In a trembling voice, Lam called on the public to take a second to reflect and look at the city which has been torn apart since June 9 under series of protests that saw radicals clash with riot police and turned residential and business areas into conflict zones.
In Zhanqi, a village in Sichuan province, a festive new year spirit is in the air. Villagers made dumplings at home, wrote new year scrolls, and went out to have family photos taken. The Lunar New Year begins on Friday.
In a constantly changing business environment, the travel sector is going through a dramatic new stage. In 2016, Chinese tourists made more than 4 billion inbound trips and 122 million outbound journeys, according to a report released by the China Tourism Academy and online giant Ctrip.
In a three-day operation, the first group of hundreds of passengers began disembarking from the stricken ship on Wednesday morning after the end of a 14-day quarantine which had failed to stop the onboard spreading of the virus.
In a statement, the association expressed its hope for a "peaceful and orderly campus".
In a New Year's message carried by Relations Across Taiwan Straits magazine on Wednesday, Liu Jieyi, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, called on both sides to promote the peaceful development of cross-Straits ties.
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In a speech during the session, Shen Bo, minister-counselor of China's permanent mission to the UN, cited the proposal made by President Xi Jinping in July on the settlement of the Palestinian question.
In a research report, analysts from global financial giant Standard Chartered Bank summarized China's measures to enhance financial support for foreign trade companies, facilitate domestic sales of export products, boost demand with new infrastructure and investment in urbanization and support part-time employment growth.
In a statement posted on Monday, the copyright authority said it was aware of overseas servers and that it would increase international law enforcement cooperation with other countries and regions this year.
In a separate conference earlier Tuesday, Dimon said bitcoin mania is reminiscent of the tulip bulb craze in the 17th century.