BEIJING Angels Martin Maldonado Jersey , Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A total of 71,644 people were punished in 2017 for violating the Party's eight-point frugality code, according to the top anti-graft body of the Communist Party of China (CPC).


They were involved in 51,008 cases, said a notice on the website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).


A total of 10,672 people were punished for 7,594 violations against the eight-point frugality code in December 2017.


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Some 57,700 people in more than 40,000 cases were punished in 2016. Discipline and supervision institutions at all levels will continue to show no tolerance for violations of the eight-point frugality code, and investigations will be intensified, said the notice.




WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Houston Rockets should have their star James Harden back in the lineup soon as the team is looking forward to playing him in Thursday's game against the Northwest Division-leading Minnesota Timberwolves Angels Josh Hamilton Jersey , local media reported on Wednesday.


Harden suffered a hamstring strain in an overtime win against the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 31 and has been sidelined since then. Houston has gone 4-3 during his absence.


However, the club still has to wait for the league's ruling on the LA Clippers-Rockets incident which might lead to penalties against the All-Star guard.


It's reported that Harden was among the group of players, with Trevor Ariza, Chris Paul and Gerald Green, who attempted to enter Clippers locker room after the game played on Monday.


Harden averages 32.3 points and 9.1 assists per game this season.




AMAZON.COM Inc. is hiring by the hundreds in China to fill jobs ranging from Internet software engineers to designers for Alexa, positioning the company to recoup some of the market share it lost to Alibaba Group Holding in the world’s largest online shopping arena.


The online retail giant lists almost 400 Chinese-based openings on its careers website and more than 900 on LinkedIn. They include senior executives to manage and acquire content, a leader to expand its fledgling Amazon Lending program and a head for its storefront on Alibaba’s Tmall. And it’s hiring a hardware engineer to Angels Jered Weaver Jersey , among other things, evangelize for digital assistant Alexa, which works with third party products even though the Echo speaker isn’t available in China.


While the Seattle-based company still sells goods from abroad to Chinese consumers and has local cloud computing customers, Amazon’s been relegated to a small player in a domestic e-commerce market dominated by Alibaba and JD.Com. But like fellow U.S. companies Facebook and Google, it isn’t giving up on the world’s most populous nation despite powerful domestic players.


Amazon is encouraging its more than 2 million merchants, many who only sell in the United States, to use Amazon to reach international markets. It offers services for language translation Angels Huston Street Jersey , currency conversion and tariffs to streamline the process for merchants who think it’s too cumbersome and costly to sell abroad.


Amazon’s market share in China continues to shrink in the face of fierce competition. Its sales represented just 1.1 percent of China’s online gross merchandise value in 2015, and by 2016 that figure had dropped to 0.8 percent, according to an ICBC note that cited iResearch.


But Amazon has used its global reputation to keep a foothold in the business of importing goods for China’s rising middle class, who seek safe foods and authenticity. In the fourth quarter of 2016, Amazon controlled 7 percent of the country’s cross-border commerce, according to ICBC. It launched its Prime free-shipping service in late 2016.


“In the past two years, Amazon’s recognized the trend of rising Chinese consumption and persisted in developing its cross-border business Angels Garrett Richards Jersey ,” said Chen Tao, a researcher with Analysys. “The addition of the Prime program propelled that and it’s had fair success with the business.”


In the first quarter, the company’s cross-border sales were 11 times bigger than their level two years earlier.


Ocean Audit, which tracks the global movement of goods, said Amazon imported 14,885 shipping containers’ worth of goods in 2016. This year it’s predicted to reach 20,000 Angels David Freese Jersey , according to chief executive officer Steve Ferreira.(SD-Agencies)


PARIS, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) on Wednesday said it has strengthened security in Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power plant in Cher, central France, for poor safety systems.


ASN argued, in a statement, that its decision is due to "the deterioration in the level of safety it has observed since 2016 in this site and the absence of any notable improvements on the part of EDF to date."


The French nuclear authority added it reported in 2016 a significant increase in the number of events related to reactor monitoring and, in particular Angels Darin Erstad Jersey , "a degradation in the quality of the responses provided to it, as well as insufficient operator's reaction."


An inspection conducted last April showed deficiencies in implementation by the operator "for the supervision and maintenance of its facilities," according to the statement.


A similar operation is planned in 2018 to evaluate the "specific" measures taken to ensure the nuclear site's safety.


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