Normally, the art schools arrange independent on-site exams to appraise the examinees' professional potential, before the annual national college entrance exam, known as Gaokao in Chinese.
Newly-added social financing, a measurement of funds that individuals and non-financial firms get from the financial system, stood at 1.36 trillion yuan in April, 408 billion yuan less than the same period last year.
Ni Zhengdong, chairman of venture capital and private equity firm Zero2IPO, said investment has remained active despite a "capital winter", with total investment exceeding 1 trillion yuan (5 billion) in the first 11 months of the year, a 6.6 percent decline year-on-year.
Normally, it is easy to steady it by wedging a piece of folded paper under a leg. But for the mathematician, just rotating the table in a certain way does the trick, where a mathematical proof helps the method work for four-legged tables on an uneven surface.
Newly appointed Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen stressed on Thursday that Hong Kong's more than 170,000 civil servants have a strong obligation to uphold political neutrality. Nip also vowed to deal with any violations of it very seriously.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said the Hong Kong dollar would be gone by 1999, and environmentalist Christine Loh Kung-wai expressed fears that Beijing would turn on those "considered to have conspired with the British, maybe me among them".
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Nine suspects were arrested and another two released on bail in a joint operation involving local police and tax bureaus in four cities in Anhui and Guangdong provinces, according to Hefei police.
None of the top four Republicans in Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, made any immediate comment.
No reverse repo became mature Thursday.
Nine people were killed and 35 were missing after multiple mudslides struck Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province on Tuesday, local authorities said.