November 7, 2021 – Asia Excite

ACN Newswire

Tracer and Verofax usher Food Traceability and Sustainability to UAE with Blockchain-based Management Platform

November 7, 2021

DUBAI, UAE, Nov 7, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Tracer Tech, headquartered in Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP), UAE, is set to launch its new food safety and traceability application, powered by leading asset management provider Verofax.Tracer's food safety solution enables CPGs (consumer packaged goods) and...

Local

Security chief discharged from hospital after surgery

November 7, 2021

Security Secretary Chris Tang was discharged from hospital on Saturday, following minor surgery on his elbow. Tang said his elbow had become inflamed after he injured it last week. "The doctor suggested minor surgery to deal with the infection. I had my surgery on Thursday night. I continued to work...

Local

HK making progress on border reopening criteria

November 7, 2021

An advisor to the government on the pandemic, David Hui, said on Saturday that Hong Kong was making progress meeting mainland requirements for the border to reopen. The SAR government has recently changed a number of infection-control measures, like scrapping most quarantine exemptions and quarantining recovered patients for an extra...

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Customs arrest three after drugs found in parcels

November 7, 2021

Customs have arrested three people after finding suspected drugs, with a street value of HK$8.2 million, in toy cars, salt packets, and ink rollers at Hong Kong International Airport. About a kilo of suspected ketamine was discovered in two salt packets in a garment-declared air parcel from Pakistan on October...

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Cheung Sha Wan couple arrested for attempted murder

November 7, 2021

Police on Saturday arrested a man and a woman, aged 38 and 33, on suspicion of attempted murder, in a suspected murder suicide case involving charcoal burning. The incident allegedly took place on Friday at a flat on Lai Ying Street in Cheung Sha Wan. The couple's sons, aged six...

International

Pfizer’s vaccine trial questioned over data integrity

November 7, 2021

A boy receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 years at Lurie Children's hospital, Nov 5, 2021, in Chicago. (NAN Y HUH / AP) US multinational pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer has come under pressure over alleged data fraud suspicion in its COVID-19 clinical trials, according to British medical...

International

At least 8 dead, many injured in crush at Texas music festival

November 7, 2021

Rapper Travis Scott performs on Day 1 of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park on Nov 5, 2021, in Houston. (AMY HARRIS / INVISION / AP) At least eight people were killed and many were injured in a crush when fans surged toward the stage during the opening night...

International

UN calls for a halt in Ethiopia fighting, urges negotiations

November 7, 2021

People are seen in front of clouds of black smoke from fires in the aftermath at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on Oct 20, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) The United Nations Security Council called for an end of hostilities...

International

Virus: Pfizer results open door to new chapter for treatments

November 7, 2021

The Pfizer building in New York. (SPENCER PLATT / BLOOMBERG) The world needs an easy-to-take COVID-19-19 treatment. Pfizer Inc’s and Merck & Co Inc’s COVID-19 pills may be just that. But questions remain about how well they will work in the real world, how safe they are and whether they...