MADISON REALTY CAPITAL AND NEWBOND HOLDINGS LAUNCH HOSPITALITY LENDING PLATFORM WITH INVESTING CAPACITY OF $500M

Strategic Partnership to Originate and Purchase Hospitality Loans Across All Major US Markets as Madison Newbond NEW YORK, Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Madison Realty Capital, a vertically integrated real estate private equity firm focused on debt and equity investment strategies, and Newbond Holdings (Newbond), a vertically integrated real estate investment and operating platform […]

Barrows Hotel Enterprises Considers SPAC Merger

Barrows Hotel Enterprises DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Barrows, the provider of hotel investment and advisory services for hotels in the Middle East and Africa is considering going public by a merger within twelve months. The company is therefore considering using a SPAC Merger structure to list on the Nasdaq. With […]

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) linked with improved health outcomes in largest-ever real-world analysis of lower extremity peripheral vascular interventions

November 8, 2021 Independent analysis includes Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data from over 700,000 peripheral arterial and peripheral venous intervention patients Data demonstrate a 32% reduction in major adverse limb events, such as amputations, during lower extremity arterial intervention When iliofemoral venous* stenting was guided by IVUS, there was a 31% reduction […]

National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage announced as the host of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage in 2023

​The National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage (NRIMCH) (Director Kim Yeonsoo) won the bid to host the 5th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage (APCONF) in 2023.       NRIMCH has been taking part in APCONF since the first series hosted in Manila, the Philippines in 2011 as one of the institutes … Read more

New Czech Government To ‘Review’ Relations With Russia

Five Czech parties have signed a power-sharing deal to form a coalition government following the country’s parliamentary elections last month, vowing to anchor foreign policy to the European Union and NATO, while putting relations with Russia and China “under review.” Petr Fiala, 57, of the Civic Democratic Party is slated to be the next prime … Read more

North Korean hospital mum on cause of death for 10 ‘suspected’ COVID-19 patients

Citizens say that the government is lying to them about how many people have died from the coronavirus.   A hospital in North Korea sent 10 people with COVID-19 symptoms to an unheated ward in freezing temperatures, and then falsified the causes of their deaths to maintain Pyongyang’s claim that the country is completely virus … Read more

North Korean trade with China halted by COVID outbreak in Chinese border city

One week after resuming rail freight, Chinese authorities lock down Dandong, stopping the trains. The spread of coronavirus in a key Chinese city bordering North Korea put an abrupt halt to rail freight between the two countries only eight days after they lifted an almost two-year-long trade cut-off, sources in China told RFA. At the … Read more