by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Around half the people hospitalised with COVID-19 experience at least one persistent symptom up to 12 months after the infection, according to a study published in The Lancet journal on Friday. The research on 1,276 patients from Wuhan, China, shows that around one in...
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 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, Non-Life
Mumbai: Even as the government is getting ready to privatise one of the state owned general insurers, Debasish Panda,secretary, department of financial services, ministry of finance has outlined government's expections from the public...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Non-Life, Technology
SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo has started taking a few San Franciscans on rides in its self-driving sport utility vehicles and hopes to open the robotaxis to anyone in the city in less than the three years it took to launch in its only other...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
TOKYO: A contaminant found in a batch of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccines delivered to Japan is believed to be a metallic particle, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported, citing sources at the health ministry. Japan on Thursday suspended the use of 1.63...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | International News, Risk Management, Technology
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Technology
China plans to propose new rules that would ban companies with large amounts of sensitive consumer data from going public in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Officials from China's stock...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 27, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management, Technology, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Libby Cherry Even in the 19th century, workers were beginning to resent the grind of office life. “You don’t know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief, day after day,” British essayist Charles Lamb wrote in a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
SHANGHAI: China is establishing new regulatory pillars for its giant Internet industry, but a new data security law and other rules are ambiguous in ways that leave companies fearful they may accidentally cross a line, lawyers say. The data security law, which goes...
