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Municipality supervises slaughtering of 8,879 sheep at abattoir in Doha
August 4, 2020
Doha: The Health Monitoring Section at Doha Municipality supervised the slaughtering of 8,879 sacrificial sheep and 117 cattle during first and second day of Eid Al Adha at Automated Abattoir in Doha. The slaughtered sacrificial animals were handed over to the people through three butcheries – Butchery of Automated Abattoir, Butchery of Regency Signal and Butchery of Kharatiyat and other outlets across the country. The"...
India’s central bank likely to cut rates despite inflation risk
August 4, 2020
MUMBAI: India’s worsening economic outlook as coronavirus cases soar has raised the chance the central bank will cut interest rates at its policy review on Thursday, in spite of inflationary pressures.
Around two-thirds of economists in a Reuters poll expect the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to cut the repo rate by another 25 basis points (bps) on Aug. 6 to a record low of 3.50 percent, and once more next quarter.
“High inflation has added confusion to the Reserve Bank’s policy outlook, but given"...
Spain’s international tourist arrivals drop 98% in June
August 4, 2020
MADRID: International tourist arrivals to Spain fell 98% year on year in June, official statistics released on Monday showed, as the country continues to reel from the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Over the first six months of the year some 10.8 million foreign tourists visited Spain, around 72 percent less than in the same period of 2019, the National Statistics Institute said.
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Disappointed’ billionaire brothers urge new talks on Saudi bid for Newcastle FC-
August 4, 2020
DUBAI: Another big financial backer of the £300 million ($390 million) bid for Newcastle United football club has come out in favor of a takeover led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The Reuben brothers, multibillionaire businessmen who want to buy 10 per cent of the club, said on Monday they were “very disappointed” when the bid was withdrawn late last week after months of stalling by the Premier League in England. "...
KSrelief distributes Eid gifts to orphan children in Yemen
August 4, 2020
ADEN — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre organized recreational activities and distributed gifts among orphan children in Yemen on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha as part of its year-long 'Seed of Safety' project, providing support to 600 orphans from different Yemeni governorates in cooperation with the Al-Khair Coalition for Humanitarian Relief.
This comes in the framework of the humanitarian and relief efforts provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the KSrelief, in"...
Excavation begins at historic Dakar market in renovation project
August 4, 2020
DAKAR: Heavy-duty excavators have begun to raze the famed Sandaga market, a sprawling hub of informal trade in the heart of Senegal’s capital Dakar, which the authorities want to rebuild and modernize. The great hall, built in the Sudanese-Sahel tradition in 1933, has housed hundreds of stalls selling merchandise of all kinds, from food to craft goods. It was closed in 2013 for public safety after the edifice was weakened by several fires. "...
Moody's Analytics Repeats IFRS 9 Wins at Risk Technology Awards
August 4, 2020
For the second straight year, Moody’s Analytics has won the Risk Technology Awards for IFRS 9 – Enterprise Solution of the Year and IFRS 9 – ECL Modelling Solution of the Year. The two IFRS 9 awards bring the Moody’s Analytics tally to seven in the 2020 Risk Technology Awards program. The complexity introduced into financial reporting by the IFRS 9 accounting standard has proven to be a major challenge. Measuring and reporting on the future performance of credit portfolios has introduced new data, analytics, and financial processes. Moody’s Analytics solutions for IFRS 9 are modular and flexible, to help institutions of any size meet the standard while strengthening their risk management and decision-making processes. The ImpairmentStudio™ for IFRS 9 platform is central to our IFRS 9 offering. This cloud-based software lets customers automate their impairment analysis while managing and monitoring their expected credit losses efficiently. The solution encompasses our award-winning economic forecasts, scenarios, data, and models.......
JEOL: Release of the New Scanning Electron Microscope JSM-IT700HR
August 4, 2020
JEOL Ltd. (TOKYO:6951) (President & COO Izumi Oi) announces the release of a new scanning electron microscope (SEM), the JSM-IT700HR for unprecedentedly high throughput in August 2020. Development background Scanning electron microscopes are used in various fields, such as nanotechnology, metals, semiconductors, ceramics, medicine, and biology. In addition, SEM applications"...
Global Visa Study Finds 67% of Small Businesses and 78% of Consumers Have Adopted New Behaviors to Adjust to COVID-19
August 4, 2020
As small and micro businesses (SMBs) worldwide continue to endure the financial impact of COVID-19, one thing is clear: rethinking the checkout or point-of-sale (POS) experience is essential for survival on Main Street. Visa (NYSE: V) today released the Visa Back to Business study assessing this dramatic shift to digital commerce in response to the pandemic, driven largely by changing consumer expectations for a safe and touchless payment moment. According to the eight market study of both consumers and SMBs, nearly eight-in-10 consumers worldwide (78%) have changed how they pay in order to reduce contact and more than two-thirds of SMBs (67%) have tried a new approach – whether launching an eCommerce site or changing POS technology – to keep their business on track. “Consumers are putting COVID-19 safety measures at the top of their shopping lists and rewarding businesses......
Patient Safety Movement Foundation, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, The Leapfrog Group, and the International Society for Quality in Health Care Join Forces for #UniteForSafeCare World Patient Safety Day Campaign
August 4, 2020
Today, four leading global organizations dedicated to fighting preventable deaths due to medical errors announced their partnership to co-convene the #uniteforsafecare program on World Patient Safety Day (September 17, 2020). In June, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced the wide-ranging campaign to bring attention to system-wide improvements that will ensure better health worker and patient safety outcomes, called #uniteforsafecare. Now, the organization will be joined by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), The Leapfrog Group, and International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) in co-convening the slate of programming, which includes a virtual physical challenge to raise awareness of the issue; collaboration with the National Association for Healthcare Quality’s annual conference, NEXT; an in-person demonstration in Washington, D.C. and a free virtual......
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