The author is chairman of the Indonesia-based Center for Chinese Studies and associate fellow at The Habibie Center in Jakarta and the EastWest Institute in New York.
The big orange-and-white rain deflectors protect workers carrying laptops and phones as they move from one high-rise to another, to nearby restaurants and back with food to go. They cover people and dogs as the dogs — there are so many dogs at Amazon — do their business outside.
The biggest issue is that it isn’t hands-free. Unlike the Echo devices, you need to push a button on the Wand to activate Alexa, making it inconvenient for a baker with hands full of dough, or someone making dinner with messy hands.
The bank kept its allowance for loan impairment losses to nonperforming loans at 161.32 percent, well above the regulatory requirement of 150 percent.
The basic pension fund, which is administered by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, stood at a surplus of around 4.8 trillion yuan in 2018, he said.
The bill had passed the Senate in an 84-13 vote and the House in a 355-78 vote, both reaching the two-thirds majority to override a presidential veto.
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The audit system will start operation officially from March 18, by which date it will deal with applications for the new board. [Photo/VCG]
The ban, targeting aerial vehicles and balloons for sports, entertainment and advertising, will go into effect within the city starting 8 am on Sept 20 to 6 pm on Oct 2, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Public Security.
The bill increases the state business and occupation tax by 67 percent on “advanced computing businesses with revenue of more than 0 billion.” That category applies to two companies: Amazon and Microsoft.
The author is a senior associate at the Africa Policy Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. The views do not necessarily reflect those of China Daily.