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May 05, 2016 08:19 The Youth America Grand Prix, the world's biggest ballet competition for students, will hold a regional contest in Korea. Seo Hee, a Korean principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater, said at the YAGP Gala in New York last Thursday that the move "will pave the way for more young Korean dancers to enter the international arena." The YAGP provides educational and professional opportunities to young dancers aged nine to 19. So far Korean dancers had to go abroad to take part in regional competitions, but now they can enter at home and only travel to the finals in New York if they win. Seo set up a foundation last November and worked to bring the youth ballet event to Korea. The first regional competition in Korea will be held in Seoul from July 22 through 24. Seo was herself a winner of of the YAGP in senior divisio in 2003. "I hope to establish a scholarship foundation to help young dancers realize their dreams. This is just the start," she … [Read more...] about Ballerina Seo Hee Helps Bring Youth America Grand Prix to Korea

Naomi Osaka ended Serena Williams' bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title in a storm of power hitting on Thursday, humbling the American great 6-3 6-4 to reach her second Australian Open final. In a rematch of their tumultuous 2018 U.S. Open decider , Osaka underlined her status as the new queen of women's tennis and soaked up the cheers from the Rod Laver Arena crowd as fans returned to the Grand Slam after a five-day lockdown. Also read: Who is Naomi Osaka? Three-times Grand Slam champion Osaka will meet the winner of Jennifer Brady and Karolina Muchova in the title match. "I did a lot of unforced errors in the first few games. I was really nervous and scared in the beginning and then I sort of eased my way into it," said Osaka on court. "It's just always an honour to play her and I just didn't want to go out really dud. I just wanted to try my best," she said. Also Read Sweat, friends and bagels: The making of Naomi Osaka Williams … [Read more...] about Australian Open | Naomi Osaka ends Serena Williams’ bid for record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title

IBM today announced that Safexpress , India's leading supply chain and logistics company, has deployed ' PROPEL-i ', a bespoke, end-to-end cloud-native logistics platform, which was developed in collaboration with IBM Global Business Services . The digital platform enables the company to attain agility in demand management, obtain advanced and flexible dynamic pricing modelling capabilities and provides enhanced visibility and transparency for its customers. Established in 1997, Safexpress offers a wide range of innovative supply chain services including express distribution, third-party logistics and consulting to its customers. Safexpress with its network of 60 logistics parks, 42 3PL locations, 1959 booking offices, 7,500 containerized GPS-enabled vehicles, operates on 1,830 routes and delivers 100 million packages a year to over 5,000 corporations across 31083 pin codes in India. Safexpress has been on digital transformation journey for the last few years and has … [Read more...] about Safexpress collaborates with IBM to drive business transformation and deliver rapid growth

Video Player Close GENEVA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has been decreasing for the sixth week in a row, but the more contagious variants of the virus are spreading fast, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly pandemic report published on Wednesday. The number of new coronavirus cases has dropped by 11 percent since last week, and North America, South America, Europe, Africa and the Western Pacific region all reported decreases. The Americas have seen the largest weekly decline with 19 percent, while the U.S. still has the highest number of weekly cases at 480,467. The number of deaths is also trending downward, the WHO said, dropping by 20 percent worldwide since last week. According to the WHO report, since the beginning of the pandemic 110 million infections and 2.5 million deaths have been recorded globally. These figures are expected to increase further as new, more contagious variants of the virus have been … [Read more...] about COVID-19 cases decline for sixth straight week worldwide but more contagious strains spreading rapidly: WHO

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