New analysis shows a decrease in prevalence due to education countered by increase due to heart health risk factors. Positive trends in global education access are expected to decrease dementia prevalence worldwide by 6.2 million cases by the year 2050. Meanwhile, anticipated trends in smoking, high body mass index, and high blood sugar are predicted…
New research has found that some men who have had COVID-19 might experience unwanted sexual side effects. Contrary to myths circulating on social media, COVID-19 vaccines do not cause erectile dysfunction and male infertility. What is true: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a risk for both disorders. Until now, little research has been done…
Freight forwarders often keep track of rates on spreadsheets they email to customers, but the pandemic has made that difficult because prices are constantly fluctuating. Freightify, a startup that refers to itself as the “Shopify for maritime freight,” provides white-label rate management and e-booking tools that freight forwarders can use to set up online stores,…
Business-to-business payments platform Nium announced Monday that it raised more than $200 million in Series D funding and saw its valuation rise above $1 billion. The company, now Singapore-based but shifting to the Bay Area, touted the investment as making it “the first B2B payments unicorn from Southeast Asia.” Riverwood Capital led the round, in…
Tesla is pushing the launch of its electric Semi truck program to 2022 due to supply chain challenges and the limited availability of battery cells, the company said in its second-quarter earnings report Monday. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned about battery supply constraints before and the effect it might have on the Tesla Semi,…
Van Morrison has called Stormont’s decision to allow concert venues to reopen tomorrow a “kick in the teeth” after he was forced to cancel six hometown gigs. orrison lashed out at the Northern Ireland Executive after it announced that concert venues and theatres can reopen from 6pm Tuesday. But he said the announcement came too late for…
The High Court has struck out separate actions in which a mother and daughter alleged they were defamed by singer and former Presidential candidate, Dana Rosemary Scallon. r Justice Brian O’Moore dismissed both actions on Monday over the failure by Susan Stein and her daughter Susan Gorrell to comply with a 2018 court order to…
The champagne was out across the city on Monday evening as Hongkongers celebrated Cheung Ka-long’s remarkable victory in the final of the men’s individual foil at the Tokyo Olympics. Cheung’s win ended Hong Kong’s 25-year-long wait for an Olympic gold medal, after Lee Lai-shan’s windsurfing gold in Atlanta in 1996. Chief Executive Carrie Lam led…
Education minister Kevin Yeung on Monday backed Baptist University’s decision to make students attend courses on national security, saying the move is in accordance with the security law. The university announced earlier in the day that undergraduate students who enrol from this September will have to complete a national security course before they graduate. Yeung…
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) on Monday said it will no longer collect membership fees on behalf of its students’ union, but denied that the move is aimed at severing ties with the body. This follows similar decisions taken by a number of other local universities recently, moves critics say are aimed at distancing the…
