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NAIROBI Andre Silva Portugal Camisola , Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Former Kenyan international boxer on Thursday decried the falling standards of the game in the East African nation, saying the former boxing powerhouse ought to go back to the drawing board to arrest the decline.

 

Samuel Otieno, 55, who played for Kenya's national team christened ""Hit Squad"" during the country's glory days in the sport Joao Moutinho Portugal Camisola , told Xinhua in Nairobi that attempts should be made to broaden the national league to include as many boxers as possible.

 

""Currently there are only three teams playing in the national league. This has locked out many boxers from the game and in the process leaving only a handful of pugilists to ply their trade in the sport,"" Otieno, who retired in the welterweight category lamented.

 

Presently, there are only three clubs from the county's disciplined forces of the Kenya Police Service Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Camisola , Kenya Prisons Service and Kenya Defence Forces that have been left to compete among themselves in the national league.

 

Kenya's decline in boxing started in the 1980s after several state corporations that sponsored boxing clubs folded the outfits owing to structural adjustment programs, leaving only the three aforementioned clubs in existence because their employers are capable of funding them.

 

Prior to that, Kenya had a fearsome boxing team that competed with the best and won titles at major international competitions.

 

""Mismanagement of boxing and biased national team selection criteria have been the malaise that saw the standards of the game plunge to low depths locally. Currently I train young and upcoming boxers but I worry for their boxing future if more clubs do not come up and if they don't join the disciplined forces,"" Otieno said.

 

During Kenya's golden era between 1960 and 1980 Jose Fonte Portugal Camisola , the country won eight gold medals at the All Africa Games held in Nairobi in 1987 and enjoyed further success the following year when Robert Wangila became the first ever African boxer to win an Olympic gold medal.

 

Otieno said gone are the days when Kenyans took great pride in the success their boxers enjoyed on the international scene, adding that boxing at the domestic level at present goes unnoticed since the standards stagnated.

 

He sent a plea to the national officials of the Boxing Association of Kenya (BAK) to honor retired international boxers, ""not only the four or five that are always acknowledged because there are many out there.""

 

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States will further promote two-way overseas study and enhance bilateral exchanges among educational institutions and scholars Raphael Guerreiro Portugal Camisola , according to a joint statement released in Washington on Thursday.

 

The new moves are intended to increase mutual understanding and promote bilateral people-to-people exchanges, said the statement released after the first China-U.S. social and people-to-people dialogue was held here on Thursday.

 

According to the action plan of the dialogue, the two sides will adopt a "double 100,000" two-way overseas study plan Fabio Coentrao Portugal Camisola , which will allow China to send 100,000 government-sponsored people to study in the United States and permit 100,000 U.S. students to study in China in the following four years.

 

Besides, China will provide 10 Luis Neto Portugal Camisola ,000 scholarships in the coming four years to encourage excellent U.S. students to study in China on a short-term basis, according to the plan.

 

The United States will continue to implement the Fulbright scholarship program, a U.S. flagship academic exchange program.

 

The action plan also mentioned that the China-U.S. Youth Innovation Center will be set up in the two countries to boost youth exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, which will also hold dialogues between Chinese and U.S. universities and think tanks to further increase intellectual communication.

 

"I hope young people in both China and the United States would be the main driver of innovation development and the vanguards of bilateral cultural exchanges Pepe Portugal Camisola , injecting positive energy into the two countries' ties," said Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong while addressing a sideline event of the dialogue in New York on Monday.

 

Liu co-chaired the first China-U.S social and people-to-people dialogue with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

 

The dialogue is one of the four high-level dialogues established during the Mar-a-Lago meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida in April.

 

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