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Korean Hospitals Now Saying ‘Push’ in 4 Languages
Seoul :: South Korea | about 11 hours ago
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South Korea Just a few years ago, the number of pregnant women in this city had declined so much that the sparsely equipped two-room maternity ward at Yeonggwang General Hospital was close to shutting down. But these days it is busy again. More surprising...
Tags: South Korea, Asian, rural areas, mixed children, Seoul, Koreans, Social Issues, Immigration to South Korea, Korea, Divided regions, Yeonggwang
PERU: Rural Highlands Communities Coming Online
Peru :: IN :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Little by little, rural communities in southern Peru are beginning to take advantage of the internet to acquire new knowledge and increase their income. But the use of computers in rural areas faces numerous challenges, from illiteracy to fear of the...
Tags: Puno-Cuzco Operations Unit, Puno-Cuzco Corridor, Peruvian Studies Institute, TICBolivia Network, Bolivian, rural areas, Southern Andes ICT Network, Sierra Sur, IPS, local knowledge, Peru
FMCGs sanguine on rural sales in spite of poor MSP
Mumbai :: India | 13 days ago
Credibility Shailaja Sharma / DNA Monday, November 16, 2009 2:35 IST Mumbai: Sukhminder Singh Sidhu, a 45-year-old farmer in Punjab's Moga district, is unhappy with the minuscule Rs 20 per-quintal hike the government has announced in the minimum support price (MSP)...
Tags: Dabur India, Nestle India, MSP, rural sales, Sukhminder Singh Sidhu, rural areas, poor msp, fmcgs sanguine, India, Mumbai, Hindustan Unilever, Fast moving consumer goods, Ror, Sidhu, Dabur, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Haryana, Business Finance
Direct-selling companies hit the country road
Mumbai :: India | 13 days ago
Credibility Oriflame, Amway, Forever, and Tupperware to hit the country roads. The industry is currently estimated at around Rs 3,330 crore in revenues (excluding the insurance business) and projected to grow at 12.5%to touch Rs 5,328 crore by 2012-13. The direct-selling...
Tags: Amway India, India Amarjit Ubhi, Indian Direct Selling Association, selling companies, growth rates, country roads, rural areas, ii towns, products portfolio, India, Mumbai, Oriflame, Direct selling, Rural markets, Economy of India, Multi-level marketing, Personal selling, Amway, Business Finance
Obama official sees gain for rural areas in health
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Rural areas stand to gain from health-care reform by getting more choices for coverage at better prices, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday. Sebelius, formerly the governor of Kansas, said rural areas are the most underinsured...
Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, rural areas, care reform
FCC Begins Inquiry Into Google Voice
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 9, 2009; 4:11 PM The Federal Communications Commission said it is investigating whether Google has violated telecommunications laws with its call management and calling service that has been blocking the connection...
Tags: Google Voice, Federal Communications Commission, FCC Wireline Competition Bureau, voice service, Google Inc., Voice Internet, rural areas
Extra PG entrance marks for doctors' rural service
Mumbai :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Medical graduates who practise in Indias rural areas will receive extra marks in the national entrance test for postgraduate medical studies under a novel plan to entice doctors to villages, the government announced today...The graduate doctors would...
Tags: rural areas, India, Mumbai
People for early installation of Water Filtrat ...
Lahore :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
Credibility Several rural areas of the capital are without basic facility of clean drinking water as the projects of installation of Water Filtration Plants have been in doldrums for the last four years. The residents of rural areas of the capital underlined that...
Tags: Punjab Wushu Association, Punjab Wushu C, Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, water filtrat, sugar hoarders, filtrat plants, rural areas
$2.7 million for rural breast cancer
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility Announced today at Breast Cancer Network Australia's national summit, the money will go to a joint project between the nation's two leading breast cancer organisations, the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre and Breast Cancer Network Australia.
Tags: breast cancer, rural areas
AllAfrica.com: Students Invent Bicycle-Powered Phone Charger
Nairobi :: Kenya | 4 months ago
Credibility Expect More Calls From the Village Kibiwott Koross 21 July 2009 Nairobi — Mobile phone owners, especially those in rural areas, may no longer need a regular power supply to charge the gadgets.
Tags: rural areas
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