ATHENS Rashaad Penny Womens Jersey , Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The sale and transfer of Greek railway company TrainOSE to Italy's Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane for 45 million euros (53.5 million U.S. dollars) was completed on Thursday, Greece's privatization fund announced.
The agreement was signed in Corfu, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) said in an e-mailed press statement.
"HRADF completes today a bidding process that began four years ago and opens up new page for TrainOSE, as the privatization of the company has resulted in the closure of the European Commission's state aid dossier on TrainOSE's debt to OSE, amounting to 692 million euros," the fund's announcement noted.
Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane is the third largest railway company in Europe.
Italy's railway was the sole candidate to submit a binding offer for the privatization of the Greek railway operator last year during the second international tender launched by the Greek state.
"Italy is Greece's foremost strategic trade partner and we hope that this cooperation will be strengthened further in the sector of investments Kam Chancellor Womens Jersey ," Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday in joint statements with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
"Greece is emerging from the crisis and its prospects for growth need to be boosted through substantial foreign investments that will create jobs," Tsipras said, underlining that Italy's railways would invest 500 million euros in Greek railways.
The transfer was sealed as TrainOSE employees held a 24-hour strike and a protest rally in front of the company's headquarters, protesting the privatization out of fear there would be job dismissals. (1 euro = 1.19 U.S. dollars)
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TOKYO Doug Baldwin Womens Jersey , Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese pair Wang Yilv and Huang Dongping claimed their first Badminton World Federation (BWF) Super Series title after defeating Japan's Takuro Hoki and Sayaka Hirota at the Japan Open final here on Sunday.
The young pair, born in 1994 and 1995 respectively, beat their Japanese opponents in straight sets in 33 minutes. The scores were 21-13, 21-8.
"Our goal for the future is to surpass the best doubles players in the world. For now, we will do our best at every step," said Wang after the game.
In the women's singles, China's defending champion He Bingjiao lost 2-0 to Rio Olympics gold medalist Carolina Marin.
The two had a see-saw game in the first set, with He Bingjiao getting the set point first but only to be surpassed by Marin 23-21.
He Bingjiao lagged behind in the second set 18-4. She managed to narrow the gap to 19-12, but lost to Marin 21-12.
"Compared to the best players in the world, I still lack in the faith that I must win 12th Fan Womens Jersey ," He said after the game.
In another game on Sunday, Malaysia's super-star Lee Chong Wei was beaten by Denmark's world champion Viktor Axelsen 14-21, 21-19, 14-21.
It was the tenth BWF match between the two and the first time that Lee was defeated by Axelsen.
"Compared to the past, Viktor played more confidently and more stably today," said Lee after the game.
Axelsen said that he was disappointed after losing the second set Shaquem Griffin Womens Jersey , but somehow got rid of the impact of the disappointment and won the third set. "I'm really happy and proud for getting rid of the disappointment and winning the game," he said.
Also on Sunday, Japan's world No. 1 pair of Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi claimed their second Japan Open women's doubles title after defeating South Korea's Kim Hana and Kong Heeyong.
Indonesia's Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo eased past Japan's Takuto Inoue and Yuki Kaneko to claim the men's doubles title.
The 2017 Japan Open took place at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium from Sept.19-24 with a total purse of 325,000 U.S. dollars.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 (Xinhua) -- With recording devices affixed to humpback whales, Stanford University researchers have observed the whales flapping their foreflippers like penguins or sea lions Russell Wilson Womens Jersey , completely unlike anything seen before in whales.
The unexpected novel movement, caught on video footage of the whales feeding in groups and detailed Monday in Current Biology, helps the researchers understand more about the abilities and anatomy of these mysterious animals and could also inform bio-inspired design.
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The foreflippers of humpbacks are bumpy and slender compared to the much shorter, smoother front flippers of other whales. They are so distinctive that the scientific name for humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, means "big-winged New Englander." As their foreflippers were thought mainly involved in steering, it makes sense that the unusual flipper shape could explain the humpback's skillful maneuvering.
Video tagging technology, like that developed by the lab of Jeremy Goldbogen Authentic Nazair Jones Jersey , an assistant professor of biology at Stanford, is relatively new, so researchers have only recently had the opportunity to test and expand on this hypothesis.