Japan's sports minister promised -Tuesday that Tokyo's new National -Stadium vans old skool grigie offerte , the centerpiece of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, will be completed on time and blamed a "lack of clear responsibility" for the structure's raft of woes.
The new stadium has been hit by -numerous problems, including skyrocketing costs and demolition delays that led to media speculation it might not be finished in time, prompting IOC President Thomas Bach to say Monday he wanted Japan to settle plans for it soon.
Hakubun Shimomura vans old skool grigie , who is also the education minister, told reporters that a lack of clearly delineated overall -responsibility may be partly to blame. The stadium is due to be used for the Rugby World Cup in 2019.
"For example, there were reports that completion might be delayed in April. If we'd gotten those reports earlier I -believe we might have been able to make a more flexible response," he said vans old skool bianche offerte , without -giving further details. "We will not lose international trust. There are still four more years. We will deal with this and make sure it's on time."
Tokyo's Olympic bid promised a "compact Olympics," with a majority of venues within 8 kilometers of the Olympic Village, but sharply rising construction and labor costs have forced a widespread revamping of its venue plans to make more use of existing facilities that are often farther away.
At an IOC meeting in Lausanne that ended Monday, another eight venues were approved. Changes include the site for fencing vans old skool bianche , wresting and -taekwondo, which will be at a site roughly 40 -kilometers from downtown Tokyo, and -sailing, which will be about the same distance away at a venue used in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
But much of the controversy has centered around the stadium designed by Zaha Hadid vans old skool nere offerte , the architect behind the aquatics center for the 2012 London Games, with critics saying from the start that its futuristic design was too large for its intended site.
Japan has since scrapped the planned retractable roof and made around 35 percent of the seats at the 80,000-seat stadium temporary ones in additional cost-cutting measures.
In May, Tokyo Governor Yoichi -Masuzoe lashed out at being asked to foot $400 million of the stadium cost vans old skool nere , calling the cost "ridiculous." He and -Shimomura have since remained at -apparent odds over the issue.
BEIJING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's key Hushen 300 index futures opened higher on Wednesday, as the contract for settlement in September 2017 opened 0.21 percent higher at 3,846 points.
The October 2017 contract opened 0.03 percent higher at 3 vans old skool marrone ,828 points. The December 2017 contract opened 0.13 percent higher at 3,822.6 points. The March 2018 contract opened 0.06 percent higher at 3,813 points.
The stock-index contracts, agreements to buy or sell the blue-chip Hushen 300 Index at a present value on an agreed date vans old skool fiori , are designed to allow investors to bet on and profit from either gains or declines in the market.
The index futures were launched at the China Financial Futures Exchange and started trading from April 16, 2010. The CFFEX has set the base value for all the four contracts at 3,399 points.
(This article is generated by Xinhua News Robot.)
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BEIJING， May 12 (Xinhua) -- Cai， a male nurse at an ICU unit in a hospital in central China's Hunan Province， is used to being misunderstood. "Some people think I must have psychological problems because they don't understand why a man would do a 'feminine' job."
Cai said he faces an array of difficulties beyond widespread social prejudice， in particular heavy pressure at work and the resultant stress.
Thursday is International Nurses Day and Xinhua has talked to some of China's male nurses to take a peek into their everyday lives and and the issues they face.
"MR NURSE"
Female nurses readily admit the importance of male nurses， who generally have greater physical strength.
"Sometimes we encounter drunk patients， and it feels safer with a male nurse around，" said Zhang Jin， a nurse at the hospital.
It is not easy to convince some patients. Misunderstandings often lead to ridicule from both patients and their families.
According to a survey by Ningbo College of Health Sciences， almost 80 percent of respondents did not know much about male nurses， and 40 percent said did not know the profession at all.
Sun Qifeng of Shenzhen People's Hospital said that when he joined the hospital in 2013， some people even refused his help.
"This was especially true with female patients，" Sun said. "For example， when doing cardiograms， they would almost always demand female nurses."
Ma Hengtai of Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital， agreed.
"When I started out， my uniform was the same color as a street sweeper's，" Ma said. "Once， when I was dealing with a patient's medicine， a passerby said， 'Oh look! Mr. Street Sweeper even knows how to use a syringe!'" ' "The most frequent question I am asked of my job is， "You are a man， why did you become a nurse?" Ma said. Some others call him "Mr. Nurse，" and even worse， "pervert."
Male nurses are usually employed in labor-intense units such as ICUs， which means night shifts and long hours， putting huge physical burdens on them.
After work， Sun Qifeng often sits in the hospital's waiting room for an hour before heading home because he feels "too tired."
UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT
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