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Wits University Homecoming
2022 marks 100 years since the establishment of Wits in 1922 with a plethora of activities to celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime milestone taking place in campus this weekend.
Here are details of the online and virtual event activities with full details of all activities in the digital Wits100 Homecoming Programme with the online event hyperlinks on the front cover.
Key virtual events include the following:
- Wits Centenary Parade Friday 2 September from 13:00 -15:00 SAST
- Wits 100 Light Show at Great Hall: Friday 2 September from 19:00-21:00 SAST
- Wits Live Webcams: The Great Hall and The Library Lawn


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According to media reports, on January 14, Microsoft officially announced that it would officially stop supporting the windows 7 operating system from January 14, 2020. This means that win7, the 10-year-old system launched by Microsoft, has officially ended. After Microsoft stopped supporting it, users can still use the classic operating system normally, but Microsoft will not carry out any more updates, including software patches that can prevent network attacks.
Windows 7 system was born in 2009. It has been more than 10 years since it was released. Microsoft promised 10 years of maintenance, so the impact of this outage is not small.
而Windows 10系统首次发布时，推出过免费升级活动，不过该活动已结束。因此，微软建议直接买台新电脑上手Windows 10。对于此次更新，也有网友担心Windows 10还不够稳定：“Win10除了花里胡哨真比不过7，我两个都用，稳定性及兼容性完胜。”
At the time of the first release of windows 10 system, there was a free upgrade activity, but it was over. Therefore, Microsoft suggests buying a new computer to use windows 10 directly. For this update, some netizens also worry that windows 10 is not stable enough: "in addition to its flowery style, win10 can't be compared with 7, I use both of them, and the stability and compatibility are perfect."
根据Net Applications去年12月的数据，32.74%的笔记本和台式机仍在运行Windows 7系统，落后于Windows 10，后者已在超过9亿台设备上运行。
According to the data of net applications in December last year, 32.74% of laptops and desktops are still running Windows 7 system, lagging behind windows 10, which has run on more than 900 million devices.
运行Windows 10的PC在处理器和其他硬件方面做出了改进，可以帮助电脑以更快的速度运行。有时候，为旧PC升级到新的操作系统可能会导致其速度变慢，或是无法支持新功能。举例来说，Windows 10有新的安全选项，如面部识别或指纹识别登录等，这些选项需要新的硬件才能使用。
PCs running Windows 10 have made improvements in processors and other hardware that can help computers run faster. Sometimes upgrading an old PC to a new operating system can slow it down or fail to support new features. For example, windows 10 has new security options, such as face recognition or fingerprint login, which require new hardware to use.
According to netizens' tests, at present, pirated Windows 7 can still be installed and upgraded by directly loading MSDN official image. After the successful installation, windows 10 will obtain the rights and interests of digital activation, and can normally enjoy the rights and interests of genuine windows 10 in later use.
Of course, if you really don't want to update it, you can continue to use it. As mentioned above, as long as the security is good, it will not have any impact at all, nor will it affect the normal use of the computer.
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SHARES in easyJet soared on Tuesday after a quarterly revenue rise showed the British budget airline had benefited as rivals struggled, in the first trading update under new boss Johan Lundgren.
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In a letter to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Federal Trade Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch said he opposes Microsoft's plan to set do-not-track (DNT) as the default in its latest version of Internet Explorer, reports MediaPost. In the letter, Rosch pointed to his divergence from the views of Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX), who recently endorsed Microsoft's plan. "Microsoft's default DNT setting means that Microsoft, not consumers, will be exercising choice as to what signal the browser will send," Rosch wrote. Meanwhile, online privacy seal company TRUSTe has also come out against the plan. CEO Chris Babel says consumers "should make their own decisions" about their privacy online but notes most consumers are not "adequately informed or equipped" to do so.
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The World Trade Organization Rules Against Us
Since its creation in 1995, the WTO has been a major obstacle in America’s ability to stay competitive in the world market. Our nation has become handcuffed— forced to increase free trade with countries that have few to no laws regarding workers’ rights, child labor or environmental protection. This means these countries can manufacture at a vastly lower rate, and American companies will have no choice but to do business with them in order to stay competitive.
The United States government has tried on countless occasions to protect our industries, but the World Trade Organization (WTO) regularly rules against these appeals. In fact, the WTO rules against the U.S. in nine out of every 10 cases—requiring changes to laws, and damaging the American economy.
There are many examples of WTO rulings against the U.S.:
*In 2002, Brazil challenged U.S. federal subsidies on its imported Brazilian cotton. The WTO ruled against the U.S., and eventually gave Brazil permission to impose tariffs totaling nearly $830 million on American made products such as cars, textiles, electronics and media.
*In 2010, the U.S. attempted to ban uninspected chicken products from China that may be harmful or toxic. The WTO ruled against the U.S., stating that the ban was not in accordance with its regulations, and putting U.S. consumers in harm’s way.
*In 1995, Venezuela challenged U.S. regulations on imported gasoline. The WTO ruled against the U.S., preventing them from protecting their own oil manufacturers.
*In 2004, two Caribbean states challenged U.S. prohibitions on cross-border gambling, a ban put in place to protect against money laundering and other dangerous exposures. The WTO ruled against the U.S., stating the ban breached a global deal which liberalized trade in services — in this case being online casinos.
*In 2010, anti-dumping duties imposed by the U.S. on Brazilian orange juice were challenged. The WTO ruled against U.S., opening the door for around $400 million dollars in Brazilian orange juice to be shipped there each year.
As long as the United States is ruled by the WTO, these problems are not going to go away. U.S. leaders need to request an emergency timeout from these trade pacts, a procedure for which the WTO has a clearly established process. Also, either Congress or the president could initiate an end to the United States’ WTO membership altogether within a mere six months.
America needs to take action immediately in order to stop the WTO from holding its hammer above the entire nation’s head.


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From the description: “The Thanks for Nothing Mother’s Day Card is very versatile. It can be a serious card that you would give to a deadbeat mother. Or, the card can be humorous and given to a well-loved mother that has given their child the world and much more.” Um, LOL?
- It's on: Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination with some fiery words for Donald Trump 🇺🇸
- Amazon's in its Prime. The company's profits rose 831% this quarter thanks to its growing cloud computing business ☁💸
- Old-school MTV is returning Aug. 1 with shows like "Daria," "Beavis & Butt-Head," "Cribs," and "Punk'd" 📺 🙌


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On March 9th, Nissan announced a new technology for an electric drive powertrain called "X-in-1". According to this new technology, the core components of Nissan's pure electric and e-POWER vehicle systems will achieve shared and modular applications.
Currently, Nissan Automotive has successfully developed a "3-in-1" powertrain prototype, which has modular designs for motors, inverters, and reducers, and will be applied to pure electric vehicles. In addition, the "5-in-1" prototype further realizes the modular design of motors, inverters, reducers, generators, and speed increasers, and will be applied to Nissan e-POWER models. These integration methods can allow the core components of Nissan's pure electric vehicle and e-POWER technology to share the same production line.
Through the universalization and modularization of the components and technologies mentioned above, as well as the evolution of core technologies, Nissan Automobile expects that by 2026, the company's research and development and manufacturing costs will be reduced by 30% compared to 2019, achieving the goal of keeping the cost of e-POWER models in line with that of fuel models.
In terms of core technology, a reporter from First Finance learned that in order to reduce the cost of electric vehicles, the use of heavy rare earths in the newly developed motors of Nissan Motors will be reduced to less than 1%.
Coincidentally, at the Tesla 2023 Investor Day held in early March of this year, Tesla engineers also stated that Tesla's next-generation platform would reduce the use of silicon carbide by 75%, and the next-generation permanent magnet motor would completely eliminate the use of rare earth materials without loss of energy efficiency, resulting in a total manufacturing cost reduction of $1000.
In response, Nissan executives said in interviews with media such as First Financial that Tesla would reduce the use of silicon carbide by 75%, a development direction consistent with that of Nissan Automobile. Silicon carbide is a very expensive material, and how to reduce its usage is actually the key to improving competitiveness and reducing costs.
As for magnet materials, there are some differences in the development routes between Tesla and Nissan. The above executive added, "Nissan's idea is to reduce the use of rare earth elements in weight, with the ultimate goal of reducing the proportion to zero. Tesla's idea is to stop using all rare earth materials, including neodymium magnets, which is not the same as our direction. Nissan is developing a new generation of neodymium magnets, which cannot be explained in detail at present, but we are also working to reduce costs."
Currently, the development of new energy vehicles in China is in full swing, and the sales volume has remained the first in the world for 8 consecutive years. However, Japanese cars previously labeled as durable and economical in the field of fuel vehicles have repeatedly suffered setbacks in the field of new energy. According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2022, the domestic market sales of self owned brand new energy passenger vehicles accounted for 79.9%, up 5.4 percentage points year-on-year.
In an interview with the media, Nissan executives said that in the past 10 years, China's independent brands have made remarkable progress, as have the development of electric vehicles. The technology development is very fast, the performance is very high, the appearance is very cool, and the launch speed of new cars is also very fast. "I greatly admire the achievements made by Chinese independent brands. Nissan Automobile also has its own strengths and characteristics. We have been selling electric vehicles in different countries for over a decade and have accumulated a lot of electric drive technology. In the future, we want to take advantage of such technological advantages and engage in friendly competition with some Chinese automobile manufacturers."
According to the "Nissan Vision 2030", Nissan plans to launch 27 new electric drive models by the 2030 fiscal year, including 19 pure electric models, further strengthening the product portfolio.


