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APAC shoppers rank value for money as the top factor when choosing where to buy technical consumer goods—both online and offline

Price and after sales services like home delivery and return policies are also important to shoppers of both platforms Singapore, October 11, 2016 – In today’s challenging physical and digital global retail environment, it is imperative for both online and offline retailers to not only carry a good assortment of products, but also include other …

Easing into seasonal change

  Elderly and the Young  Need Greater Precautions as Weather Shifts to Winter, say Doctors at Columbia Asia Hospitals, Ahmedabad Cases of asthma attacks, influenza and heart attacks rise in winters Ahmedabad, 10th Oct 2016: With winter season on the anvil, there is palpable relief among people from the long and scorching summer heat. However, …

Medical Tourism – Thee nights and Four days for a new Knee: Chawm Ganguly

The first recorded instance of people travelling to obtain medical treatment dates back thousands of years and refers to Greek pilgrims travelling from all over the Mediterranean to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria. This territory was the sanctuary of Asklepios – the Greek God of medicine . Asclepius represented the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters being Hygieia (“Hygiene”, the goddess/personification of …

Managing an Inclusive Transition for the Global Economy

By Christine Lagarde 2016 IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings Plenary, Washington, DC October 7, 2016 Let me express our concern and convey our warm thoughts and condolences to all those who are currently affected by Hurricane Matthew, who are suffering and struggling to escape the disaster caused by yet another weather catastrophe. We all feel the …

HOLIDAY 2016: THE MOST ANTICIPATED VIDEO GAMES

MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT | 10-05-2016 The holiday season delivers joy in a wide variety of ways…family gatherings, fellowship, delectable meals, the spirit of giving…and lots of new video games. Great games can arrive at any time of the year, but publishers often save their best efforts for the holiday shopping season. So what’s topping gamers’ wish …

How fast will we need to adapt to climate change?

Stanford, CA— What would we do differently if sea level were to rise one foot per century versus one foot per decade? Until now, most policy and research has focused on adapting to specific amounts of climate change and not on how fast that climate change might happen. Using sea-level rise as a case study, …