The investment follows BP and NIO Capital's recent signing of a memorandum of understanding, under which the parties agreed to explore emerging sectors, including electric cars and internet-based transport in China.
The launch, the first since Sept 15, when the DPRK fired a ballistic missile over northern Japan into the Pacific Ocean, has drawn strong condemnation from countries and international organizations.
The jokes haven’t stopped, though. “Saturday Night Live” famously got in on the act a couple years ago with a spoof about an Echo Silver device, designed for the loud-talking, hard-of-hearing greatest generation. And a developer managed to get Alexa’s voice into a flopping, plastic Big Mouth Billy Bass, and the makers of that novelty product made it a real thing.
The judge ordered Meng, a mother of four, to remain in a restricted area of Vancouver, wear a GPS tracker, pay for security surveillance and agree to unannounced visits by police. She won't be released from custody until she fulfills the bail terms.
The lackluster buying sentiment is a huge contrast to just months ago when many scrambled to buy in the city.
The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's service sector expanded 8 percent year on year in 2017, outperforming the overall economy, which grew at 6.9 percent.
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The law highlights protection for consumers and aims to improve the development of the e-commerce industry. It also increases liabilities for e-commerce platforms.
The internet conglomerate, founded two decades ago in Shenzhen, the bridgehead of China's reform and opening-up policy, is joining the ranks of the world's most valuable companies, whose influence extend beyond just expansive business scopes and staggering financial figures.
The latest killings, which could provoke a new cycle of bloodshed, bring to 101 the number of people killed this week with hundreds injured in one of the worst bouts of violence in the Afghan capital for years.
The killings in Texas, followed by another in Dayton, Ohio, just hours later that left nine dead, have put the country on edge.