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From Birmingham To Bhutan – Logistics company transports orthotic shoes to children in need
Birmingham-based logistics provider PGS Global has teamed up with one of its longest standing customers to deliver 900 pairs of shoes to children in need in Bhutan.
The global logistics company, which is a member of national network Pallet-Track, assisted in the delivery of 11 pallets which were taken from Salts Healthcare in Birmingham and delivered to the Draktsho Vocational Training Centre for Special Children and Youth in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Salts Healthcare, which provides a range of user-friendly products to hospitals and consumers, had approached several global carriers to assist with the project but experienced reluctance – until PGS Global heard about the difficulties and stepped in.
Paul Eyles, managing director at PGS, said: “We have worked with Salts Healthcare for more than 25 years and I was determined not to let their generosity go to waste.
“My commercial director, David Bayliss, investigated all the possibilities and with a great deal of co-ordination we were able to transport the shoes to Calcutta, then hired vehicles to make the hazardous four-day trip to Bhutan.
“David and I were also able to visit the centre and see the shoes being handed over. Very few people are lucky enough to travel to Bhutan and to be visiting for such a special reason makes it even more amazing.”
Since their visit, PGS Global has agreed to sponsor three teachers at the centre over the next three years.


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Nintendo is bringing back its re-launched retro NES Classic Mini console after it sold out due to popular demand.
The Japanese video game company will bring back its retro revival after its original run of consoles sold out and was discontinued after a few months, leaving many fans empty handed.
The NES Classic Mini is a new version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, first released in 1983, which helped popularise iconic gaming series such as Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda.
Nintendo released the NES Classic Mini in 2016, but after a limited run of only a few months discontinued production. The new batch is set to be released on June 29.
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Posted by Mark J. Miller on September 30, 2013 01:53 PM
NBA teams are generally not lacking in celeb star power, but the Toronto Raptors haven’t elicited a lot of excitement in the team’s 18-year history. That all is about to change today as the team announced that rapper Drake will assume the multi-faceted role of brand ambassador, consultant, and business partner for the ball club, according to the Toronto Star.
The news comes just as the NBA announced that Toronto will host the 2016 NBA All-Star Game—the first time that the game will be played outside of the Lower 48. And Toronto could use the publicity.
Toronto was the worst team in its division last season, though certainly not the worst in the league (we’re looking at you, Orlando). While it made some personnel changes this summer, as Sports Illustrated notes, it doesn't seem as if any new talent has been brought in. So despite the excitement generated around the All-Star game and the addition of Drake, the brand boost won't go very far if the team can't get some W's.Continue reading...
what's in a name
Posted by Abe Sauer on August 12, 2013 11:33 AM
A built-in fanbase; a global market; a universally recognizable brand name and logo. Some of the world's biggest brands are well-endowed with all of these characteristics, however, many of them are missing one, important thing: a great brand story. However, one international conglomerate has found a way around this; by buying a local Milwaukee, Wis. coffee shop's backstory.
With the kind of humble beginnings that make for a great brand heritage, Alterra Coffee opened its doors in 1993 on the fifth floor of a Milwaukee warehouse amidst the metro areas worst financial years. With record-setting unemployment and a widespread cryptosporidium outbreak in the municipal water supply, it wasn't the best time to start peddling coffee. But with grit, good grounds and great service, Alterra built a tremendous local reputation. The brand's locations—which mirror the clean, franchised, free WiFi designs of other major coffee houses—popped up all over Milwaukee. As a movement toward buying local took off across the US, Alterra was perfectly positioned to give Milwaukee coffee lovers their desired Starbucks experience with a local conscience. But it turns out that Alterra's dark roast wasn't the most coveted part of its business.Continue reading...
brands under fire
Posted by Ben Berkon on July 10, 2013 12:46 PM
It's been quite a while since US phone users considered purchasing a BlackBerry device in favor of Apple’s iPhone or Google’s Android.
In April 2012, when CEO Thorsten Heins took over Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM), the Canada-based BlackBerry manufacturer, he hoped the supposedly state-of-the-art BlackBerry 10 software (and re-invented touch screen and keyboard phones) would put RIM back on the map. He even enlisted Alicia Keys as Creative Director, following in the footsteps of other high-profile brand/celebrity collaborations. But the heavy investment in the company's future doesn't have much to show for itself yet. After a reported $84 million loss in June, the stock endured a 28 percent drop. New phone sales, in general, lagged.
At the company's annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday, Heins tried to downplay the elephant in the room.Continue reading...
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Posted by Adeline Chong on July 9, 2013 01:07 PM
In Asia, the tiger is highly revered and seen as a symbol of strength, power, courage and energy. With its recent makeover and steps taken to improve its operations and customer service, it appears that the newly minted Tigerair intends to uphold the symbolism behind its name, leaping tiger in its logo or not.
The low-cost, Singapore-based carrier formerly known as Tiger Airways announced its rebranding earlier this month, complete with a new, more subtle logo and a renewed approach to consumer relations. The airline will now allow passengers to make changes to bookings online and have also announced mobile and web check-in for all passengers—services already widely available on competing low-cost carriers like Air Asia. The carrier hopes to get a leg up on competition though with its new call center—an ammenity that other airlines don't offer in the region—to field customer inquiries and opinions.
Tigerair CEO Koay Peng Yen told brandchannel, “We hope to be able to better connect with our customers through our new brand personality—warm, passionate and genuine. We will also strive to deliver more positive experiences to our customers by improving our service quality.”Continue reading...
Posted by Alicia Ciccone on May 28, 2013 01:21 PM
Following the official split of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. into separate news and entertainment companies, the man in charge has unveiled the new logo for its News division—one that's very familiar to the Aussie media mogul.
The delicate script logo is based off of the handwriting of Rupert Murdoch himself along with that of his father, according to a company memo sent by CEO Robert Thomson. "The name is historic and the script is based on the writing of Rupert and his father, who have provided us all with not only a name, but a remarkable professional platform," Thomson wrote.
Earlier this month, the company revealed the name and logo for its independent entertainment division, which will be called 21st Century Fox following the spin-off. The name and logo are a clean update on the existing identity of News Corp's iconic Twentieth Century Fox brand.Continue reading...
Posted by Mark J. Miller on May 22, 2013 11:36 AM
New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art is taking its collection of more than 19,000 items for a ride downtown in two years as it moves from its current location to a new Renzo Piano-designed building right at the southern end of the High Line. With the move, museum execs saw the opportunity to also change up the museum's 13-year-old blocky logo.
Maybe to avoid too much change at once (or so it can be sure to have all the new stationery in place before the new building’s opening), the Whitney unveiled its new logo and visual identity system this week. It consists of a very simple W that Amerstam-based design firm Experimental Jetset apparently sees a lot of symbolism in.Continue reading...
Posted by Mark J. Miller on April 11, 2013 02:34 PM
In a bid to redefine the financial journey, ING U.S. has announced that it will be rebranding as Voya Financial.
While the announcement was made Thursday, ING U.S. does not plan on incorporating the new name or logo until 2014, as it awaits the completion of its IPO.
ING Group, the company's Dutch parent, announced last year that it was planning to spin off its US arm through an initial public offering—where Voya will register as the company's stock ticker. The divestiture of the US part of the business along with a ING Direct and a Dutch mortgage lender had to take place in order to get approval for a 2008 bailout.Continue reading...
Posted by Sheila Shayon on April 11, 2013 12:37 PM
What products would you make smarter? That's the question General Electric is asking in its bid to create consumer-facing products with GE patents.
No stranger to the Internet of Things, GE has once again partnered with Quirky, a type of social network for inventors to license thousands of its patents to Quirky community members for development.
“There are a host of consumer applications that we haven’t had the ability to focus on,” Beth Comstock, CMO GE told the The New York Times. “That just isn’t our core business.”Continue reading...


