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Solar-Powered ATMs to Deliver Clean Drinking Water in Pakistan
Punjab province is set to launch an innovation for water-short Pakistan: Solar-powered ATMs that dispense clean water when a smart card is scanned.
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- South Asia
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Apple-Alibaba Tie-Up to Bring Apple Pay to China?
Apple is in talks with Alibaba to bring its mobile payments system to China, according to an interview with Chinese news agency Xinhua.
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India: The Fight to Become a Science Superpower
With her jeans, T-shirt and spirited attitude, Tapasya Srivastava could pass for a student as she works in her brightly lit cancer-biology lab on the University of Delhi South Campus. Srivastava, who oversees a team of eight researchers, is thrilled that she earned “a small research space of my own” in 2010, while still in her thirties. “With a decent list of publications under my belt, I am one of the few who have studied and undergone training entirely in India,” she says.
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Money Order Service Not Discontinued, Says India’s Department of Post
The Money Order service, the old and trusted mode of remittance, was very much available, the Department of Post today said, strongly refuting the reports otherwise.
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India’s Bad Loans Situation May Not Have Peaked Yet, Says RBI Chief
India's banking system may not yet have seen the peak in bad loans, the Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday, adding the central bank was working with lenders to recognise and resolve these non-performing assets.
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Walmart Taps Alipay to Bring Mobile Payments to 25 China Stores
The world of mobile payments in China keeps heating up.
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India Needs to Improve Healthcare As Part of Global Millennium Development Goals: WHO
India and many other southeast Asian countries need to improve their record on public healthcare, the WHO said today as it warned that the world will fall short in achieving the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on many indicators by the end of this year.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Buddhist Monk in Thailand Relies on Karma for Lending Success
Buddhist monks aren’t really known for dipping into the material world of finance. Phra Subin Paneeto, though, says he felt he didn’t have much choice when he saw his neighbors near Thailand’s border with Cambodia were struggling to make ends meet.
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