LISBON asics gel kayano 21 baratas , Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Portuguese government has asked the European Union to investigate possible price fixing by fuel companies in Portugal, local media reported on Thursday.
Secretary of State for Energy Jorge Seguro Sanches sent a letter to the European Commission requesting that its competition body verify whether rules and regulations are being adhered to in setting consumer fuel prices in Portugal.
The request comes as a consequence of "significant and systematic divergences" in fuel prices in Portugal compared to elsewhere.
The letter states that in recent years there have been "successive fuel price increases that do not reflect the international market".
Indeed, the Portuguese has made a habit of crossing the border into Spain to buy gas canisters, sometimes at half the price that they are available for in Portugal, and to fill up vehicle petrol tanks.
Portuguese consumers have traditionally blamed the government for imposing high taxes and tariffs. The government now points the finger at industry price fixing and abuse of dominant positions.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the conclusion of the quadrennial sports gala at a compact and neat closing ceremony in the evening.
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Mawlan and his wife Ma Jie sit in a coffee shop in downtown Urumqi on November 16. Photo: Cui MengGT Jian Jian, a Uyghur asics gel nimbus 17 baratas , marries a Han in January this year in Fengshu, Taoyuan county, Central China's Hunan Province. They had a traditional Uyghur wedding and the bridegroom was asked to convert before the marriage. Photo: Courtesy of Jian Jian Jian Jian, a Uyghur, marries a Han in January this year in Fengshu, Taoyuan county, Central China's Hunan Province. They had a traditional Uyghur wedding and the bridegroom was asked to convert before the marriage. Photo: Courtesy of Jian Jian
Mawlan asics gel lyte v negras baratas , 24, an accordion player, met Ma Jie, when she was deeply absorbed by his performance on a street in Urumqi in 2013. Four months later, Mawlan secretly married her without asking his parents.
"I acted first and told them afterwards. They would never allow me to marry a Han, I had no choice," explained Mawlan asics gel lyte v granate baratas , born in a Uyghur family in the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
His mother has accepted their marriage, but his father is still against it. "He warned me that I would regret in the future," Mawlan said.
But Mawlan doesn't think so. He is convinced that love conquers all and they can live a happy life by respecting each other's culture and customs.
Uyghurs are a majority-Muslim Turkic group with their own language. The vast majority of Chinese people identify as being of Han ethnicity.
Intermarriage between ethnic groups is not uncommon, especially in Xinjiang, which is home to 47 of the nation's 56 ethnic groups. But marriage between Uyghurs and Han people in the region is extremely rare, although they make up the majority of Xinjiang's population, accounting for 48 percent and 37 percent respectively of the region's total.
In the past 20 years asics gel lyte v blancas baratas , communication between Uyghurs and Han has increased, but the boundaries between the communities are now more strict and stark, and both group's sense of ethnic identity and distinctiveness has grown, Li Xiaoxia, director of the Institute of Sociology with Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, said in her research paper published by Sociology of Ethnicity magazine in 2012.
"As religion is becoming more prominent in Uyghurs' daily life it's getting increasingly difficult for them to marry Han," Li noted.
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Despite living near Mawlan's parents asics gel lyte v españa , Mawlan and Ma Jie seldom see them, even during festivals, to avoid awkwardness.
The couple also suffers from peer pressure. They didn't have a wedding ceremony and Mawlan still keeps his marriage a secret from some of his relatives and friends. While walking in the city's mostly-Uyghur Erdaoqiao area, they don't walk close to each other as they might face an unfriendly public reaction.