The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Biogen Idec's Tecfidera (dimethyl fumarate), a new first-line oral capsule for people suffering from relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Tecfidera reduces relapses and ...
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Ira Glass, the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life, will be the fourth and final speaker in the 2012-2013 George T. Hunter Lecture Series on Sunday, April 7, at 4 p.m. at the Tivoli. Glass’s talk, dubbed ...
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Denmark-based Carlsberg Group has decided to acquire additional 30.29% shares in Chongqing Brewery Company in China. At RMB 20 per share, the total purchase price for the additional 30.29% stake in CBC will be around RMB 2.9bn ($461.49m). ...
Bobby O'Neal (aka. Dr Love) from Mission, BC, Canada has developed a love game app that is sure to spice up Valentine's Day for couples worldwide. O'Neal has a reputation for creating fun relationship enhancing love products. He is the ...
One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification. Since Mega was launched three weeks ...
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The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. The patching ...
The explosive growth in the production and sale of counterfeit goods is a crisis affecting consumers everywhere. This little understood and too-often ignored multi-billion dollar industry is a global menace, and the upcoming one-hour ...
Prince Edward Island (P.E.I) Brewing Company is planning to expand its market in Atlantic Canada using $2.14m loan from the Prince Edward Island government in Canada. The brewery has also raised $500,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada ...
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With inward remittance of foreign funds boosting the amount of demand deposits at banks, the annual growth rate of M1B, money supply in narrower definition, advanced to 3.65% in November, while M2, money supply in broader definition, ...
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The Canadian government followed through on last month's budget promise to streamline environmental reviews of resource projects with a plan for "responsible resource development." Announced Tuesday by Natural Resources Minister Joe ...
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Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), pointed out yesterday (Dec. 19) that the CBC will stick to the “properly loose” monetary policy in the first quarter next year. He expected Taiwan’s real interest ...
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Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), announced yesterday (Dec. 19) that the CBC has embarked on the establishment of “foreign-currency settlement platform,” which will start operation in the middle of next ...
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With the cross-Taiwan Strait currency clearance mechanism ready for launch, Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), said yesterday (Dec. 12) that the CBC will strive to obtain renminbi-business quota higher than Hong ...
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Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), confirmed for the first time yesterday (Dec. 12) that due to the need of deployment, a certain sovereign wealth fund from the Middle East has invested in Taiwan’s stock ...
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Ann Taylor celebrated the grand opening of its first international store with a chic in-store cocktail together with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). The first Canadian Ann Taylor flagship store is located in the Toronto Eaton ...
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