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Today, cloud gaming platform Nware announced it is now available to play directly on desktop and mobile web browsers, without the need to download the Nware app, breaking free from the limitations of devices and giving gamers more freedom.
With this new browser-based gaming experience, gamers worldwide can effortlessly jump into their favourite games from any device with a compatible web browser. Users can access Nware via the Google Chrome and Safari web browsers and enjoy the power of cloud gaming. This is in addition to the native app being available on Windows PC, Android smartphones, tablets and Android TV, so users really can play any game, anywhere on any device.
In a world where most video games overlook macOS compatibility, this news is especially exciting for Mac users! With Nware’s latest update, users can now enjoy gaming on a Mac using just their web browser, without the need to purchase a high-end gaming PC or console.
If you are a dedicated Google Chrome user, you can kickstart your gaming experience regardless of if you’re on a Macbook, Windows PC, or Android mobile device. And for those who prefer Safari, you can start playing Nware right from your iOS device, be it an iPhone or an iPad running on the iOS operating system.
As the only European cloud gaming platform in Europe, in April, Nware announced their global partnership with Microsoft, signing a 10-year agreement to stream PC games built by Xbox as well as Activision Blizzard titles (including the Call of Duty franchise) after the acquisition closes. The backing of one of the world’s biggest technology brands has proven the exciting and important path Nware is on to becoming a leader in the cloud gaming sector.
Nware boasts over 20,000 titles with access to Call of Duty, Hogwarts Legacy, Rocket League and League of Legends when users sync their accounts. With the Nware launchers feature, user’s game libraries from Steam, Epic Games, Ubisoft, Roblox and Minecraft, include everything from blockbusters to indie gems for everyone to enjoy. Gamers also get free-to-play blockbuster hits including Counter Strike Global Offensive, Apex Legends, Destiny 2 and Dota 2.
Nware was created to democratise the gaming industry, giving gamers access to their favourite titles without the need for expensive hardware or consoles. Now users don’t even need to download an app to access the world of cloud gaming . Users can play on their chosen device, save their games and carry on from the same place on another device.
Daniel Olmedo of Nware said “Nware democratises access to gaming for all users, and now including those with a Mac or an iPhone. With Web Browser capabilities users can play any game directly without any downloads allowing a hassle-free option and opening up the platform to new opportunities. We’re looking forward to offering as many ways to play as possible, unlocking new markets where more Nwarriors can now enjoy the power of cloud gaming.”
To experience Nware on your web browser, simply visit www.playnware.com/download, launch Nware using your compatible browser, and log in to your account.
Signing up for an Nware account is completely free and grants you a 3-day trial period to assess the service before making a commitment. The cloud gaming service then offers two subscription plans, the Base Plan available for €8.99 which allows users access to synced games through thumbnails and Steam catalogue with the ability to save progress, and the Premium Plan for €10.99 (€99.99 annually) giving access to synched games as well as the Launchers feature (currently Steam, Epic Games, Ubisoft, Roblox & Minecraft) on a remote virtual gaming machine, using the storage space to freely install and play games. Users start with 100 GB of storage space in the cloud and unlock more gigabytes every month with Loyalty Rewards.
Find out more at https://www.playnware.com/ and sign up to the Waiting List for your exclusive invitation code.


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By; SANI ALIYU, Zaria
The prices of grains and other food items are going up in Kasuwar Tudun Saibu in Soba Local Government’ Area of Kaduna State.
Alhaji Usman Dan Asabe the Sarkin Kasuwar Tudun Saibu told New Nigerian Online that on Dec 31, 2020 which was the last market day, a 100kg bag of maize was sold at N14,000 but the price has increased to N17,000.
He added that a 100kg bag of millet was N18,000 but it has increased to N20,000; a 100kg bag of Soya beans was N18,000 but now N22,000 and beans (cowpea)/was sold at N30 000 against N23, 500.
According to him, last year the highest cost of a 100kg bag of maize was N20, 000 adding that nobody can predict the price in few months to come.
Dan Asabe said many merchants were hoarding the commodity now adding that the market attracts merchants from Niger Republic Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna among others.
He said Tudun Saibu Market is one of the major grains market in Kaduna State and it receives grains and other commodities from Kinkiba, Pambeguwa, Ricifa, Soba, Ikara among other communities.
He attributed the high cost of grains to the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic and abrupt seizure of rainfall which negatively affected food production in the area.
The Sarkin Kasuwa urged government to support farmers for dry season farming with tools and equipment to reduce high cost of grains and enhance food security.
Also in an interview with Alhaji Garba Alhassan, he said prices of vegetables have dropped in the market.
Alhassan said a big basket of tomotoes was N2,000, 50kg bag pepper (atarugu) N4,000 and 100kg bag of onion is now N15,000.


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By Ochiaka Ugwu
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has successfully completed its five year activity aimed at boosting trade and investment in Nigeria.
This was made known in a statement released by United States Embassy in Abuja yesterday.
The USAID-funded Nigeria Expanded Trade and Transport (NEXTT) activity brought together private sector traders, processors, business service providers, and government entities to advance the trade facilitation goals of the Nigerian government. These efforts resulted in expanded trade in agricultural products and increased private sector access to investment capital.
NEXTT helped to develop non-oil exports by connecting foreign buyers with domestic small and medium enterprises, and helping them to obtain local and international food safety certifications. With this assistance, 100 Nigeria exporters were able to accrue over $70 million in exports of cashew nuts, honey, beans, plantains, and cassava products to international markets.
“Recent efforts to spur non-oil export oriented economic growth by a variety of stakeholders assures us that progress from this activity will be carried forward by Nigerian federal, state, and local authorities, civil society organizations, and private actors,” said Stephen Haykin, USAID/Nigeria Mission Director during the closeout event.
NEXTT forged partnerships that promoted investments along the country’s main Lagos-Kano-Jibiya (LAKAJI) Corridor and facilitated $40 million in new agribusiness investments. It also helped the Nigeria Customs Service and the National Trade Facilitation Committee to address trade constraints like cargo clearance at the ports and moving goods from the port to the country’s interior.
NEXTT helped the Nigeria Trade Facilitation Committee ratify the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). When fully implemented, the TFA will streamline and reduce the cost and time to trade
goods across Nigeria’s borders and make Nigeria’s import and export trade more competitive and efficient.


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What you need to know
- Xiaomi's Redmi sub-brand has announced its first-ever gaming phone.
- The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition comes with a 120Hz AMOLED display, MediaTek's flagship Dimensity 1200 5G chipset, and 67W fast charging.
- It will be going on sale in China later this week for a starting price of just 1,999 yuan ($310).
Xiaomi's popular Redmi sub-brand has finally entered the gaming smartphone market with the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition. The latest addition to Redmi's K40 family includes all the usual bells and whistles you would expect from a modern gaming phone — including a high-refresh-rate screen, physical shoulder buttons, and great battery life.
Unlike other Redmi K40 series phones, the new Redmi K40 Gaming Edition doesn't have a Snapdragon 870 or 888 chipset under the hood. Instead, it runs on MediaTek's 6nm Dimensity 1200 chipset, paired with up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The phone sports a 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate, HDR10+ support, and a 480Hz touch sampling rate.
Around the back of the gaming phone is a triple-lens camera system with a 64MP primary sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide lens, and a 2MP macro lens. Redmi's answer to the best gaming phones also has JBL-tuned stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos and a 5,000mAh battery with 67W fast charging. Redmi claims it only takes 42 minutes for the phone's battery to be fully charged from 1%.
The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition starts at just 1,999 yuan ($310) in China for the 6GB/128GB version and goes up to 2,699 yuan ($420) for the 12GB/256GB version. Sadly, Redmi hasn't confirmed any plans of launching the phone in markets outside China yet.
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After a gap of four years, the Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) will organise its first convention at Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia, from 20 to 23 September this year.
After announcing India as its convention venue early this year, the Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) has now confirmed Kuching in Malaysia as its new destination for the convention. It will be held from September 20-23, 2022 with the theme ‘Build Back Better’. Elaborating on the theme, TAFI President Ajay Prakash said, “As we seek recovery post-COVID, it is vital that the tourism industry does not forget the lessons of the pandemic. As one of the biggest global industries, the power of tourism to shape the world is phenomenal. It can be a powerful force for doing good, not only for the stakeholders but for the entire world. ‘Build Back Better’ encapsulates the resolve to rebuild tourism in a more responsible and sustainable manner.”
The convention committee is chaired by Seeraj Sabharwal and Jigar Dudakiya is Deputy Chairman. Commenting on the choice of destination, Sabharwal said, “Sarawak is a relatively unexplored destination for the Indian Traveller. It is an excellent destination for family travel, honeymooners, MICE, weddings and the film industry. TAFI has often organised conventions in unusual locations to expand the portfolio of travel agents and tour operators in India.”
Deputy Chairman Jigar Dudakiya further commented on the choice of the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) that has state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. He said, “BCCK is the first International purpose-built convention centre in Kuching. The convention centre can host up to 5,000 people with an uninterrupted WI-FI internet services for up to 8,000 simultaneous users.”
Prakash added, “There is an excitement among members since a convention is happening after four years. We expect an excellent turnout of delegates and speakers. Sarawak is at the forefront of responsible, sustainable eco-tourism and is the ideal destination to begin our journey to Build Back Better.”


