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RP students to work with app developer
Students from Republic Polytechnic will soon be able to work with mobile app developer LDR to develop location-based applications for tourists and locals. The polytechnic will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with LDR today (June 27), in a move to provide its students in the School of Infocomm and School of Technology for the Arts with more industry exposure. - TIFFANY FUMIKO TAY
Merkel hosts post-Brexit summit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host talks on the Brexit crisis with French President Francois Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and European Council president Donald Tusk in Berlin today (June 27). Dr Merkel has been the lone EU leader calling for patience in showing Britain the door out of the EU since the country voted on June 23 to leave the 28-nation bloc in a shock move.
Meanwhile US Secretary of State John Kerry will fly to Brussels and London today for talks with Washington's key allies as US officials scramble to try to stop the political crisis harming Western unity.
Central bankers meet in Portugal
A three-day, high level powwow involving central bankers in Portugal is expected to take on even greater significance following Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union. Among the speakers at the European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking starting today (June 27) are US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, ECB president Mario Draghi, People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan , ECB board members Benoit Coeure and Peter Praet, Chile central bank Governor Rodrigo Vergara, Asian Development Bank Chief Economist Shang-Jin Wei and Bank of England governor Mark Carney.