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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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- Asia Pacific
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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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- Asia Pacific
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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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- Asia Pacific
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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
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This Indonesian Microfinance Startup Wants to Put Loan Sharks Out of Business
In Indonesia, 203 million people are classified as poor, living on less than US$4.50 per day. This group of consumers is not the section of the economic pyramid that conventional banks and insurance companies tend to prioritize, despite their making up the majority of the archipelago’s population. This is a problem Aidil Zulkifli, co-founder and CEO of UangTeman, hopes to solve.
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- Asia Pacific
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Microfinance, Health Care Institutions Partner to Improve Maternal Health for 800,000 Women in the Philippines
CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and Freedom from Hunger announced that under the “Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies” program, some 800,000 women have received maternal health education in the past 5 months and 3600 women have received healthcare in the past 12 months. The project aims to improve maternal health alongside their microfinance services in the Philippines, accelerating achievement of UN Millennium Development Goal 5.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- microfinance