by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
N'DJAMENA (CHAD): At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad's capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best. There are simply no vaccines at all. Not even for the doctors and nurses like her, who care for...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Technology
Leonid Bershidsky: When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc. in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new name’s meanings was a pun: alpha-bet, as in “a bet on investment returns above a benchmark.” This implied that the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Arianne Cohen From casual Fridays to after-work drinks, those weekly rituals once taken for granted are returning as Americans head back to the office. And while masks, plexiglass and empty conference rooms will alter the cubescape, employers are nevertheless...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
London's Court of Appeal will hear a request to revive a 5 billion pound ($6.95 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining group BHP over a 2015 dam failure in Brazil, a court order showed. Judge Nicholas Underhill has agreed to an oral hearing that could...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | International News, Non-Life, Technology
HONG KONG: Chinese online insurance technology firm Waterdrop Inc has raised $360 million by pricing its shares at $12 a piece in its New York initial public offering (IPO), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The company, which is backed by...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Cairo: An Egyptian court on Tuesday ruled that the container ship which blocked the Suez Canal in March could continue to be held in the waterway, rejecting an appeal by its Japanese owner against its detention, a judicial source said. The Ever Given, one of...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
WHO experts have voiced "very low confidence" in data provided by Chinese state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm on its COVID-19 vaccine regarding the risk of serious side-effects in some patients, but overall confidence in its ability to prevent the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
OTTAWA: Canada plans to focus its next budget on tackling climate change and its effects but the insurance industry, amid skyrocketing costs, is concerned the government will move too slowly on the key first step of mapping flood risks. Flood mapping is used to...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
French banks and insurers should speed up their response to climate change, France’s banking regulator said on Tuesday, after publishing what it called the world’s first climate-related stress test of banks. Other financial watchdogs around the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
TOKYO: Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Olympic officials have...
