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PalmPay Eyes Hong Kong IPO as It Pursues Global Expansion
PalmPay, an Africa-focused fintech is reportedly preparing for a potential Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), according to a Bloomberg report, as the fintech looks to raise fresh capital to support its international expansion and strengthen its position in emerging markets. PalmPay is reportedly seeking to raise about $200 million at a more than $1
EXCLUSIVE: Families Of Detained Alleged Coup Plot Suspects Demand Probe Into Unauthorised Withdrawals, ‘Missing’ Millions From Their Bank Accounts
According to the families, evidence available to them suggests that transactions were carried out on some of the detained officers’ bank accounts without their knowledge or authorisation while they remained in military detention. Families of some Nigerian military officers standing trial over an alleged coup plot against President Bola Tinubu have called for an immediate
Man fined $8,000 for dumping household, renovation waste at Tampines heavy vehicle park, Singapore News
A man was fined $8,000 after he pleaded guilty to disposing about 1,530 kg of household and renovation waste illegally at a heavy vehicle park in Tampines. General worker Shkder Foridul was charged with one count of dumping waste from a vehicle in a public place under the Environmental Public Health Act 1987 on Tuesday
This tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin of spiders
What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail revealed Megachelicerax cousteaui, the oldest known relative of spiders, pushing the origins of this group back by 20 million years...
106-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Footprints Discovered in Korea
Science & Nature A set of neoazhdarchian pterosaur footprints discovered in South Korea is offering a rare glimpse into how some of the largest...
450-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal Strange, Tube-Dwelling Jellyfish Relative
Science & Nature Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of soft-bodied, tubicolous polyp medusozoan from well-preserved specimens found about 50 km northeast...
250-Million-Year-Old Embryonated Dicynodont Egg Found in South Africa
Science & Nature Using high-resolution CT and synchrotron scanning, paleontologists confirmed that the fossilized specimen from the Early Triassic of the South African Karoo...
500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Identified as Oldest Known Chelicerate
Science & Nature Paleontologists at Harvard University have described a large predatory arthropod from the Middle Cambrian of Utah featuring massive three-segmented chelicerae.
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307-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Plant-Eating Land Vertebrate Found in Canada
Science & Nature Tyrannoroter heberti, a new species of pantylid ‘microsaur’ from the Carboniferous period, shows that some of Earth’s earliest land vertebrates had...
2.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Ethiopia Shows Paranthropus Hominins Were Widespread
Science & Nature The newly-discovered fossil -- a 2.6-million-year-old partial lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia -- represents the first known...
2-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Offers Clearest Look Yet at Homo habilis
Science & Nature A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is giving paleoanthropologists their most complete picture yet of...
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PalmPay Eyes Hong Kong IPO as It Pursues Global Expansion
PalmPay, an Africa-focused fintech is reportedly preparing for a potential Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), according to a Bloomberg report, as the fintech looks to raise fresh capital to support its international expansion and strengthen its position in emerging markets. PalmPay is reportedly seeking to raise about $200 million at a more than $1
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EXCLUSIVE: Families Of Detained Alleged Coup Plot Suspects Demand Probe Into Unauthorised Withdrawals, ‘Missing’ Millions From Their Bank Accounts
According to the families, evidence available to them suggests that transactions were carried out on some of the detained officers’ bank accounts without their knowledge or authorisation while they remained in military detention. Families of some Nigerian military officers standing trial over an alleged coup plot against President Bola Tinubu have called for an immediate
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Man fined $8,000 for dumping household, renovation waste at Tampines heavy vehicle park, Singapore News
A man was fined $8,000 after he pleaded guilty to disposing about 1,530 kg of household and renovation waste illegally at a heavy vehicle park in Tampines. General worker Shkder Foridul was charged with one count of dumping waste from a vehicle in a public place under the Environmental Public Health Act 1987 on Tuesday
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Why Lindsey Graham’s sister isn’t a lock to hold on to his Senate seat
Just a month ago, Darline Graham was a private citizen, with a career in vocational training for disabled people. Today, she’s the junior United States senator from South Carolina, a political newcomer appointed to serve the remaining months of the term of her late brother, Lindsey Graham. And she’s running for a full six-year term