On January 5, Barnes & Noble announced that it was exploring the strategic separation of its digital business in order to maximize shareholder value. Barnes & Noble is actively engaged in the formation of Newco, which will include Barnes & Noble’s digital and College businesses. The company intends to explore all alternatives for how a strategic separation of Newco may occur. There can be no assurance that the review will result in a strategic separation or the creation of a stand-alone public company, and there is no set timetable for this review. Barnes & Noble does not intend to comment further regarding the review unless and until a decision is made.
On Nov 12, clashes at the Chinese University of Hong Kong — another campus occupied by rioters for almost the whole of last week — continued for just several hours and were mostly concentrated on a bridge near one of the university’s entrances.
On Jan 22, the day before the lockdown was imposed in Wuhan, a 71-year-old resident who only wanted to be referred to as "Peng" took a trip to Lianjiang, Guangdong province, with his wife.
On Oct 25, a day after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi held the first executive meeting of the Central Military Commission. A day later, Xi appeared at a meeting of top level military leaders, calling on them to work hard to enforce discipline in the armed forces.
On Sunday, local authorities dispatched 350 firefighters to tackle the blaze that broke out at 2:15 pm in Ruiyuan village in Yuxi county.
On Monday, Trump struck a very different tone as he backpedaled from his earlier demands for sweeping reforms and bowed to Washington reality. The president, who recently advocated increasing the minimum age to purchase an assault weapon to 21, tweeted that he's "watching court cases and rulings" on the issue, adding that there is "not much political support (to put it mildly)."
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On June 1, China released a master plan for the Hainan free trade port, aiming to make the island a globally influential, high-level free trade facility by the middle of the century. The plan also encourages the province to further open up its telecommunications sector.
On Monday afternoon, US Department of Justice attorney James Nelson gave the opening statement for the prosecution, starting with the last line from Zhang's diary: "Life is too short to be ordinary."
On June 10, the Chinese and Cambodian police launched an operation in the city of Sihanoukville in Cambodia, busting three criminal gangs and detaining 68 suspects. Five other suspects at large were captured in the capital city of Phnom Penh a week later.
On Thursday, China's Ministry of Commerce said that accusing China of stealing intellectual property and forcing technological transfers is a "severe distortion of history and reality".