HO CHI MINH CITY Trae Waynes Youth Jersey , May 6 (Xinhua) -- Nine Vietnamese players will vie for medals at the 2015 WTF World Taekwondo Championships from May 12-18 in Russia, a senior official of the Vietnam Taekwondo Federation told Xinhua here Wednesday.
"At the biennial tournament in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, our four male contestants will compete in the 54kg, 58kg, 68kg and 74kg categories; and our five female athletes in the categories of 46kg Laquon Treadwell Youth Jersey , 49kg, 57kg, 62kg and 67kg," said Nguyen Thanh Huy, Deputy Secretary General of the Vietnam Taekwondo Federation.
Vietnamese athletes will perform at their full capacity Ben Gedeon Youth Jersey , because good results will give them higher chances of securing berths to 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, said Huy, who is also Standing Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Taekwondo Federation that was established in January.
Huy explained that the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) will calculate result points for contestants partaking in Olympic weight categories at the WTF World Taekwondo Championships.
Huy said that the nine Vietnamese taekwondo athletes include Nguyen Dinh Cuong, Nguyen Van Duy, Phan Trung Duc Dalvin Cook Youth Jersey , Hong Minh Cao, Truong Thi Kim Tuyen, Nguyen Thi Uyen, Pham Thi Thu Hien, Ha Thi Nguyen and Chu Hoang Dieu Linh.
Vietnam gained no medals at the 2013 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Mexico Anthony Barr Youth Jersey , and won one bronze medal at the 2011 edition in South Korea.
Vietnam has set a target of bagging home three or four taekwondo gold medals at the approaching 28th SEA Games in Singapore, announced the country's General Department of Sports and Physical Training. From June 12-16, Vietnamese taekwondo fighters will clash with strong rivals from Thailand, the Philippines and hosts Singapore.
Vietnam won its first-ever Olympic medal with 26-year-old woman athlete Tran Hieu Ngan taking a taekwondo silver medal at Sydney Olympic Games 2000.
BERLIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The German economy grew steadily but at a slightly lower rate than anticipated in the second quarter of 2017 Everson Griffen Youth Jersey , figures released Tuesday by the Federal Statistical Office showed.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Germany was up 0.6 percent between April and June from the previous quarter, just below economists' expectations of 0.7 percent.
Nevertheless, the figure confirmed a continuing overall positive trend which economists attributed to rising investment and domestic consumption.
German consumers are increasingly in a spending mood as low unemployment contributes to higher earnings and the lasting low interest rate environment disincentivizes saving. At the same time, the public sector has also raised its spending to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Unlike during the first quarter of 2017, trade was not a major driver of growth between April and June.
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Firms appeared unperturbed by international risk factors such as Brexit, underscoring a new record level in business confidence recently measured by the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research. The optimism in boardrooms was reflected in growing investment in machinery, buildings and other assets.
The healthy showing of the German economy adds to a wider picture of a strengthening economic recovery across the Eurozone. The 19-member block grew by 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2017, slightly behind the United States and twice the rate of Britain.
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SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Gasoline and diesel consumptions in South Korea hit a new quarterly high in the April-June quarter due to cheap crude oil and the so-called golden holiday in May Linval Joseph Youth Jersey , a government report showed Monday.
Consumption of gasoline and diesel, which are used for transport fuel, reached new highs of 20 million barrels and 43 million barrels each in the second quarter, up 3.6 percent and 3.8 percent respectively from a year ago, according to the Ministry of Trade Harrison Smith Youth Jersey , Industry and Energy.
It was attributed to low crude oil prices, an increase in traffic volume in May that had the so-called golden holidays such as the Children's Day and the Buddha's Birthday, and the rising number of passenger cars.
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Consumption of all oil products reached 234 million barrels in the June quarter, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier.
Oil product exports declined 4.2 percent to 119 million barrels, but the exports value of oil products jumped 14.6 percent to 7.2 billion U.S. dollars thanks to higher product prices.
Crude oil imports inched down 0.7 percent to 265 million barrels in the cited period as oil refiners did maintenance works of some of their factories.
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