Christmas

Search for Potent COVID Vaccine Continues Amid Second Lockdown

  • One, out of the 200 COVID vaccines under development, will hopefully be available in the first part of next year.
  • Johnson’s government regards the emergence of a vaccine, as well as the development of treatments, as the best way to avoid future lockdowns.
  • Ministers have said care home residents and workers will be first in line to receive a vaccine, followed by people aged 80 and over.

Doctors in England have been put on standby for the possible roll-out of a coronavirus vaccine before...

https://mfame.guru/search-for-potent-covid-vaccine-continues-amid-second-lockdown/

Will This Christmas Promise a Miracle for the Stock Market?!

Christmas eve’s stock apocalypse was another buy-the-dip moment, reports Bloomberg.

It was the night before Christmas last year, the worst moment of Wall Street’s bleakest holiday season in decades. Staring at another 400-plus-point plunge in the Dow, its fifth in seven days, the Federated Investors fund manager worried he’d been too generous with presents for the kids.

“Market’s going the wrong way and you’re worried. ‘Hey, did I spend too much?”’ said Chiavarone, whose firm has around $530...

http://mfame.guru/will-this-christmas-promise-a-miracle-for-the-stock-market/

HRH The Princess Royal leads six women reading lessons at MtS Christmas service

HRH the Princess Royal

HRH The Princess Royal leads six women reading lessons at MtS Christmas service

London, November 14, 2019:  International seafarer welfare charity, The Mission to Seafarers, today announced that its President, HRH The Princess Royal, will be attending and reading a lesson at the annual ‘Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols’. 

A highlight of the Christmas season for the shipping industry, this year’s carol service will take place on 3 December from 14:15 to 17:30 at the Church...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/11/14/hrh-the-princess-royal-leads-six-women-reading-lessons-at-mts-christmas-service/

Trade war is ruining Christmas for toymakers

Chinese factories are normally at their busiest during the third quarter, cranking out production of everything from Barbie dolls to miniature trucks in time to ship them over the ocean to the U.S. ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. This year’s different.

Even with President Donald Trump delaying tariffs on $160 billion of toys to smartphones to spare the Christmas boom for U.S. retailers, the damage has already been done. That’s because big toy purveyors like Walmart Inc. have...

https://container-news.com/trade-war-ruining-christmas-toymakers/

Abandoned At Christmas – Seafarers Set To Spend Second Christmas Away From Home

Abandoned at Christmas - seafarers set to spend second Christmas away from home

As Christmas approaches, families around the world will make the final preparations for the festive period – but for two abandoned seafarers it’s just another reminder of what they’re missing at home. It’s the second year in a row that Asmael Alsarwt and Seyed Nasr Soltan are stranded, abandoned by their ship’s owner they are thousands of miles from home. Since being abandoned on their vessel the PSD2 in Mozambique’s Beira port in 2017, the men have received the support of Sailors’ Society’s...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/abandoned-at-christmas-seafarers-set-to-spend-second-christmas-away-from-home/

NYK Welcomes Families From Hope&Wish Aboard Christmas-Decorated Asuka II

NYK Cruises Co. Ltd., an NYK Group company, welcomed aboard children with rare, serious diseases and their family members — 74 in total — for a Christmas event on board Asuka II while the ship was calling Yokohama on December 9.

Image Credit: nyk.com

NYK Cruises has actively supported the mission of Hope&Wish, a public interest incorporated association, by providing children afflicted with rare, serious diseases with the opportunity to soak up the atmosphere of the sea and a luxury cruise ship in...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/nyk-welcomes-families-from-hopewish-aboard-christmas-decorated-asuka-ii/

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