UNITED NATIONS -- Improved laws and policies have enhanced women's status and welfare in China, especially in the rural areas, a Chinese envoy told a United Nations (UN) meeting on women Thursday.
Two years later, he was promoted to executive director of NBC in Asia and moved to Hong Kong. Despite no longer being based in the mainland, Pratt played a key role in a major media project - it involved NBC, CCTV and Shanghai TV - to produce a 13-hour live broadcast from China.
Two of them received approval from China's Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday, said the ministry in a statement. The ministry gave permits to two US-based agriculture companies-Monsanto Co and Dow AgroSciences LLC-to ship their soybeans and corn to China from June 12.
Two iconic stars of Hong Kong cinema, Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok are to headline an upcoming crime thriller, Project Gutenberg, which will hit Chinese theaters on Sept 30.
Twitter and Shopify said that some staffers will be permitted to work from home permanently.
Tuesday's sanctions came less than two weeks after the US slapped sanctions on state-owned Venezuelan airline Conviasa.
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Two died at the scene, six died later at the hospital. The injured are in stable condition, Wednesday's statement said.
Twelve people died and another 125 were injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Changning County of Yichang City at 10:55 pm Monday, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM).
Twenty-six people have died, thousands have been made homeless and thousands of others have had to evacuate repeatedly as the monster fires have scorched through more than 10.3 million hectares (25.5 million acres) of land - an area the size of South Korea.
Twenty-two years after the handover, Hong Kong's GDP per capita is high-more than ,000. It is also marked by a high "Gini coefficient"-a measure of the extent to which a country's wealth or income distribution deviates from equal distribution-an indicator of important inequalities.