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Biden, Do the Right Thing and Release the Vaccines From Pharma’s Grip

As members of the World Trade Organization meet Friday afternoon, countless residents of the United States, United Kingdom, the European Union, and other wealthy regions will be getting their second Covid-19 vaccine, as Covid cases in these places decline. Thousands in India, where 60 percent of the world’s vaccines are made, will be dying.Moving into…

What Makes Music Universal

My friend Robert Burton, a neurologist and author, wanted to share a song with me last year, and sent me a link to an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. “It’s wonderful to see truly new and inspiring music,” he wrote. I clicked open the link to a band who appeared to have journeyed from their mountain…

HBO And HBO Max Add 2.7M Subscribers In Q1; AT&T CEO John Stankey Declines To Offer Revised Streaming Metrics – Update

UPDATED with executive comments AT&T CEO John Stankey told investors on the company’s first quarter earnings call that the company’s focus on HBO Max is paying dividends. But he declined to offer any updated metrics or insights about the streaming service when pressed by analysts. The streaming service, which launched last May, added 2.7 million subscribers…

Central Global Berhad Proposes Private Placement of up to 18 Million New Shares

KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 5, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Main Market-listed Central Global Berhad (CGB) has proposed a private placement of up to 18 million new shares representing not more than 20% of the Group's total number of issued shares to qualified third-party investors to be identified at a later date.Central Global Berhad’s factory in…

10 NHL Trade Deadline Deals That Teams Soon Regretted

0 of 10ROBERT SCOTT BUTTON/Associated PressMany deals that paid significant dividends to the acquiring teams have taken place during the NHL's annual trade deadline.Some of the more impactful moves in recent years saw the Los Angeles Kings acquire Jeff Carter (2012) and Marian Gaborik (2014), the Tampa Bay Lightning bring in Ben Bishop (2013) and the…

Cairn to seize overseas Indian assets to enforce $1.2-bn arbitration award

With govt so far refusing to honour the award and instead choosing to challenge it, Cairn is looking to enforce it by seizing overseas Indian assets, said an official of a law firm representing Cairn TopicsCairn Energy UK's Cairn Energy Plc plans to bring lawsuits in the US and other countries to pierce the corporate…