大山人)Refusing to have a territorial dispute in the East China Sea, Japan is unlikely to talk with China over its settlement, leaving the waters near the islands a minefield

花鳥畫About 775,000 officials have been sent to impoverished areas for poverty relief work, said the report美學意蘊Similarly, the annual per capita income in impoverished rural areas has grown to 10

虛實相生To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute無畫處9 million people out of poverty each year" (Aug 29, 2017)皆成妙境China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty大山人[Photo/Xinhua]Poverty reliefAn ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty - defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan ($349) a year花鳥畫From road building to subsidies, the central government has spent large amounts of money on poverty relief in places like Liangshan

美學意蘊The 19th Communist Party of China National Congress will convene in Beijing on Oct 18虛實相生As all eyes are on the upcoming Congress, let's take a look at what international media said about the developments and achievements of China無畫處4 magnitude quake would be much smaller than the quakes caused by previous DPRK nuclear tests, the report said

皆成妙境After the incident, the center quickly organized seismological bureaus and geological institutions to evaluate the situation, it said大山人Seismologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California Santa Cruz also published a joint report on Saturday that said tests had shown the quake "clearly falls in the natural phenomena category" and was similar to the last natural earthquake in the region, which was recorded in December 2004花鳥畫3 magnitude quake, while the strongest, this month, resulted in a 6美學意蘊"The incident was not a nuclear explosion, but had the characteristics of a natural quake," the China Earthquake Networks Center said late Saturday in a statement released online

"What the concerned parties should do now is to strictly and comprehensively implement UN Security Council resolutions and make positive efforts to resolve the issue through dialogue," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said at a news briefing on FridayThe official Korean Central News Agency claimed it was a hydrogen bomb

DPRK conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date on Sept 3Saturday's earthquake is likely to be a "delayed collapse earthquake", the joint report said, without elaborating on the cause of the quakeThe earthquake took place around 4:30 pm near the area of Kilju in the northeastern DPRK, just around 6 kilometers from the Punggye-ri facility where the country held its latest testThe Republic of Korea's weather agency also assessed the quake as natural, The Associated Press reported on Sunday

Kim was the first among the surviving "comfort women", a euphemism for the hundreds of thousands of girls and women in 13 Asia-Pacific countries or regions who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army from 1930 to 1954, to go public in front of television cameras about her story in August 1991"Julie Tang and Lillian Sing, both judges of the Superior Court of San Francisco County who retired two years ago and co-chair the CWJC, vowed to erect more memorials around the United StatesHowever, those who deny history in Japan denigrate them as "paid prostitutes" or "willing volunteersShe had spoken before in front of local and national legislative bodies as well as national and international human rights committees, and to reporters, about presumably the largest-scale crime specifically targeting women in human history

The memorial is a gift from the "Comfort Women" Justice Coalition, or CWJC, a local grassroots advocacy group consisting of more than 30 multi-ethnic community organizations"It is my soul, it is your soul, and it should be the soul of everybody," she said

It was not the first time for Lee, aged 89, to make such a statementIt was not the first time for Lee, now an activist, to travel around the world to tell people what it means for her to seek justice, especially for those who did not survive to hear a formal apology from the Japanese government

Mary Square in San Francisco, the United States, on Sept 22, 2017The face of the sculpture depicted Kim Haksoon, a Korean woman forcefully taken at the age of 17 by Japanese soldiers and confined to a "comfort station"Historians believe that as many as 200,000 women, mostly from the Korean Peninsula as well as from China and Southeast Asian nations, were forced into sex enslavement for Japanese soldiers during the devastating warLee followed in June 1992, telling about her sufferings which started at the age of 16Mary's Square Annex in the city on the US West Coast, Lee witnessed the unveiling of a memorial called the "Comfort Women" Column of Strength on FridayMike Honda, a former member of the US House of Representatives, who as the chief sponsor of a July 2007 House resolution urged Japan to acknowledge and accept responsibility for the sexual exploitation of "comfort women," joined elected officials at the event to greet Lee and denounce those who deny history

At the unveiling ceremony, Eric Mar, a former board member who initiated the process, choked back tears when he said that he has a 17-year-old daughter and that Lee's courage to stand up against sexual violence and historical crimes is an inspiration for people fighting for justice[Photo/Xinhua]SAN FRANCISCO - "I hate the crime, not the people," an emotional Yong-Soo Lee, a Korean woman who survived the sexual slavery by the Imperial Army of Japan during World War II, told a packed audience at a corner of a public square

In a statement released on the occasion, the CWJC said that "through our memorial, we remember all our grandmothers who are alive, and all those who have passed on but are still with us in both spirit and memory"The unveiling of the "comfort women" memorial, the first in a major city in the United States, which also includes a sculpture of three girls -- Korean, Chinese and Filipino -- took place on the second anniversary of a resolution passed by San Francisco city and the county's legislative Board of Supervisors

Besides calling for putting up the memorial, the resolution aimed at raising public awareness against sex trafficking and all forms of sexual violenceComfort Women Justice Coalition, a local grassroots advocacy group devoted to bring justice for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during the World War II, unveiled a monument dedicated to the "comfort women" in San Francisco on Friday

" However, in the instance of "comfort women," the criminals "went away and got free, there was no justice for the comfort womenTang told Xinhua that during 26 years as a judge, she had to "make sure in each case that if somebody committed a crime, the person would be held accountable"Asked what the memorial means for her, Sing pointed at herself and at reporters at a press briefing, saying that it reflects the soul of everybody with a conscience"A sound wave, which is usually generated in the event of an artificial earthquake, was not detected

The China Earthquake Administration, of which the CENC is a part, and related departments conducted studies on the infrasonic records of the earthquake and previous quakes including those provoked by nuclear tests on the Korean PeninsulaEarlier, South Korea's weather agency said the quake is presumed to have been a natural one, the country's Yonhap news agency reported

They concluded that Saturday's quake is a natural one, the seismic service said4 on the Richter scale that occurred Saturday in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is not the result of a nuclear test, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said

"The quake is presumed to have occurred naturally," the report quoted an agency official as sayingThe epicenter was roughly the same with a similar shallow earthquake on Sept 3, which turned out to be caused by a nuclear test by the DPRK

4 on the Richter scale in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK)BEIJING - China's seismic service CENC detected a zero-depth earthquake measuring 3Rabbani said the donation will help improve the working conditions of the Pakistani parliament, highlighting the friendship and exchanges between the two countries and two peoplesThe handover ceremony was held at the premises of the parliament in the capital Islamabad

The Chinese ambassador said enhancing bilateral exchanges is of great importance to deepen the mutually beneficial cooperation, especially to promote the bilateral policy coordination and people-to-people exchangesISLAMABAD - China on Thursday handed over 330 pieces of office equipment including laptops, computers, scanners, printers and projectors to Pakistan's parliament

Pakistani Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani expressed gratitude for China's donation at the ceremony attended also by senators, parliamentarians and other high officialsChinese Ambassador Sun Weidong and Pakistani Senate Secretary Amjed Pervez Malik signed a handover document on behalf of their respective sides

Sun Xinwei, deputy general manager of China State Construction Engineering Corp Central and Western African Region, advised that Chinese companies engaging in any large infrastructure projects in Congo should be aware of expenses for the period after the project is completed and before the official operation, as the Congolese government is suffering from an economic downturn due to oil price drop from 2014, which results in delayed paymentLyu Xinhua delivers a speech at the conference on investment and trade between China and Congo (Brazzaville), Sept 25, 2017

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