VIENTIANE [url=http://www.eccodressshoessale.com/...g-tip-tie-black.html]ECCO London Wing Tip Tie Black Sale[/url] , May 21 (Xinhua) -- The Lao Volleyball Federation says it is planning to hold national and international level volleyball events in 2017.
The annual national Minister of Education and Sports' Cup tournament is scheduled to be held in July, while the Asian Vientiane U19 Beach Volleyball Championship is slated for the end of this year.
The Minister of Education and Sports' Cup will look to hone skills of its male and female volleyball players from clubs both in the capital Vientiane and from other provinces across the country.
Lao volleyball coach Inthaphone Chengsavang was quoted the Vientiane Times on Sunday as saying that the country will create chances for players to up their level of play, adding that they will limit the number players in the U23 category.
So far, participants slated to take part in the Minister of Education and Sports' Cup tournament include the men's and women's volleyball teams from the Lao Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, National University of Laos, Vientiane Secondary School and teams from Savannakhet and Luang Prabang provinces, among others.
Meanwhile, Inthaphone said the volleyball federation also plans to hold the second Asian Vientiane U19 Beach Volleyball Championships on the Mekong River's shores in Lao capital Vientiane while the federation's target is to develop Lao men's and women's beach volleyball teams to compete with neighboring countries.
The Lao Volleyball Federation also hosted the first annual Asian Vientiane U19 Beach Volleyball Championship in May 2016 in coordination with the Asian Volleyball Confederation.
Beach volleyball teams from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, China's Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Iran, Oman, and Laos competed in the event in 2016.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council onTuesday extended sanctions against the Central African Republic(CAR) for another year till Jan. 31, 2019.
The 15-member council unanimously adopted Resolution 2399 toextend for another year an arms embargo on the country.
The resolution decides that all UN member states shall continueto take the necessary measures to prevent the supply, sale ortransfer of arms and related materiel to the CAR, including weaponsand ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, spare parts, andtechnical assistance, training, financial or other assistancerelated to military activities.
It also decides to extend for another year a travel ban againstindividuals deemed responsible for destabilizing the country and anasset freeze against those individuals and entities designated by asanctions committee.
The resolution demands necessary measures from UN member statesto prevent the entry into or transit through their territories ofindividuals designated by the sanctions committee.
It calls upon the CAR government to enhance cooperation andinformation sharing with other states, and calls for internationalcooperation in this regard.
The resolution decides that the travel ban and asset freezeshall apply to the individuals and entities designated by thesanctions committee as engaging in or providing support for actsthat undermine the peace, stability or security of the CAR,including acts that threaten or impede the stabilization andreconciliation process or acts that fuel violence.
The resolution also extends the mandate of a panel of experts onthe CAR until Feb. 28, 2019, and expressed its intent to review themandate and take appropriate action regarding further extension nolater than Jan. 31, 2019.
The resolution expresses particular concern about reports ofillicit trafficking networks, which continue to fund and supplyarmed groups in the CAR, and encourages the panel of experts todevote special attention to this issue.
The CAR has been in civil war since 2012, which is being foughtalong religious and ethnic lines, primarily between anti-Balakamilitia, mostly Christian, and mainly Muslim Seleka groups.Enditem
The former coach of champion Hong Kong hurdler Vera Lui Lai-yiu has been arrested after he was accused of sexually assaulting the athlete when she was a teenager.
The suspect was detained two months after Lui became the first high-profile woman in socially conservative Hong Kong to speak out against abuse as part of the #MeToo movement exposing sexual misconduct.
Vera Lui Lai-yiu file photo
In an open letter posted on Facebook on her 23rd birthday in November, she accused her former coach of sexually assaulting her when she was a schoolgirl, prompting the city's leader Carrie Lam to ask police to investigate.
A 76-year-old man was arrested for "indecent assault" Sunday but has since been released on bail, police confirmed to AFP. Police declined to name him.
The #MeToo campaign spread rapidly in October after multiple accusations against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and has since shaken artistic, media and political circles globally.
Lui said she was inspired to speak out by American Olympic gold-winning gymnast McKayla Maroney, one of a number of women who accused former USA Gymnastic team doctor Lawrence Nassar of abusing them.
Nassar was last week sentenced to 40 to 175 years in jail for criminal sexual conduct.
Lui had previously recalled how she thought nothing of it when the coach
offered her a massage at his home to relax her muscles, but that
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