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Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... versa. Wall Street et al shook off their convulsion and sprang back to life overnight in response to reports that Chinese medicine is on the way. And almost like a mirror image of their dismal performance earlier in the week, equity and commodity markets ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

New CEO for Russell

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... equity, life insurance, general insurance and financial services distribution. Prior to joining McKinsey, Doman worked in medicine, health management and the Australian diplomatic service. In his role at McKinsey & Company, Doman's client assignments ...

The lighter side of super: HESTA

Laughter is not only the best medicine, it can also be a handy educational tool judging from a new financial literacy initiative of HESTA Super. HESTA has signed up comedian Fiona O'Loughlin, who is a regular Spicks and Specks panelist, to feature in ...

AUI healthcare re-opens for business

... picture continues to be promising though thanks to Australia's baby boomer generation approaching retirement age and new medicine enabling people to live longer. "Such soundly based, long-term global trends make investing in healthcare-related property ...

Whose side are you on, asks ASIC

... professional nature of providing financial advice means that, just like in other professions such as accounting, law and medicine, standards and regulation underpin your activities as a necessary component of ensuring the protection of consumers and ...

Live long and prosper

... habits, exercise regimes and general attitude towards life all affect how long people live. He added that the field of medicine is making 'enormous advances' although it is not the major factor impacting longevity. Rather, the most critical factor affecting ...

Daily economic update

... 2.9 per cent year-on-year. Despite market expectations of a significant contribution from higher petrol prices, higher medicine and food prices added the most to the quarter's overall price increases. Pharmaceuticals jumped by 14.2 per cent in the March ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as a poor lead from the Dow Jones and weak base metal prices expected to ensure a soft start on the domestic bourse. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was nine ...

Melbourne Biotech group wins Chinese investor

... continues to grow with the recent awarding of a $3 million investment from a Chinese company to Melbourne based herbal medicine and therapeutic science group R&D. The agreement is between RMIT University's Division of Chinese and Guangdong New South ...