1. Puerto Ricans have been hit with dozens of new taxes in the past four years and increases in utility bills as former Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla aimed to generate more revenue for a government he said was running out of money. Despite those and other measures, the island’s government has defaulted on millions of dollars’ worth of bond payments and declared a state of emergency at several agencies.

2. China's 16 listed banks have cut their dividend payouts for the past year amid slowing net profit growth.

3. Chinese universities have also spent millions to recruit internationally renowned academics and build state-of-the-art facilities, said Baty.

4. 'That's something that would be challenged, I think, in the 21st century.

5. After Peking University, known as Bei Da, and Tsinghua University, the next highest-placed Chinese university is the University of Science and Technology of China at 15, Fudan University at 16, Shanghai Jiao Tong University at 18 and Zhejiang University at 19 in the top 20.

6. 裘德韦伯(Jude Webber)

应用

1. Trium在三个指标上名列第一：攻读课程前学员的工作经历、实现的目标，以及国际课程经历。该课程学员在毕业3年后的平均薪资排名第二（30.7003万美元），仅次于Kellogg/HKUST联合推出的课程。

2. 轮滑看起来有点像常规的单排轮滑鞋，不过轮滑的轮非常大，尺寸大小跟自行车车轮差不多，看起来像是溜冰鞋，滑雪板和自行车的合体。最近一家名字叫作战车溜冰的公司声称，他们已经有了一些独特的想法——战车轮滑。根据该公司所说，这种轮滑是"革命性的新轮滑产品"。这是一场改革吗？也许是吧，他们至少在改进设计。这是发明吗？不是的。第一双轮滑早在142年前就已存在 。

3. 本榜单另一个荣誉推荐的是《明日帝国》的主题曲。

4. Meanwhile, there are other factors holding back the Asian ETF market that some sceptics fear will hold back development of the retail side.

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6. 两个抢手在讽刺杂志查理周刊屠杀了12个人，谢里夫库阿奇和他的兄弟塞得，他们可能就是出国“接受屠杀训练并散播恐怖”的人中的两个。

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1. The potential for conflict will force China and the US to redefine their roles in a shifting environment that neither is comfortable with. Tensions will be aggravated by anti-China sentiment during the American elections. Asian countries are in a position to delineate the boundaries of influence for these two powers but, given their varied interests, alliances will shift depending on individual concerns.

2. Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2 on stage during an Apple event in San Francisco, California in this March 2, 2011,

3. 2017年最佳国家瑞士首度排名第一。瑞士以中立而闻名，“乐于谈生意”排名第三，“公民权益”排名第三。