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County Durham Expands Global Reach With Japan-based Medtech
A North East tech firm has announced a new partnership with a Japan-based medtech to manufacture medical ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kromek, which is based in County Durham, has partnered with Japanese firm Metran Co. Ltd to manufacture and sell medical ventilators around the world to combat the spread of coronavirus. Headquartered …
Cyprus Extends Tax Compliance Dates Due To COVID-19 Crisis
The Cyprus Government has announced a number of extensions to tax return filing dates. In a number of separate decisions, the Government has extended the deadline for annual corporate income tax returns and for personal income tax returns for the 2018 tax year from March 31, 2020, to May 31, 2020. Value-added tax payments for …
Kairos Aerospace Closes $9m Series C Funding
Kairos Aerospace, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of large-scale aerial monitoring of methane emissions, closed a $9m Series C funding round. The round was led by OGCI Climate Investments, new investor John Crane, a Smiths Group company, and Energy Innovation Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Sam Gabbita of OGCI Climate Investments, joined the Kairos …
Brazil Adds To Coronavirus Tax Response
Brazil has announced a number of additional tax payment and filing concessions in response to COVID-19. These include that the personal income tax filing deadline for 2019 returns has been extended from April 30, 2020, to June 30, 2020. The filing date for the social security contributions PIS and COFINS for returns due on the …
Nagorno-Karabakh Elects New Leader
Ara Harutiunian, a businessman and former prime minister, cruised to a comfortable victory in the second round of Nagorno-Karabakh’s presidential election held on Tuesday amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus in the Armenian-populated territory. Official election results released on Wednesday showed Harutiunian winning 88 percent of the vote. His challenger and Karabakh’s outgoing foreign …
Italian Virus Hospital To Hire Fauci If Trump Fires Him
The scientific director of Italy’s leading infectious disease hospital says he’d like to hire Dr. Anthony Fauci should President Donald Trump remove him from the White House coronavirus task force. Dr. Giuseppe Ippolito of Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital wrote a letter released Wednesday to the Italian president and other officials, saying Italy should welcome Fauci …
What You Need To Know About The Africa-China Tech Alliance
Africa is a place of digital opportunity. In a quickly-expanding tech market on the continent, there is an influx of electronic products that are reaching the hands of more and more Africans. It’s a trend that has been powered by China. Firms such as Huawei, Boomplay, and Transsion are playing a major role by pumping …
AU Blasts Trump For Cutting WHO Funding
The head of the African Union Commission on Wednesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Moussa Faki Mahamat termed the decision “deeply regrettable” and said the world had a “collective responsibility” to help WHO during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The US govt decision to suspend funding to …
Tour de France Rescheduled To Start August 29
The Tour de France has new dates, and it will be followed by cycling’s two other major races. Because of restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, the iconic race around France will now start on Aug. 29 and finish on Sept. 20. The Giro d’Italia and the Spanish Vuelta, cycling’s two other Grand Tours, will …
UAE Releases 400 Pakistani Prisoners
Around 400 Pakistani prisoners have been released from jails across the United Arab Emirates in view of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed 28 lives and infected over 4,900 people in the Gulf kingdom so far. The released Pakistanis were jailed for minor offences, the Pakistani Embassy in Abu Dhabi said on Tuesday, adding that …
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