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VW China's environmental program big hit in Urumqi

Edit China Daily 06 May 2016
Volkswagen Group China, German Embassy and Goethe Institut, the program aims to raise environmental protection awareness among China's young ... The program is part of the PASCH Project, a program that started in 2008 that brings German courses and German-Chinese cultural exchanges into middle schools. The PASCH Project now has 35 partner middle schools in 18 provinces all over China, many of which had never before offered German courses....

Death rates have fallen dramatically for children and teens of all races

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 06 May 2016
In November, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton pointed out that middle-aged whites are dying faster than they were 15 years ago ... mortality rate has been steadily declining for middle-aged people. In America, the misfortune has been distributed unequally — death rates increased the most for middle-aged whites with low levels of education....

Golf Gifts for Mother's Day

Edit Golf 06 May 2016
The small, lightweight clip-on VC300 announces distances to the front, middle or back of each green with a simple touch or swipe— tap near the logo for yardages to the center, and swipe for distances to the front and back ... The device supports seven languages (English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish and German), comes preloaded with 30,000 courses, and has a rechargeable battery that lasts eight hours....

Lost WWII resistance heroes' graves found after 70 years

Edit BBC News 06 May 2016
Just a few months after their daughters were born they were snatched away by Hitler's forces in the German-occupied Channel Islands and never returned home ... German armed forces occupied the Channel Islands from June 1940 until May 1945 ... At that time German forces had almost been destroyed by the Allies and the Nazis were trying to cover up their atrocities....

InterContinental Hotels hit by early Easter and low oil price

Edit Belfast Telegraph 06 May 2016
Holiday Inn owner InterContinental Hotels has said that growth in the first quarter has been hit by the low oil price and the early Easter. Room revenue for the period stood at 1.5%, with the Middle East region dragging on sales....

Seven shuttlers, fumbling form

Edit DNA India 06 May 2016
--> ... PV Sindhu, world No. 10 in women's singles, has also hit a low lately after winning the Malaysia Masters in January. Quarterfinal loses in German Open, Swiss Open, India Open, Malaysia Open and China Masters to a Chinese or Thai notwithstanding, Sindhu has done her bit to retain the ranking points in the race to Olympics ... Rd 3. German Open ... German Open, Swiss Open, India Open, Malaysia Open, China Masters ... German Open, India Open ... ....

The unexpected Kafka (Assicurazioni Generali SpA)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
(Source. Assicurazioni Generali SpA) ... The writer was born in a Jewish German-speaking middle-class family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Boemia, then (1883) part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Kafka took up a legal education and worked in the insurance sector. He made his entrance in Assicurazioni Generali in 1907 ... writing ... (noodl. 33428009) ....

New, Better HIV Drugs Can Save Billions of Rand

Edit All Africa 06 May 2016
[GroundUp] The introduction of three new antiretroviral medicines for treating people with HIV could save $3 billion for programmes in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2025. This finding was presented in February at the world's premier HIV science meeting. the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, better known as CROI ... ....

Bonds weaken ahead of US jobs data

Edit Business Day 06 May 2016
The middle-dated R207 was bid at 8.585% and offered at 8.575% from a previous close of 8.570%....

Top-flight London stocks subdued after Asian trading disappoints

Edit Belfast Telegraph 06 May 2016
IHG said overall room revenue growth in its first quarter stood at 1.5%, although it was dragged back by weak oil markets, the earlier timing of Easter and political uncertainty in some Middle East markets. Share Go To ... Most economists estimate the US added around 200,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate remained low at 5% ... In London, IHG said revenue from the Middle East was down 10.4% ... ....

Risk to pregnant women of contracting rubella in Ireland is now extremely low

Edit The Irish Times 06 May 2016
It’s not every day a country is told by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that it is free of an infectious disease ... In what is a great achievement for the Irish people and the health service, the risk to pregnant women of contracting congenital rubella here is now extremely low ... Its effects include miscarriage and stillbirth ... For adults, rubella, also known as German measles, is a mild self-limiting illness ...     ... ....

Connecting German youth with Holocaust survivors

Edit The Jerusalem Post 06 May 2016
The joint volunteer program, which brings German youth to volunteer in Israel for one year, pairs German volunteers with German-speaking Holocaust survivors ... ....

Free Shopping Bags Have Already Cost the Poor Too Much

Edit CityLab 06 May 2016
You might think that this will suck for the average low-wage resident ... The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYCEJA), a coalition of organizations focused on strengthening low-income communities, came out in strong support of the bag fee, even as many city council members said the fee would hit poor customers’ pocketbooks the hardest....
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