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HO CHI MINH CITY Cheap Air Max 90 , Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of 18.35 billion U.S. dollars with the United States in the first ten months of this year, according to the country's General Department of Customs on Wednesday.


In the ten-month period, Vietnam earned 23.551 billion dollars from exports to the U.S. while it spent 5.206 billion dollars on imports from this market.


Garment and textile exports to the U.S. exceeded 8.1 billion dollars Cheap Air Max , accounting for over 46.8 percent of the country's total garment and textile exports so far this year.


The U.S. remained Vietnam's largest export market so far this year, said the customs office.


Every year, at the end of each European soccer season Cheap Nike Air Max 1 Outlet , attention turns to potential transfer activity.


This year is no different - except that the activity does not only involve players.


After a slow and steady build-up during which only a handful of deals were made, the floodgates now appear to be opening, and Chinese money is pouring into all corners of the wider soccer industry.


Wang Jianlin's Wanda Group was one of the first movers Cheap Nike Air Max 95 Outlet , buying a 20 percent stake in Atletico Madrid a year ago, while China Media Capital's 13 percent slice of Manchester City's parent company came shortly after Chinese President Xi Jinping posed with the club's star striker.


Other investments followed from lesser-known Chinese entities, with clubs such as Sochaux Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Outlet , Den Haag and Espanyol the beneficiaries.


But as the net has been cast in an increasingly wider arc, related businesses have also been snared.


Wanda again led the way with its $1.2 billion purchase of Swiss sports marketing firm Infront, whose CEO Cheap Nike Air Max Outlet , Phillippe Blatter, is the nephew of disgraced former FIFA boss Sepp.


But when the -elder Blatter fell from grace - dealing a blow to Wanda's stated intentions of bringing a World Cup tournament to China - Wang's next move was simply to sponsor FIFA -itself, at the reported cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.


And where China's richest man has gone Cheap Air Max 1 Outlet , others have followed.


A division of Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group linked up with Portuguese sports agency Gestifute earlier this year; a partnership between Everbright Securities and Baofeng Technology last month took a majority stake in sports media rights firm MP & Silva, while representatives of the Stellar Group, another sports agency Cheap Air Max 95 Outlet , have been fielding potential suitors in China in recent days.


The clubs, meanwhile, have continued to change hands.


Unknown entrepreneur Tony Xia purchased fallen English giants Aston Villa a few weeks ago Cheap Air Max 90 Outlet , and barely a day goes by without rumors about either of Milan's big two - AC and Inter - on the verge of becoming China's next great purchase. With the deals now coming thick and fast, it's no surprise that mysterious Chinese bidders are mentioned in connection with just about every major soccer-related entity - and that's before the focus returns to which superstar players might be tempted by the Chinese Super League during the upcoming summer transfer window.


The bubble is certainly inflating. Now it's just a question of how much more it can swell before the inevitable pop.




LONDON， June 21 (Xinhua) -- Around 500 bees， fitted with colored number plates were released here Tuesday as part of a study by biologists to uncover the secret lives of bees in Britain's capital.


The bees were sent on their journeys from the rooftops of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).


Biologists at the university's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences have attached weather-resistant number tags on the backs of bees to encourage the public to identify them and take photos for a competition.