Swimming is
banned in this pond.
禁止在这个池塘中游泳.
But I hear her apartment building is about to place a
ban on pet animals.
但我听说她的公寓即将禁止宠物。
Mary is not happy with the
ban on pet animals
玛丽对禁止养宠物感到不高兴。
The fast-growing social media app is also facing multiple fronts of pressure from the United States government, including a potential ban or divestiture of its business in the country.
这家快速增长的社交媒体应用还面临着来自美国政府的多方面压力,包括可能被禁止或剥离其在该国的业务。
The Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that China has not issued any law, regulation or policy document to ban the purchase and use of cellphones of Apple or other foreign brands, but noted that media reports have exposed security incidents involving iPhones.
外交部周三表示,中国尚未发布任何法律、法规或政策文件禁止购买和使用苹果或其他外国品牌的手机,但指出媒体报道曝光了涉及iPhone的安全事件。
The official made the remarks when asked about Australia's ban on TikTok from all federal government-owned devices, according to the ministry on Friday.
据澳大利亚外交部周五称,这位官员是在被问及澳大利亚禁止所有联邦政府所有设备使用TikTok时发表上述言论的。
It will also help accelerate its plan to become a major EV hub under the European Union's plan to ban new internal combustion engines from 2035.
根据欧盟从2035年起禁止新型内燃机的计划,它还将有助于加快成为主要电动汽车中心的计划。
Xu said the company has replaced 78 software tools affected by Washington's ban on domestically developed tools, which can ensure the continuity of its research and development efforts amid US restrictions.
徐说,该公司已经更换了78个受华盛顿禁止国内开发工具影响的软件工具,这可以确保其在美国限制下的研发工作的连续性。
Xu said the company has replaced 78 software tools affected by Washington's ban, which can basically ensure the continuity of its research and development efforts amid US restrictions.
徐说,该公司已经更换了78个受华盛顿禁令影响的软件工具,这基本上可以确保其在美国限制下的研发工作的连续性。
"Yu said the Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based company has continued heavy investment into research and development, which has enabled Huawei to unveil cutting-edge technologies even amid grave challenges related to the ban.
余表示,这家总部位于广东省深圳市的公司继续在研发方面投入巨资,这使华为能够在与禁令相关的严峻挑战中推出尖端技术。
The market has swung widely for most of this week, rocked by developments which include the US ban on all imports of Russian oil, gas and energy and the United Kingdom's decision to phase out imports of Russian oil by the end of 2022.
在本周的大部分时间里,市场波动很大,受到美国禁止所有进口俄罗斯石油、天然气和能源以及英国决定在2022年底前逐步停止进口俄罗斯石油等事态发展的影响。
The ban was based on the country's anti-monopoly law after the State Administration for Market Regulation on Jan 4 launched an antitrust review on the merger filed by Tencent Holdings Ltd. Tencent has a market share of more than 40 percent in upstream online-game operation services, ranking first in the market.
"Shanghai is the first city in China to implement waste separation, ban single-use hotel amenities and single-use plastic bags.
Youdao Inc stays the overseas course in online education despite ban in India, one of its key marketsCompanies in China's online education sector such as Youdao Inc are further expanding their foreign footprint this year despite the COVID-19 challenges and potential operational risks in some economies.
Tying Chinese company to country's military 'deeply flawed', judge rulesA US federal judge blocked enforcement of the investment ban on Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi that was set to take effect this week.
Xiaomi, the world's third-largest seller of smartphones, denies any military links and sued to lift the ban, which would prohibit US citizens from investing in the company.
He added the opinion that Xiaomi is likely to win the lawsuit and it "will suffer irreparable harm in the form of serious reputational and unrecoverable economic injuries" if the ban is imposed.
Xiaomi said in a statement it was pleased with the court ruling and will continue to ask the court to remove the investment ban permanently.
US District Judge Rudolph Contreras on Friday put a temporary halt to the ban for Xiaomi, the report said.
Contreras said Xiaomi was likely to win a full reversal of the ban as the litigation unfolds, the report added.
By the end of 2022, China will ban the use of non-degradable plastic bags in all built-up areas of cities above the prefecture level, as well as in counties in coastal provinces.
"Though India is an emerging market that businesses cannot ignore, we will switch part of the focus to other markets if the ban continues," Liu said.
Trump's latest ban on Chinese apps has drawn immediate reaction from Chinese communities in the US.
"To US businesses, it's a stupid move to ban an app that allows Chinese to spend more in the US," said another user.
Following the WeChat executive order issued in August, US companies that do business with China raised concerns that the ban would make them less competitive.
Kingsoft Office, a Chinese software and internet service provider, said on Wednesday the US government's ban on its WPS Office software will not have substantial impact on its development in the short term.
It is their excellence that incurs Washington's suppression, and the ban will not affect their financing efforts because other international and Chinese investors know their value, Dong said.
