A | 尽管销售增长放缓，而且预计假日购物季将不太活跃，但亚马逊(AMZN.US)仍计划招聘15万名季节性员工，与去年持平。
B | Beijing/London, Oct 18 (UNI) China's foreign ministry has defended an incident in which a Hong Kong protester was pulled into Chinese consulate grounds in the British city of Manchester and beaten up.
A spokesman said people had "illegally entered" the grounds and any country's diplomats would have taken "necessary measures" to protect their premises, the BBC reported.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong leader John Lee weighed in on the event, saying it should be dealt with in accordance with local laws.
Police are investigating an assault on the pro-democracy protester on Sunday. Footage shows men emerging from the consulate and dragging a man inside.
The violence has prompted loud calls for the UK government to summon China's ambassador, and possibly take further action.
The protester, identified as Bob, suffered several physical injuries and spent a night in hospital for treatment.
However, China is sticking to a different version of events from the police.
"People [who] intended to cause nuisance entered the Chinese Consulate-General in Manchester illegally... threatening the safety of a Chinese diplomatic facility," said foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin at a daily press briefing in Beijing.
He added that any attempt to infringe on the consulate's "tranquillity and dignity" would "not be tolerated".
According to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police, around 30 to 40 people had gathered outside the consulate and patrols were in the area to help maintain the "peaceful protest".
"Shortly before 4pm a small group of men came out of the building and a man was dragged into the consulate grounds and assaulted," a police statement said.
"Due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers intervened and removed the victim from the consulate grounds."
The consulate says protesters had displayed an insulting portrait of China's president.
Bob told BBC Chinese that "mainlanders" - people from mainland China, as opposed to Hong Kong - had come out of the consulate and destroyed their posters.
"As we tried to stop them, they dragged me inside, they beat me up," he said. "It's ridiculous. They [the attackers] shouldn't have done that. We are supposed to have freedom to say whatever we want here [in the UK]."
The protest took place on the same day China kicked off its twice-a-decade Communist Party Congress, where its leader President Xi Jinping is widely expected to secure a third term in power.
Xi had on Sunday made reference to the situation in Hong Kong, saying Beijing had turned the situation in the city from "chaos to governance".
Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the former British colony after pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019.
UNI ING。亚马逊通常在每年的这个时候雇佣大批临时工，帮助其仓库储存、包装和运输商品。
C | 亚马逊在一份声明中表示，根据员工在美国的职位和地点，他们的平均时薪可以超过19美元。
D | 此前，沃尔玛公司决定今年雇佣约4万名季节性工人，低于2021年的15万名。疫情期间，亚马逊加大了招聘力度，以应对来自回家购物者的订单激增。当消费者今年恢复以往的购物习惯时，亚马逊发现自己的工人和设施太多了。根据去年9月报道，亚马逊此后关闭、推迟或放弃了在美国和欧洲建立数十个仓库的计划。
E | 亚马逊表示，该公司还在 3 月至 6 月期间淘汰了近 100000 名员工——主要是通过减员——这是其历史上最大的季度降幅。根据Insider Intelligence的数据，今年美国在线销售额将仅增长9.4%，至1万亿美元，这是增长率首次下滑至个位数。Insider Intelligence在6月份下调了此前的年度预测。该公司说，亚马逊的支出将达到4,000亿美元，增长9%，增速低于整个行业。
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