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Visa partners with Micro Pension
Global payments technology company Visa on Wednesday announced a partnership with Micro Pension Foundation, an Indian non-profit organization.
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Will Migrant Workers Drive Bitcoin’s Mundane Future?
A certain seediness seems to be a necessary element in getting people’s juices flowing about virtual currencies.
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SAP Expands Social Sabbatical to China in 2013, Increases Service Assignments Abroad
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it is now more than doubling the number of employees it sends to help entrepreneurs and small to midsize companies solve business challenges in emerging markets. This social sabbatical initiative by SAP is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy to foster education and entrepreneurship among disadvantaged communities. In this next phase of the program, SAP is investing €1.8 million to strengthen the leadership skills of 72 qualified employees and create sustainable impact in the selected countries.
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Health Care: Commissioner Sues For Co-operation Amongst Practitioners
Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak, called for collaboration among doctors to improve healthcare delivery in Nigeria. Dakwak made the call at the launch of Apollo Global Doctors Network-West Africa, in Lagos
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GSK aims to market world’s first malaria vaccine
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will seek marketing approval for the world's first malaria vaccine next year after trial data showed the shot significantly cut cases of the disease in African children. The vaccine known as RTS,S was found, after 18 months of follow-up, to have almost halved the number of malaria cases in young children in the trial, and to have reduced by around a quarter the number of malaria cases in infants.
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- Health Care
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World Bank president to open 2013 Microcredit Summit
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim will open the 2013 Microcredit Summit: Partnerships against Poverty on October 9 with a recorded statement urging the nearly 800 delegates from 69 countries to commit themselves to the advancement of microfinance to end extreme poverty.
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Easing Nigeria’s Banking Gridlock
The past decade of banking in Nigeria has not been for the faint hearted.
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Medanta Opens Its First Telemedicine Centre in Chandigarh
Dr. Naresh Trehan, renowned cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon and Chairman cum Managing Director of Medanta -The Medicity inaugurated the region's first telemedicine consultation facility at Prime Diagnostic Centre in Chandigarh today on the eve of the World Heart Day. Dr. Trehan said that it is a part of Medanta's commitment to leverage technology to provide easily accessible and affordable healthcare to the people in the country and help patients make informed choice for the course of treatment after consultation with super-specialists of Medanta.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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