Rise of rentals, aging of facilities and competition from mid- to high-end hotels and bed-and-breakfast facilities also posed a challenge to budget hotels.
Rudd urged that the question "must be analyzed and answered soon" because US-China relations are now in "potentially dangerous terrain — some sort of 'no man's land' between one set of strategic assumptions about each other that have stood for several decades, and a brave new world where everything may be up for grabs."
Rex Frazier, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California, which represents the state's major personal-line property and casualty companies, said the request for a voluntary statewide moratorium is "problematic".
Ribbons' role on the ship also included helping passengers better understand Chinese culture and history with his language skills.
Returning to Hong Kong, Leung began drafting a five-year blueprint. He started knocking on the doors of potential sponsors. It was a slow beginning. Few potential donors were impressed because they thought the project was grandiose and unlikely to succeed.
Reuters reported that Amazon has in recent years put these machines in some warehouses, including locations near Seattle. The company is considering outfitting dozens more fulfillment centers with a pair of these machines, which are built by Italian firm CMC and pack boxes faster than humans can. Citing people familiar with the plans, which have not been finalized, Reuters reports that each machine could replace 24 jobs a piece, amounting to 1,300 roles across 55 U.S. warehouses that could become automated.
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Restaurant owners, who say their business is down 70 percent since March, have been pushing for the policy change for months, especially after other businesses like gyms got the green light for limited reopenings and as neighboring states loosened their restrictions.
Ruigu works mostly from offices in Beijing and Kenya. His company focuses on three segments: procurement, commodity trading and investment advice.
Romano Prodi, former president of the European Commission and two-time prime minister of Italy, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, vice-president of the European Parliament, and Ambassador Zhang Ming, head of the Chinese Mission to the EU, delivered keynote speeches via video link and deliberated on the broader picture of the current Sino-EU relationship.
Robin Wales, mayor of the Newham (second from left), Jin Xu, minister counselor at the Chinese embassy (third from left), and ABP Chairman Xu Weiping (third from right) attend the topping out ceremony for the Asian Business Park at Royal Albert Dock in London on Thursday. Kevin Wang / China Daily