Taiwanese tech mogul donates $454 million to fight cancer
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The chairman of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from AppleÂ iPods to Nintendo's Wii game console, pledged NT$15 billion (US$454.4 million) to Taiwan's most prestigious university to build a new cancer ward and fund research against the disease.
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A Sicilian entrepreneur has offered to donate parts of his body for organ transplants in an effort to keep his business alive.
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HSBC (0005.HK) will receive  T$47.5 billion ($1.5 billion) in Taiwan government funds and  make a major cash infusion to rescue the failed Chinese Bank,  in the latest Taiwan acquisition by a major foreign bank.
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TORONTO - Family members of late newspaper magnate Roy Thomson have donated $25 million to fight breast cancer, in what is thought to be the single largest gift for cancer research in Canadian history.
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MASSACHUSETTS The Boston Celtics, Boston Scientific, and Intel have joined the tsunami relief effort. The Intel Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Intel Corporation, has raised its donation from $100,000 to $1 million to aid victims. Intel employees in Hudson are expected to set up tables to raise additional funds. The Foundation is expected to match employee donations. The Boston Celtics ...
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Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has donated 65 million US dollars to an elite Singapore graduate school named after his friend, the city-state's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, a press statement said Thursday.
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Billionaire businessman pays tribute to technology industry ahead of his Microsoft exit
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed &#36;400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic stem cell research and cloning projects in the state, according to campaign records.
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Cancer was the biotech's biggest success story. Now to keep growing, it needs to branch out.
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The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing ...
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The University of Michigan Health System has received a $44 million donation to build and staff a research center that will take a new approach to finding a cure for juvenile diabetes.
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An update on the âKomen Peoria Race for the Cureâ. This year&#39;s event raised nearly $580,000. On Tuesday night, officials with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation announced where the money is going.
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It's almost Labor Day, the end of vacation season. But before fall sets in, I'd like to revisit one of this summer's biggest financial stories: Warren Buffett's decision to donate $38 billion of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to charity, most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.
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The family of David Dingman-Grover, a 9-year-old boy diagnosed with cancer, and GoldenCasion.com agreed to make a donation to a Va. charity after an eBay auction helped pay their son's medical bills.
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A $9.7 million research grant for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle to fight cancer will draw on emerging research efforts at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland.
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Swiss drug giant Novartis SA said yesterday it is spending $4 million to fund scientists performing diabetes research at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Broad Institute, and will make the findings public for other scientists to use.