"On Thursday, the US Commerce Department said it will not enforce an order to ban TikTok "pending further legal developments," citing a recent ruling by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Judge Wendy Beetlestone ruled on Oct 30 that she found the US government's "own descriptions of the national security threat posed by the TikTok app are phrased in the hypothetical," and therefore she could not find that "the risk presented by the government outweighs the public interest in enjoining" the ban.
TikTok has been under pressure this year as the US and India issued a ban over alleged national security concerns.
U. S. District Judge Carl Nichols in late September issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the TikTok app store ban from taking effect.
Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin made the remark at a regular news briefing in Beijing after a United States federal judge ruled Sunday in favor of TikTok by temporarily blocking US President Donald Trump's order to ban downloads of the app in the US.
LOS ANGELES -- Video-sharing social networking platform TikTok welcomed a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge Sunday night against a US administration's order to ban the popular app from American online app stores.
"We're pleased that the court agreed with our legal arguments and issued an injunction preventing the implementation of the TikTok app ban.
A US federal judge ruled on Sunday in favor of TikTok to temporarily block President Donald Trump's order to ban downloads of the app in the US.
US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, DC, made the decision hours before the ban would take effect after Sunday midnight.
The popular short-video platform requested an injunction on Sept 23 to temporarily block the Commerce Department's order to ban the app.
A day later, the department delayed the ban to give the company an additional week till Sept 27 to finalize a deal.
The judge on Sept 24 ordered the Trump administration to either postpone its ban on TikTok or respond by the afternoon of to the company's request.
During Sunday's hearing, TikTok's lawyer described the ban as "unprecedented" and "irrational", and argued that it doesn't make sense to impose this ban when there are negotiations underway.
The government actually hasn't provided specific and direct evidence of harm that rises to the level for such a pervasive ban, she said.
Under the terms of the TikTok ban, existing users could still post videos, but no new downloads or updates of the app would be allowed, which could cause outages or glitches in the future.
In a separate litigation, three TikTok content creators requested to block the ban on the app.
The judge cited "serious questions" about whether the WeChat ban infringed on users' First Amendment rights.
The government has filed a motion in federal court to stay the WeChat Ban preliminary injunction pending appeal.
New World Development Company Limited, which engages with property development and investment businesses on the Chinese mainland, appointed Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban and RIBA silver medallist Ole Scheeren to design and build its comprehensive flagship project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
"The project will be inspired by Shigeru Ban's fondness for nature, traditional values and innovation, which echo with New World Development Company Limited's vision of "Creating Shared Value".
The deal originated from a US presidential order to ditch Chinese ownership of the popular app, which has 100 million users in the US, or it would risk facing a total ban.
A tentative arrangement involving Oracle and Walmart was quickly followed by a US Commerce Department announcement of a one-week delay, until Sunday, on enforcing a US ban on TikTok app downloads.
Should the White House approve the deal, he said, the settlement could be seen as a pullback from the US president's executive order issued in August requiring either a total sale or a total ban.
A US judge on Sunday temporarily halted President Donald Trump's executive order to ban WeChat, a Chinese messaging, social-media and mobile-payment app, slated to go into effect Sunday night.
To fight for the legal rights of all WeChat users in the country, USWUA, an NGO, sued the Trump administration for the ban.
After three hearings held in three consecutive days, Judge Beeler finally hit pause on the Trump administration's WeChat ban.
The short video app has chosen Oracle as a "trusted technology partner" to operate in the US as a way to avoid a ban, but the proposed deal still requires regulatory clearance from the government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
"If you carefully study the terms, the list isn't designed to be a 'clean-cut' ban, but a case-by-case restriction," he said.
ByteDance is facing pressure from the White House to quickly sell the popular short-video app's US operations or face an effective ban.
Though it's not clear how the lawsuit would play out, it would be hard for the administration to ban the app entirely in the US, experts said.
"The administration doesn't need congressional approval to ban an entity, but it sets a dangerous precedent to do so without clear and extensive justification of wrongdoing, seemingly on a whim or as a personal bargaining chip," wrote Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, in his blog.
China's Foreign Ministry said earlier this month that it firmly opposes Washington's ban on US transactions with the Chinese owners of messaging app WeChat and TikTok, calling the US move "blatant hegemonic acts".
"It's based on pure speculation and conjecture," the source said about the administration's ban, NPR reported.
While a potential TikTok ban is proving unpopular with many of its users, a WeChat ban likely would have far more impact.
Trump likely hasn't considered the effect a WeChat ban could have on his Chinese supporters, according to an opinion piece published on Saturday on influential tech website Wired.
After threatening on Friday to ban the short-form video platform from the US, citing national security concerns over user data-which TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance has denied-Trump warned on Monday that TikTok would be shut down on Sept 15 unless Microsoft or another "very American" company purchased it.
With US President Donald Trump proposing a ban on TikTok, critics said the move will not solve "security risks", while American values could be challenged if the popular app actually goes dark.
