China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) has the capacity to provide more than 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to the world beyond China in the second half of this year, the firm’s chairman Liu Jingzhen said late on Wednesday.That level of supply capability assumes vaccination demand in China is being met, Liu said at a panel of the Global Health Forum of the Boao Forum for Asia.”Our annual production capacity exceeds 5 billion doses,” Liu said, “This is our own capacity.”He declined to disclose how many shots the state-backed drugmaker has agreed to give to the global COVAX programme for sharing…
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The US government announced Wednesday it is suspending for six months any punitive tariffs on Britain, India and four European nations while it works to resolve a dispute over digital services taxes.”The United States is focused on finding a multilateral solution to a range of key issues related to international taxation, including our concerns with digital services taxes,” US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a statement.The suspension, which applies to Austria, Italy, Spain and Turkey, comes at the conclusion of year-long investigation into taxes which Washington said discriminated against big US tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook.But…
Elon Musk tweeted that the current chip shortage that his Tesla is facing is just like the panic-buying of toilet paper. He claimed that many tech giant firms and other manufacturers are now hoarding microcontroller chips since they fear running out. (Photo : Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Spacex founder Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Earlier in the day NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off an inaugural flight and will be…
A Canadian Cabinet minister pledged again Wednesday to support efforts to find more unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous students after the remains of 215 children were located at what was once Canada’s largest such school.The comments from Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett come as First Nations leaders called for an examination of other former residential schools — institutions that held Indigenous children taken from families across the nation.Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in British Columbia has said the remains of 215 children were confirmed last month at the school in Kamloops, British…
Afghanistan’s stability is in the best interests of the US, China and India, the Afghan ambassador to China has said, adding that it is important for New Delhi and Beijing to build trust over Kabul regardless of other issues.“Afghanistan as a stable country is in favour of countries such as the US, China and India,” the Global Times quoted Ambassador Javid Ahmad Qaem as saying at a press meet with Chinese journalists in Beijing on Tuesday. “It is more important how we and Pakistan can build trust, and how China and India can build trust regarding Afghanistan regardless of other…
Nasa and the Canadian Space Agency first noticed the damage to a robotic arm of the International Space Station during a routine inspection on May 12. By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav, Hindustan Times, New Delhi PUBLISHED ON JUN 02, 2021 08:39 PM IST A robotic arm of the International Space Station (ISS) is still functioning after being hit by orbital debris last month, according to the Canadian Space Agency. Nasa and the CSA first noticed the damage to Canadarm2 during a routine inspection on May 12. The experts from both space agencies took detailed images of the area…
Relations between Pakistan and India cannot be normalised till New Delhi rolls back its decision of August 2019 to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday. Addressing a joint press interaction with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon in Islamabad, Khan said the full potential of the region can be achieved only if the situation in Afghanistan stabilises and there are better ties between Pakistan and India. Following back-channel contacts facilitated by countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, the militaries of India and Pakistan recommitted themselves to the 2009…
Mark B., Tech Times 02 June 2021, 09:06 am Help Lightning, a remote visual assistance software leader, has just secured an additional $3 million in growth equity from its Series A funding round – a show of trust and backing for remote visual support and opportunity for the technologies that help make it possible. The additional growth equity fund shortly follows the $8 million Series A led by SaaS return investor Resolve. In its latest financing round, Help Lightning has secured support from two new strategic investors: Larsen & Toubro, an engineering and infrastructure giant, based in Mumbai, India, and Engage, a corporate venture platform…
Zoom meetings became the new normal at the height of COVID-19 in 2020. As a result, the company garnered over $952 million worth of revenue for the first quarter of 2021. (Photo : Zoom) Zoom is one of the most famous video conferencing apps when it comes to business usage. In 2011, the journey of Zoom, with the ownership of Eric Yuan, took place. After two years, the app successfully hit the market in January 2013. Before founding the Zoom app, Yuan participated in building WebEx before being acquitted by Cisco back in 2007. Most of the people surrounding Yuan…
People with irregular heartbeats who use wearable devices like Apple Watches and Fitbits aren’t overwhelming doctors with worried calls about their hearts, a new study shows. But they are more likely to be treated with a heart procedure called an ablation, the analysis found. The small study is one of the first to show how people with existing heart problems use wearables. Devices like the Apple Watch have a heart-monitoring feature that can alert users if they have an irregular pulse. Technically, those features on the Apple Watch are only authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people…