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04-Apr-20 The government is considering providing Avigan for free to other countries that want to use the flu drug to treat coronavirus patients. The drug, developed by a group firm of Fujifilm Holdings, is considered effective for treating COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. [image: AFP-JIJI]
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06-Sep-19 Singaporeans have an average nightly sleep of 7 hours 5 minutes, according to Fitbit, making them the third most sleep deprived after Japanese and Indians. They also sleep later than users in most other countries: 12:11 AM on average. [image: Fitbit]
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22-Aug-19 Once a cashless pioneer, Japan is now lagging behind countries such as Sweden and Korea on electronic payments, because of its aging population, low crime and virtually no counterfeiting. Four out of five purchases are still made with cash. [image: AFP / Toshifumi Kitamura]
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04-Aug-19 While smartphone sales in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will reach 76.33 million units in 2019, a 1 percent increase, global sales will reach 1.5 billion units, a 2.5 percent decline. [image: Zawya]
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02-Aug-19 A Sino-US trade war could tilt the world towards a global recession. Manufacturing activity contracted in China in June and July 2019. In Southeast Asia, Indonesia registered a contraction, but others benefited as trade flows move away from China. [image: Business World]
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