HANOI Cheap Nike Air Max Outlet , July 22 (Xinhua) -- Within the framework of the 50th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the ASEAN Jubilee Friendship Game here on Saturday.

Over 300 amateur athletes competed in the four events of football, table tennis, badminton and tennis in My Dinh Indoor Athletics Gymnasium in Hanoi.

Addressing the ASEAN Jubilee Friendship Game, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung, who later competed in the tennis event Cheap Air Max 2018 Outlet , said the ASEAN has become a dynamic community for common peace and prosperity, and the friendly tourney enhanced solidarity, friendship, mutual understanding and connection among ASEAN diplomats, as well as promoted healthy life of people.

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Japan has been suspended from international basketball competitions - including the Olympic Games - after failing to merge their two national leagues.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA), issued the ban in Switzerland on Wednesday, saying the Japan Basketball Association (JBA), which oversees the game domestically, had not met its -requirements.

FIBA said the JBA had failed to come up with a plan to merge the community-based professional bj League and the National Basketball League (NBL) comprising corporate-sponsored teams.

The ban from international competitions will be applied to both men's and women's -national teams Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 , and threatens to lock Japan out of next year's qualifiers for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

"FIBA regrets that the situation has reached such a point of no return," FIBA Secretary--General Patrick Baumann said in a statement at the conclusion of a two-day executive committee meeting in Mies, near Geneva.

"However, we are convinced that after so many years of warning and struggle, and for the good of basketball in Japan, it is absolutely time to make important changes to the structures of the JBA."

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The JBA, the NBL and the bj League all issued statements separately, pledging to make efforts to address the issues raised by the FIBA.

Talks over the integration of the two men's leagues have faced difficulties because of a divide between the NBL, which hopes to keep corporate team names, and the bj League, which stresses ties with host communities Cheap Nike Air Max , local media have -reported.

The JBA had been urged by the Japanese Olympic Committee to avoid punishment at all costs. FIBA's ban could be lifted in time for Olympic qualifiers if significant progress is made by next summer.

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif will visit the United States in a few days for talks with his U.S. counterpart on bilateral and regional issues, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

The announcement came shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced strategy for South Asia that focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The U.S. Ambassador David Hale met the foreign minister Tuesday afternoon and briefed him about Trump's latest statement on the U.S. policy review on South Asia and Afghanistan, said the foreign ministry in a statement.

"Ambassador Hale conveyed that the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looked forward to meeting the foreign minister in the next few days to have an in-depth discussion on the state of play in the bilateral relationship as well as the new U.S. policy on South Asia," said the statement.

Asif had accepted the invitation when the secretary of state called him on Aug. 14 and said he looked forward to his early interactions in Washington, it said Cheap Air Max 2018 , adding that the foreign minister reiterated Pakistan's perspective and desire for peace and stability in Afghanistan.

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BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's top Taiwan affairs official urged cross-Strait relations to continue pursuing peaceful development in 2015, calling for "stability Cheap Air Max 90 , development and benefits for the people."

Zhang Zhijun, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made the remarks in a New Year greeting carried in the January 2015 issue of government-run magazine "Relations Across the Taiwan Straits".

According to the article, titled "Keep the Momentum, Overcome Difficulties to Walk On," cross-Strait relations remained positive over the past year and mutual political trust were further consolidated.

In June Cheap Air Max , Zhang made a landmark visit to Taiwan as the first Taiwan affairs chief from the mainland to do so in 65 years. He held a formal meeting with Wang Yu-chi, Taiwan's mainland affairs chief, amid warming cross-Strait ties.

During the tri.