Blockchain newsAsia Malaysian soybeans shipments, Thai tax avoidance, Japanese hack investigations and govt bans in China and India that might, or might not be, binding By Pete Sabine November 6, 2018 6:55 PM (UTC+8) Share Tweet Linkedin Print Email Share 0 Comment 0 India’s biggest private company gets paid via blockchain: Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector firm, had its first trade finance transaction powered by blockchain technology. The oil and energy conglomerate completed a deal with US-based global chemical distributor Tricon Energy in a transaction facilitated by HSBC and ING Bank and involving a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina to Malaysia. China’s Central Bank extends its regulatory scrutiny to crypto ‘airdrops’: A new report from the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) says so-called “airdrops” – usually free distribution of new crypto-currency tokens – are often nothing more than … [Read more...] about Tuesday’s blockchain and crypto news, from Asia and beyond
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Melinda Gates urges backing for “human capital” of mother and child health
LONDON: Millions of women and babies could avoid untimely deaths if international donors step up to replenish a global health fund so it can expand to 50 countries, the philanthropist Melinda Gates said on Tuesday.The co-chair of the multi-billion-dollar Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation told Reuters she and her husband see the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a fund aimed specifically at maternal, newborn and child health, as an investment in "human capital" that will swiftly show meaningful, measurable results.After putting in a tentative US$75 million of support for the GFF when it was first set up in 2015, the Gates Foundation will this week commit another US$200 million at a replenishment meeting in Norway "because we are seeing it work," Melinda Gates said."If you invest in people - that is, in the human capital - you're going to get amazing growth in your country," Melinda Gates said in a telephone interview ahead of the GFF's replenishment meeting.The GFF, led by the World … [Read more...] about Melinda Gates urges backing for “human capital” of mother and child health
News Global wheat supply to crisis levels; big China stocks won’t provide relief
LONDON -- A scorching hot, dry summer has ended 5 years of plenty in many wheat producing countries and drawn down the reserves of major exporters to their lowest level since 2007/08, when low grain stocks contributed to food riots across Africa and Asia. Although global stocks are expected to hit an all-time high of 273 million tons at the start of the 2018/19 grain marketing season, according to US Department of Agriculture estimates, the problem is nearly half of it is in China, which is not likely to release any onto global markets. Experts predict that by the end of the season, the 8 major exporters will be left with 20 percent of world stocks - just 26 days of cover - down from one-third a decade ago. The USDA estimates that China, which consumes 16 percent of the world's wheat, will hold 46 percent of its stocks at the beginning of the season, which starts around now, and more than half by the end. The 126.8 million tons China is estimated to hold is up 135 percent from 54 … [Read more...] about News Global wheat supply to crisis levels; big China stocks won’t provide relief
Here’s what handwriting analysts say about the signatures of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and 13 more successful people
caption You can learn a lot about people from looking at their signatures, two professional handwriting analysts say. source Business Insider Handwriting analysts claim you can learn about someone’s character by looking at their writing style. We asked two of them to analyze the signatures of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and other successful leaders. Handwriting is like fingerprints: No two people have exactly the same. Although handwriting analysis has plenty of detractors, experts in the field claim that one’s handwriting can telegraph clues about their personality, work style, and psychological state. Handwriting analysts are known as graphologists, and we asked two of them – Kathi McKnight and Elaine Charal – to analyze the signatures of 15 well-known business leaders and tell us what they saw. Note that graphology isn’t a foolproof method, and we have no way of confirming … [Read more...] about Here’s what handwriting analysts say about the signatures of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and 13 more successful people
Universal welfare and saying ‘no’ to tuition: Teo You Yenn goes On the Record about inequality
SINGAPORE: It is not often that a book by an academic makes the bestseller lists.But for the past four months, sociologist, Teo You Yenn’s This Is What Inequality Looks Like has flown off the shelves of local bookstores, and was even brought up in Parliament by Nominated Member of Parliament Kuik Shiao-Yin in her speech about income inequality in Singapore.In recent weeks, as Parliament convened to debate the President’s Address, the income gap took centre stage again, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and others raising the issue of inequality. Mr Lee emphasised the need for society to maintain an “informal and egalitarian tone”.Education Minister Ong Ye Kung argued for developing more pathways and opportunities in education and training, and changing mindsets about academic qualifications.This would, to some extent, increase social mobility.But Dr Teo feels that changes need to be bolder. During our interview, she mentions re-examining … [Read more...] about Universal welfare and saying ‘no’ to tuition: Teo You Yenn goes On the Record about inequality