It's not clear how he might implement the ban, but following the announcement, Microsoft has reportedly paused negotiations with TikTok's Chinese parent company Byte-Dance to buy its US operations.
While the two companies are waiting for clarity from the White House, the TikTok community is pouring out its frustration over the proposed ban and is expressing support for the company on social media.
Heather Evans, director of Frontier Technology Research at Asia Society Northern California, said the proposed ban didn't come as a big surprise as "there's a lot of distrust and uncertainty about this popular app", which is largely due to TikTok's parent company being based on the Chinese mainland.
"Besides, Shen said, anti-Trump voices are also giving the US president some personal incentive to ban the app.
Although Trump apparently preferred to ban the app entirely, saying, "As far as TikTok is concerned we're banning them from the United States", there are divisions within the White House about the appropriate course of action, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Among those who have raised concerns about a ban of TikTok is the American Civil Liberties Union.
Last week, the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved a bill to ban the app on government-issued devices.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei said in an announcement on Thursday that it was disappointed by the US administration's decision to impose a travel ban on its employees.
A report from Xinhuanet, which quoted US media, said that the US Senate had passed a legislation in May that could ban many Chinese companies from listing shares on US exchanges or raising money from US investors without adhering to the US government's regulatory and audit standards.
Two senators have introduced a bill to ban federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued phones.
The move comes as Huawei safeguarded its reputation as the world's second-largest smartphone vendor last year amid the US government's efforts to ban it from using Google's Android operating system in its mobile devices.
A day later, the EU announced its toolbox for 5G deployment, which does not ban Huawei and leaves it up to the member countries to make their final decisions.
On the other hand, the UK government has long been aware that a full ban on Huawei would delay the rollout of 5G networks by years, at great cost to the economy.
An outright ban on Huawei would have required ripping out the structures on top of which 5G will be built, causing huge delays to the 5G rollout.
At the same time, stopping short of a full ban on Huawei avoids an act of real selfharm.
Assembly Research estimates that such a ban would delay the rollout of 5G in the UK by up to two years at a cost of 6.8 billion pounds ($8.8 billion) to the economy.
In recommendations released on Wednesday, the European Union advised that member states consider limiting so-called high-risk vendors in their 5G rollouts, but the bloc also stopped short of supporting a full ban on Huawei.
And on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters he hopes the UK government will reconsider and adopt a full ban on Huawei.
"By forgoing a full ban on Huawei, the UK has prevented large-scale disruption to its network infrastructure.
A Huawei ban would necessitate ripping out existing equipment and replacing it with new kit that is compatible with 5G upgrades from different vendors.
On the other hand, the UK government has long been aware that a full ban on Huawei would delay the roll-out of 5G networks by years at great cost to the economy.
An outright ban on Huawei would've required ripping out the structures on top of which 5G will be built, causing huge delays to 5G roll out.
At the same time, stopping short of a full ban on Huawei avoids an act of real self-harm.
Analysts said the FCC ban would have very limited impact on Huawei's financial performance, but labeling the company as a national security threat would cause far-reaching reputational harm.
On Sunday, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier also defended the decision not to ban Huawei from participation in Germany's 5G network in a debate.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said at a news conference earlier this year that "we are not taking a preemptive decision to ban any actor, or any company".
Hong Kong lost out to New York in 2014 when Alibaba opted for a mega $25-billion IPO on the Wall Street in what remains the largest IPO in history, due to the SAR's years-long ban on enterprises with different voting rights for shareholders from going public.
The ban was scrapped in April last year after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange launched its biggest listing reform in 25 years, a move that paved the way for companies like Alibaba to go public in Hong Kong.
Neumann wanted the exchange listing his shares to support his cause of environmental sustainability and asked it to eliminate plastic utensils and ban meat from the cafeteria.
The new regulations may ban all e-cigarette products except those that taste like tobacco and menthol, a revision of an initial plan to remove all flavored vaping products from the market.
The hearing put pressure on a revamped Boeing senior management team fighting to repair trust with airline customers and passengers shaken by an eight-month safety ban on its 737 MAX following the crashes.
"While the tech giant has been able to maintain normal supplies to its customers after the ban, its popularity seemed to have risen, rather than wane, in the overseas market.
Latest data showed that the company has signed more than 60 commercial contracts for 5G with leading carriers globally, an increase from 40 contracts at the time of the US ban in May.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert also said at a news conference in Berlin that "we are not taking a preemptive decision to ban any actor, or any company".
Despite some worries that the US ban may have a big impact on its smartphone business, more than 185 million Huawei smartphones were shipped in the first three quarters of 2019, up 26 percent year-on-year.
Major United Kingdom mobile operators have come out against a full ban on Huawei in the country, and have asked the government to ensure that any decision to restrict the Chinese company is "evidence-based".
"We do not view a ban on using Huawei in access networks as a proportionate response, given the range of protections in place," BT said.
And Three said that a ban on the company would significantly delay the UK launch of 5G.
The committee also heard from sources in favor of a ban, including Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington.