![]() ![]() ![]() “After this I’m definitely going to sit down and chat with Rico (Singapore Sports Institute’s head of sports nutrition Dr Richard Swinburne) and we’ll fix this,” he said, adding it was now a case of getting “back to the drawing board and getting better each day”. Schooling was left red-faced at the SEA Games in the Philippines after losing out twice to younger teammates - Darren Chua pushed him into silver position in the 100m freestyle, and Teong Tzen Wei beat him in the 50m butterfly final.Īfter a dismal performance at this year’s world championships in South Korea, Schooling decided to bulk up because he felt he had “no power and was weak”, the Straits Times quoted him as saying on Sunday after his defeat to Chua.īut Schooling told the newspaper he was unhappy with his current physical condition, adding he will now have to work out what his best weight will be for Tokyo 2020. The 24-year-old Singaporean famously beat his idol, US legend Michael Phelps, at the Rio 2016 Olympics in the 100m butterfly final, but finds himself out of form and out of shape just seven months away from Tokyo. Olympic champion Joseph Schooling vowed to “fix” his physique after winning only one individual gold medal at the Southeast Asian Games, less than eight months before his title defence at Tokyo 2020. They account for some $160 billion in annual imports. In the absence of any agreement, Washington is threatening to impose 15 percent additional customs surcharges on December 15, which will apply to Chinese goods which have so far been spared, including cellphones and sportswear. The report, which surveyed 174 companies in China, was completed in September and is released as China and the US continue to negotiate a way to reach a “phase one” trade deal. This figure was up from six percent since the previous survey in January. However many European companies said they expected the trade war to be “long-lasting”, and 10 percent have already changed suppliers.Īt the time of the survey, another eight percent had already relocated parts of their business out of China or were planning to do so - mainly to elsewhere in southeast Asia - while 15 percent had delayed investment or expansion decisions because of the trade war. ![]() Many companies have “effectively side-stepped” the steep tariffs by rejigging their supply chains and leveraging their global corporate networks, the chamber said in a statement.Īccording to a survey of its members released Monday, 64 percent of respondents said they have not noticed “any change” in their business as a result of the trade war.Īnother 10 percent said they were “completely affected” by the trade war. The world’s two biggest economies have been entangled in a lingering trade war for over a year, which has weighed on the global economy and resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in punitive tariffs slapped on two-way trade.Įuropean companies in China “have effectively negated the tariff effects in a relatively short space of time,” said the president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, Joerg Wuttke. Sumatran tigers are considered critically endangered by protection group the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with fewer than 400 believed to remain in the wild.Įuropean companies in China have been able to minimise the effect from the tariff war between Beijing and Washington, although some are considering relocating their businesses, the EU Chamber of Commerce said Monday. Poaching is responsible for almost 80 percent of Sumatran tiger deaths, according to TRAFFIC, a global wildlife trade monitoring network. If convicted, the trio could face up to five years in prison. The suspects had previously sold another tiger skin, but had yet to unload the second skin and foetuses, he said, adding that the unborn mammals were from the big cat sold earlier this year. “We suspect that they would sell the skin to collectors, not only in Indonesia,” Edward Hutapea, wildlife enforcement chief in Pekanbaru on Sumatra island, told AFP on Monday. The evidence was presented by police at a press briefing Sunday after they announced three people had been arrested at the weekend. It was not clear how the foetuses, which were kept in a jar, were to be used. The suspects may have been planning to sell the skin to a foreign collector, while its bones were earlier sold, possibly for use in medicinal products popular in some parts of Asia, authorities said. The skin of a critically endangered Sumatran tiger and four foetuses have been confiscated after the arrest of several suspected poachers, Indonesian police said. ![]()
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