On the first day of the campaign, several tons of waste was sent off to Kathmandu from Lukla on planes belonging to Tara Airlines, a subsidiary of Yeti Airlines, one of the leading private airlines in Nepal.
On Thursday, the province reported five confirmed cases, including two imported ones from the United Kingdom and France, plus three cases that had been passed locally by the incoming travelers.
On Thursday, a fire ripped through an eight-story high-rise in the small city of Jecheon. At least 20 of the victims were women who were overcome by toxic fumes in a second-floor sauna.
On one hand, the PBOC needs enough liquidity to maintain financial stability and support the real economy; on the other, monetary policy cannot be too loose or the deleveraging process will falter, said Zeng Gang, an economist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
On Thursday, Southwest Airlines said it had removed MAX jets from its schedule through October. Southwest has 34 MAX jets, making it the largest US operator of the plane. The airlines will substitute other planes when possible to handle flights of the grounded aircraft and cancel flights as needed.
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On Wednesday, the People's Bank of China re-started the 28-day reverse repo after five months, aiming to stabilize market sentiment and ease liquidity stress. The central bank also provided liquidity in the interbank market this week to ease the risks faced by small and medium-sized banks, such as Jinzhou Bank.
On Wednesday, 18 young Afghans from the last batch, who had been hospitalized at the First Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University in Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi, since late October, were discharged and boarded a plane bound for Kabul, Afghanistan's capital.
On average, caffeine content in the 10 surveyed brands is 258 milligrams per kilogram.
On a month-on-month basis, the CPI climbed 0.3 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics data on Thursday.