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DUBAI, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Apple's Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Saturday paid a surprise visit to the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) first official Apple retail store that opened last October, local daily Gulf News reported.
At the store, which is at Dubai's Mall of the Emirates, Cook met with customers and employees and briefly discussed the latest trends around Apple's flagship products iPhone, iPad and iMacs.
The Apple CEO made the stop in the Gulf metropolis while returning from India where he met with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday.
Last October, the UAE opened two official stores for the Cupertino, California-based technology giant, in Dubai's Mall of the Emirates and Abu Dhabi's Yas Mall.
ANKARAISTANBUL hydro flask 32 oz wide mouth for sale , June 2 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of protesters still gathered in Taksim Square in Turkey's Istanbul on Sunday as the five-day protests against the demolition of a park boiled over into a move against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The demonstrations started in Istanbul and have spilled over into many other cities of Turkey. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said Saturday evening that a total of 939 had been taken in custody during the protests in 48 provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Antalya hydro flask 32 oz for sale , Konya, Eskisehir.
The nationwide demonstrations were triggered after the police broke up a peaceful sit-in against the demolition with tear gas and water cannon on Friday. A total of 12 protesters were injured and at least 63 people detained during raid, according to Istanbul Governor's Office.
The angry protesters on Saturday demanded Erdogan to step down during their protests.
Thousands of citizens in Turkish capital of Ankara have been gathering at Kugulu Park since Friday and peacefully demonstrated, chanting "Everywhere is resistance, everywhere is Taksim!"
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An eyewitness told Xinhua that fury protesters broke some windows and burned several police vehicles while attacking some Turkish television broadcast vehicles because some national TV channels did not cover the protests.
Special police forces rushed to the scene and used tear gas and high-pressured water gun to disperse the protesters.
The protests, which started five days ago, aimed at saving a city center park in Istanbul from shopping-center developers who had been backed by the government.
Earlier www.ombrehydroflaskforsale.com , Erdogan, who was facing his biggest challenge during his 10-year rule, called on demonstrators to end their protest, saying the government would press ahead with the redevelopment plans about Gezi Park that sparked the demonstrations.
An Istanbul court on Sunday ordered temporary suspension of the project, but anti-government protests continued with many citizens showing their support to the protesters and expressing their outrage at the police's "brutal raids."
BEIJING hydro flask ombre hawaii for sale , Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The central parity rate of the Chinese currency, the yuan, strengthened for the tenth consecutive working day to a nearly 16-month high against the U.S. dollar Friday.
The central parity rate of the yuan strengthened 237 basis points to 6.5032 against the U.S. dollar, its strongest level since May 2016, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
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In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.
The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.
The yuan has appreciated by 6 percent in cumulative terms against the dollar since the beginning of the year.
The dollar index against a basket of six major currencies was down 0.5 percent at 91.21 Friday as long-dated Treasury yields fell to 10-month lows.
Lingering concerns over tensions related to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea may limit the dollar's upside versus other major currencies, according to CITIC Securities.
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China's economy expanded 6.9 percent in the first half, well above the target of around 6.5 percent for the year.
Its manufacturing activity expanded for the 13th consecutive month in August, providing fresh evidence of a firming economy.
China's forex reserves rose for the 7th month in a row in August to 3.092 trillion U.S. dollars, increasing 10.8 billion dollars from a month earlier.
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