In 2016, China became the world’s second-largest beef importer behind the US, importing 800,000 metric tons worth .6 billion. Chinese reliance on imports grew in 2017, when beef consumption rose by 4 percent, outstripping domestic production, which increased by just 1 percent.
Immunologist Dr Stanley Perlman of the University of Iowa, who also was a member of the advisory panel that voted to recommend the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, said he is concerned about potential side effects that may not yet have been identified.
In 1998, Sun was sentenced to death having been found guilty of rape, insulting women by forcible means, intentionally inflicting injury upon others and creating disturbances, but finally received 20 years of imprisonment after a retrial in 2007.
In 2012, while attending a conference organized under the Fulbright Program in Kochi, Southwest India, Chowdhury met Indian technologist Dr Arup K Sengupta. A chemical engineering professor at Lehigh University in the US for more than 25 years and a Fulbright Scholar from India, Sengupta had invented a novel filtration technique.
In 1996, the Panamanian government issued a set of postage stamps to mark the contribution of those with Chinese heritage. In 2004, the government set aside March 30 as an annual day of commemoration.
In 2009, Bitcoin launched its genesis block and established itself as the first self-sustaining peer to peer digital financial system which incentivized participants to maintain its operation and provided limited but highly disruptive functionalities. In 2015, Ethereum went live, adding Turing-Complete smart contracts to the blockchain, allowing for consensus on the execution of short programs.
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In 2014, Amazon opened a?46,000-square-foot fashion photography studio in London. The year before that, the company built a similar-sized studio in Brooklyn New York.
In 2005, Shenzhen mapped out 974 square kilometers-nearly half the city's land area-in which development and construction are highly restricted. The city government has been providing subsidies to locals in Dapeng to offset the economic loss caused. More than 16,000 local people have benefited directly from the program so far.
Ignatius Tong, leader of the operations advisory services at EY Asia-Pacific, warned that disruptive forces, especially technology, remain at the heart of the known risks.
Immigration is set to be one of the defining issues in May's general election and is one of the areas where the governing Liberal-National party coalition (LNP) is stronger than the opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the voters' eyes according to some opinion polls.