilities and lack of food. They are among the tens of thousands of migrant workers who...
FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has canceled dozens of spring traditions, from college basketball’s Final Four to Easter Sunday services, but there’s one rite that’s going on largely unfettered — turkey hunting. Every state except Alaska, which is the only state with no turkeys, hosts a spring turkey hunt each year. The birds, whose domesticated cousins grace Thanksgiving tables from Hawaii to Maine, are among America’s greatest conservation success stories. The hunt is taking on a new look in some parts of the country this year due to social distancing laws. Many states, including Maine, are requiring out-of-state residents to self quarantine for two...