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...Covid-19 has killed around 1.7m people, sunk many countries into recession, roiled markets, grounded planes, closed schools, locked down cities and placed incredible burdens on hospitals and medical workers...
...When coronavirus hit the east coast of the United States at the start of March, Interfaith Medical Center unexpectedly found itself on the front line....
...As for Singapore, stolen medical information could be used to blackmail prominent politicians or business leaders who have embarrassing conditions, such as sexually transmitted diseases....
...Pakistan ranked 147th out of 190 countries and regions in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2018. The deeper ties with China come amid strains between Pakistan and the US....
...“I work as a casual labourer on my own land,” he says. “I am doing it just to survive.”...
...His light-bulb moment came during his internship with Ideo, a consultancy in Palo Alto, California, where he drew up a business model that would tap into ACA funds allocated to the Centers for Disease Control...
...A cluster of world-class hospitals, many specialising in complicated treatments, is drawing “medical tourists” – especially from Indonesia....
...It captures the cut-throat world of 1980s Wall Street, a time when anything could, and did, happen as the traditional way of doing business was turned on its head by upstarts such as KKR....
...When Steve Jobs walked on to the stage at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center in January, it capped the most remarkable comeback in modern business history....
...Natural gas was formerly a national or regional fuel....
...Lau’s firm, then doing business as Kwongyuen Hangkee, had imported the fireworks that blew up. His company and the Chinese state were named as defendants in four product liability lawsuits....
...These free “trading” zones (medical and educational cities were added later) were built for people, ideas and money to come and mix....
...When hurricanes threaten the Gulf coast, you pre-position hospital and rescue ships offshore....
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