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Numbers, not words, will shape post-election landscape

This week’s virtual pledge of loyalty to allies by the Pheu Thai Party cannot entirely soothe them, because they know all too well that in politics, even cutthroat one like Thailand’s, promises to friends and threats to foes can fall apart overnight when push comes to shove.   There’s another reason for allies’ anxiety to […]

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Demining officer killed, another injured in blast near Thai-Cambodian border

A member of the Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) was killed and another injured in a landmine explosion, as they led a team of forest rangers on a patrol in Phnom Dong Rek Wildlife Sanctuary near the Thai-Cambodian border yesterday (Thursday).   According to Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn, director of the 9th Conservation Area Management Office in […]

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Zoom Appoints Cindy Hoots to Board of Directors

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) announced that it has appointed Cindy Hoots, Chief Digital Officer and CIO of AstraZeneca, as an independent director on Zoom’s Board of Directors effective immediately. “Zoom has changed the way companies around the world do business and is ushering in […]

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CNH Industrial’s straw management solution in India

CNH_Industrial_Straw_Management_Solution An innovative solution to an age-old problem. Watch our latest webisode on cnhindustrial.com London, January 5, 2023 “Agriculture has the word culture in it,” says Kavita Sah, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at CNH Industrial India, in our latest installment in the Breaking New Ground webisode series. She goes on to explain how a huge cultural shift was required from local farmers who were used to burning their land […]

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Bolsa Electrónica de Chile Upgrades to Nasdaq Marketplace Services Platform

BEC to Move Operations to the Cloud in 2024 NEW YORK and SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and Bolsa Electrónica de Chile (BEC) today announced an agreement through which BEC will upgrade its current on-premise Nasdaq trading technology to Nasdaq’s SaaS-based Marketplace Services Platform, with the aim to […]

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Duck Creek to acquire Imburse Payments, a modern payments platform

Strategic acquisition will add digital, out-of-the box payments capabilities to Duck Creek’s comprehensive suite of SaaS solutions for P&C and general insurers Boston, MA, Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ: DCT) (“Duck Creek”), the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance, today announced a definitive agreement […]

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Minovia Therapeutics appoints Maha Radhakrishnan, Chief Medical Officer at Biogen, as board member

TIRAT HACARMEL, Israel, Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Minovia Therapeutics (Minovia), a clinical-stage company focused on developing novel Mitochondrial Augmentation Technology (MAT) to fight mitochondrial diseases, has announced a Board appointment. Maha Radhakrishnan, M.D., joins the board at a time in which the company advances clinical programs in primary mitochondrial diseases and hematological disorders associated with mitochondrial […]