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Shares of G-lll Apparel Group Rise With Positive Expectations For the Future
G-lll Apparel Group Ltd. is still showing signs of the coronavirus but Wall Street rallied around the manufacturer and retailer nonetheless. The firm, parent to the DKNY and Donna Karan brands, among others, revealed quarterly and full-year earnings Thursday morning before the market opened, falling short on both top and bottom lines. But company shares shot […]
South Korea’s January exports seen falling faster on Lunar New Year, coronavirus to add strains: Reuters poll
By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s exports are expected to fall at a faster pace in January, mainly due to fewer working days around the Lunar New Year holiday and amid concerns the new coronavirus may weigh on a fragile economic recovery, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday. Shipments in January were expected […]
The pandemic pushes the start of a major 9/11 trial past the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
The military judge overseeing the Sept. 11 case at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba delayed litigation deadlines again on Friday, postponing the start of the trial of the accused mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators until after the 20th anniversary of the attacks next year. The death penalty case, in its eighth year of […]


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Tanzania - Rwanda cross-border money exchange, with currency conversion
Millicom's world-leading range of mobile financial services enables customers in Tanzania and Rwanda to send money across their border with currency conversion automatically included.
Launched in February 2014, it's a world first, and for Tigo customers it means that Tanzanian shillings will convert to Rwandan francs and vice versa between Dar Es Salaam and Kigali in the few seconds it takes to send a transaction via mobile phone.
To make it even simpler to use, the service can tell senders how much to send in order to achieve the desired delivery amounts in receiver currency.
This instant, easy-to-use service means customers will enjoy more reliable, immediate access to funds than ever before, through mobile money as well as cash withdrawals at any Tigo agent.
Not having to travel or queue at a traditional banks or money agents could help ease business as well as operational and household costs for businesses and families throughout the region.
As Tanzania and Rwanda are members of the regional East African Community (EAC), they form part of an agreed common market for goods, labour and capital that also includes Burundi, Kenya and Uganda.
Millicom’s President and CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht said at a keynote session at the mobile industry’s global event, the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, today: “This innovation means the benefits of mobile money can be extended to cross-border trade, allowing businesses and families to transfer money quickly and securely in East Africa. It’s just another example of how Millicom adapts to its customers’ needs with digital solutions.”
Millicom launched MFS through its Tigo Cash brand in Rwanda in 2011 and through Tigo Pesa in Tanzania in 2010.
Both represent our two largest MFS markets in Africa and Latin America. (Other markets include: Ghana, DR Congo, Chad, Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay).
In Tanzania 2.7m of Tigo’s 6m customers use mobile financial services (MFS) while in Rwanda 720,000 of the company’s 1.94m customers enjoy mobile money.
By the end of 2013 Millicom had 6.3m MFS customers overall, representing around one in six customers in the countries where it is available.


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YouTube is getting ready to take on traditional cable companies.
The online video service plans to announce Unplugged, a live TV service streamed over the internet, according to The New York Post. YouTube is holding a press event Tuesday afternoon to unveil the details.
Unplugged, which has been rumoured for months, will be similar to Dish’s Sling TV and AT&T’s DirecTV Now, allowing you to subscribe to a so-called “skinny bundle” of popular pay TV channels. The New York Post’s report says Unplugged will cost $US30 to $US40 per month.
A YouTube spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
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Two town centre retailers have said there is no longer enough to keep people shopping in Haverhill town centre.
Jewellery by Tony Strowger, on High Street, and Morley’s, on Queen Street, are both leaving the town in the coming months.
Mr Strowger, who has had his shop for 12 years, has decided to move to Bury St Edmunds in a bid to save his business.
He said: “Haverhill is not as active as it once was, and I think everybody knows that. I would say that a lot of people are shopping out of town.”
Mr Strowger is shutting up shop on February 22, and will re-open on St John’s Street, Bury St Edmunds, on March 1.
The news has come in the same week that a national operator has expressed an interest in securing the empty Co-op site on Jubilee Walk.
“If they brought a big name player into the town, would it still hold the people?”, Mr Strowger said.
“I would like to think so - but I still have my doubts.”
The jeweller, who has lived in Haverhill his whole life, also said he hopes other independent shops are able to survive in the same area - but that they need to do what is right for their business.
Morley’s has been in the town for half a century, and is now closing down due to the owner’s retirement.
David Jagg has worked there for 28 years, and has been store manager for eight.
Since the announcement earlier this week, Mr Jagg and his colleagues have been inundated with positive feedback on their service to the town.
They will cease trading on March 31.
Mr Jagg said: “We have served the town for 50 years, and survived two or three recessions in the past. We have still been there, and we have evolved.”
Morley’s provides the uniforms for Castle Manor Academy and Place Farm Primary Academy - and has also been hailed as “the only place in town to get something proper, like Dr Martens and Levi’s” by residents.
Mr Jagg added: ”The town centre is not managed properly, and people go to Cambridge or Bury where there is more choice. There’s not enough in the town to keep people here spending their money.”
Will Austin, town clerk, has urged people to do more for their local shops by buying as much as they can in the town.
He himself has made compromises to ensure he supports Haverhill’s businesses, he said.
“We lose shops because we don’t use them, and potential new retailers come here and look at how many people are out and about in the High Street before deciding whether to set up in Haverhill. If we keep our side of the bargain by shopping locally as much as we possibly can, it boosts the local economy and gives us ammunition in our efforts to get the Economic Development people to do more.”
Elaine Carr, owner of thebestof Haverhill, added: “Perhaps these latest changes will cause people to reflect on where they spend their money and motivate them to spend more of it in Haverhill.”


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KIM KARDASHIAN and KANYE WEST have good news for fans of over-the-top clobber.
The pair are planning a joint fashion range and it is bound to be more garish than a Premier League footballer’s gaff.
A source said: “Kanye and Kim have figured out that if they combine their names it could be big business.
“They’ve both got massive fanbases who will buy their gear.
“It’s also a sign that they’re in the relationship for the long haul and that they think it’s a romantic way to seal their relationship.”
Kanye launched himself as a fashion designer last year and Kim has long had her own range of women’s gear.
If their clothes don’t make you feel a bit queasy then the rap Zoolander’s new album will.
He’s been hard at work in his studio in Hawaii over the past few months putting together a new solo disc – and has been writing songs inspired by his love for the reality TV star.
Kanye’s already bragged on one track that Kim became famous through a sex tape, so he’s obviously not afraid to air their dirty laundry on record.


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For Sprint subscribers that own the HTC One (M7), a tweet from HTC’s VP of Product Management Mo Versi should have you plenty excited for February 5.
The tweet from Versi is straightforward enough, and provides just enough information required to make Sprint One (M7) owners happy. Sprint has officially green-lit the Android 5.0.1 ... Read More »
HTC has announced that it will be unable to meet its 90-day update goal for Android 5.0 Lollipop. Last year, HTC began the HTC Advantage program for HTC One devices, which promised that major Android updates would be released within 90 days of the ... Read More »
Just one day after new details on the HTC One (M9) design leaked out, an image that may show off the device itself has surfaced.
Well-known leaker @evleaks has posted a timeline of his HTC flagship leaks that ends with a ... Read More »
HTC’s One (M9) is one of the year’s most anticipated smartphones and rumors have been flying left and right, often conflicting one another. Some of the most seemingly accurate rumors are coming from HTC Source, which said on Saturday that HTC is using decoy bodies for ... Read More »
HTC is serious about keeping the One (M9)‘s design under wraps, going as far as using decoy bodies for the device to keep its design hidden until launch. Multiple photos have leaked in the past week, ... Read More »
Just can’t get enough of the HTC One (M9)? We can’t say we blame you. Thankfully, the rumor mill is happy to oblige us with more leaks.
New images that claim to show the HTC One (M9) in the wild have been shared by Read More »
HTC looks to have new flagships coming in March. We’ve heard (and seen) plenty of things about the HTC One (M9), but a more mysterious model known as the One (M9) Plus also appears to be in the works. The One (M9) Plus is said to be a larger, premium ... Read More »
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Phicomm Energy 653 — already India’s cheapest 5-inch HD phone with 4G — has become even cheaper with a Rs 5,00 price cut, while Passion P660 — India’s cheapest full-HD 4G phone — has seen a massive price cut to Rs 6,999.
The cuts are unprecedented in their extent and make the Passion P660 arguably the most value-for-money phone in India at this point — surpassing phones like Lenovo K3 Note, Lenovo A6000 Plus, Lenovo A2010 and Yu Yunique.
The Energy model is now available for Rs 4,499. However, it is the Passion 660 that has seen a steeper cut — from a launch price of Rs 10,999 to just Rs 6,999.
In comparison, the Lenovo K3 Note, which is its closest competitor, is selling for Rs 9,999, while the Yu Yureka Plus, another phone with comparable specifications, is selling for Rs 8,999.
These new prices are available only on Amazon India and are being introduced as a festival offer.
The offer is valid only till this Friday (Oct 9).
Phicomm Passion P660 has got decent reviews on Amazon despite its previously high price.
The phone, however, has two key drawbacks — you can either use a second SIM or a MicroSD card, but not both at the same time. Secondly, it is based on Android KitKat 4.4. The back camera is also mediocre or even below average.
However, on the positive side, the phone is supposed to be a strong performer and has also got several OS updates already.
Battery is good enough for a day.
Phicomm Energy 653
The Energy model is the entry-level one from the company and has got decent feedback as it was priced at Rs 4,999 — making it the cheapest such phone in India. While the Lenovo A2010 was also priced at the same rate, it didn’t have an HD display and the screen was also smaller.
The Energy model is based on Snapdragon 210 and scores only around 17,000 on Antutu. Out of 8 GB internal 4.5GB is available for user, but an MicroSD card is supported.
Display quality is not top-end, but only average. The 653 also comes with Android Lolipop out of the box.


