CARACAS adidas nmd city sock uk , Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- With less than a month to go from regional polls, Venezuela saw campaigning begin on Saturday, with the ruling and opposition parties bitterly divided after months of protests.
The campaigning activities, which began on Saturday evening, will last through Oct. 12 adidas nmd xr1 mens white uk , according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), three days ahead of the elections.
Over this period of time, political parties and candidates can hire air time for advertising on private and public televisions. Political parties can use air time for three minutes per channel a day, while candidates can do so for up to four minutes a day.
On standard-format newspapers, candidates can take half a page a day for their uses adidas nmd xr1 uk sale , while they can advertise on full pages on tabloid media.
Furthermore, candidates for state governors can hire out cellphone operators to send up to three messages a week.
On Oct. 15, Venezuela will hold regional elections, including for the governors of its 23 states.
The country is currently in a high political tension, due to an economic recession adidas nmd xr1 uk , a runaway inflation, and a lack of essential goods and services.
The government of President Nicolas Maduro has been criticized at home and abroad for setting up the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a legislative superbody. It is seen as replacing the National Assembly, the parliament controlled by the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD).
But ANC President Delcy Rodriguez told Xinhua in an interview that the ANC elected to rewrite the constitution "will shield" the country from U.S. sanctions and threat of military intervention.
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BRAZZAVILLE, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso will now face Nigeria in the first football semifinal of the All Africa Games on Tuesday.
Hosts Congo who lost their last group game 1-0 to Zimbabwe on Sunday will also play on Tuesday in the second semifinal clash against Group B runners-up Senegal.
To reach the semis Burkina Faso needed to go through lots conducted on Monday morning by officials of the ad-hoc organizing committee and the Confederation of African Football.
Both Burkina Faso and Sudan had scored and conceded two goals in their first two Group A outings before playing to a goalless draw in their final tie on Sunday.
The only way to separate the two teams was therefore to conduct a drawing of lots, which saw the Sudanese losing out in a cruel fashion.
Speaking to Xinhua, Nigeria's coach Samson Siasia said although he knows Burkina Faso are a generally physical team, they will go all out for early goals because this is now the knock out stage.
"We shall not be over confident adidas nmd r1 uk sale , but go out there to finish the job early," said the former Nigerian International.
Nigeria beat defending champions Ghana 2-0 and drew with Senegal 1-1 to reach the semis.
Burkina Faso stopped Zimbabwe 1-0 before falling 2-1 to Congo and drawing 0-0 with Sudan.
Pony Ma Huateng, Chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings Ltd, speaks at a press conference in Hong Kong, China adidas nmd r1 uk , March 19, 2014. [Photo IC]
China's Tencent Holdings Ltd for the first time hit a market cap of more than $200 billion on Monday, making it more valuable than US tech firms like Amazon Inc, IBM Corp and Oracle Corp.
The country's biggest social networking and online entertainment firm rose 5.38 percent to close at HK$170.50 ($22) in trading in Hong Kong, giving it a market valuation of $206 billion. This is higher than Oracle's $190 billion adidas nmd runner uk , Amazon's $178 billion and IBM's $161 billion.
Tencent's shares have rocketed 52 percent from the beginning of this year, bringing its valuation close to those of US peer Facebook Inc's $230 billion and Chinese arch rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's $210 billion.
The surge in the Shenzhen-based company's share price comes as Hong Kong stocks hit fresh seven-year highs on Monday. China recently allowed mutual funds to buy stocks on the Hang Seng Index under the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme, fuelling the jump in already-rising Tencent shares.
More money is expected to pour in as investors hunt for bargains.
New York-listed Alibaba, the world's largest e-commerce firm, has seen its shares slide 19 percent year-to-date. This slump owes itself to investor excitement wearing off after the firm's record-setting $25 billion IPO last September yeezy boost 350 white uk sale , and a lacklustre set of third-quarter earnings results.
Facebook is up five percent since the beginning of 2015.
Massive dinosaur skeletons and never-before-seen fossils from China are part of an exhibition coming to Nottingham's Natural History Museum at Wollaton Hall.
The Dinosaurs of China display includes a 13-meter-tall Mamenchisaurus- the tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton ever seen in the United Kingdom.
And dino-lovers for the first time outside Asia can get up close to a Gigantoraptor, the largest bird-like dinosaur ever found, the fossil of which was discovered 10 years ago.
The skeletons and fossils were shipped on an 8,000 km journey over land and sea from China that took 50 days.
The Gigantoraptor was found by Tan Lin, a Chinese paleontologist from Long Hao Geological Institute of Paleontology in Inner Mongolia.
"This is the first time ever in the world for the Gigantoraptor to be exhibited in a natural histo.