Those who expect hefty returns on overseas property investments made for children's education purpose might get disappointed. Mature markets like the US and the UK will not see high-percentage growth year-on-year as there is not "enough growth potential in the foreseeable future", said Yu Ran, who just bought a three-bedroom flat in Melbourne.
Those 20,000 new employees were a key part of Amazon’s employee growth in the past year. The company finished 2013 with 117,000 employees, surpassing Microsoft’s total. (Microsoft likely will reclaim the lead temporarily after gobbling up Nokia’s 30,000 employees).
This year, Ballesteros said DOT is endorsing other destinations in the Philippines, like tourists spots in Dumaguete on Negros island in the central Philippines.
This was the fourth straight quarter of year-on-year improvement in China, said Ford, which had a 2 percent share in 2019 in the world's biggest auto market.
This year, for example, the weather was so fickle that pesticide spraying needed to be finished in less than one week at the peak time for plant pests and disease.
Thomas Cook put its airline up for sale earlier this year when it also announced the closure of 21 UK stores and the loss of 300 jobs.
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This year's celebrations included lectures on Chinese culture, film screenings, panel discussions on education and art exhibitions.
This year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the country's top environmental authority, set a goal of reducing the average intensity of PM2.5, a major air pollutant, by 3 percent year-on-year from Oct 1 to March 31 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster. However, last year the goal was set at 15 percent.
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This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the China-Japan-ROK trilateral meeting outside the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.