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What Next For Motorola As They Fail To Explain 50% Growth?
Motorola management claim that they have grown market share in Australia by “Over 50%” but despite repeated requests they have failed to respond to how they have achieved the growth and what models are delivering growth.
What we have ascertained is that the Company that is owned by Chinese brand Lenovo is planning several new models this year after rolling out their new 5G Motorola Edge 30 Pro last week.
According to briefings done in Australia the smartphone is planning new models under the Edge 30 branding, they currently have the code names Frontier, Dubai, and Miami.
In the value market there is the Moto G Stylus 2022 (codenamed Milan) and Moto G22 (codenamed Hawaii+) whether these will be launched in Australia is unknown.
The Motorola Edge 30 Pro was originally launched in China as the Motorola Edge X30, it’s seen as a worthy contender in the sub $1,000 5G market.
Dubai, Miami, and Dubai+ are the codenames for the upcoming Edge 30 series.
The Miami model is expected to debut under the Motorola Edge 30 branding, it’s tipped to be a Lite model.
It will come with a 6.28-inch P-OLED FHD+ 120Hz display, a Snapdragon 695 chip, 6 GB / 8 GB of LPDDR4x RAM, 128 GB / 256 GB storage, a 32-megapixel front camera, a 64-megapixel + 13-megapixel dual rear cameras, and a 4,020mAh battery.
The thickness of the device will be under 7mm.
Next up will be the Dubai+ model, which will be powered by a new MediaTek chip that has an MT6879 model number.
It has 2 x 2.6GHz Cortex A78 cores, 6 x 2.0GHz Cortex-A55 cores, and a Mali G79 GPU.
It will feature the same screen and similar cameras as the Edge 30.
It will house a 5,000mAh battery and carry support for a stylus like the Edge 30 Pro.
There is no information on the moniker of the device. It is expected to debut in Q3 (probably after the Edge 30 Ultra) branding
The Frontier model that is speculated to launch as one of the first Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ powered handsets may debut with the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra marketing name.
It is likely to be called the Edge X30 in some markets.
Insiders are telling us that Motorola has access to many as 19 devices to choose from for the Australian market.


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In addition, parents can also access the contact list directly from the children’s devices now. All these changes will be visible from the Communication Limits section from the Screen Time settings in iPhones and iPads. Besides, iOS 13.3 and iPadOS 13.3 now have support for NFC, USB and the much-talked-about Lightning FIDO2-compliant security keys.
Some of the other fixes and improvements mentioned in the changelog are:
-Enabled the creation of a new video clip when trimming a video in Photos.
-Fixes issues in Mail that may prevent downloading new messages.
-Addresses an issue that prevented deleting messages in Gmail accounts.
-Resolves issues that could cause incorrect characters to display in messages and duplication of sent messages in Exchange accounts.
-Fixes an issue where the cursor may not move after long-pressing the space bar.
-Resolves an issue where the Mobile Data setting may incorrectly show as off.
-Fixes an issue where Voice Memos recordings may not be able to be shared with other audio apps.
You can download iOS 13.3 and iPadOS 13.3 by heading to Settings > General > Software Update. The device should be connected to WiFi and have more than 50% battery life.
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NEW YORK (
) -- What's happening in small business today?
1. Large banks are taking on small-business lending again.
Bank of America
and other banks seem to be putting more strength behind their lending efforts for small businesses these days.
For the Charlotte, N.C.-based behemoth, new loans to businesses with less than $20 million in revenue increased 20% in 2011 to $6.4 billion. BofA's lending to businesses with less than $5 million in revenue rose by two-thirds, according to the
. The article says BofA has hired about 750 new business bankers to target small companies.
Other large banks like
are also focusing their efforts on small business clients.
FDIC data shows that lending to small businesses with up to $1 million in revenue rose slightly in the fourth quarter - the first time in nearly two years that those loan balances did so, the article says.
Still, loans by the big banks to the smallest of businesses are minimal - but that could also be a factor of the economy and businesses not wanting to take on any more debt.
2. A quick chat with one of Dunkin' Donuts' biggest franchisees.
Robert Branca Jr. and his extended family collectively own more than 700
locations - primarily in New York and New England. Branca, who owns 60 units himself, recently told
that he is looking for opportunities to expand the brand west of the Mississippi. A small franchisee can learn from Branca's family efforts. With that many units to oversee, Branca has systems and resources in place to maximize efficiency and profits (even above and beyond what is already provided by Dunkin' Donuts).
The franchisee attributes better technology to control costs and respond to changing market conditions got them through the downturn in the economy. In terms of sales, his franchises have been relatively unaffected. However, rising commodity prices have eaten into margins, but they have chosen to absorb the higher costs.
"Our absorbing the costs has largely been rewarded by our loyal guests with continued patronage and sales growth. We clearly communicate that we are part of the community and experience the same effects our guests do. We believe that this has resonated in the communities in which we do business," he told
In terms of capital, Branca says access is starting to ease. He sticks with regional and national banks for financing "because of their predictability and consistency with requirements."
3. Small business owners are nervous over planned U.S. Postal Service closings.
reports that jitters are spreading across some small business hubs that fear their businesses will suffer from the expected 250 postal offices and distribution centers that are set to close next month.
This is particularly the case in geographic areas that are more spread out. A 100-year-old post office in Pass-a-Grille, Fla., closed last June, forcing the beach community to use a post office that is located about four miles away and is always crowded, the article says. Business owners say this eats up precious time in their day.
Barbara Calicotte, an employee at a local boutique called Bamboozle, is a good example of the potential problems of U.S. postal closings. She told
that she has had to wait on line at the farther post office for 30 minutes in some cases.
The closings also mean that packages will take longer to arrive at their destination. Packages must now sit in the store a day or two longer until another employee is able to take the trip to the post office, she says. Calicotte can't do it herself because she would then have to close the store for that trip and that could mean lost sales.
Towns and cities from Huntsville, Ala., to Tulsa, Okla., are scheduled to have their local USPS centers closed and moved 100 miles away in some cases. That means a longer delay for
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Reserve Bank Of Zimbabwe Gets Sued By Golix Exchange For Crypto Ban
Zimbabwe’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, ordered Golix, the country’s cryptocurrency exchange and Bitcoin ATM operator, to shut down its operations. In response, Golix has announced that it will be taking the central bank to court, as they should not have the authority to do so.
Since the country has banned crypto transactions through its banks, the central bank wrote a letter to Golix on May 15, stating that they should not further continue their business endeavours.
According to Norman Mataruke, the central bank’s registrar of banking, any crypto exchange or dealings of virtual currencies should be stopped immediately. He specifically stated it regarding,
“Bitfinance (Private) Limited, also referred to as Golix”. In addition, Mataruke, has instructed the exchange to close “cryptocurrency accounts or ‘wallets’… and to make good any funds currently held on behalf of customers.”
Golix is now looking to see what the High Court in Harare has to say in regard to the central bank’s decision. In particular, they have stated in their application that
“The ban in effect outlaws and classifies as illegal Applicant’s operations.” Another point was also mentioned that follows the previous statement: “The Respondents are in fact purporting to classify the trade in cryptocurrency as illegal.”
Golix doesn’t stop there, as the team believes that the central bank does not even hold the right position to be bringing such laws-in-effect. According to a statement made, law making is a “function that belongs to the legislature”.
Zimbabwe’s current economical stance is not all that bright, as the country has been faced with cash shortages. It is believed that cryptocurrencies have become an alternative method of payment in the country – it’s becoming common enough to the point where the crypto assets are gaining value against world averages. Will Zimbabwe be rid of cryptocurrencies or will the High Court in Harare rule in favor of Golix?


