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- Travel Tourism
- 15/01/2025
- 16:55
Celebrating the Glory Days of Tennis: Rippon Lea Estate’s heritage lawn tennis court ready to rival the play at the Australia Open following restoration.
Having fun following the Oz Open? Recreate your own hot-shot tennis day at Rippon Lea. The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is thrilled to…
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- Entertainment
- 15/01/2025
- 15:10
World’s Largest Pyro Drone Show to Illuminate Hanoi’s Sky on New Year’s Eve 2025
HANOI, Vietnam, Jan. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After the success of the 2024 Hanoi Art Light Festival, Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam), along with sponsoring partners, will continue its collaboration with Hanoi People’s Committee to bring back the “Glamour Thang Long” art programme. The event’s highlight will be the largest Pyrodrone show in the world, featuring 2,025 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), setting a Guinness World Record-setting pyro drone display. Scheduled for 28 January 2025 (Lunar New Year’s Eve), with a rehearsal on 26 January, the event will take place at My Dinh Square, My Dinh National Stadium. It…
- Technology Innovation
- 15/01/2025
- 14:56
Booking.com and Antom Partner to Expand Local Payment Options Across Asia
Strategic partnership to streamline payment solutions and elevate traveller experience, introducing over 40 new payment methods across 8 key Asian markets AMSTERDAM & HANGZHOU,…
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- Building Construction, Federal Budget
- 15/01/2025
- 13:59
Engineering construction keeps the economy moving
15 January 2025 There was a 3.3 per cent increase in the volume of engineering construction work done during the September 2024 quarter, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This was predominately driven by a strong 5.5 per cent expansion in public sector projects. However, private sector engineering construction work saw a more modest increase of 1.4 per cent during the quarter. Quotes attributable to Shane Garrett, Chief Economist, Master Builders Australia: “Engineering construction is now one of the economy’s strongest performers, and is keeping economic growth above the waterline. “The contribution of public infrastructure work…
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- Art, Community
- 15/01/2025
- 11:55
Tiny Artworks, Big Impact
Arts in Greater Dandenong is delighted to announce the launch of the 9 by 5 Exhibition, an inspiring event that continues a legacy of…
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- Business Company News, Finance Investment
- 15/01/2025
- 11:30
IFM INVESTORS ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT GROWTH INVESTMENT IN SPLEND
IFM Investors is pleased to announce a significant investment in Splend Group Pty Ltd (Splend), an Australian-owned company that is a leading provider of subscription vehicles to rideshare drivers across Australia and the United Kingdom. IFM’s Growth Partners Fund 2 is investing in Splend alongside HESTA (through HESTA’s mandate with IFM) and other co-investors, to acquire a stake of 49% in the company. Founded in 2015, Splend has one of the largest electric vehicle fleets in Australia and is supporting rideshare drivers to adopt lower emission vehicles through its all-inclusive flexible finance and ownership offerings whilst improving their earnings capacity.…
- Business Company News, Finance Investment
- 15/01/2025
- 10:35
ABx Group’s subsidiary, ALCORE, enters into agreement with Rio Tinto Aluminium to establish continuous pilot plant near the Bell Bay aluminium smelter in northern Tasmania.
ABx Group Limited (ASX: ABX) ("ABx" or "the Company") and its 83%-owned subsidiary, ALCORE Limited ("ALCORE"), are pleased to announce that it has entered into a lease agreement with Rio Tinto Aluminium Limited for an industrial facility adjacent to its Bell Bay aluminium smelter in northern Tasmania. ALCORE will establish a pilot plant at the facility to demonstrate its world-first proprietary process to produce industrial chemicals, including hydrogen fluoride, from a waste product created during the aluminium smelting process. In the planned subsequent commercial plant, hydrogen fluoride will be converted to aluminium fluoride, an essential chemical for aluminium smelting that…
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- General News, National News Current Affairs
- 15/01/2025
- 10:33
Australia’s suburban fire threat
Professor Jim McLennan Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and Public Health. Contact: E: j.mclennan@latrobe.edu.au M: 0438 096 548 Topic areas: Threat of…
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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 15/01/2025
- 10:33
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology: Global Commission proposes major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, going beyond BMI to define when obesity is a disease.
A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organisations around the world [1], presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other measures of excess body fat in addition to body mass index (BMI), and objective signs and symptoms of ill health at the individual level. The proposal is designed to address limitations in the traditional definition and diagnosis of obesity that hinder clinical practice and healthcare policies, resulting in individuals with obesity not receiving the care they need. By providing a medically coherent framework for disease diagnosis, the Commission also…
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