The Seattle-based coffee chain will assume 100 percent ownership of about 1,300 stores in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang after it acquires the rest of share from its business partners Uni-President Enterprises Corporation and President Chain Store Corporation, according to a statement Thursday.
The SMEs include companies incubated in entrepreneurship and innovation centers and innovation-type small and micro businesses invested in by a national SME fund.
The People's Bank of China injected the liquidity via the targeted medium-term lending facility, or TMLF, an open market operation instrument it created in December to accurately ease financing woes faced by private and small enterprises.
The President's Office in a statement said the president had requested for an extension as the threat to national security had not diminished following the Supreme Court ruling on Feb 1 ordering the release of detained opposition leaders, including self-exiled former President Mohamed Nasheed.
The Sackler family already has pledged to hand over the company plus at least billion to resolve thousands of suits against the drugmaker. The company — but not the family — declared bankruptcy as a way to work out that plan, which some say could be worth billion over time.
The Philippines launched a comprehensive polio outbreak response, including mass polio immunization rounds, after the disease re-emerged in the country in September last year after nearly two decades.
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The Park Hyatt Beijing and the Shangri-la Hotel Fuzhou, which were among the 14 hotels featured in the video, issued apology letters on Thursday, saying that they would conduct additional training and self-checks.
The RCEP, a proposed free trade agreement between the 10 ASEAN members and six of their FTA partners, namely China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India, is expected to be one of the world's largest trading blocs, accounting for 45 percent of the world population, 40 percent of global trade and around one third of the world's GDP. The talks on the RCEP were launched in 2012.
The Putuo district people's procuratorate in Shanghai announced that it approved the arrest of a man surnamed Wang and a woman surnamed Zhou on suspicion of molesting a 9-year-old girl in late June.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) conducted 250 billion yuan ( billion) of seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 2.55 percent and 150 billion yuan of 28-day reverse repos at 2.85 percent.