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Impact Investor Lotus Fund Teams Up With Vietnam’s Da Nang University to Launch Innovation Hub
Lotus Fund, an impact investing fund focused on Southeast Asia, has teamed up with the University of Da Nang’s College of Information Technology in Vietnam to launch Lotus Hub, an innovation space for entrepreneurs.
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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PRESS RELEASE: OPIC and Big Tree Farms Partner to Modernize Southeast Asian Agriculture
$3.7 million in development finance supports U.S.-led coconut and cocoa producer in Bali, boosting livelihoods for low-income farmers - financing comes through innovative OPIC offering to support impact investments.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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GE ships ready-made drug factories from Berlin to Beijing
As drug-makers attempt to move up the value chain to manufacture sophisticated new medicines in China, General Electric Co. wants to sell them factories: right off the shelf. “It’s one single manufacturing concept that we can replicate around the world,” said Olivier Loeillot, GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ Asia general manager.
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Manila Hosts Summit on Asia Pacific Financial Inclusion
The Philippines is hosting the inaugural Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Summit from Oct. 27-29 to augment financial inclusion in the Asia Pacific region. It is being held at the Makati Shangri-La in Manila.
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Street Lamp Targets Dengue Fever
Researchers at a Malaysian university have built an LED street lamp with a mosquito trap, both powered by wind and solar energy.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- infectious diseases, solar
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23 Million Adult Filipinos Run Out of Money for Basic Necessities, Says World Bank Survey
A World Bank survey, whose results were announced on Wednesday, October 21, showed that 23 million adult acknowledge that their households run out of money for food and other necessary items either “sometimes” (29%) or “regularly” (26%).
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- nutrition
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National Payments System in the Works in the Philippines
The framework for the envisioned national retail payments system (NRPS) could be ready by next month, a BancNet official said, in a bid to roll out the system by next year as the financial industry aims to have an integrated cashless network in the next three to five years.
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- digital payments
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Pacific-Rim Nations Led by U.S. Agree to Historic Trade Deal
A dozen Pacific-rim nations agreed to an historic pact that would cut trade barriers on items ranging from cars to rice, setting up a potentially contentious ratification vote before a skeptical U.S. Congress.
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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- public policy