On Aug 23, Gardner, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Asia subcommittee, told Reuters that he would introduce within a few days a measure encouraging countries to stick with Taipei.
Officials also anticipate an increase in the importation of raw materials needed by domestic firms.
Of the total, outstanding loans to individual purchasers rose 17.8 percent to 25.75 trillion yuan, down 4.4 percentage points from a year earlier.
Officials attending the latest round of the China-Russia strategic security consultation in Russia as well as senior delegations from both countries pledged closer security cooperation on Tuesday.
Officials in Los Angeles County said on Monday that an investigation is pending into the cause of death of a young black man who was found hanging from a tree last week near City Hall in Palmdale, California.
Oh of SIIA said the rule of law is "extremely important" for Singapore and Malaysia and he is thus confident that both countries will defer to the ruling of a third-party arbitrator.
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Offshore trade, intermediary trade and service trade will also be given more focus to make Lingang more competitive in the global market, said Shen Weihua, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce.
On Friday in Beijing, while meeting with Ho Iat-seng, chief executive-elect of the Macao SAR, who will take office on Dec 20, Vice-Premier Han Zheng spoke highly of Macao's practice of "one country, two systems" and expressed hopes that the new administration would fully and accurately implement that principle and act in strict accordance with the Constitution and the Basic Law.
Of the previously rescued eight people, three died on the way to the hospital. The remaining five survivors are being treated at different hospitals, with four in stable condition and one in an intensive care unit.