In a statement, the Sacklers maintained family members who served on Purdue's board of directors "acted ethically and lawfully", adding that the agreement was aimed at avoiding "years" of legal proceedings while directing funds to "communities in need".
In a survey rolled out by the country's largest online travel agency Ctrip, about 15 percent of those booking breaks last year appeared to be single, an increase of 10.4 percent compared to 2015.
In a speech on his economic pledges, Moon said he will aim for investment in 10 key sectors and expects to create over 500,000 new jobs per year on average.
In a move to reassure the public and privacy campaigners, the tech giants behind the software stress that they will not use much private information. They will, however, allow public health authorities to contact the infected user and collect data on their ZIP codes and phone numbers.
In a review of her work in this field for the past five years, Peng especially referred to the Spring Bud Project, a program launched by China Children and Teenagers' Fund to help dropout girls return to school and to improve teaching conditions in impoverished areas.
In Zhanqi, a village in Sichuan province, a festive new year spirit is in the air. Villagers made dumplings at home, wrote new year scrolls, and went out to have family photos taken. The Lunar New Year begins on Friday.
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In a report issued on Sunday, the Iloilo City disaster agency said search is continuing for at least 20 people still missing after three ferry boats capsized within three hours of each other during a storm on Saturday while travelling in the Iloilo-Guimaras Strait.
In Zhanjiang, locals like to steam the worms with minced garlic, and use cellophane noodles as the base.
In a guideline released in April to support Hainan's reform and opening-up, the central government said China plans to turn the island into a global tourism and consumption hub and will back the development of horse racing, beach and water sports and the creation of a national sports tourism demonstration area.
In a move that's just taken effect after approval of the revised application forms, the department says it has updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa forms to request the additional information, including "social media identifiers," from almost all US applicants.