MELBOURNE: Jayex Healthcare Limited announced the Group Chief Executive Officer of Jayex and Managing Director and Director of the Company’s subsidiary Jayex Technology Limited, Nick Fernando, has tendered his resignation effective 25 July 2020. Mr Michael Boyd, Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Jayex, will take on the role as Executive Chair and work with…
Xpeng Motors starts delivery of P7 high-performance intelligent EV sports sedan
GUANGZHOU: Xpeng Motors, a leading Chinese electric vehicle and technology company, has begun nation-wide delivery of its new P7 super-long range, high-performance, smart EV sports sedan to customers. This follows the receiving of the official production license on May 19th from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for its new own-built, wholly-owned factory, the…
Agreement reached on a preferred long-term power supply for Oyu Tolgoi
MELBOURNE: Rio Tinto, Turquoise Hill and the Government of Mongolia have reached an agreement on the preferred domestic power solution for Oyu Tolgoi that paves the way for the Government to fund and construct a State Owned Power Plant at Tavan Tolgoi. The agreement, which is a revision of the Power Source Framework Agreement (PSFA)…
Careem and Visa sign partnership to accelerate digital financial inclusion across MENA
DUBAI: Careem, the internet platform for the greater Middle East, and Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, have partnered to expand digital financial inclusion across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by integrating Visa credentials into the Careem Pay Super App and providing Careem captains (the term for Careem drivers) with financial…
New IHME COVID-19 forecasts predict more than 40,000 deaths in Pakistan by October 1
SEATTLE: In its first projections for Pakistan, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting 42,188 people (with a range of 18,380 to 107,181) will die from COVID-19 by October 1, 2020. “Pakistan is at a tipping point,” said IHME’s Dr. Ali Mokdad, a senior faculty member and…
Dot Republic to launch Pakistan’s first digital fitness network ‘C1 Fitness’
ISLAMABAD: Dot Republic Media, one of the biggest YouTube MCN (Multi-Channel Network) in the region, in collaboration with their talent partner Alchemists, has announced the launch of ‘CreatorsOne Fitness’, a first of its kind fitness platform in Pakistan. As the current situation continues to cause hindrance in the health and fitness regimes for people across…
AHF to pull $2M in Facebook ads if CEO Zuckerberg fails to act on hate postings
LOS ANGELES: AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global nonprofit AIDS organization, issued an ultimatum to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a July 4th deadline to act swiftly with steps to prevent hate speech on its social media platform postings and ads or AHF will pull its advertising dollars and join the growing…
Global smart PPE market to grow by $1.85 billion during 2020-2024
LONDON: The smart personal protective equipment (PPE) market is expected to grow by USD 1.85 billion during 2020-2024. The North America region led the smart personal protective equipment (PPE) market in 2019, followed by Europe, APAC, South America, and MEA respectively. During the forecast period, the North American region is expected to provide significant growth…
U.S. aluminum tariffs would make mockery of NAFTA 2 and ignore the real problem
TORONTO: Reports that new U.S. tariffs will be imposed on Canadian aluminum exports – in the very week that a new North American trade deal takes effect – make a mockery of the agreement, threaten thousands of Canadian jobs and ignore the real problem facing the industry, the United Steelworkers (USW) union says. “The re-imposition…
Nexon’s highly anticipated mobile Dungeon&Fighter will launch in China on August 12
TOKYO: NEXON Co., Ltd., a global leader in online games, NEOPLE INC., a consolidated subsidiary of Nexon, and Tencent Games, Nexon’s partner and publisher of Dungeon&Fighter in China, announced that Mobile Dungeon&Fighter will launch in China on August 12. Based on Nexon’s original IP and published by Tencent Games, Mobile Dungeon&Fighter’s highly anticipated release has…
ePlay adds more eSports in ES line of mobile games
TORONTO: ePlay Digital Inc. has announced that 3 categories of ePlay mobile games are now featured at www.eplaydigital.com. The categories are eSports, Sports, and Entertainment. iOS players can even compete for cash prizes with Outbreak ES, SwishAR ES, and Big Shot Swish. “ePlay’s portfolio is driving revenue from esports, in-app purchases and advertising,” says Trevor…
Total’s production ramp-up on Iara cluster with the start-up of the second FPSO
PARIS: Total and its partners announced the start-up of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) P-70 of the Iara cluster (Block BM-S-11A), located in the deepwater Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil. With a productive capacity of 150,000 barrels of oil per day, this new unit double the overall production capacity of the Iara cluster…