On Oct 15, the US House of Representatives passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, calling for annual reviews of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's autonomy and threatens to punish those who "undermine" such autonomy. The bill was unanimously approved by voice vote.
On Monday, about 30 family members of those who were killed in the incident met Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha when he visited Vachira Hospital in Phuket where the bodies are kept, said a Chinese volunteer who didn't want be named. Plodthong said 37 bodies had been identified.
On Sunday, he appeared in a New York court and was charged with five counts of attempted murder, local media reported.
On Sept 1, 2017, the NPC Standing Committee passed a National Anthem Law, which came into effect on the mainland on Oct 1, 2017. It adopted a decision to insert the law into Annex III of the SAR's Basic Law, which requires promulgation or local legislation of the law.
On Thursday morning around 10 o'clock, Zhou Xiaobo was allowed to view the body of his father and confirmed his identity after the older man died in a bus that plunged into the Yangtze River in Chongqing's Wanzhou district on Sunday.
On June 1, 2008, China banned the free distribution of single-use plastic bags in stores and supermarkets, reducing the number in circulation by an estimated 40 billion in just one year, the foundation's report said.
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On June 7, Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry said Malaysian export to China in May increased by 51.5 percent to 10.73 billion ringgit (.50 billion), the highest year-on-year growth since February 2010.
On June 6, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially rolled out commercial 5G licenses. The country's three major telecom carriers — China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, as well as the State-owned China Broadcasting Network Corp obtained the licenses.
On Mar 5, bitcoin's price surged to ,377 per unit, up about 58 percent from a month earlier, according to Coinbase data. But cargoloader Zeng Wen, who oscillated from one extreme of 2,800 yuan in monthly salary to the other extreme of 1.2 million yuan in notional wealth within two months, may not lose much sleep over it this time round.
On Thursday, Li visited the China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone in Zhoushan. Local people now can complete government-required paperwork for registering businesses after one visit to governmental service centers. The premier praised the progress, saying administrative reform is meant to bring more convenience to enterprises and the public.