CHONGQING nike air vapormax australia , Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese cola brand Tianfu, once the country's top-selling soft drink, will return to the market after being absent from shelves for nearly two decades, according to the producer on Thursday.
Tianfu Cola will be relaunched around Spring Festival (the Lunar New Year), which falls on Feb. 8 this year, said Qian Huang nike air max plus australia , general manager of the company.
Qian said Tianfu would still use its natural traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbal recipe to produce the "healthy drink."
Back in 1980s and 1990s, the Chongqing-based company was the largest soft drink maker in China with a strong hold of 70 percent of the soft drink market. Tianfu Cola was sold beyond China and started to gain market recognition in Russia and America.
In 1994, the company set up a joint venture with American cola producer Pepsi, which was not successful. By 2005, Tianfu Coke's market share had plummeted to 1 percent.
Qian attributed the failure to the decision to decrease the production of Tianfu Coke to make way for the production of Pepsi-Cola.
In 2006, the company sold its stakes in the joint venture to Pepsi nike air max dlx australia , however, Pepsi refused to give back Tianfu's production right.
In 2010, Tianfu took Pepsi to court accusing the U.S. firm of stealing the secret recipe for its beverage. The court ordered Pepsi to return the formula and technical secrets, but rejected Tianfu's request for 1 million yuan (151,700 U.S. dollars) compensation.
Qian said 2016 would witness a "reincarnation" of Tianfu. In addition to the reproduction of Tianfu Coke, the company plans to debut a new series of soft drinks including fruit juice and a protein beverage.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Laquan McDonald's knife reflected the bright lights of the oncoming police SUVs. Officers jumped out with guns drawn, and the 17-year-old black teen angled his body away and started to move across the street.
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In the blink of an eye, a hail of another 15 bullets hit McDonald and ricocheted off ground around him while he was lying motionless on the ground.
Release of police video of the shooting and a murder charge against Van Dyke came more than a year after McDonald's death, and the delay has prompted more than two weeks of protests in the nation's third-largest city.
Half a century after the country removed state-sanctioned segregation and explicit discrimination, racial wounds still bleed as high-profile killings of blacks fuel waves of protests and reignite heated national debate about racial inequities.
A close look at the U.S. criminal justice system reveals that gains in racial change continue to be undermined by multiple sources of inequality that reinforce each other.
BLUE WALL OF SILENCE
Adding to the public anger, it was later known that the local police erased surveillance videos from a nearby Burger King, which may have captured McDonald's movement in the critical moment before the shooting cheap nike air max 2019 australia , leading to a public outcry about a police cover-up.
Police documents showed several officers who witnessed the shooting appeared to give misleading information to investigators, with one account stating that Van Dyke had been injured by McDonald in the shooting.
"There was no question that the shooting was not justified," Carlos Miller, a police watchdog and independent journalist, told Xinhua. "There's no question they were trying to cover it up. They're playing games."
Across the country, the majority of the blacks had long been viewing the police force with great suspicion.
According to a poll by the Pew Research Center in August 2014 cheap nike air max 2019 , a total of 62 percent blacks expressed at best "just some" confidence in local police to treat whites and blacks equally, with 46 percent expressing "very little" trust in police.
"We have a situation where many minority communities for so long have felt that law enforcement was coming in essentially to enforce laws against them, not to protect them," said Loretta Lynch, the country's first African- American female attorney general, in July.
Lynch was not the only one to speak out. In May nike air max 2019 australia , Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division chief, said that the "lack of trust in the police is real and it is profound."
In her letter to the Justice Department to ask for federal investigation into the practices of Chicago Police Department, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wrote that "trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken."
The Justice Department has announced a federal probe into the Chicago Police practices, the latest of its over 20 investigations into local police departments across the country in the past six years.
Early this year, the Justice Department released a scathing report of the Ferguson police force in the state of Missouri that pointed to widespread discrimination against the black communities among local law enforcement officials.
Apart from the excessive and unjustified use of force against black people and communities Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 270 Flyknit Triple Black Australia , Ferguson law enforcement officials systematically relied on unlawful and hefty fines on African-Americans to create revenue increases, the report revealed.
UNJUSTIFIED & DEADLY STOPS
McDonald's death at the hands of police also exposes a controversial trend in local policing called "stop and frisk," raising concerns over racial profiling.
A report released by the American Civil Liberties Union early this year showed that black Chicagoans, representing only 32 percent of the city's total population, were subjected to 72 percent of all stops.
The phenomenon of blacks being stopped by officers at disproportionately high rates is not confined to Chicago.