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A Public Health Disaster in the Making
Wednesday, June 3, 2009Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived.
Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived. There is no getting around the awfulness of HR 1256, which was passed by the House last month and is now being debated before the full Senate. The topic is Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco. HR 1256 would create a new FDA division, supported by industry user fees, which would exercise sweeping control over the introduction, manufacturing, and marketing of all tobacco products. Existing products would be grandfathered in—no worries for the Marlboro Man—but new entrants would face something like the FDA’s famously demanding new drug approval standards, except the standards would be even tougher in one very important way to be described later.
HR 1256 pays almost no attention to the most fundamental point in all of tobacco control, if not all of public health: the distinction between tobacco smoke, which causes almost all the harms from smoking, and nicotine, whose dangers are roughly on the order of those from caffeine. Most smokers are interested in the nicotine, a fact that opens the door to all sorts of ways to reduce or practically eliminate the health harms from tobacco. HR 1256 goes in the wrong direction by encouraging the FDA to reduce nicotine yield, which would mean deeper inhaling and more harm rather than less.
Fortunately, there are already some products on the market that pose no more than a tiny proportion of the risks of traditional cigarettes. Smokeless cigarettes heat tobacco rather than burn it, delivering mainly nicotine and flavorings. And there are “smokeless tobacco” products, which are made from tobacco but are delivered by means of tiny pouches that usually dissolve in the mouth. The best-known smokeless niche is occupied by snus (rhymes with moose), which has been widely used in Sweden and is available in the United States but almost nowhere else because of prohibitions. Years of research have shown that the risks of snus are roughly 1 percent or 2 percent of the risks of traditional cigarettes, and maybe less, while both male smoking and lung cancer are at lower levels in Sweden than just about anywhere else. There has also been extensive research on improving traditional cigarettes by, for example, using better filters and altering tobacco itself to remove well-known carcinogens.
All these products involve trade-offs in the sense of sacrificing sensory experience or rapid, controlled flow of nicotine. Those things are greatly valued by many smokers. (Full disclosure: I’ve never smoked, so I’m relying on second-hand accounts.) That is one reason smoking rates have stuck stubbornly at about 15 percent to 20 percent in the United States and other advanced nations despite decades of antismoking information and campaigns and mammoth tax increases.Most smokers are interested in the nicotine, a fact that opens the door to all sorts of ways to reduce or practically eliminate the health harms from tobacco.
The problem now is that it is almost impossible for manufacturers of safer products to tell consumers about why they are safer and why smokers should switch. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which regulates advertising, has resolutely enforced the prevailing views in the public health community, which has invested itself almost exclusively in a decades-long gamble to get smokers to quit rather than resort to safer tobacco use. Any suggestion in marketing materials that a product is safer—even one that emits no smoke whatsoever—is inevitably attacked by the antismoking watchdogs with FTC and FDA action a constant threat. The FDA does not have jurisdiction over tobacco products, of course, but products that are marketed (even indirectly) as a method to quit smoking are classified by the FDA as drugs, which cannot be sold until they pass through years of clinical trials and so forth. The nearly complete suppression of informative marketing of safer tobacco use has two consequences, both profoundly deleterious to the health of current and future smokers. It makes it almost impossible for manufacturers to provide the “reason why” messages that are the primary means for informing smokers of ways to reduce the harm from a difficult-to-quit habit. That impedes massive health-improving switching to safer products.
The upstream effects are even worse, because incentives to develop safer products are severely undermined if (to borrow a quote from the infinitely complicated history of cigarettes and health) “you build a better mousetrap and then they say you can't mention mice or traps.” The federal government has made the problem far worse by promoting the idea that all tobacco products, even smokeless ones, are equally unsafe.
Enter HR 1256, hundreds of pages of it. Two features would have devastating effects. One is the new tobacco product approval apparatus. Manufacturers would have to demonstrate that their products are not merely safer than some of the existing alternatives. They would have to demonstrate that once the products enter the market, they would not have undesirable second-order effects such as encouraging smokers to switch instead of quit, or encouraging non-smokers to start who otherwise would not have started.
Meeting this kind of standard would be extraordinarily difficult; it is nearly a recipe to discourage the development of almost any new product no matter how much safer it would be than what smokers now use. It moves the FDA far beyond the contours of drug regulation. Imagine that a dramatically effective new HIV drug could not be approved until the manufacturer demonstrated that the entry of the drug would not tempt some people into unsafe sex because they knew a better treatment could be used if worse came to worse. Suppose a better diabetes drug was kept on the sidelines while the manufacturer figured out how to show that the availability of the drug would not encourage obesity by discouraging weight loss and the like. No one wants the FDA to do that for drugs because we want better drugs, and we are willing to let consumers make their own decisions about how to revamp their lives accordingly. The imposition of this bizarre standard for new tobacco products reveals an intention to largely dispense with the task of reducing tobacco harm while demeaning the choices of smokers and potential smokers.
The product approval process would be greatly complicated by another of HR 1256’s innovations, the insertion of an outside board to participate in these decisions. The board almost certainly would be dominated by public health representatives who share a long-standing opposition to safer tobacco products and especially to any information about relative safety, stoked by the fear that even the safest products can wreak harm by impeding cessation and indirectly encouraging smoking.
None of this would apply to existing products, of course. The bigger the brand, the greater the benefit of this grandfathering arrangement. No wonder HR 1256 is called the “Marlboro Brand Protection Act.” No wonder the political breakthrough in getting FDA tobacco regulation came in 2004 when Philip Morris (now Altria) came out in support of FDA regulation; Altria remains a bulwark of support for HR 1256.Imagine that a dramatically effective new HIV drug could not be approved until the manufacturer demonstrated that the entry of the drug would not tempt some people into unsafe sex because they knew a better treatment could be used if worse came to worse.
The same hostility to harm reduction infuses HR 1256’s provisions on marketing. Needless to say, advertising would become even rarer than it is today. The most important information—about the product’s risks and why it might be safer than something else—would be hemmed in by requirements of unknown rigor. Of course manufacturers would have to demonstrate to some degree the relative safety of their product. But most important, there would be another beyond-FDA-drug-regulation requirement to demonstrate that if smokers are told about a safer product, they will not react by failing to quit smoking and so on. Again, one wonders about how the pharmaceutical market would work if heart drug manufacturers had to prove whether telling consumers how to reduce the risk of heart attacks would adversely affect their lifestyle choices about diet and exercise.
Again, the grandfathering effect comes into play. What dominant brands fear most is aggressive marketing by competitors, especially competitors with a good safety story to tell. “Marlboro Brand Protection,” indeed.
Fortunately, there is dissent from all sorts of otherwise incompatible sources. Altria’s biggest competitors have been running full-page newspaper ads in opposition to HR 1256. But some stalwart antismoking figures are also in opposition. Professor Michael Siegel of the Boston University School of Public Health hasin today’s Los Angeles Times opposing HR 1256. The American Association of Public Health Physicians has vocally opposed HR 1256. So has William Godshall’s advocacy organization, Smokefree Pennsylvania, which logically enough is against measures that impede the substitution of smokeless for smoked.
Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan of North Carolina have introduced a bill that avoids the worst features of HR 1256 and has the virtue of lodging tobacco regulation in a separate agency and therefore avoiding the FDA, whose snail-like pacing in approving wider use of pure nicotine products has been deplorable. An even better alternative would be to unleash the FTC, whose regulatory philosophy is the simple toleration if not encouragement of truthful information in marketing. The FTC could regulate tobacco marketing like it regulates marketing for automobiles, computers, and just about everything else. It would require a reasonable basis for health claims. The standard can be tough when the stakes are high; you do not want to claim your car can stop in 100 feet from 60 mph unless you have solid evidence. But if the FTC were free of an implicit obligation to enforce what public health gurus want (sometimes including FDA staff), we could see an extraordinarily fruitful unleashing of methods for safer tobacco use and a consequent decline in the lamentable toll of cigarette smoking.
Jack Calfee is resident fellow at the.
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Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil, has banned its export. In addition, the Indonesian government decided that all other types of cooking oil and its ingredients may no longer be exported.
It thus responds to shortages in the country.
These shortages arose as a result of the war in Ukraine. That country is a major supplier of sunflower oil, but deliveries stopped due to the war. As a result, many companies started looking for alternatives such as palm oil, which in turn caused shortages in Indonesia.
That country is not the only one that has taken measures to protect its own population against shortages and price increases. For example, Argentina recently increased the export tax on soybean oil for the same reasons.
The United Nations has called on countries to continue to facilitate trade. According to the organization, protective measures are just causing more shortages and higher prices.
Indonesia’s measure caused vegetable oil prices to rise. As a result, soybean oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil and rapeseed oil, among others, became more expensive on various exchanges around the world.
The export ban will affect April 28 and will last until the government believes the shortages have been resolved.


