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Indian Company Protoprint Transforms Waste into 3D Printing Filament for Commercial Use
This week, we reported on New Zealand-based Waikato University’s revolutionary FDM technology-based 3D printing method that allows anyone to print complex objects by converting waste material into thermoplastic filament, and we’ve seen several initiatives around the world focused on bringing waste material into reuse via 3D printing.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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India’s microfinance firms scramble to react to government’s ban on high-value currency
Microfinance companies, which work in the grassroot level and handle cash more than any other institutions, are in complete quandary on what strategy they should adopt now as far as accepting high value currency notes goes.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Modi’s ‘Masterstroke’ Cash Ban to Boost India Digital Push
Cash may no longer be king in India. The nation’s nascent digital economy stands to be the biggest beneficiary of its strongest crackdown on corruption since 1978.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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AP launches urban e-healthcare centre scheme
The Andhra Pradesh Government will make all efforts to provide quality medicare to the urban poor and to that end it will make use of technology, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Indian Fintech Startups Are Still a Long Way Off From Big Global Peers
Though IT trade body Nasscom claimed that India has more startups than China last week, the KPMG Fintech100 report for 2016 does not reflect it.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Merck Opens China Pharmaceutical Plant
The world's leading biomedicine company Merck has opened a plant in Nantong, China's eastern Jiangsu Province, to produce pharmaceuticals on the country's Essential Drug List.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Impact Investing Awaits Rise of Asia’s Young Rich
Socially responsible and impact investing is gaining traction in Asia but a leading Swiss private bank argues it won’t flourish until younger generations are handed control of the fortunes of the region’s wealthiest families. Lombard Odier expects more of Asia’s wealth will be funneled into impact and socially responsible investment (SRI) as control shifts to younger family members who believe they can invest in worthwhile causes and generate at solid return at the same time.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Fintech Holds The Key To Myanmar’s Future
As recently as 2013, CNN described Myanmar’s banking system as “outdated and debased, open for decades to abuse by the previous regime, and shunned by about 90 percent of the population.”
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- fintech, mobile finance
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