On 2 February 2018, the National Bank of Cambodia hosted a bilateral meeting with Bank Negara Malaysia, presided over by H.E. Chea Chanto, Governor of National Bank of Cambodia and Tan Sri Muhammad Bin Ibrahim, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia in Siem Reap.
The meeting aimed at strengthening solidarity, friendship, and most importantly continuing the tradition of close cooperation between the two central banks. Both Central Banks signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Bilateral Technical Cooperation since 2010 on areas related to banking supervision, payment and settlement system, monetary policy, and macroeconomic analysis. In the meeting, the delegates of both central bank exchanged views and discussed on the progress and achievements of bilateral technical cooperation, recent development of macroeconomic and financial sector, FinTech, and Central bank governance and structure.
So far, excellent cooperation between both central banks has immensely contributed to the development of the two countries’ banking sectors. The Bank Negara Malaysia also contributed to the improvement of human resources at the National Bank of Cambodia through various trainings and study visits. In addition, the National Bank of Cambodia and Bank Negara Malaysia also established supervisory colleges in order to further strengthen cross-border banking supervision.
With the rising trend of fintech across the international arena, both central banks have agreed to collaborate on the development and adoption of fintech in enhancing innovation, efficiency and effectiveness of both countries’ financial services sectors, particularly on the application of technology in financial inclusion. Besides fintech, both central banks have also agreed to further enhance cooperation on areas such as supervision and research among others, targeting at further developing and modernizing banking sector and contributing to the sustainable economic growth of Cambodia and Malaysia.
That was the question I had after watching Lou Montanez blast a 10th-inning game winner in the Phillies 5-4 win over the Pirates in Grapefruit League play Thursday afternoon.
The reasons are that even the Phillies celebration of the blast seemed muted. Normally players would dart of the dugout to greet and celebrate a walk-off homer. But when Montanez -- the likely Triple-A-bound outfielder is off to a hot .500/.429/1.333 start to Spring Training -- hit a long drive to left field off Pirates reliever Michael “son of Rich” Dubee there was a trickle of Phillies out of the dugout but not the home plate celebration so often shown in SportsCenter highlights. Plus considering the spring training tradition of not going deep into extra innings, the Phils and Bucs had already decided to call the game in the 10th inning even it remained tied.
And, as Montanez slapped high-fives with his teammates and coaches, something else became apparent: most of the Phillies regulars had already called it a day.
Leaving spring training games early are commonplace for starters as they sometimes go to work on other parts of their game or just go to get some rest but that doesn’t make Thursday’s celebration any less awkward.
Of course there was one guy of note who greeted a victorious Montanez -- Hall of Famer Michael Jack Schmidt. The Phillies legend has been teaching the current Phils a thing or two this spring training as a special instructor.
Cole Hamels pitched 3-2/3 scoreless innings allowing four hits and a walk while striking out two. The lefty left with the bases loaded in the fourth but Dave Bush was able to get the Phils out of the jam.
Shane Victorino supplied the big offensive moment of the game when he hit a two-run homer in the fifth.
The win improved the Phillies to 3-3 in Grapefruit League play. They return to action Friday when they meet the Tigers in Lakeland, Fla.
In partnership with the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the U.S Embassy of South Korea, NBR organized a presentation on the future of the U.S.-South Korea Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the implications of the agreement for bilateral relations, and its impact on nonproliferation in Northeast Asia.
This timely event, held on April 4, 2017, featured a keynote address by Thomas M. Countryman, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. An open Q&A session, moderated by John Park of Harvard University’s Belfer Center, followed the keynote presentation.
Efficacy and Physicochemical Evaluation of an Optimized Semisolid Formulation of Povidone Iodine Proposed by Extreme Vertices Statistical Design; a Practical Approach
Cleavage of sequestosome 1/p62 by an enteroviral protease results in disrupted selective autophagy and impaired NFKB signaling. - PubMed - NCBI
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC Canada.
