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All in all the MGF is a fun sports car, with great style and personality, suitably cosy and enjoyable during the winter, and a fast, thrilling ride in the summer sun.
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Beijing has not changed its policy regarding people who become eligible to buy houses through scam marriages, the Beijing Daily reported.
Rumors have been swirling that buyers with multiple divorce records will face restrictions when it comes to purchasing houses in Beijing. But local authorities have assured a 60-year-old twice-divorced woman that her marriage history will not affect her plan to buy a new house.
According to Beijing's restrictions on home buying in 2011, individuals without hukou Cheap Oregon Ducks Shirts , or residential permits, are barred from buying property in the capital unless they can provide tax and social security certificates proving they have lived in the city for more than five years.
However, to bypass the hukou restriction, there have been cases of Beijingers marrying a non-local to allow him or her to qualify to purchase a house, and then divorcing once the process is complete.
Beijingers who profit from such scams have been given the nickname "house worm." One man, who only revealed his family name of Zhang, said he earned 30 Cheap Penn State Nittany Lions Shirts ,000 yuan from one fake marriage.
According to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, some brokerage agencies exist to facilitate these fraudulent house-buying qualifications.
Beijing Daily said the capital city introduced a plan to prevent marriage scams in 2011, and that this policy remains unchanged.
Housing market regulators closely check the identities of buyers, including details related to the household register, social security details, tax history, marital status and work permits to prevent scam-based deals.
SEYNE-LES-ALPES Cheap South Carolina Gamecocks Shirts , France, March 25 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arrived Wednesday afternoon at Vernet in southern France, where they are expected to meet some families of the victims arrived also this afternoon.
An Airbus A320 of German budget airline Germanwings with 150 people onboard crashed Tuesday in southern France en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
According to Le Figaro, the first families already arrived in Digne-les-Bains, where they were received by the prefecture.
At Digne-les-Bains and Seyne-les-Alpes (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), the medico-psychological emergency cells were set up for them and two chapels were installed in Seyne-les-Alpes and Vernet.
Also in Vernet Cheap Texas Longhorns Shirts , a large tent was set up to host a memorial ceremony in the afternoon.
Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann confirmed Wednesday at a press conference that 72 Germans and 35 Spanish citizens were onboard the crashed aircraft, according to information updated till 11:00 local time (1000 GMT).
However, Spanish government reported Wednesday at least 49 Spanish citizens were killed in the crash.
In addition, victims were also from Britain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Mexico Cheap Ucla Bruins Shirts , Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Israel, Australia, Argentina, Iran Cheap Usc Trojans Shirts , Venezuela and the United States, said Germanwings.
BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's tourism authority said Sunday it has initiated an emergency plan to help Chinese nationals injured in a speedboat explosion in Thailand.
The China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) has urged local hospitals to spare no efforts to treat the injured and Thai police to find out the cause of the accident as soon as possible, according to CNTA head Li Jinzao.
A speedboat carrying 27 Chinese tourists and several Thai crews exploded on southern Thailand's Andaman Sea near Phi-Phi Islands Sunday.
Local media reported that a Thai was killed and 16 others have been found injured. Five Chinese were in serious condition, according to the Consulate-General of China in Songkhla.
Li said the CNTA will continue to follow the development of the accident.
