The apparel sector had the sharpest plunge, with clothing-store sales in April falling by nearly 90 percent year-on-year. Sales at department stores were down 47 percent from April 2019.
The agreement signed between the two parties grants the US firm 90 days to locate the missing aircraft on a "no cure, no fee" basis. If the wreckage or the black box were found, Malaysia will pay the firm up to million, subject to the size of the actual search area.
The amount of coal used by residential buildings in China should be capped at 230 million metric tons by 2020, according to a report released by Beijing Jiaotong University.
The amendment to the Criminal Law was passed by the Standing Committee of National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, on Saturday after a third review. The revised law will take effect from March 1.
The aftershocks from the violence are continuing. In the year to June, applications to the Open University from mainland students numbered only a quarter of what they were in previous years. The situation improved in early July, as the number of mainland applicants reached half the average recorded in the past few years, Wong said. Mainland students are still wary and afraid for their safety in Hong Kong, he said. Peace will have to be restored in full before mainland students will feel comfortable coming back, he said, adding that there is reason to hope that the trend of nonlocal students shunning Hong Kong universities amid the upheavals can be reversed.
The arrangement, which has taken effective since Feb 8 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, was due to expire on May 7.
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The airport will be located in the city's Zengcheng district and called Zhengguo International Airport, after the township in which it will be built.
The amounts of water in the lake has surpassed 300 million cubic meters. No casualties have been reported. Authorities in Tibet have launched an emergency response, monitoring the lake's water level, evacuating local residents and sending relief supplies to the disaster-hit areas.
The agreement was signed at the clinic in Marylebone in London on Monday and the focus will be on oncology, gynaecology and urology as well as looking into robotic surgery.
The annual China Tibet Yarlung Cultural Festival kicks off in Tibet's Shannan city on August 28, 2018. [Photo by Phurbu Tsering for China Daily]