by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 22, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
SHANGHAI: China’s notorious dog-meat festival has opened in defiance of a government campaign to improve animal welfare and reduce risks to health highlighted by the novel coronavirus outbreak, but activists are hopeful its days are numbered.The annual 10-day...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 22, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
BRUSSELS: Europeans are enjoying the gradual easing of coronavirus lockdown measures, but in hospitals they are already preparing for the next wave of infections.Some intensive care specialists are trying to hire more permanent staff. Others want to create a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Policy, Regulation
BEIJING: China's banking and insurance regulator said on Friday that it had approved an application by insurer AIA Group Ltd to convert all its branches in mainland China into a wholly-owned life insurance subsidiary to be headquartered in Shanghai. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Pandemic, Risk Management, Technology, Trends, Facts, Workplace/Employee Benefits
As a result of the viral COVID-19 outbreak, many of us have joined the millions of people around the world working from home, which has been declared a global pandemic as of this week. Many of the world’s leading US-based tech companies such as Apple,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life, Non-Life, Pension & Social Security, Workplace/Employee Benefits
London: High unemployment levels from the COVID-19 pandemic will mean Insurance providers will struggle to convince policyholders to keep policies, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Yasha Kuruvilla,Insurance Analyst at...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
READING, England: A stabbing rampage in the southern English town of Reading in which three people were killed and others wounded was an act of terrorism, police said on Sunday, calling the attack in a sunny park an atrocity. Detectives said a man had...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management
New Delhi: In view of depleting groundwater, there is a threat of irreversible damage to the environment leading to scarcity of drinking water, the National Green Tribunal has said while slapping Rs 25 lakh on two units in Noida for unauthorised...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Beijing: China banned imports from a prime US poultry producer and ordered a Beijing Pepsi manufacturing facility to shut Sunday as authorites clamped down on meals manufacturing and distribution amid a brand new coronavirus cluster within the capital. Health...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Foreign portfolio investors (FPI) have infused a net Rs 17,985 crore into the Indian capital markets in June so far amid increasing liquidity and higher risk appetite. According to the latest depositories data, a net sum of Rs 20,527 crore was pumped...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 21, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Mumbai: The country's leading lender SBI is upgrading its existing work-from-home policy to work-from-anywhere, as it gears up to adjust to the new challenges posed by COVID-19. The country's leading lender SBI is upgrading its existing work-from-home...
