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As a pandemic-exhausted world celebrates the delayed 2020 Games, some Japanese citizens remain adamantly opposed. Macquarie University Japan specialist Dr Thomas Baudinette explains what’s behind their protests.
After considerable delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics got off to an explosive start last Friday night. While Australian media was glued to the excitement brewing at the Olympic Stadium, some Japanese citizens were gathering in the streets of the city to vocally protest the event.
Showcase: The Australian Olympic team at the Tokyo Opening Ceremony … many around the world, including in Australia, are looking to the Olympics as a chance to celebrate.
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May 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and senior leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ex-Senator Abdul Rehman Malik claimed that Secretary General United Nations ordered the inquiry into COVID-19 by constituting high powered committee headed by former prime minister of New Zealand Ms. Helen Clark who will assisted by 40 experts from UN and other countries.
“Let us see what would be the outcome of the investigations by biologists and doctors,” he said in an interview with The News. Rehman Malik said it is in the interest of humanity that this investigation has started to determine the zero patient and nature of this virus. He mentioned that he was the one in the whole world who requested in writing to probe the nature of this virus.
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VLP Therapeutics raises $16M Series A for cancer treatment vaccine R&D
March 15, 2021 GMT
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ US-based biotech company VLP Therapeutics, Inc. (VLPT) announced on March 15 that it has raised US$16 million in a Series A funding round from MIYAKO Capital Co., Ltd., Sojitz Corporation, Konishiyasu Co., Ltd., in Japan and three existing investors in the US (Mr. Robert G. Hisaoka, SK Impact Fund, LLC, and RJ Fund, LLC) for research and development of a cancer treatment vaccine. With this funding, VLPT aims to accelerate the project well underway in the US and move into clinical trials at the earliest date possible.