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SAN DIEGO and BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bright Peak Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing next-generation cytokine immunotherapies to treat cancer and autoimmune disease, today announced that it has appointed Leena Gandhi, M.D., Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Gandhi is a distinguished physician-scientist with a focus on cancer immunotherapy and […]
Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) and Solution Tree have established a partnership to develop and expand the Professional Learning Communities at Work® process within Washington state schools. WASA began the PLC at Work project with Solution Tree in 2021 with an inaugural cohort or group […]
Ja Morant’s career-high 52 points helped the Memphis Grizzlies win over the San Antonio Spurs 118-105 on late Monday. Having scored 13 consecutive points during the fourth quarter, Morant became the first player in franchise history to put up 50 points in a single game. De’Anthony Melton played with 15 points, while Tyus Jones scored 13 for the Grizzlies, who improved their record to 43 victories and 20 losses to be in the third spot in the Western Conference. For the Spurs, Lonnie Walker IV finished with 22 points, while Dejounte Murray played with 21 points and eight assists but
Retail Treasury Bond (RTB) offerings accounted for 35.2 percent of the government’s outstanding debt securities in 2021, helping raise funds for its pandemic response programs while fulfilling President Rodrigo Duterte’s goal of expanding financial literacy and inclusion among Filipinos. The Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said it raised a total of PHP463.3 billion and PHP360 billion from the issuance of RTB-25 and RTB-26, respectively. On top of RTBs, National Treasurer Rosalia de Leon said the BTr also successfully launched in October 2021 the government’s first-ever Retail Dollar Bonds (RDBs), which raised US$1.6 billion from the five-year and 10-year tenors. To
Military officials said Tuesday their troops are relentlessly pursuing members of the Dawlah Islamiya – Maute Group (DI-MG) in the periphery of Maguing, Lanao del Sur after the reported massing up of extremists in the area. The pursuit operation came after combat aircraft bombarded a lair of the Islamic State-inspired DI-MG terrorists led by Abu Zacharia, in Barangay Ilalag of Maguing town at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday. Maj. Andrew Linao, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) information officer, disclosed that the combat aircraft unleashed a dozen bombs, sending the terrorists scampering in various directions as state ground forces pursued them. “The
Close to 1.7 million Filipinos abroad are expected to participate in the overseas absentee voting (OAV) which is set to begin next month, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Tuesday. Based on its latest data, a total of 1,697,215 are registered as overseas voters. — 1,677,631 of whom are land-based voters while 19,584 are sea-based voters. Almost half of the overseas voters are based in the Middle East and Africa with 786,997, followed by the Asia Pacific region with 450,282 Filipino voters. There are 306,445 voters in the North and Latin America region, while the European region has 153,491
