Puma Femei PantofiBy Sinfah TunsarawuthBANGKOK, Oct. 28 () -- For the Thai Taekwondo team to the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, winning gold medals doesn't seem to be too far to reach as two of the world's champions are among the athletes."We have the chance to win gold medals," Choi Young Seok, a South Korean national who is the lead coach of the Thai team, told in an interview."We are ready," said Choi, who himself used to be a taekwondo athlete and now has been coaching Thai players for eight years. He speaks fluent Thai language.During a late afternoon training at a big room specifically designed for taekwondo at a major stadium of the state-owned Sports Authority of Thailand, the 37-year-old coach pointed to two of his best hopes for the upcoming Asian Games.Chutchawal Khawlaor, 22, currently occupies No. 1 ranking of men under 54 kilograms division of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), climbing from the third seed in August this year while Butree Puedpong, 20, retains the 2nd seed of women under 46 kilograms of WTF as her same ranking in August.Both of them, joining an Asian Games for the first time, will lead a team of five male and six female players to compete in taekwondo in Guangzhou.Choi said their main rivals are South Koreans, who are renowned for this kind of sport.But Chutchawal and Butree both have a broader concern."All the athletes who come to the games will play to their full capacity," Butree said. "So I think all the nationals are frightening."Chutchawal said, "I will do my best. I don't put pressure upon myself that I will have to win a gold medal."Both of them will compete in the division they now stand as WTF champions.Apart from the world championship, Butree also won a gold medal in the SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima province in Thailand in 2007 and another one in Laos in 2009 while Chutchawal won one in Nakhon Ratchasima.Though currently training for three sessions a day -- two hours each for the morning and noon sessions and another three hours for the late afternoon one -- for every day, Chutchawal and Butree said their regimens are not as hard as before as they have to stay unhurt for the games.Butree said she has some slight pain on her knees, but it doesn' t pose a big problem for her.Chutchawal, a sophomore in broadcasting, and Butree, a sophomore in political science, will be leaving Thailand for Guangzhou on November 14 for their first day of competition on Nov. 17."Thailand now seems to see taekwondo as another key sport," Choi said.A new three-story building at a cost of 29.80 million baht (1 million U.S. dollars) is being built by the Sports Authority of Thailand in the same compound Chutchawal and Butree are training now to house the new training ground for taekwondo. Its construction is expected to be completed early next year.
by Josephine McKennaROME, July 4 () -- The latest meeting between Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and his German counterpart Angela Merkel in Rome Wednesday sent a message of unity to investors and market in the face of mounting domestic pressure.Being keen to bury their differences that emerged over the use of European funds to bailout troubled banks when Merkel yielded at last week's European Union (EU) summit in Brussels, the two leaders reached a deal to allow the eurozone's main bailout fund to help banks directly.Merkel dropped her previous hardline position to the use of the funds when Monti and his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy had threatened to withdraw their endorsement for a 120-billion-euro (150.3 billion U.S. dollar) growth package.The Brussels summit agreed that the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Stability Mechanism, the bailout fund that will become operational in July, could buy government bonds and drive down a nation's borrowing cost.But there are challenges ahead as Finland and the Netherlands have threatened to block the move, and one of Merkel's key coalition partners, the Christian Social Union, has warned it could bring down her government if euro-zone countries are given emergency loans without rigorous controls.Meanwhile, Monti, who advocated a contested labor market reform through parliament last month, now faces union resistance to his government's public spending cut plan, which he promised to unveil later this week."Merkel wanted both to reassure German public opinion that she was still in control and justify the need to have conceded something," Professor Miguel Maduro, head of the global governance program at the European University Institute in Florence, told ."And Monti played a supporting role to that by showing respect and stressing the importance of fiscal discipline."When Finland and the Netherlands threatened to derail the bailout deal, Merkel said their views should be "respected" thereby fuelling speculation that Germany secretly supported them, but European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said on Tuesday that the two nations would not be able to veto the action.Professor Raffaele Oriani from the department of business and management at Luiss University in Rome said the measures endorsed at the Brussels summit were unlikely to be blocked."The anti-spread measures approved in the Brussels summit basically involve more flexible forms of intervention for the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Stability Mechanism, allowing them to buy bonds on primary and secondary markets according to the needs," Oriani told ."I think that European countries will not go back on this decision, but some of the details related to the resources and the mechanisms of intervention could still be modified," he said.Before Wednesday's meeting, Monti said that last week's agreement should not be seen as a triumph for him and a defeat for Merkel, after the media compared it to Italy's 2-1 win over Germany in the semi-finals of the Euro 2012 football championships on Thursday.However if victory is to be measured in economic growth, Italy still has a long way to go as unemployment hovers at 10 percent and youth unemployment recently reached a record high of 36 percent. Consumer spending is down and a study released this week showed that more than half the country's elderly were surviving on less than 1,000 euros (1,253 U.S. dollars) a month.Despite these disturbing numbers, Monti was still very confident on the country's economic well-being."Italy does not need any help and is not seeking to use the aid mechanisms of the European Union (EU) because we are not in the same position as Ireland, Portugal and Greece," Monti told reporters at a joint press conference with Merkel after their meeting."Italy's budget deficit will be 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012 - half of the European average, and next year the country will have a surplus in structural terms," he added.Nevertheless, Italy's deficit forecast is higher than previous estimates, which had previously stood at just 1.3 percent of GDP and bond yields are still wildly unpredictable.Professor Oriani said: "If the recent reforms approved by the government are correctly implemented, and if we will be able to solve the current liquidity problems in the funding of our firms, I hope that we will see some recovery next year.""To foster growth, however, I think a reduction of the tax burden is needed, hopefully using some of the resources that will be generated by the spending review," he added.
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