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I'm here in the capital of China's Guangdong province to observe the Western etiquette, grooming and deportment course the 91-year-old Dally-Watkins has been teaching for the past five years. Her partner in the operation is the slender, meticulously groomed and unfailingly polite Zhang, who I discover is also a little vain, ducking and weaving questions about his age (he's 39).

A marketplace provider tax, as proposed in Cuomo’s budget, would require third-party retail sites – like Amazon, eBay and Etsy – to collect and remit sales taxes when a buyer in New York purchases something from a retailer on their site. The measure would make marketplace providers collect New York state sales tax at its normal rate of 4 percent plus local sales tax, which varies based on location – such as 4.5 percent for New York City, or 4 percent for some upstate counties.

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Brexit grilling – UK climate minister Claire Perry faces lawmakers in the House of Lords’ cross-party EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Roughly a year since her last appearance in front of the panel, she will be asked about what Brexit means for carbon pricing in both ‘deal’ and ‘no deal’ scenarios. Read Carbon Pulse’s take on the committee’s previous hearing, when experts warned of the ‘incredibly tight timetable’ for the UK to set up its own ETS by 2021.

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Yes, I mean, overall, Chris, I'd say our outlook really hasn't changed on that front. What we saw in the fourth quarter is continued oversupply of acetone globally, high inventories as well as some of the downstream demand for acetone in terms of the MMA plants being offline. So we're continuing to see discounting off of some of the industry benchmarks and, therefore, we expect the oversupply to continue and margins can -- continuing being challenged going forward. So really not a whole lot of change there.

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The carrier also plans to start flights to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in April, while Guangzhou and Tel Aviv will also be added to their expanding network.

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The company has also sold equipment directly to the authorities in Xinjiang, where the campaign to control the Uighurs has been most intense. At least some of the equipment was intended for use by the police, according to procurement documents. The authorities there said in the documents that the machines were important for DNA inspections in criminal cases and had “no substitutes in China.”

Finally, the long term solution lies in a resolute government abrogating Article 370, a “temporary provision” as officially recorded and drafted under “temporary, transitional and special provisions” listed in Part XXI of the Indian Constitution. The government must also abrogate Article 35A that forbids Indian citizens from becoming permanent residents of the state and abrogate the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir that was adopted a full 10 years after the state acceded to India and seven years after India adopted its Constitution.