The adaptor protein, sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1)/p62, plays an essential role in mediating selective autophagy. It serves as an autophagy receptor targeting ubiquitinated proteins to autophagosomes for degradation. In addition, it functions as a scaffold protein to regulate signaling pathways. Here we explored the interplay between coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) and SQSTM1-mediated selective autophagy. We reported that SQSTM1 was cleaved at glycine 241 following CVB3 infection through the activity of viral protease 2A(pro). The resulting cleavage fragments of SQSTM1 were no longer the substrates of autophagy, and their ability to form protein aggregates was greatly decreased. Although the C-terminal truncation sustained the binding activity of SQSTM1 to microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain (LC3), it failed to interact with ubiquitinated proteins. It was also found that colocalization between the C-terminal fragment of SQSTM1 (SQSTM1-C) and LC3 and ubiquitin within the punctate structures was markedly disrupted. Moreover, we observed that SQSTM1-C retained the ability of SQSTM1 to stabilize antioxidant transcription factor NFE2L2 [nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2]; however, both the N-terminal fragment of SQSTM1 (SQSTM1-N) and SQSTM1-C lost the function of SQSTM1 in activating NFKB (the nuclear factor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B-cells) pathway. Collectively, our results suggest a novel model by which cleavage of SQSTM1 as a result of CVB3 infection impairs the function of SQSTM1 in selective autophagy and host defense signaling.
This bill would appropriate $340,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to Working Landscapes, a nonprofit in Warren County for a pilot program to reimburse participating school districts based on the servings of food they source from farms within the same region.
Of these funds, $60,000 can be used for payments for participating school systems to offset the higher costs of locally grown products. The remainder of the funds would be used on a a cost shared basis with Working Landscapes to establish program infrastructure and assist local farms in certifications to supply school nutrition programs.
Two days later they mobilized again and marched on the Immigration Customs and Enforcement Processing Center [2] demonstrating their outrage at the separation of families.
Later that week, mayors from across the country [3] came to Tornillo to demand immediate reunification of separated families. By the end of the week, healthcare professionals [4] had joined El Pasoans as had people of good will from places in Alaska, California, Rhode Island and even Canada. The world was taking notice of the cruel, manufactured humanitarian crisis at the border.
President Trump bowed to pressure and rescinded his policy of separating families. But he substituted one cruelty for another: Now the U.S. government will keep families together by incarcerating entire families. On June 30, El Pasoans marched [5] once again, this time in solidarity with people in cities nationwide at Families Belong Together [6] rallies. They marched to denounce the "zero tolerance" policy, to protest the cruelty of family detention and the announcement that thousands of immigrants would be detained within the confines of the local military base. They marched to the international bridges to reclaim them as common patrimony, as a symbol of the American Dream, as the modern day Ellis Island that they are.
[1] https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.ncronline.org/print/news/opinion/theology-en-la-plaza/dispatch-parish-el-paso-ju-rez-border&amp;via=ncronline&amp;text=To be in solidarity with immigrant communities is to be in solidarity with Jesus who is present in the immigrant among us.
This is to inform all candidates that participated in the just concluded 2018 Post-UTME Screening Exercise of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, that the result of the test is now out.
Concerned candidates can access their result from the university Website: www.funai.edu.ng from Wednesday, 15th August, 2018.
Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader Akhil Gogoi, while speaking to ANI, said that if the proposed bill is passed, then the Assamese people will become a minority in their own state.
Former finance minister P Chidambaram today warned the NDA government against laying its hands on RBI reserves, saying it will have "catastrophic" economic consequences for the country. He also said the minutes of a Reserve Bank of India meeting on November 7, 2016 is a "comprehensive repudiation" of the government's "justification" for demonetisat...
In a bid to improve air connectivity and promote tourism in the North East, Guwahati has been connected to three destinations with direct flights.
BJP's ally in Assam, the Asom Gana Parishad, on Tuesday took out a rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Guwahati, giving a clear ultimatum that it would break the alliance if the draft legislation is passed.
Rishabh Pant is in line to make his ODI debut with India announce the XII for the first match against the Windies on Sunday.
India take on the Windies in the first of the five-match ODI series at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Sunday.
The top automotive news of the day- Maruti Suzuki is now offering AGS on the top spec models of the Swift, Nissan updates the Micra and Micra Active for 2018, Force India F1 team gets new ownership and finally, Non ISI helmets to be banned in India in two months from now.
Maintaining its uptrend for the second straight day, the rupee strengthened by 17 paise to a fresh one-month high of 68.26 against the US dollar today after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintained its growth outlook for the economy. The RBI projected a gross domestic product (GDP) expansion rate of 7.4 per cent in 2018-19 on the back of robust macroeconomic environment. Increased selling of the greenback by exporters and banks even as the RBI hiked repo rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday too boosted the rupee, forex dealers said.