TOKYO/TAIPEI – Japan delivered to Taiwan 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca PLC’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday for free, in a gesture that will more than double the number of shots the island has received to date.Taiwan is battling a spike in domestic …
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US Mulls Launching ‘Digital Dollar’
WASHINGTON – A top Federal Reserve official raised eyebrows in the financial services world last week by saying that the central bank is stepping up development of a plan that could result in the issuance of a digitized version of the U.S. dollar. In d…
Read moreBiden Expands List of Sanctioned Chinese Firms
U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday expanding a Trump-era list of Chinese companies blacklisted for their alleged ties to the country’s military.The executive order listed 59 companies sanctioned for their links to Beijing’s “mi…
Read moreReports: Facebook to End Rule Exemptions for Politicians
Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to several news reports.The company’s rationale for that policy held that the speech of politica…
Read moreMillions of Asia Refugees Missing Out on COVID-19 Vaccines, UN Says
GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency warns a severe shortage of COVID-19 vaccines in Asia-Pacific is putting the lives of refugees and asylum seekers at risk as this deadly disease continues to spread like wildfire throughout the region. These countries ha…
Read moreHundreds of Lakes in US, Europe Losing Oxygen, Study Finds
Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. And the authors said declining oxygen could lead to increased fish kills, algal blooms and methane emissions. Researchers exa…
Read moreCOVID-19 Variants to be Named After Greek Letters Instead of Locations
South African variant? B.1.351? How about GH/501Y.V2? Just call it beta. The World Health Organization is assigning Greek letters to important variants of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The scientific names are hard to say and hard to remembe…
Read moreTHE MINISTRY FOR AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, FOOD, AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food, and Animal Rights Anton Refalo attended the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council which was held between the 26th and 28th of May in Brussels. Among the subjects discussed, the post-2020 CAP reform package was …
Read moreTHE MINISTRY FOR SOCIAL ACCOMMODATION “Rent – an adequate alternative for the family” – Minister Roderick Galdes
The first published study on the residential rental market following the reform that entered into force in 2020Following the 2020 reform, renting is no longer a temporary and unstable solution, but it has become an adequate housing alternative., said M…
Read moreTHE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL PERMANENT SECRETARY There has never been better proof of the Public Service’s flexibility and efficiency -Prime Minister Robert Abela
Prime Minister Robert Abela said that the past few months have yielded the best proof ever of the Public Service’s flexibility and efficiency – a Public Service which provided all the support that the government needed to carry out the extraordinary me…
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