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BEIJING Cheap Allen Crabbe Jersey , March 3 (Xinhua) -- The nominees for the 2015 Laureus Awards were announced on Wednesday with 2014 winner Novak Djokovic, Usain Bolt and Lionel Messi featuring the category of Best Male Athlete of the Year.


China's Liu Cuiqing was nominated for the disability category on Wednesday with Boccia player Leung Yuk Wing from Hong Kong, China also in this category.


The 17th edition of the Laureus World Sports Awards will be held on April 18 in Berlin.


Djokovic, who won three Grand Slam titles, Bolt, who won three gold medals at the world athletics championships, and Messi, who won the 2015 Ballon d'Or, are joined by Formula One's Lewis Hamilton, American basketballer Stephen Curry and golfer Jordan Spieth.


In the best female athlete category, 2015 winner Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia was again named, along with Jamaica's 100m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, U.S. tennis star Serena Williams, who came close to winning all four Grand Slam titles, Alpine skiing world champion Anna Fenninger of Austria, U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky and American footballers Carli LLoyd.


New Zealand's rugby team, the All Blacks, are in the running for the team award having successfully defended their crown at the 2015 Rugby World Cup hosted by England.


Liu, a 24-year-old visually impaired athlete, won four women's T11 titles at her first ever World Championships, in Doha. With guide Donglin Xu, she beat favorite Terezinha Guilhermina, the world and Paralympic champion. She comfortably won the 100 meters, set new Asian records in the 200m and 400m and was part of the winning women's 4x100m T11-T13 relay team.

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Chinese investment in Europe and North America retreated in 2017 in tandem with China's posting its first fall in foreign direct investment globally since 2006 as stricter guidelines were imposed.


Chinese FDI into North America fell sharply by 35 percent to US$30 billion last year amid government policies restricting outbound investment, according to a report of global law firm Baker McKenzie's and consulting company Rhodium Group.


Although FDI into Europe soared 76 percent to US$81 billion, the growth was solely due to the delayed completion of ChemChina's record US$43 billion takeover of Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta. If this mega deal had not been completed in 2017, Chinese investment in Europe would have tumbled 22 percent to US$38 billion.


But the figures backed up official Chinese data showing that the country's global FDI flows had declined by over a third in 2017 — the first drop since 2006.


"The main reason for the fall was guidelines introduced by the Chinese government imposing additional restrictions on outbound investment to address balance of payment concerns and mitigate perceived risks for China's financial system arising from rapid overseas investment," Baker McKenzie said.


Additionally, Chinese FDI faced growing regulatory scrutiny in many host countries. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US was especially strict in its monitoring that at least seven major deals were impacted greatly, according to the report.


Also Chinese capital controls introduced in late 2016 greatly slashed the average size of deals announced in 2017 across all industries and investor types. The deals fell from US$626 million in North America in 2016 to US$282 million last year, and in Europe they declined from US$346 million in 2016 to US$162 million.


"The momentum of deals involving Chinese investors dropped sharply from Q3 2016 to the first half of 2017," said Mike DeFranco, global head of M&A at Baker McKenzie.


"Now that it is clear how the rules have changed for Chinese investors at home and abroad, activity is picking up, and 2017 was still the second-best year on record in North America and technically the best in Europe, despite all the challenges for dealmakers," he said.


Chinese investors cancelled or withdrew 19 announced deals worth over US$12 billion in North America and Europe in 2017, compared with the 30 deals cancelled in 2016. Around US$5 billion of Chinese investments are being reviewed by regulators in the US and Europe.


Chinese investors favored investment in real estate and hospitality, transport, utilities and infrastructure as well as ICT in both North America and Europe.


Diplomats from 29 countries including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meet in Paris on Tuesday pushing for sanctions and criminal charges against the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria.


The chemical weapons meeting comes after allegations Monday of a fresh chemical attack by the Syrian regime on Douma in the rebel-held region of Eastern Ghouta.


The alleged attack prompted a sharp warning from the US to Russia to rein in its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


The regime has been accused of using chemical weapon, with the UN among those blaming it for an April 2017 sarin gas attack on the opposition-held village of Khan Sheikhun.


There have been at least 130 separate chemical weapons attacks in Syria since 2012, according to French estimates.


(Agencies)

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TIANJIN, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Following are the final ranking of men's under-18 basketball event after Wednesday's final at the 13th Chinese National Games:


1. Guangdong


2. Shandong


3. Zhejiang


4. Liaoning


5. Tianjin


6. PLA


7. Henan


8. Jiangsu


Night view of 9th BRICS summit host city Xiamen


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