by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology, Workplace/Employee Benefits
China has issued its most comprehensive warning yet against the excessive-work culture that pervades the country’s largest corporations, using real and richly detailed court disputes to address a growing backlash against the punishing demands of the private...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | Indian News, Life, Policy
New Delhi: India has selected 10 investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and SBI Capital Market to handle the initial public offering of Life Insurance Corp of India, two government sources said, in what is set to be the country's biggest-ever...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
London: Protection against Covid-19 offered by two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines begins to fade within six months, underscoring the need for booster shots, according to researchers in Britain....
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life
GENEVA: Nearly 1.3 billion people globally suffer from hypertension, a silent killer often driven by obesity that increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Hypertension can be easily...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
A supply-chain crunch that was meant to be temporary now looks like lasting well into next year as the surging delta variant upends factory production in Asia and disrupts shipping, posing more shocks to the world economy. Manufacturers reeling from shortages...