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China’s top five banks offer free mobile money transferring service
China's five biggest lenders announced to waive fees for money transfer services through mobile banking system and give a free allowance of 5,000 yuan via online banking transfers starting from today.
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Japanese Company Produces Fastest Vaccines Using Tobacco Leaves
Japanese pharma company Mitsubishi Tanabe has developed a vaccine production process using tobacco leaves which allows it to manufacture the vaccines at one sixth of the time taken normally, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported Tuesday.
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World’s First Dengue Vaccine Now Available in Philippines
The world’s first ever dengue vaccine is now available in the country, and doctors in several private hospitals are providing the vaccine against the potentially deadly dengue virus, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines (PIDSP) reported yesterday.
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The Case for a ‘Greater’ Private Sector Role in Family Planning
The past year can be considered a momentous period for global development. Several major crosscutting and comprehensive agreements — including the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement — will serve as blueprints for the world's development journey in the coming decades.
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World’s largest family planning conference under way
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday reiterated its pledge of an additional $120 million over the next three years to accelerate improved access to modern contraceptive methods for 120 million more women and girls throughout the developing world who lack access to quality family planning programs.
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Viewpoint: Why I joined a mobile payment system I can’t use
As it turns out, incentivizing has been a big differentiator between Alipay and its less successful western counterparts.
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The 10 Per Cent Solution
When the cow is in the news mostly for the wrong reasons, an Indian company based in Hyderabad gives us a reason to smile. Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) turns out to be a subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board. The latter of course was started by the “milkman of India” Verghese Kurien. As Operation Flood, with the aim of turning India into a milk surplus nation, stunned all with its success, the NDDB realised it was spending a fortune on cattle vaccines. In the ’80s, one dose of vaccine cost Rs 14 (equivalent to about Rs 350 today). The NDDB decided to set up IIL, its own vaccine manufacturing subsidiary, in 1982.
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IFC Lends P700 Million to Two Philippines Financial Institutions for MSME Financing
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a seven-year loan to CARD Bank, Inc. and CARD SME Bank, Inc. to benefit micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), microfinance borrowers, and women in rural areas.
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