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LAS VEGAS: For a company that practically invented Not Invented Here — most of IBM’s history could be characterized by Does Not Play Well With Others — Big Blue’s latest cloud and mobility announcements, and the prominent roles played by both customers and partners, reinforce how IT’s still-dominant vendor is changing with the times. CAMS (cloud, analytics, mobile and social) announcements dominated the first day of Impact 2014, IBM’s annual business and IT conference (9,000-plus attendees), as well as its continued focus on the composable business (a new collaboration model between IT, line of business and development teams) and the hybrid cloud.
The conference kicked off with a customer, Tangerine CEO Peter Aceto, who explained how IBM and mobility were transforming the Canadian bank. Business partners and customers continued to play a prominent role throughout the keynotes, briefings and panels that followed.
The product and service announcements included: an enterprise cloud marketplace targeted at three audiences, developers (Dev), IT managers (Ops) and business leaders (Biz); more than 30 new cloud services are available in BlueMix, its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to help developers integrate applications and deploy new cloud services; the launch of the first BlueMix Garage (homage to HP?), a physical location where developers, product managers and designers can collaborate with IBM experts to innovate and deliver new cloud apps deployed onto BlueMix; and expansion of the IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio, including new industry-specific IBM Ready Apps, and the opening of 18 new IBM MobileFirst studios around the world to help business leaders accelerate mobile initiatives.
In the press conference about the announcements, Robert LeBlanc, SVP, Software & Cloud Solutions, IBM, said the cloud marketplace is not only for IBM and its partners, but also its customers, who may also choose to make their cloud capabilities available to others, for a fee. “It’s one place where you can come, discover, try and in some cases buy….”
Bob Picciano, SVP, Information & Analytics, IBM, said the company has been making a number of developer-related service announcements in recent weeks. It’s “really about empowering the next generation of developers.”
Mobile and cloud go hand in hand, added Marie Wieck, GM, IBM MobileFirst. “The boundaries are really breaking down between those different silos… like cloud… and mobile…”
Cloud, mobility and services figured prominently at Impact, but with celebrating the 50th anniversary of the mainframe and the recent POWER announcements, IBM’s hardware business is still a key part of its product portfolio. “They haven’t figured out how to run software without hardware” said LeBlanc.
IBM has been making a lot of cloud moves recently as it looks to tap into what it calls a $250-billion cloud market opportunity. With barely a third of the year over, the company has already announced: a $1.2 billion investment in SoftLayer; $1 billion in cloud development with the launch of BlueMix; $1 billion in the launch of a new business unit, the Watson Group for cloud-delivered cognitive innovation; and the acquisitions of Aspera, Cloudant and Silverpop, bringing the total to $7 billion invested in 17 cloud acquisitions since 2010.
While the cloud opportunity is huge, so is the competition. Amazon has been engaged in a race-to-the-bottom pricing war with the industry in general, and Microsoft in particular, and now Google and IBM are entering the fray.
Amazon is a formidable competitor, but it doesn’t want to be the integrator while IBM is aggregating everything together, said LeBlanc. “The more time you spend integrating the less time you spend innovating.”
The pieces of IBM’s transformation have been coming together for some time, but a number of key elements debuted this year. The recent POWER CPU platform announcements showcased Big Blue’s increased focus on Linux, partners/customers like Google, and ecosystems like OpenPOWER.
At the end of March, CAMS figured prominently at the annual SHARE conference. Analyst Steve Beaver, The Virtualization Practice, said IBM has been putting the finishing touches on its different acquisitions and the development of the Big Blue Cloud Stack.
“Although IBM seems to be fashionably late to the cloud party, I believe we are going to be seeing the Big Blue Battle Plan presented and executed in the near future. IBM is getting ready to step into the octagon to take on all comers, with its eye on Oracle, HP, Amazon, Microsoft, and VMware.”
At IBM Pulse in early March the company promoted its new journey to the public/hybrid cloud. “This new IBM-as-a-Service paradigm shift necessitates changes in the way IBM engages with potential customers at every level,” noted analyst Jane Clabby, Clabby Analytics.
Pulse 2014 demonstrated that IBM’s focus on the cloud remains crystal clear, said analyst Charles King, Pund-IT. “Rather than playing to whatever group of purists happens to be in ascendancy this week or month, the company is determined to place its customers first and to craft cloud solutions designed to make their work simpler, more effective and more profitable.”
The Fiddly Bits (& Bytes)
IBM Cloud marketplace is a single online destination where technology meets business with hundreds of cloud services from IBM, partners and third party ecosystem.
More than 30 additional cloud services have been added to BlueMix, IBM’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for developers, including Cloud Integration, Internet of Things, Data and Analytics and DevOps.
BlueMix Garage is a physical location where developers, product managers and designers can collaborate with IBM experts to innovate and deliver new cloud apps deployed onto BlueMix. The first location in San Francisco has begun initial projects and will become fully operational in June.
IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio additions include industry-specific IBM Ready Apps, and the opening of 18 new IBM MobileFirst studios around the world to help business leaders accelerate mobile initiatives. New mobile offerings include: a range of tools — Worklight, Cloudant and BlueMix technologies and services — for developers to create, deploy and manage mobile apps, on-premise or in the cloud.
DISCLAIMER: I’m down here courtesy of IBM, and they also make up a sizable portion of my investment portfolio, but in spite of these temptations, I did my best to maintain the tattered shreds of my editorial integrity.


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(Beyond Pesticides, March 27, 2007) The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) Livestock Committee is recommending that fish raised in open net-cages and those farms using wild caught fish as feed be excluded from forthcoming USDA organic aquaculture standards. Three environmental groups, The Pure Salmon Campaign, The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, and The Center for Food Safety are commending the Committee for upholding the principles of organic production and are urging NOSB to follow the Committee’s lead when they meet in Washington, D.C. this week.
“We’re extremely pleased with the Committee’s recommendations because no matter how stringent and well intentioned organic standards for aquaculture are, open net-cages just don’t fit under the organic umbrella,” said Dom Repta, from the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform in a press release. “The evidence in British Columbia shows that open net-cage technology does not prevent the discharge of untreated waste or the escape of farmed fish and allows continued impacts on marine predators such as seals and sea lions, the transfer of sea lice to wild salmon and the contamination of aboriginal food sources.”
In prepared comments, the groups have offered support for organic certification of non-carnivorous fish farmed in closed systems, but stress that farming carnivorous fish in open net-cage systems violates core organic principles. The groups cite scientific evidence from around the world that shows open net-cage fish farms cannot meet the standards for ecological protection to which current organic practitioners must adhere. In addition, carnivorous species that use more wild than farmed fish for feed increase the pressure on already diminishing global wild fish populations.
“The USDA must now take a strong stance on organic aquaculture certification to ensure that the entire ‘organic’ label is not diluted,” said Andrea Kavanagh, director of the Pure Salmon Campaign. “To make sure consumers are getting what they pay for when they buy ‘organic’ seafood, we’re asking the U.S. to permanently close the door on organic certification for open net-cage fish farming and the farming of carnivorous fish like salmon.”
While NOSB has been developing organic aquaculture regulations, consumers are already increasingly seeing seafood products labeled as “organic” in U.S. supermarkets. These products are being imported from countries that allow certain practices, such as the use of open net-cages and the administration of chemicals (including pesticides) to control parasites and diseases, to be considered organic.
“Under U.S. law there is no such thing as organic seafood right now,” stated Joseph Mendelson, legal director for the Center for Food Safety. “Any products labeled as such mislead consumers. The USDA has the authority to stop this threat to the integrity of the organic label and should act to enforce the law.”
Rick Moonen, chef and co-owner of RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, is part of the chorus of support commending the Committee’s recommendation to exclude open net-cages from organic aquaculture standards. Tomorrow, Mr. Moonen will present a letter to NOSB on behalf of 19 U.S. chefs that reads:
“As professionals that depend on quality, healthy and sustainable ingredients, we are avid supporters of ‘organic’ systems. If the U.S. chooses to water down its organic standards to accommodate carnivorous farmed fish species from open net cage systems, however, it seriously risks losing our confidence in the USDA organic brand as a whole.”
Rather than modifying organic standards to fit the needs of salmon farming, the Pure Salmon Campaign and the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform are working to improve the sustainability of the industry as a whole by fostering a transition from open net-cages to closed containment systems. Closed containment technology would eliminate many of the environmental problems associated with open net-cage fish farms such as escapes, spread of sea lice and interactions with marine predators that organic aquaculture standards for open net-cages cannot adequately address.


