PARIS Air Jordan 13 Love Respect For Sale , July 20 (Xinhua) -- Following are the overall individual standings of the 2017 Tour de France after the 18th stage, a 179.5km ride from Briancon to Izoard on Thursday:
1. Christopher Froome, Britain, Sky, 78 hours 8 minutes and 19 seconds
2. Romain Bardet, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 23 seconds behind
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BANGKOK, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered government agencies to speed up their purchase of local rubber to buoy its falling prices.
According to government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the prime minister has instructed nine state agencies to buy more than 22 Air Jordan 13 Heiress Velvet For Sale ,000 tonnes rubber latex and nearly 3,000 tons of rubber sheets with a budget of 16.9 billion baht (0.49 billion U.S dollars).
"The prime minister urged the agencies involved to quickly withdraw the budget so that the purchases could be done within fiscal year 2017, to boost domestic demand and help prop up the price slump of rubber," said Sansern.
The nine agencies include Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, the Defense Ministry, the Education Ministry, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Public Health Ministry, the Interior Minister Air Jordan 13 Low Pure Platinum For Sale , the Tourism and Sports Ministry, the Transport Ministry and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
The rubber purchased will be used for road construction and production of products such as boots, gloves, pipes and rubber sheets.
Prayut has also pushed forward with the establishment of a fund to help stabilize local rubber prices. The country's five major rubber exporters will invest 200 million baht (5.9 million U.S dollars) each to the fund.
The price of latex has once fallen from 50 baht per kilogram to 38 bahtkg this year, which is a sharp contrast to the past peaks when the price hit more than 100 bahtkg.
Observers said the rubber crisis is aggravated by a slowdown in imports by big consumers and a move by some investors to suspend purchases in the hope of suppressing rubber prices further.
Farmers from southern Thailand have called on the prime minister to invoke the absolute power to promote domestic use of rubber, as part of a bid to solve problems associated with falling rubber prices.
Prayut has turned down the request, saying that the problem is being tackled and progress has been made gradually.
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BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday called on foreign enterprises to respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity after Marriott International Air Jordan 13 Low Brave Blue For Sale , a U.S.-based hotel corporation, listed Chinese territories including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Tibet as "countries" in a mail questionnaire.
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"We welcome foreign enterprises to do business in China. Meanwhile, they should respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, abide by Chinese law, and respect the Chinese peoples' feelings, which are the foundation for any corporation to do business in any country," spokesperson Lu Kang said at a daily press briefing.
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BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Bank of China (BOC), one of China's major state-owned banks, reported faster profit growth in H1, with better business structure and overseas expansion.
Net profits stood at around 104 billion yuan (around 16 billion U.S. dollars) in the first six months, the lender said in its mid-year report filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange Wednesday.
The growth rate was substantially higher than the 2.52-percent rise in the same period of last year.
The bank said it optimized its lending structure in H1, with more loans to emerging sectors, environmental protection and small businesses. More energy was also channeled into inclusive finance and rural areas.
Its overseas drive also picked up pace Air Jordan 13 Flint For Sale , with pre-tax incomes up 23.6 percent year on year in H1. The bank kept its leading position in the clearing and settlement of the yuan, and established a presence in more countries, including Serbia, Angola and Ireland.