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15-Apr-20 Taking steps to control the disease well into the future: A smartphone tracking app for new airport arrivals. A “smart city” database of thousands of people infected by the coronavirus. Electronic bracelets that track people breaking quarantine laws. [REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon]
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02-Sep-19 Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical and Daewoong Pharmaceutical have been included in the top 20 innovative large pharmas in Asia-Pacific. Japanese companies ranked first to 10th, while four of the top 10 SMEs were Chinese, and Hong Kong’s Lee’s Pharmaceutical was no.1. [images: Korea Biomedical Review]
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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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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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02-Jul-19 The WEF has identified cutting food waste by up to 20 million tons as one of 12 measures to transform global food systems by 2030. South Korea is taking the lead by recycling 95% of its food waste. [image: BRINK]
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