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MEXICO CITY puma fenty bow sneakers womens , March 13 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's national team climbed a rung to place in 20th place in the monthly world ranking in 2014, the world football governing body announced Thursday.


The March ranking by the International Federation of Associated Football (FIFA) showed Mexico in second-best place regionally, with 888 points.


Ahead of Mexico with a total of 1,017 points are the United States, which belong to the same geographic grouping, the Concacaf (Confederation of North American, Central American and Caribbean Football Associations).


While Mexico advanced, the United States slipped a rung to land in the 14th place puma fenty fur slides womens , according to the updated ranking posted on FIFA 's website.


The top five teams are the same as last month's, with Spain leading with 1,510 points, followed by Germany (1,336), Argentina (1,234), Portugal (1 puma basket heart denim blue ,199) and Colombia (1,283).


Mexico moved up a notch in the past 30 days after playing a friendly against Nigeria, ranked 47th. The game ended in a 0-0 draw that nevertheless helped boost the Latin American team.


Trailing behind the U.S. and Mexico in the Concacaf is Panama, which climbed three rungs to rank 29th, with 755 points.


Panama has made major progress, ranking 38th less than a year ago, in November 2013.


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Trinidad and Tobago climbed one spot to 76th place, with 446 points, while El Salvador (78), Haiti (79) and Jamaica (80) kept their earlier ranking.


Cuba climbed five rungs (93) and the Dominican Republic (111) and Guatemala (126) remained in the same slots.

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HOUSTON, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Around 400 scholars, officials and business leaders from China and the United States gathered at a conference Tuesday to discuss how the two countries could work together to fight global infectious diseases.


With the theme of "Global Infectious Diseases: Prevention, Preparedness and Response puma suede heart reset pink ," the 2015 China-U.S. Relations Conference aims to figure out ways how both countries can cooperate in tackling emerging infectious diseases and pandemics not only on their own soil, but also in other countries, especially in the developing world.


"The recent outbreak of Ebola reminds us health problems are not just one country's or one region's problem, they are the world's problems," said Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a keynote speech.


Frieden praised the public health partnership between China and the United States, saying it has been critical in improving health in Asia and the world at large.


His view was echoed by Li Xiaolin puma basket heart patent white , president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and co-chair of Tuesday's conference.


"Infectious disease knows no boundaries, especially in today's increasingly inter-connected world," Li said, adding that major countries should shoulder more responsibility.


Xu Kuangdi, president of China-U.S. People's Friendship Association, said that public health threats such as infectious diseases have gone beyond the paradigm of bilateral relations, they are of global significance and urgency.


"China and the United States, the world's two biggest economies and two populous nations puma basket heart womens , should deepen and expand our cooperation in the field of public health and medicine," Xu said.


Xu proposed that well-to-do nations form a global fund to help developing countries combat emerging infectious diseases.


U.S. President Barack Obama sent a congratulatory letter to the conference. "In addressing global health challenges, America and China have a common interest of historic consequence," he said in the letter.


This year's China-U.S. Relations Conference is the sixth in the series initiated by former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in 2003.


By Zhang Dongmiao, Yao Siyan


BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhuanet) –The Internet community of China is fast developing and becoming "smarter" as the number of cellphone netizens rose from 420 million in 2012 to 557 million in 2014, and cellphones, instead of PC fenty puma rihanna trainers black , have become the most popular device to access the Internet.


Imagine if Internet could be used to increase the average attendance rate of movies, the number of diners at restaurants, and the utilizing rate of logistic trucks; to better match the doctors with the patients' need; and even to decide if a loan could be issued to a kid from Chinese rural areas based on behavior analysis.


Those are possibilities which Baidu alone has envisioned could be achieved by integrating Internet with traditional industries, according to Robin Li, the CEO of Baidu, China's largest online search company.


This is because much more technological innovation could be made by so many Internet companies in China, said Robin Li.


Speaking at the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs on Friday, he said puma basket valentine hers , China's Internet industry is filled with vitality as a result of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation".


On the other hand, compared with their American counterparts, Chinese traditional industries in various fields are more willing to embrace Internet industry and take the advantage brought about by the innovation of the Internet industry.


Take "group buying" for example, said Robin Li, though the concept was born in the United States, developments of group buying in China and America are now much different in nature.


While still a way of advertisement at the other hand of the globe, Groupon has been transformed into offline sales channels in China.


In addition, technological innovation also made it possible for Chinese Internet companies to get command of useful data and thus play a role in the distribution of social resources more reasonably and efficiently.