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Qatar has been pioneering precision health in the region for close to a decade. This field enables clinicians to tailor genetic-guided dosing therapies based on the patient’s DNA significantly improving treatment outcomes. To address this gap, Qatar Biobank has collected biodata from around 40,000 participants, which is then sequenced by the Qatar Genome Programme.
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1 year ago Read more at ZAWYA

South Korea attracted 606,000 foreign national patients in 2023. This is the highest ever since 2009 when the ministry started to compile the number of foreign patients. The figure has been declining since the outbreak of COVID-19. Over half of foreign nation patients sought dermatology or plastic surgery. Japanese nationals topped the list of patients of foreign nationality.
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1 year ago Read more at The Korea Herald

Nalini Joshi Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. This is not a science fiction scenario. It may well become a reality when sufficiently powerful quantum computers come online. These devices will use the strange properties of the quantum world to untangle secrets that would take ordinary computers more than a lifetime to decipher.
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1 year ago Read more at University of Sydney

DAILY EXPRESS Tottenham have been forced to abandon plans to sign Arda Guler in the summer. Tottenham have reportedly been told they must pay £35m for Alessandro Buongiorno by Torino ahead of a potential summer pursuit. Crystal Palace are set to start building work this summer after sealing funds for a £150m facelift at Selhurst Park.
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1 year ago Read more at Sky Sports

Didi Astillah has come forward to question actress Ruhainies' apology and reconciliation offer. This is after, you slandered her left and right... "Suddenly, now, you put on a sad face, pretending to want reconciliation after the spread of conversations of 'love you' Didi shared this on her Instagram on Sunday (April 28)
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1 year ago Read more at The Star Online

Harvey Weinstein was hospitalised on April 27 after the city's highest court overturned his 2020 conviction on sex crime charges. The 4-3 decision was a shock reversal of one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement. Weinstein will remain jailed on a separate 16-year rape sentence handed down in California.
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1 year ago Read more at The Straits Times

Star’s board kicked off its CEO search in March, seeking an executive to take the reins from Robbie Cooke. Then-chairman David Foster stepped in as interim executive chairman. If Star is looking at someone outside the sector, it needs someone to get cracking now.
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1 year ago Read more at The Australian Financial Review

Huaqin Technology, the world's largest original design manufacturer (ODM) for mobiles, tablets and laptops, is in advanced talks with home-grown contract manufacturer Bhagwati Products Limited. The Chinese company held JV discussions with Lava International in 2022 but talks didn’t materialise due to several reasons, including an Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe.
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1 year ago Read more at Moneycontrol

TikTok has come under the spotlight after the US ordered its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app’s US assets or face a nationwide ban. Here is how it works and why it has attracted more discussion than technology used by its rivals such as Meta’s Instagram, Google’s YouTube and Snapchat: Algorithms. China made changes to its export laws in 2020 that give it approval rights over any export of algorithms and source codes.
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1 year ago Read more at Rappler

World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development will convene 1,000 global leaders from 92 countries on 28-29 April. The meeting will promote forward-thinking approaches to interconnected crises, while remaining realistic about shorter-term trade-offs. It will work to bridge the growing North-South divide on issues such as emerging economic policies, the energy transition and geopolitical shocks.
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1 year ago Read more at Eco-Business