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The media hype and disinformation campaign regarding the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus have created a Worldwide atmosphere of fear and uncertainty following the launching of  a global public health emergency by the WHO on January 30th.  The fear campaign is ongoing.  Panic and uncertainty. National governments and the…

By: Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 3, 2020 8:54:16 am Naomi Seibt and Greta Thunberg. (Source: Twitter/AP)Nineteen-year-old German Naomi Seibt has recently gained prominence as the “anti-Greta” activist, after The Washington Post ran a front-page profile of her in their February 24 issue. Seibt was also in…

For a while now, Australian employers have called out a mismatch between the skills people have and the ones employers say they require both now and into the future. As companies transform and digitise, they need key skills to start up and then sustain these efforts. Getty Those skills cover…

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Posted by Damian G. Didden and Christina C. Ma, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Thursday, February 27, 2020 Damian G. Didden is a partner and Christina C. Ma is an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. This post is based on their Wachtell memorandum.Recently, the World Economic Forum…

Every year, sustainability comes up at the World Economic Forum (WEF), focusing largely on low-carbon energy. But this year I sensed that like me, the other business leaders who met in Davos will go back to their companies with a renewed mission to work through how our organizations will steer…

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra   He was speaking at a CII event in Kolkata. West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday said suspicious transactions relating to GST is going up, while ₹46,000 crore is yet to be recovered from penal interest charges arising out of delayed GSTR…

For the better part of a decade, observers of Japan’s conservative film industry have predicted that its repeatedly utilized formula would begin to fail. That is to say, audiences would tire of the continued churn of films adapted from legacy content, such as manga and television programs. It hasn’t happened.…

IT IS PROBABLY the first time in years that Lebanon has wanted to turn down a loan. With the economy in free fall the country’s new government, seated in January after months of horse-trading, has reluctantly turned to the IMF for help. They held a first round of talks on…

IT IS PROBABLY the first time in years that Lebanon has wanted to turn down a loan. With the economy in free fall the country’s new government, seated in January after months of horse-trading, has reluctantly turned to the IMF for help. They held a first round of talks on…