Thumbtack, which matches homeowners with service professionals like plumbers and interior designers, announced on Tuesday it has raised 5 million. According to the New York Times, that pushes the company past the billion “unicorn” mark with a valuation of .3 billion. Backers include?Scottish investment firm Baillie Gifford, as well as Tiger Global, Google Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Tighter rules are seen as regulators' efforts to rein in rapid growth of shadow banking, or the less-supervised asset management products, which have contributed a large part to such growth, becoming a potential risk in the form of banks' unprotected loan exposures.
Thousands of Puerto Ricans gather for what many are expecting to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the US territory, with irate islanders pledging to drive Gov. Ricardo Rossello from office, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 22, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]
Thousands join drive to improve lives in rural areas
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Tibet met the drinking water goal of its Five-Year Plan (2016-20) a year early. More than 99 percent of rural residents now have accesses to safe drinking water.
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Tim Howard, executive vice-president of JLR China, said the result was thanks to Project Dragon, a program initiated 12 months ago to "fix the basics" in marketing, sales and services.
Three months later, when he received a call from China informing him that he had been awarded a scholarship to study at Peking University, he was flabbergasted.
Tian Yi, a 39-year-old poverty alleviation official, can be credited with translating the idea into reality.
Three of the 19 new cases were imported while the remaining 16 were locally transmitted, according to the Center for Health Protection (CHP).