Confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Panama reached 8,282 on Saturday, a rise of 212 from the previous day, and deaths climbed by six to 237, the health ministry said.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 667 to 169,218, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday.

Thailand reported five new coronavirus cases but no deaths on Sunday, bringing the total to 3,009 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak started in the country in January.

Three children in New York have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, a development that may augur a pandemic risk for the very young.

Malaysia's government extended the time frame for movement and business curbs by another four weeks to June 9, amid a gradual reopening of economic activity stunted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Three senior officials guiding the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic were in self-quarantine on Saturday after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for the disease, their agencies and spokesmen said.

Frustrated by state shutdown orders amid the coronavirus outbreak, Elon Musk threatens to move Tesla headquarters and manufacturing out of California.

As states across the nation continue to reopen despite coronavirus cases climbing, the impact on minority and low-income groups become more apparent.

All L.A. County Superior Court bench officers will be required to wear face coverings while on the bench or in courthouse public areas, the court said.

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,011 new coronavirus cases and 44 related deaths Saturday.

Semi-retired in Westwood, he'd rather stay at home, but begins each day taking a homeless tent census.

The need for food in L.A. County has reached record levels, putting food banks under pressure to deliver even while their normal supply chains are disrupted.

At least 100 protesters gathered outside the residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, with marchers calling for the economy to reopen and condemning the health orders enacted in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

MLB is expected to submit a proposal to players Tuesday to start the season in early July. The Dodgers and Angels would play at home and largely on the West Coast.

Justin Gaethje pummels interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson, while bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo tops Dominick Cruz and then retires at 33.

Learn how to take simple x/y coordinates, and create map polygons shaped like holiday images, that can be plotted using SAS/Graph's PROC GMAP.

Currently, more than 20 SAS products, solutions, and technology packages interact with Hadoop. Read this book to understand how to maximize your big data assets.

Watch the video and learn basic principles of modeling panel data using SAS/ETS.

This new program offers two immersive program levels, industry-recognized credentials, classroom instruction, around-the-clock access to SAS software and course materials, and more.

This paper highlights the many enhancements to SAS/ETS software and demonstrates how these features can help your organization increase revenue and enhance productivity.

This paper begins with a look at both optimization modeling and discrete-event simulation modeling, and explores how they can most effectively work together to create additional analytic value. It then considers two examples of a combined optimization and simulation approach and discusses the resulting benefits.

This paper provides recommendations for circumventing memory problems and reducing execution times for your mixed-modeling analyses, as well as showing the new HPMIXED procedure can be beneficial for certain situations, as with large sparse mixed models.

This paper provides a high-level tour of five modern approaches to model building that are available in recent releases of SAS/STAT.

 This paper presents the essential information that you need to get started with ODS Graphics in SAS 9.4.

This SAS Usage Note illustrates fitting a model containing a spline effect in PROC GLIMMIX. It discusses the spline basis output, the interpretation of the output, how to use the spline model to make predictions, and how to use the LSMEANS and ESTIMATE statements to compute quantities of interest.

This paper provides an example that shows you how to use multiple RANDOM statements in PROC NLMIXED to fit nested nonlinear mixed models, and it provides details about the computation that is involved in fitting these models.

In 2019, Moovaz secured an undisclosed amount of investment from Hustle Fund.

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Growthwell plans to use the funding to expand its alternative protein product range, among others.

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The startups in this cohort have raised over $39 million.

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Just last week, Sembcorp Cogen terminated its gasoil supply and storage agreement with Hin Leong.

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Oriente is the parent company of Finmas, Cashalo and Finizi, three online lenders operating in SE Asia.

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This marks the Series A round of funding for Helicap.

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Archipelago's second fund will deploy 40-50% of its corpus in the Philippines.

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All of the proceeds raised through the Ray of Hope platform will go directly to Beyond Social Services charity's COVID-19 Family Assistance Fund. 

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Ebates Korea will cease operations and its users will be directed to ShopBack Korea's beta site.

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The fund will support initiatives that respond to community needs in Singapore amidst virus outbreak.

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Bayfront Infrastructure Management is collaborating with 15 banks for infrastructure loan acquisitions.

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The startup closed a bridge round with US-based SIG a few months ago.

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The company went into receivership in February after DBS appointed KPMG as the receiver.

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Headlines this week were dominated by more companies running into trouble amid the virus crisis.

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AsiaKredit provides consumer finance products to underserved consumers in the Philippines.

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Singapore-based Ramblin' Brands raised a $4.4-million round from DSG Consumer Partners in 2016.

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The deal marks ARA Asset Management's entry into the fintech sector.

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