This week's report found that many suicides were in people with no known mental illness. But Joshua Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said that contradicts years of data, suggesting many have "gone undiagnosed and untreated. It's very troubling".
This year is the 10 anniversary of the 2008 calamity of Wall Street, following the fall of the Lehman Brothers, which caused the chronic global financial crisis and economic recession. The recent global stock market plunges, again originating in the United States, have been an unwelcome reminder of their volatility.
This year, students from Hong Kong can apply to 112 universities on the mainland without taking the gaokao first, under a special plan launched in 2012 that allows mainland universities to recruit Hong Kong applicants based on their performance in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education test, the Ministry of Education said.
Those from single-parent households and those whose parents do not hold college degrees all tend to use the internet at a younger age, the report said.
This was a scene from the youth forum under this year's World Philanthropy Forum, which took place in Beijing in late November.
This was the largest return of lost Chinese cultural relics in nearly 20 years, according to Luo Shugang, China's Minister of Culture and Tourism.
江苏正高级工程师包括
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up policy, and socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, Xi said.
Though Feihe was in the dairy industry for five decades, the company suffered a setback in 2008 in the aftermath of the melamine scandal. The incident, Leng recalls, led to a severe trust deficit in Chinese dairy brands and their combined market share fell to just 39 percent by 2015.
Those protectionist measures "are likely to move the globe further away from an open, fair and rules-based trade system, with adverse effects for both the US economy and for trading partners," the IMF said in a report after concluding the Article IV consultation with US authorities, an annual check-up of economic policies between the IMF and its member countries.
This week, United Airlines launched "the world's first free trans-Atlantic COVID-19 testing program" by offering free rapid tests to all crew and passengers before they fly. The airline's first flight to offer the coronavirus test took off on Nov 17 from New York to London's Heathrow airport.