CANBERRA puma rihanna creepers brown , June 6 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Northern Territory (NT) government said on Thursday that local children have the highest blood lead levels of any children in the developed world, in what has been dubbed a "public health emergency" for some rural towns.
The NT's Center for Disease Control conducted a number of tests among disadvantaged children thought to have been sniffing fuel, and of the 178 tested, 154 returned positive results for elevated levels of lead in the blood.
The Center's acting director, Charles Douglas said the levels were not only higher than expected puma rihanna creepers camo , but they were the highest among the developed world, with the highest level found to be 17 times the acceptable rate, while the average test returned blood lead levels six times the average.
Douglas said the "public health emergency" was due to a recent change in the formula of aviation fuel. Previously, the fuel, known as "avgas puma rihanna creepers red ," was deemed unsniffable, but when the formula changed making it sniffable, it slipped "under the radar" of local authorities.
"The formulation has changed, and it's now classified as a sniffable substance. It kind of snuck under the radar," Douglas told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"It's a serious issue because the levels are high and puma rihanna creepers black , particularly in children, the effects are long-term and some of them are irreversible."
Douglas said the effects of sniffing avgas were similar to that of a "nasty poison," and could lead to serious liver and kidney damage, behavioral disorders and, in some cases puma rihanna creepers beige , death.
In remote parts of the Northern Territory, fuel sniffing has reached crisis point levels in April, CCTV footage showed addicted youths breaking into airfields, siphoning avgas out of the wings of light planes to sniff.
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Photo taken on June 20, 2017 shows the website of global equity indexes provider MSCI on a computer in New York, theUnited States. Global equity indexes provider MSCI announced Tuesday that beginning in June 2018 puma rihanna creepers pink , it will include China A-shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index and the MSCI ACWI Index. (XinhuaWang Ying)
NEW YORK, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Global equity indexes provider MSCI announced Tuesday that beginning in June 2018, it will include China A-shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index and the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index.
MSCI plans to add 222 China A Large Cap stocks, representing on a pro forma basis approximately 0.73 percent of the weight of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at a 5-percent partial Inclusion Factor, according to its 2017 market classification review released Tuesday.
MSCI said the decision has "broad support from international institutional investors" with whom the company consulted puma rihanna creepers uk sale , adding that it was primarily as a result of the positive impact on the accessibility of the China A market of both the Stock Connect program and the loosening by the local Chinese stock exchanges of pre-approval requirements that can restrict the creation of index-linked investment vehicles globally.
Since MSCI delayed the inclusion of China A-shares for the third time in 2016, Chinese authorities have taken several measures to ease international investors' concerns over the A-share market's accessibility: arbitrary trading suspensions were better regulated, restrictions on qualified foreign institutional investors were further relaxed, while the Shenzhen-Hong Kong stock connect scheme was launched to broaden channels of foreign investment in the A-share market.
"International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion." said Remy Briand, MSCI Managing Director and Chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee. "The expansion of Stock Connect has been a game changer for the market opening of China A shares."
According to the review puma rihanna creepers uk , a two-step inclusion process will be used to account for the existing daily trading limits on Stock Connect. The first inclusion step would coincide with the MSCI's May 2018 Semi-Annual Index Review followed by the second step which would take place as part of the August 2018 Quarterly Index review.
"When further alignment with international market accessibility standards occurs, sustained accessibility is proven within Stock Connect and international institutional investors gain further experience in the market, MSCI will reflect a higher representation of China A shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index," said Briand.
Market analysts spoke highly of the MSCI decision.
Brendan Ahern, chief investment officer at Krane Fund Advisors puma rihanna creepers , told Xinhua on Tuesday that the MSCI inclusion begins "adjusting China's weight within global equity indices to match its importance to the global economy."
Tom Orlik, chief Asia economist for Bloomberg Intelligence, said in an interview with Xinhua on Tuesday that MSCI inclusion confirms and will accelerate the trajectory of China's capital market opening.
"China's policymakers have already made important strides in opening capital markets to global investors...MSCI inclusion should be a catalyst to accelerate that process - working to maximize gains to efficiency from global integration and minimize disruptions from destabilizing short-term flows." Orlik said
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