SINGAPORE Nike Air Max 97 Summit White Kopen , Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- International Enterprise Singapore, a government agency that promotes international trade and partners Singapore companies to go global, announced on Friday the country's total merchandise trade increased 9.5 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2017.


That extended the 16.4 percent expansion in the previous quarter, as both oil and non-oil trade grew.


Oil trade increased 27.7 percent on a yearly basis in April-June period amid higher oil prices than a year ago, moderating from the 77.1 percent expansion in the preceding quarter. Non-oil trade rose 5.9 percent in the second quarter, following the 6.9 percent increase for the first three months of 2017.


In the second quarter Nike Air Max 97 Undefeated Kopen , Singapore's non-oil export grew 5.7 percent year on year as against a 10.2-percent expansion for the first quarter. The non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 2.7 percent year on year, narrowing down from 15.3 percent increase for the previous quarter. The authority attributes the continued growth to the increased shipments of electronic products which outweighed the decrease in non-electronics.


In detail, domestic exports of electronic products hiked 13.3 percent year on year in the second quarter, comparing with the 9.5 percent growth for the first quarter. Domestic exports of non-electronic products declined 1.1 percent year on year, as that for the previous quarter expanded 17.8 percent year on year.


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PRAGUE, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Following are the World Ice Hockey Championship standings after Thursday's matches (tabulated under games played www.airmax97kopennl.com , won, overtime won, overtime lost, lost, goals for, goals against Nike Air Max 97 Kopen Sale , points):


Group A


Canada 4 4 0 0 0 28 8 12


Sweden 5 3 1 0 1 28 16 11


Switzerland 4 2 0 2 0 8 7 8


Czech Rep. 4 2 0 1 1 17 15 7


France 4 1 0 0 3 5 10 3


Germany 4 1 0 0 3 5 16 3


Austria 3 0 1 0 2 5 11 2


Latvia 4 0 1 0 3 6 19 2


Group B


Belarus 4 3 0 1 0 15 7 10


Finland 4 3 0 0 1 13 5 9


Russia 4 3 0 0 1 18 11 9


United States 4 3 0 0 1 13 9 9


Slovakia 4 1 2 0 1 11 8 7


Norway 4 1 0 0 3 6 15 3


Denmark 4 0 0 1 3 6 17 1


Slovenia 4 0 0 0 4 6 17 0



by Xinhua writers Yang Shilong, Lin Xiaochun, Li Ming


NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Although it might be hard todirectly blame climate change for Hurricane Harvey, which haswreaked havoc in the U.S. state of Texas, human-caused globalwarming has enhanced some of the impacts of the tropic storm Nike Air Max 97 Kopen Nederland ,climate scientists say.


EXTREME RAINFALL EXACERBATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE


"It's hard to put a figure on the amount that climate change hascontributed to Harvey's impacts but we've definitely exacerbatedthe flooding impacts in particular," Andrew King, climate extremesresearch fellow at School of Earth Sciences, University ofMelbourne, told Xinhua via email late Tuesday.


"Limiting the future damage from this kind of event coulddefinitely be seen as an incentive to follow the Paris Accord andattempt to keep global warming below the 2C (2 degrees Celsius)level," King said.


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"We know that climate change is enhancing extreme rainfall. Asthe atmosphere is getting warmer, it can hold more moisture --roughly 7 percent more for every 1 degree Celsius rise intemperature," King explained.


"This means that when we get the right circumstances for veryextreme rainfall to occur, climate change is likely to make theseevents even worse than they would have been otherwise."


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Harvey is "unusual" because it "continued to strengthen in theGulf of Mexico until it made landfall...This is almost definitelylinked to the anomalously high sea surface temperatures there as itdeveloped," noted Sir Brian Hoskins, chairman of the GranthamInstitute for Climate Change at Imperial College London andprofessor of Meteorology at the University of Reading.


DAMAGE WORSENED BY HUMAN ACTIVITIES


Many scientists have pointed to Hurricane Harvey as furtherevidence of the dangers of climate change.


"Climate change due to increased greenhouse gases in theatmosphere makes the occurrence of the warm waters in the Gulf ofMexico (and elsewhere) more likely, and so it has increased thechances of occurrence of a hurricane like Harvey, and thedevastating impacts that go with it," Hoskins said.


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"But it is very likely that many more storms like Harvey andKatrina and bigger ones yet are on the way. The expected higherfrequency of such storms is "an effect of global climate change"brought on mainly by burning of fossil fuels," Kargel said.


One cannot say climate change "caused" Hurricane Harvey but theseverity of the storm and associated damage were "worsened" byhuman activit.