In October, 10 million yuan of digital RMB was issued in Shenzhen as a means of payment for local citizens. Digital RMB of 20 million, which can be spent both online and offline, was distributed among consumers in Suzhou.
In March, one of Uber's autonomous cars killed a pedestrian during a test drive in Arizona, trigging temporary suspension of similar tests by several US counterparts.
In Pakistan, the number of confirmed cases rose to 132,405 after 6,472 people tested positive for the disease on Friday, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak in the country, Pakistani health ministry said.
In October alone, the country's power use grew 5 percent year-on-year to 579 billion kWh.
In March, Shanghai took the lead in formulating management measures for intelligent connected vehicle road testing, with 5.6 km of roads designated for the tests.
In Los Angeles, teachers and administrators greeted students with smiles, hugs and high-fives. The return followed days of marches and picketing and a marathon bargaining session that led to a ratification vote Tuesday.
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In May, China decided to allow imports of whole Malaysian durians. Ever since, fruit traders in China and Malaysia have been blazing a trail in the multibillion-yuan durian market.
In Qianya village, fertigation as well as interplanting grapes with other crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, have been promoted.
In November, YTO Express, one of China's largest courier companies, was investigated after a few of its employees were found stealing and selling more than 400,000 items of personal information.
In September 2011, Parallel Iron, LLC, filed a complaint against us for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The complaint alleges, among other things, that certain AWS file storage systems that include a Hadoop Distributed File System infringe a patent owned by the plaintiff purporting to cover “Methods and Systems for a Storage System With a Program-Controlled Switch for Routing Data” (U.S. Patent No. 7,415,565), and seeks monetary damages, injunctive relief, costs, and attorneys fees. We dispute the allegations of wrongdoing and intend to vigorously defend ourselves in this matter.