The Seattle City Council passed the ordinance two years ago only to repeal it a few weeks later amid opposition from the business community. It would have raised money for affordable housing and homeless services by taxing the top-grossing businesses in the city on a per-employee basis. Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant dubbed the legislation the “Amazon Tax” and has vowed to pass new legislation this year targeting the tech giant.
The Seattle online retail giant made its long-awaited move into the world of online wine sales this morning and GeekWire is putting the service to the test.
The Political Bureau conducted the group study in order to deepen understanding of the Party's political building and become more conscious and firm in promoting it to celebrate the 97th anniversary of the founding of CPC, Xi said.
The ROK and the DPRK agreed to hold the third Moon-Kim summit in Pyongyang before the end of September.
The Party chief of Heilongjiang province in Northeast China ordered an investigation into the alleged illegal villa construction deep in the forest in Mudanjiang city after media reports claimed the unapproved villa project had damaged the local environment.
The PwC report said 32 percent of overseas M&A's by Chinese companies in the first quarter of this year were in Asia, a key region for the Belt and Road Initiative.
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The Prime Data plan was in hindsight a?poorly sourced rumor, or maybe it is still in the works. But for now, the company is tied up in an exclusive partnership with AT&T, which severely limits its potential customer base to one of the four U.S. carriers. (Internationally, Amazon announced today the Fire Phone was now available for pre-order?in the UK and Germany with exclusives at?O2 and Deutsche Telekom, respectively.)
The SUV, called Baojun 530, is the first model the carmaker has specifically developed for global markets.
The Pittsburgh skyline and Roberto Clemente Bridge at night. (Photo via Bigstock)
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee met to revise the draft and decided to submit it to the third plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, to be held between Feb 26 and Feb 28, for review.