In March, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts put in her campaign platform a pledge to introduce legislation targeting tech companies with annual revenue of billion or more with more regulation.
In September 2016, the top legislature approved a two-year pilot program to allow suspects to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge in 18 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
In May alone, production of new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, and robots grew 56.7 percent, 17.2 percent, and 35.1 percent, respectively, a testimony to the effectiveness of China's ongoing supply-side structural reform, according to Zhang Liqun, researcher with the State Council's Development Research Center.
In October, the account drew the attention of local police, who later sent the monkey to a judicial authentication center affiliated with Nanjing Forest Police College and confirmed that it was indeed a macaque.
In September, 288.4 million passenger trips were made, up 3.9 percent year-on-year, with those made on bullet trains growing 10.4 percent year-on-year.
In May, Coca-Cola put the names of China and Taiwan on separate labels on a drinks dispenser at an exhibition center in Atlanta in the United States, raising strong objections from Chinese netizens.
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In September 2018, the South Sudanese government and the armed factions signed a peace deal in Ethiopia after five years of fighting.
In South Korea, there was another drop in its new infections on Thursday with only 114 cases detected on Wednesday, taking the total to 7,869.
In Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, one of the first cities in the country to pilot 5G networks, a total of 45,000 5G base stations are expected to be built by the end of August, which will realize full 5G network coverage in the city. Accelerated construction of 5G networks has greatly promoted the growth of smart light poles.
In Thursday's interbank market, the overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate, which measures the cost at which banks lend to one another, fell to 2.63 percent after the injection, while that for one-month loans dipped slightly to 4.07 percent.