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Small bite, big threat: Simple ways to protect yourself from mosquitoes

Mosquito bite can result in life-threatening diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, filariasis, and the zika virus. (Photo: Getty Images/Thinkstock) They may seem small, but mosquitoes are one of the most fatal cr…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Elon Musk

What I read: The New Savvy CEO says these books have helped her become a better leader – Yahoo Singapore News

By Karen Lim SINGAPORE For Anna Haotanto, founder and CEO of financial and career platform The New Savvy, books are a means of enhancing her knowledge, broadening her perspective, and understanding the different ways that people think and live. Of particular…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Non-renewable Resources

People believe achieving environmental sustainability could hinder quality of life

Attempts such as the U.S. 'Green New Deal' to create a more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable world face a major challenge - people are sceptical you can achieve all three. And they believe that targeting environmental outcomes like clim…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Hiroshima

Israeli Border Provocation Moves Plan for Regional War Forward

Israel has bombed both Syria and Iraq with impunity. Syria, over the last couple of years, has endured attacks by Israel hundreds of times. In July, the IDF, using US-produced F-35i stealth fighter jets, attacked targets inside Iraq. From Al-Jazeera: The m…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Confusion clouds China’s social credit system

BEIJING: From penalising irresponsible dog owners to blacklisting dissenters, critics warn China's social credit system enables authorities to define "desirable and undesirable behaviour" and could allow unprecedented control of citizen's lives. The fledglin…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Chinese Economy

Higher costs drag on China Eastern first half profit

China Eastern Airliness first half operating profit dived 5% to CNY5.16 billion ($712 million) on the back of increasing expenses. The airlines revenue for the six months ended 30 June went up 8% to CNY58.9 billion. However, expenses for the six months ended…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Electric Scooter

WeMo deploys over 3,000 rental electric scooters in Taipei area

Rental electric scooter service operator WeMo has deployed over 3,000 electric scooters in the Taipei metropolitan area, according to company founder Jeffrey Wu. WeMo has registered about 200,000 members since operation began in October 2016, plans to increa…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Confusion clouds China’s social credit system

From penalising irresponsible dog owners to blacklisting dissenters, critics warn China's social credit system enables authorities to define "desirable and undesirable behaviour" and could allow unprecedented control of citizen's lives. The fledgling initiat…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Julian Assange

A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident

By Caitlin Johnstone You wouldnt know it from any Western mass media reporting as of this writing, but musician Roger Waters is about to perform the iconic Pink Floyd song Wish You Were Here in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel in ord…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Korean War

Son of Italian immigrants grew successful Danbury business – CT Insider

DANBURY — As a child, Peter V. Scalzo slept on the couch in the living room of his parents’ Danbury home, tended the animals and garden that provided their food, and watched how his relatives ran their businesses. Those observations and that emphasis on hard…

bubmagSeptember 2, 2019

Small bite, big threat: Simple ways to protect yourself from mosquitoes

What I read: The New Savvy CEO says these books have helped her become a better leader – Yahoo Singapore News

People believe achieving environmental sustainability could hinder quality of life

Israeli Border Provocation Moves Plan for Regional War Forward

Higher costs drag on China Eastern first half profit

WeMo deploys over 3,000 rental electric scooters in Taipei area

A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident

Son of Italian immigrants grew successful Danbury business – CT Insider

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