In a move to reassure the public and privacy campaigners, the tech giants behind the app stress that they will not use much private information. They will, however, allow public health authorities to contact the infected and collect data on their ZIP codes and phone numbers.
In a New Year's message carried by Relations Across Taiwan Straits magazine on Wednesday, Liu Jieyi, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, called on both sides to promote the peaceful development of cross-Straits ties.
In a speech delivered at a State Council teleconference on clean governance, Li said the government will tighten discipline and improve the conduct of officials in the face of unprecedented risks and challenges.
In a move aimed at improving public support for the ruling party, 38-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, was given a cabinet position and will take up the environment minister portfolio in his first role as a minister.
In a glitzy hall in Beijing, a special painting exhibition is underway. From the style of Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn to Japanese genre Ukiyo-e, the painter presents all the possibilities of what she can achieve. And more importantly, she is an artificial intelligence robot.
In a coordinated operation, more than 1,000 police officers raided the gang's 10 sites in Wuhan, seizing evidence of fraud, including 800 computers, 2,000 mobile phones and 3,000 bank cards.
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In a study released on Wednesday by the journal Nature, Voeten and co-authors named it Halszkaraptor escuilliei or "Halszka" after the late Polish paleontologist Halszka Osmolska.
In a telephone conversation with the Thai prime minister, Xi mentioned the mutual support and assistance between China and Thailand in the fight against the virus, and he said China stands ready to strengthen the sharing of experience with Thailand and advance the resumption of production while preventing and controlling the epidemic.
In a statement released on Monday morning, members of the advisory Executive Council, which assists the chief executive in policymaking, also expressed regret over the acts of a small number of protesters.
In a rare collective move to curb a further sharp decline in the stock market, the heads of a number of top major financial regulators have expressed their support and pledged to roll out more measures to assuage concerns over share-pledged risks.