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Listed investment company stalwart Geoff Wilson has slammed firms which retain excess franking credits instead of distributing them to shareholders, claiming there is “no excuse” to act otherwise.
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RUTH RECOMMENDS: Montrose drag offers pub crawl
For many, masquerading around the block in layers of face paint and plastic costumes loses its appeal after grade school. But thanks to the Montrose Crawl, Houstonians can trick-or-treat for drink specials and costume prizes this Halloween.
The second annual Montrose pub crawl will have more than spirits and scares on tap for Houston-area crawlers. Costumed crawlers of legal drinking age can vie for costume prizes, enjoy cheap drinks and participate in Halloween festivities at six bars along Westheimer Road between Dunlavy Street and Montrose Boulevard.
The crawl begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday with a dinner at Brasil, 2604 Dunlavy St., featuring dollar discounts for pizzas on the menu.
The crawl will make its way down Westheimer with stops at Poison Girl, Boondocks, Etro Lounge, Catbirds and Slick Willie’s Pool Hall.
All bars are within walking distance of each other, and responsible patrons can access them by bike.
Horror Business will perform at a tribute set for fans of the late American horror punk band the Misfits at 8 p.m. at Boondocks, 1417 Westheimer Road.
In lieu of candied apples Catbirds will offer patrons $2 apple kamikazes and DJ Mike will spin vintage swing, jazz and blues, to boot.
While crawlers are welcome to deviate from the route, costume prizes will be awarded at 7:15 p.m. at Brasil, 8:15 p.m. at Poison Girl, 9:15 p.m. at Boondocks, 10:15 p.m. at Etro Lounge and 11:15 p.m. at Catrbirds. Each finalist will get a gift certificate for Brasil.
The Montrose Crawl will come to an end at Slick Willie’s after midnight where a gift certificate from Saint Arnold’s Brewing Co. will be awarded to the best costume of the evening. The winner of the grand prize for best costume will get the opportunity to invite 99 of his or her friends to an all-you-can-drink Saint Arnold’s brewery party.
Houston City Council member Sue Lovell will serve as judge and pick the year’s honorary crawler.
A portion of all drink sales will benefit the Houston Area Women’s Center. The Halloween crawl is free and patrons will not be required to pay drink minimums or cover charges at participating bars.
And, yes, you have to wear a costume.
For more information, call (281) 658-1293 or visit www.montrosecrawl.com.


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Pacific Coast international trade will continue to grow
- Ahoy Members and Friends,Occasionally it comes up, "What are we, the Pacific Merchant Marine Council, all about?"When you cut to the chase or for accountants the bottom line, it's prosperity - maritime growth. This unique council, recently rebranded as the maritime logistics council, supports - advocates for - our nation's maritime industry. Until similar councils crop up on the Gulf Coast or the East Coast, we're it for all the USA!We have a mission besides supporting the maritime industry to educate elected officials and the public at large on the importance of maritime commerce to our nation's well being and by extension, national defense. Please read the most recent rendering of our "About Us." Reproduce the attached one page statement and use it as a council information handout, especially with Navy League membership applications. Most recently this was distributed with Navy League information and membership applications to select attendees at the California Maritime Leadership Symposium.Our emphasis is Pacific Coast activity. Below is good news.Heave Ho,PhelpsPhelps Hobart, PresidentPacific Merchant Marine Council, NLUS
"Pulse of the Ports" Predicts 2011 Peak Season Growth
by Keith Higginbotham, California Contributing Editor
Six supply chain and logistics experts speaking at the Port of Long Beach's 7th annual "Pulse of the Ports: Peak Season Forecast" on March 30 came to the same overall conclusion for the 2011 year ahead: international trade will continue to grow through the end of the year while structural changes will continue to transform the industry over the long run.
More than 400 members of the shipping, logistics and transportation industries attended the event, hearing representatives from the various sectors of the supply chain talk about the outlook for the 2011 peak shipping season.
This year's industry panel featured speakers representing the retail, ocean carrier, terminal operations, railroad, and logistics sectors. An additional speaker offered an economic projection of the upcoming peak season. While the event is geared toward stakeholders in the Southern California supply chain industry, nearly all the speakers offered a local, regional and national perspective....(More)
SoCal Ports Report Solid Growth In April
by Keith Higginbotham
Reversing tepid numbers in March, the Port of Long Beach swung sharply back into positive cargo growth territory last month and joined the neighboring Port of Los Angeles in reporting strong single digit percentage increases for April.
Port of Long Beach officials report...(Read Full Article)
Oakland Port Up in April as Monthly Gains Slow by Keith Higginbotham
California's number three port started the second quarter of the calendar year with a minor increase in total container volumes in April, the fourth straight month of shrinking monthly increases.
The Port of Oakland reported handling a total of...(Read Full Article)
Seattle, Tacoma Ports Post Modest Gains in April by Keith Higginbotham
Florida's loss is the Washington state Port of Vancouver's gain.
The major Puget Sound ports continued to gain cargo volumes in April, though total box volume increases were moderate compared to the same period last year.
The Port of Seattle reported handling a total of 170,666 TEUs in April, a modest 1.7 percent increase over April of 2010 and well off....(Read Full Article)


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Govt scraps 5% import duty on open cell TV panel used in LED TVs
New Delhi, Sep 18: In a bid to boost domestic manufacturing, the government has removed 5 percent customs duty imposed on import of open-cell TV panel, which is used in the manufacturing of LED TVs. The television industry has welcomed the government's decision to scrap the customs duty on import of open cell TV panels, saying the move will boost domestic manufacturing.
TV makers said the move will help them reduce the manufacturing cost by up to 3 percent, however, consumer prices are expected to remain the same.
The announcement has come just ahead of the festive season sales and would positively impact the sales of LED TV panels.
In a late-night notification on Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance said "open cell, (15.6 inches and above), for use in the manufacture of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) TV panel", would attract nil duty.
Besides, the government has also waived custom duty on import of Chip on Film, Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) and Cell (glass board/ substrate), which are used to manufacture open cell TV panels.
Earlier, on June 30, 2017, the government had imposed a customs duty of 5 percent on import of such panel.
Several TV makers including the Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association had opposed it and had requested the government to waive it.
The open-cell panel is an important part of TV manufacturing and covers more than half the cost of the unit.


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UK store closures amid record corona virus outbreak
According to a study by local data firm and accounting firm PWC, some 11,120 chain stores were closed between January and August this year.
About 5,000 stores opened, leaving a net decline of more than 6,000 stores, almost doubling over the same period last year.
Lisa Hooker, PwC’s consumer market leader, said: “We know the infection will continue to affect the way we work, relax and play; However, as far as how we shop is concerned, this is nothing new.
We have just seen the acceleration of existing changes in shopping behaviors with mandatory testing from the Govt-19 regulations.
“We all know that consumers can shop online or change their priorities based on the products they buy, but what Covid-19 has done is make a step change in these basic trends and now they have become the new nature.”
Data show that there has been a steady increase in store closures since 2017, when the total was 6,453, which has increased to at least 1,000 each year.
Business categories that have seen steady growth over the past five years include value retailers and discount supermarkets.
The local data agency predicts that local merchants will increase sales outlets, building products and lock workers as services such as banks and post offices move away. Main Street.
Lucy Stinton of the local data company said: “As with any economic turmoil, retailers who can weather the storm have the potential to increase core availability, increased activity and spending at local centers and change consumer habits. .
“Active retailers can innovate and adapt quickly Price Pure Electric, its coffee subscription service or e-bike retailer that opened 13 stores this year, will be the most flexible when we go at the end of a year, which is the most challenging in recent history. ”


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BMW seems to want to make the legendary M3 electric, which above all promises a lot of performance.
At BMW, the previous small i stands for electric models and the capital M stands for performance. The M3 is likely to be an artefact and will probably not be offered again as a combustion engine in the future. In any case, this is what the new trademark program that has now been presented by BMW suggests.
BMW had already made it clear that combustion engines and electric cars should co-exist in the future. There are currently a variety of BMWs that are offered with both electric and combustion engines on the same platform. This also seems to be planned for the BMW M3, which will hopefully come with electric power.
To die new The iM3 trademark registration is at least an encouraging sign in this direction. BMW would not be alone in this either; Volkswagen also plans to bring the GTI and R sports brands into the era of electric cars. Audi has also already moved the RS. A good selection of electric M models can be expected.
The current M3 Racing and CS models deliver 650 Nm. The electric drive will definitely be able to deliver significantly more and can also surpass the all-wheel drive with 700 Nm.


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Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, has launched a host of special offers to spread happiness among customers during the holy month of Ramadan.
The bank will provide customers the opportunity to benefit from special rates on personal, auto and home finance, in addition to the chance to continue winning as they save with Kunooz Savings Account which offers the chance to win three apartments and a grand cash prize of AED1 million.
Customers can get personal finance starting from 2.25 per cent per annum (flat rate) during this period and auto finance starting at a rate of 1.85 per cent (flat rate) per annum on new cars for individual customers. Additionally, the bank is offering attractive home financing rates from 2.75% per cent per annum on a reducing balance basis to help customers get closer to owning their dream property.
Meanwhile, customers who apply for select Emirates Islamic Credit Cards will receive a complimentary Noon.com voucher up to AED 500 and a range of other privileges.
“The holy month of Ramadan is an opportunity for us to spread greater happiness and cheer in the community. We are delighted to offer our customers a range of promotions that will help them make the most of this special period. Whether they plan on buying a new home or car, or shopping online for loved ones, or increasing their savings to meet their goals, we are confident that our offers will bring terrific value to existing and new customers,” said Farid Al Mulla, Deputy Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management at Emirates Islamic.
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If you didn’t get a chance to watch Laurel this morning on Fox 2’s “Style-File” feature where she shared her expertise in shopping for resale bargains without sacrificing style, you can see it now. Here’s the clip of the interview which includes models Anna Gillikin ’16 and Jordyn Wexler ’16. There’s also an article which tells the story: INTERVIEW ARTICLE
Congratulations Laurel! Well done!!