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| Cradle Fund sees growth in quality applicants Posted: 09 Oct 2011 11:11 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd, a commercial grant provider under the Finance Ministry's purview, has seen a steady inflow of quality applicants this year. This is in line with the successful industry and technopreneur outreach strategy via the info talks and application clinics that Cradle runs on a regular basis, both independently, in collaboration with other organisations. "It is also attributed to active appearances in speaking slots at industry events," the company said in a statement today.
"Cradle's grant recipients have achieved 55 per cent commercialisation rate for their innovations, the highest in Malaysia and one of the highest worldwide. "This augurs well for our cradle ultimate goal to develop a world-class technopreneurship ecosystem in this country and help transform our national economy into a high-income innovation economy by developing the potential of our home-grown technopreneurs to global level," said Cradle Fund chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan. -- BERNAMA |
| Killer "rat fever' worries Kerala Posted: 09 Oct 2011 10:45 PM PDT CHENNAI: At least 600 suspected cases of "rat fever" were reported in Kerala with close to 100 deaths this year as post-monsoon diseases threaten the state. Health authorities are on high alert, mainly in northern Kerala, to tackle the outbreak of rat fever (leptospirosis), normally transmitted by rat urine or infected animals. "It is a zoonotic disease, usually spread by animals like rats and people become victims. Suspected cases of rat fever has increased because of the long, two-to-three month monsoon, we had here.
According to Mohanan, patients suffer from multiple symptoms such as high fever, internal bleeding, liver damage and muscle pain, similar to dengue or cholera, which makes it difficult to isolate the disease. Officials said most of the patients, aged above 40 years, were sanitation and waste disposal services workers, who were easily exposed to the bacteria. The touristy state is also grappling with the cases of cholera and typhoid -- all prevalent as a result of the rainy season. -- BERNAMA |
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