HO CHI MINH CITY Nike Vapormax , Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Five Vietnamese men will compete at the World Amateur Golfers Championship from Nov. 11 to Dec. 5 in Turkey, with the participation of over 40 countries and regions, a Vietnamese golf organizer said Monday.
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Earlier, the managing board of the World Amateur Golfers Championship signed a partnership agreement to allow Tien Phong Joint Stock Commercial Bank (TPBank) to organize the tournament in Vietnam.
Under the agreement, TPBank will organize Vietnam' s TPBank World Amateur Golfers Championships from 2015 to 2017.
SYDNEY, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cricket Australia (CA) has announced it will release Australian Test batsmen George Bailey Nike Air Vapormax Red , Steve Smith and David Warner to play in the opening round of the Twenty20 Big Bash League (T20 BBL), local media reported on Wednesday.
The T20 BBL matches will be played across Australia throughout December, January and February and the final is scheduled on February 7, 2014.
Warner will play for the Sydney Thunder and Smith will line up with the Sydney Sixers at the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground) on Saturday night.
Bailey has also been released to play on Sunday for the Hobart Hurricanes' match against the Adelaide Strikers in Hobart.
CA said the Ashes series win had provided more flexibility when it came to releasing Test players for the Twenty20 competition.
"We have worked closely with the BBL clubs for several months about Test player availability given the early stages of the tournament are played while the Ashes series is still in progress," CA Executive General Manager of Team Performance Pat Howard said.
"After careful consideration of player fitness and workload issues Nike Air Vapormax Blue , we have agreed to release George Bailey, Steve Smith and David Warner for BBL duties on 21 and 22 December."
However, the bowlers from Australia's winning Ashes team were not considered for release given their recent workload and the need to prepare for the Melbourne and Sydney Test, Howard said.
By Xinhua writers Xia Lin, Su Jin
PANAMA CITY Nike Air Vapormax Black , April 10 (Xinhua) -- Cuba and Venezuela jointly stole the show of the 7th Summit of Americas here on Friday, transforming the forum into a home court for Latin American countries' diplomacy and shaking the United States' 21-year-long predominance on the hemispheric policies.
Elaborating the agenda, Bolivian President Evo Morales told teleSUR that "Mr.(U.S. President Barack) Obama has to be clear that we're no more the U.S. backyard. If you want to win the respect of the Latin Americans, you have to first respect the Latin Americans."
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But at this year's summit which began in Panama City on Friday, things were different. Cuba emerged after a 21-year absence, disappointing the U.S. by putting off the plan to re-open embassies in their respective capitals before the leaders of both countries attended the opening ceremony.
Prior to the two-day summit, Russia, the European Union (EU) Nike Air Vapormax White , the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Vietnam had sent senior delegates to Havana to back up the island country in its tough wrestle with the U.S. to guarantee a fair deal and protect its own interests.
Venezuela came to the gathering armed with new media savvy and a petition signed by over 10 million people calling on Washington to lift the latest sanctions against its government officials and to revoke a decree labelling the South American country as a "national security threat".
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivered a televised speech on Thursday in Caracas, saying "President Obama has made the worst mistake of his six-year presidency in foreign policy towards Latin America."
He told Washington that "the region isn't its backyard anymore."
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All of these efforts culminated at the summit, allowing the major Latin American members of the Organization of American States (OAS) to negotiate regional issues with the U.S. and Canada as a group, under the banner of "Prosperity with Equality".
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The summit has provided the region's Latin American countries with an opportunity to express their solidarity and autonomy, to break with the idea that they were merely the U.S. backyard, and show that they have awakened and evolved into an independent regional force.
The days of the Americas belonging only to the U.S. are gone. The Americas belong to all the regional nations