Based on the principle of equal participation and benefit and risk sharing, China and 28 countries approved the Guiding Principles on Financing the Development of the Belt and Road, encouraging the governments, financial institutions and enterprises of participating countries to attach importance to debt...
China and India have maintained communication through the diplomatic and military-to-military channels, and both countries are committed to upholding stability in the border areas. We stand ready to work with India in the direc...
If the vessel is transiting or maneuvering, the difference in pH between the sea water entering the vessel and the wash water discharging must not exceed 2 Permission to use the EGCS must be obtained from port officials 7 days before arrival. An application should be sent along with the follo...
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Rivers, large or small, are natural streams that flow through a channel in the surface of the ground, eventually goes into other water bodies (ocean, lakes, sea, rivers, and sometimes into groundwater). As compared with other water systems, rivers, are important transporters of wastes, in ...
And couples or friends sharing can often find private doubles for the same price as two dorm beds. Laos is a dream country for anyone who loves to sample local street food. Not only is it incredibly tasty with a vast selection of things to sample (be sure to try ‘sin dad’, a type...
In the recent literature dealing with labour market consequences of cross border production sharing, medium skill workers (performing routine tasks), are often perceived to be at risk. This phenomenon is linked to the polarisation of labour markets (Goos and Manning 2003) observed in the US (Auto...
(defined based on polygons sharing an edge) was generated using the ArcGIS 'Generate Spatial Weights Matrix' tool83 and subsequently joined with the 'distance' table to obtain a new table containing all main covariates, listed in Table 2, calculated at the unit level. This join operation (...
Some initiatives were proposed, such as developing guidelines and minimum stan- dards for protecting health and financial status of migrants in either origin or destination countries, establishing information- sharing mechanisms across governments for securing health of migrants. These however were still ...
However, because of difficulties in sharing and accessing CDRs (mostly due to commercial and privacy concerns)7,56,57, alternative datasets are required in order to quantify and map internal connectivity across continental scales. To this end, using CDRs, Wesolowskiet al.56and Ruktanonchaiet al...