The 19 members of the presidium are being chaired by Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
That number of parcels generates a huge market demand for boxes, and vendors of boxes are rubbing their hands in glee. A medium-sized paper box now costs 2.9 yuan in wholesale, 53 percent more than last year, and there is almost no let up in demand.
That said, I was again absolutely shocked by another unlikely encounter about two weeks after I returned to Beijing in 2006.
The "Strike for Black Lives" saw employees from a broad range of industries briefly walk off their jobs in a call to end "systemic racism".
That’s one of the reasons we’ve been so engrossed by Brad Stone’s new book, “The Everything Store,” which goes behind-the-scenes at the company to tell the story of Amazon. Along the way, Stone finds Bezos’ biological father, reveals new information about Amazon’s history, and offers an inside look at how the company operates under the leadership of its CEO and founder.
That’s just one of the new details included in the patent, which was first reported on by the BBC. It’s part of an overall system that will allow Amazon’s drones to intelligently reroute themselves with the package in order to reach the user wherever they may happen to be, which would be an important benefit for the system over a traditional driver-based delivery.
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The 11th Panchen Lama chants scriptures with other monks in Jokhang Temple. [Photo by Wang Shu/chinadaily.com.cn]
That scene took place in August last year at a summer camp hosted by Cambridge Centre for Languages. The program, spanning around a month, offered students intensive training in English and understanding of British culture. Daily academic lessons are balanced with fun activities including dancing, singing, sports activities and weekend trips to famous British attractions.
That something was probably in evidence at an improbable Indian wedding last week, a video of which went viral. Indian weddings tend to be crowded, loud, colorful and festive. But, the bride this time had tested positive for COVID-19. Yet, the groom decided to go ahead with the wedding anyway, after obtaining health authorities' permission. The couple wore PPE suits for the traditional ceremony. "The (hymnand mantra-chanting) priest and the one guest who attended also wore PPE suits," reported BBC.
The "Four No's" refers to Washington's promise not to seek a regime change in Pyongyang, not to seek the collapse of the DPRK government, not to seek acceleration of reunification of the Korean Peninsula, and not send its military north of the 38th Parallel, which acts as the boundary between DPRK and ROK.