On Sunday, the city's business center of Central on Hong Kong Island became a battlefield with masked rioters starting fires at multiple locations, making traffic flow impossible in the area.
On Monday, the logo of the center had not yet been dismantled. Inside, there were red lanterns signaling the coming Lunar New Year, but most shops had been vacated and doors locked. Chefs who used to work on the top floor were carrying cookware downstairs. Staff helped customers to clear credit on their shopping cards.
On Friday, Shanghai, China's most populous city, wilted in heat reaching a 145-year record of 40.9 C, the weather center said. It had issued this year's first red alert on Friday.
On March 26, authorities in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, announced that e-vouchers worth a total of 1.68 billion yuan (7 million) would be distributed to city residents in the coming months. The vouchers were financed by 500 million yuan in government subsidies and 1.18 billion yuan in business discounts to help bolster the hard-hit consumer market.
On June 16, the Chinese side was building a road in the Dong Lang area (Doklam), located in Yadong county of the Tibet autonomous region of China. On June 18, over 270 Indian border troops, carrying weapons and driving two bulldozers, crossed the boundary in the Sikkim sector and advanced more than 100 meters into Chinese territory to obstruct the road building of the Chinese side, causing tension in the area.
On June 18, Hainan Airlines received a "5-Star Airline" award from Skytrax - a UK-based consultancy that runs an airline and airport review and ranking site - for the ninth consecutive year. It also picked up the Skytrax "No 7 of The World's Top 10 Airlines" award, being the only airline on the Chinese mainland that received the prize.
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On Saturday morning, Xiong was detained by police at his home in Dongyang village in Hengyang.
On Monday, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with Hisense, a consumer electronics manufacturer in Qingdao, Shandong province, to establish a connected logistics network platform in China.
On Oct 15, Pakistan's premier postgraduate medical institution conferred the country's top medical honorary degree of Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons upon four Chinese doctors for the first time to recognize their services as medics.
On Monday, the presidents of five Hong Kong universities stressed the need for the law in the city. In a joint statement, they stated that the stability and prosperity of the SAR are of "paramount importance" for the future of the city's younger generation.