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SINGAPORE， March 13 (Xinhua) -- Singapore will release a new set of stamps to commemorate 50 years of national service (NS)， said Singapore Post (SingPost) in a press release on Monday.


The stamps will feature Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew， as well as the late former Minister for Defense Goh Keng Swee， both key figures in the introduction of National Service.


According to SingPost， the set also includes the enlistment of the first batches of full-time NSmen into the Singapore Armed Forces， the Singapore Police Force， and the Singapore Civil Defense Force， as well as the introduction of the Open Mobilization System.


A special Collecter's Sheet is also available which comprises two stamps featuring portraits of Lee and Goh， against a backdrop with an excerpt of Lee's speech at the sending-off dinner for the initial batch of full-time NSmen on Aug. 29 1967.

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NAIROBI Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Wholesale , Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- South African Paul Treu will officially be unveiled as Kenya rugby sevens head coach Tuesday following his arrival in the country on Monday morning.


A statement from Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) chairman, Mwangi Muthee, confirmed the former South Africa Blitz Bokke sevens squad tactician and his management team had reported to assume the task of leading his new side to medal at the 2016 London Olympics.


""I would like to assure him of a warm welcome from the KRU, the rugby fraternity and the people of Kenya. We sincerely appreciate his agreeing to take up the mantle of heading our national team from where Mike Friday and Chris Brown left us,"" Muthee said.


""In the recent history of our national 7s team Cheap Nike Air Max 97 Wholesale , we came to know the bitter taste of failure and sweet taste of success in Friday's time. It is going to be a challenge for Treu to maintain the current pleasant feeling because there will be a lot of hard and smart work needed from him and his coaching panel,"" the chairman said.


""The squad he will select, the Union, our sponsors and every one else will abide by it, in order for success to be part of our lives Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Wholesale ,"" the union boss assured.


Treu arrived at his new work station with the squad's players and KRU still locked in a pay dispute that saw them strike last week over three months unpaid arrears.


Despite the Union declaring the impasse was over, team captain, Andrew Amonde, said they were yet to sign the new contracts as the side prepares for the Nov.29 and 30 Dubai 7s, the second leg of the HSBC World Series.


Treu is on a three-year contract that expires after the Rio Games and will be earning a monthly net salary of 11 Cheap Nike Air Max 95 Wholesale ,000 U.S. dollars, the highest ever forked out for a coach in Kenya besides other huge perks.


Vuyo Zangqa who was second in command in the South African 7s team that Treu coached until June will be the attack coach with Graham Bentz (strength and conditioning, sports science) and Dr Karen Schwabe (sports medicine) completing the South Africans with key roles in the expanded technical bench.


Kenya rugby stars go on strike


NAIROBI, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Core players of the Kenyan national rugby sevens team went on strike late Thursday to protest over delay in signing new contracts.


The strike comes hardly a day after the country's union unveiled South African Paul Treu as the new head coach in a bumper pay, perks and bonus deal that is unprecedented in the East African nation. Full story


Australian rugby union footballer James O'Connor to play in Europe


SYDNEY Cheap Nike Air Max Wholesale , Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- James O'Connor will not be joining the Western Force for the 2014 Super Rugby season as the Australian international rugby union footballer continues his career in Europe, the Western Australia Rugby Union (RugbyWA) said on Wednesday.


The Force released a statement on Wednesday confirming O'Connor's decision to continue his playing career in Europe.

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BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's job market proved resilient despite slowing economic growth in the first nine months of the year, according to data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) on Friday.


From January to September, 10.82 million new jobs were created Cheap Air Max 2018 Wholesale , 160,000 more than a year ago, MHRSS said.


The new jobs exceeded the government's full-year target of at least 10 million new jobs this year.


Li Zhong, the MHRSS spokesman, attributed the better-than-expected job creation to medium-speed economic growth that saw further development of the service sector.


The service sector employed the majority of the country's labor force.


China's gross domestic product expanded 7.4 percent year on year in the first three quarters.


At the end of September Cheap Air Max 97 Wholesale , the registered urban jobless rate stood at 4.07 percent, lower than the government's annual unemployment control rate of 4.6 percent targeted by the government.


However, the registered jobless rate may undercount the actual unemployment numbers as a survey among 31 big- and medium-sized Chinese cities found the unemployment rate remained at around 5 percent in the first eight months.


Also on Friday, the MHRSS said gross revenue of social security funds increased 13.5 percent year on year to 2.8 trillion yuan (456 billion U.S. dollars), while gross expenditure totaled 2.39 trillion yuan Cheap Air Max 90 Wholesale , up 18.3 percent from a year ago.


China's social security funds cover insurance over pension payment, medical care, unemployment, work-related injury, and maternity.


LISBON Cheap Air Max 95 Wholesale , Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's public deficit could reach 7.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), if the government takes extraordinary measures like the capitalization of Novo Banco, the European Commission said in a report on Tuesday.


The commission said the country would be able to meet its target of 4 percent of GDP this year if these extraordinary measures are not included.


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