Retail sales dropped 2.8 percent year-on-year, but contractions narrowed 4.7 percentage points from April's decline.
Right after the DPRK's test-firings, the top national security adviser for ROK President Moon Jae-in held a meeting with the defense minister, the intelligence agency chief, the JCS chairman and the deputy directors of the National Security Office (NSO), according to the presidential Blue House of the ROK.
Right now, about 60 asylum seekers a day are returned to Mexico at the San Ysidro, Calexico and El Paso ports to wait out their cases, the official said. They are allowed to return to the US for court dates. The plan was announced Jan. 29, partially to deter false claimants from coming across the border. With a backlog of more than 700,000 immigration cases, asylum seekers can wait years for their cases to progress, and officials say some people game the system in order to live in the US.
Revenue of department stores declined 7.7 percent in August, after sliding 2.9 percent in the previous month. Sale by discount outlets continued to skid for the fourth consecutive month.
Roads and buildings are inundated in Yongfu county after heavy downpours hit the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region recently. [Photo by Tang Shaojuan for chinadaily.com.cn]
Runners were willing to spend 16 percent of their total marathon out-lay on training sessions, pointing the way for new business opportunities for professional athletes.
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Rice said: “If you are relying on only your ear to decipher those small differences in tone, it becomes much more complex, so we use the medium, which is the physical world, to express more complex vocal variables, and we happen to find that tone matches quite well to structure.”
Rockets' star guard James Harden, when asked about the issue after a Rockets practice in Tokyo, said: "We apologize. You know, we love China, we love playing there. They show us the most important love. We appreciate them as a fan base. We love everything there about them and we appreciate the support that they give us individually and as organization."
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Rowley also laid a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes in downtown Beijing.