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LUSAKA， May 17 (Xinhua) -- Zambia will keep its key benchmark interest rate unchanged at 15.5 percent， the country's central bank said Tuesday in its quarterly announcement.


The central bank's monetary policy committee also said it expected inflation to remain steady in the coming months and may hit a single digit by the fourth quarter of this year.


Bank of Zambia (BoZ) Governor Denny Kalyalya told reporters that the committee decided to maintain the benchmark lending rate at 15.5 percent as a measure to contain inflation.


According to the central bank chief， the need to maintain the policy rate was also due to consideration that the measures put in place in the last quarter were bearing fruits.


The measures have seen inflation declining while the exchange rate has remained stable， he added.


"The slowdown in the inflation rate reflects mainly the relative stability in the exchange rate which partially offset the effect of high production costs induced by power rationing， decline in the supply of some food items and the hike in taxes and customs duty on some non-food items，" he said.


According to him， the central bank has forecasts annual inflation rate to decelerate in the remaining quarters， with a sharp decline in the fourth quarter.


While acknowledging that economic activity remains constrained， the central bank said the government fiscal outrun showed some improvement， resulting in the narrowing of the current account deficit. Enditem


JAKARTA Uomo Nike Air Max 90 Ultra SE Scarpe Maroon Nere Scontate , Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia pinned high hope for significant medal contribution from karate sports in the 2018 Asian Games (Asiad) following its achievement in the recent 2017 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Malaysia.


"Among our assets were the emergences of new athletes besides those vied in SEA Games. We still have ample of time to train them harder prior to the Asian Games. Competition would be stiffer there," Secretary General of Southeast Asia Karate Federation Agus Santoso said here on Monday.


He said Indonesian karate athletes should have more confidence as they will compete as hosts in the quadrennial Asian sports gala.


"It would psychologically encourage our karate athletes to perform better," Agus added.


Indonesia earned three gold, three silver and seven bronze medals in 2017 SEA Games. In regional level Uomo Nike Air Max 95 Jacquard Scarpe Nere Scontate , Agus said that Indonesia's toughest rivals in karate were Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.


He expected Indonesia to be among five best teams in the upcoming Asiad after it ranked 17th in 2014 Asian Games in South Korea.


Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang are scheduled to host the 2018 Asian Games from Aug. 18 to Sept. 2 with an expected participation of at least 11,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions.


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SEOUL, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Samsung Electronics posted 6.9 trillion won (6.1 billion U.S. dollars) in operating profit for the second quarter, a regulatory filing showed Tuesday.


The 6.9 trillion-won profit was up 15.38 percent from the previous quarter Donne Uomo NikeLab Air VaporMax Flyknit Betrue 2017 Scarpe Blu Scontate , but was down 4.03 percent from a year earlier.


Samsung's operating profit got back on a recovery track in the past three quarters after bottoming at 4.06 trillion won in the third quarter of last year.


The profit was 5.29 trillion won in the fourth quarter of last year, before recording 5.98 trillion won in the first quarter and 6.9 trillion won in the second quarter.


Preliminary figure for the second quarter revenue was 48 trillion won, up 1.87 percent from the previous quarter but down 8. 31 percent from a year ago.


The company did not unveil its estimates for net profit and a breakdown of each business when announcing the preliminary figures. The final results will be made known later this month after an external audit.


by Xinhua Writer Zhu Chao


TOKYO, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a package of defense bills on Thursday and eyed their approval in the Diet before July.


If enacted Uomo Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit 2018 Scarpe Rosse Scontate , the legislations will give Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) much greater power by removing geographical restrictions on its overseas operations, and allow the SDF to fight "under certain conditions" even if Japan itself is not attacked.


Those bills indeed are "war legislations," that turn Japan toward militarism, according to Yoshiki Yamashita Uomo Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit 2018 Scarpe Nere Scontate , head of Japanese Communist Party's secretariat. The bills met strong opposition at home as they contradict Japan's long-cherished pacifist constitution, marking a complete overhaul of Japan's post- war exclusively defense-related policy.


More than half, or 52 percent, of respondents in a Nihon Keizai Shimbun survey in early May opposed Abe's bid to hastily enact the bills during the Diet session.


However Donne Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Scarpe Viola Scontate , given the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito's overwhelming majority in the parliament, they are likely to get a greenlight in the Diet.


At that time, Abe's ambitions since he took office in December 2012 to "lift the ban on collective self-defense, revise Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guideline as well as expand the SDF's role overseas" will finally be guaranteed by law Uomo Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Scarpe Nere Scontate , thus building a hotbed for the conservative and right-leaning trend in Japan.


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