The 2.1-meter bronze sculpture, depicting a blindfold, grieving woman in Maria Clara traditional Filipiniana gown and unveiled in December, represents women in the country forced to work as sex slaves in Japanese military brothels during World War II.
The 15 participating countries of the RCEP account for around 30 percent of the global population, global gross domestic product and 28 percent of global trade, thus forming the world's biggest free trade bloc.
The 109-year-old organization has already settled a barrage of lawsuits from so many former Boy Scouts that the organization's finances are getting drained.
That was Amazon’s assertion, at least, in a series of announcements and demonstrations at re:MARS, which stands for machine learning, automation, robotics and space. The event was a public version of the smaller, private MARS event that Amazon has held for the past few years (hence the “re” in re:MARS).
The "drunken" cooking method sees the crabs boiled with sea salt, ginger and shallot before being soaked in a fragrant mixture of 20-year-old yellow liquor, mature vinegar and rock sugar. The marinade infuses deeply into the crab, giving it a sweet-yet-savory character with a hint of alcohol-induced warmth.
The 2017 Silk Road International Exposition and the 21st Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East and West China (ITFCEW) kicked off in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on June 3.
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The 1,224-horsepower electric Rimac Concept_One, from Croatia, left, and Koenigsegg Agera RS-1 are shown during a media preview at the New York International Auto Show, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, April 13, 2017.[Photo/IC]
The .4 billion fund had been rapidly depleting, and administrators recently cut benefit payments by up to 70%. The bill passed Congress on a bipartisan basis but only after delays by some Republicans exposed the legislative branch to brutal criticism from activists, including the comedian Jon Stewart.
That sparked a backlash among some employee groups, as reported by Recode last week, and public criticism from Black and Hispanic members of Congress, as reported by The Hill.
That was an increase of 22 percent year-on-year. Moreover, it was five times the figure of five years ago, as the trend of buying major household goods on the internet has intensified, according to a report released by the China Center for Information Industry Development, a think tank affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.