KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, said Tuesday that its international reserves amounted to 426.3 billion ringgit (95.0 billion U.S. dollars) as of Feb. 28.
The international reserves were consisted of 87.9 billion U.S. dollars in foreign currency reserves, 0.8 billion U.S. dollars in International Monetary Fund (IMF) Reserves Position, 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in gold and 3.8 billion U.S. dollars in other reserves assets.
Its reserves position is sufficient to finance 8.5 months of retained imports and is 1.1times the short-term external debt.
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LISBON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's Madeira Airport had its name changed on Wednesday to honor football star Cristiano Ronaldo.
""Many thanks for being here. Seeing my name on this airport is something very special, every one knows I am proud of my roots and my land,"" Ronaldo said at a ceremony held at the airport.
""Everyone knows how important it is for me for honors to be made while the person is still alive,"" he added.
The ceremony was attended by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Prime Minister Antonio Costa, president of the government of Madeira autonomous region Miguel Albuquerque as well as Ronaldo's family member and friends.
President Rebelo de Sousa said that the renaming ceremony indicates that regional autonomy can be conjugated with national unity and it is an ""exceptional homage to an exceptional person"".
Albuquerque said that the football player is a ""great Portuguese"" and a man who by his talent and hard work surpasses the frontiers of the island and became the best football player in the world.
""He is the best-known Portuguese person and admired on all continents by all generations,"" he said, adding that despite his fame, he never turned his back on the region or his country and always helped those who most needed it.
The ceremony took place a day after Ronaldo and his team's friendly match against Sweden in the island's capital Funchal, where the Real Madrid footballer was born.
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DAMASCUS nike air force 1 mid scontate , March 15 (Xinhua) -- Um Bashir said she had never experienced any worse than the last four years of her 50 years in life after the grinding conflict haunted her and her family, down from one place to another, leaving her in under-construction building near Damascus with her husband unable to lift a bag due to his spinal disk.
Um Bashir along with her husband and two of their kids are now staying in an unfinished house at the eastern outskirts of Damascus after having to move three times from rebel-held areas during the four-year-old crisis, now entering its fifth year with no concrete solution insight.
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The woman was turning her face sideways with every question about her feelings as if she was trying to bury her feelings and vulnerability deep inside of her.
"I have two sons in the military service and two brothers which I had lost during this crisis when they ventured out to bring some food in our rebel-held neighborhood in Ghouta," she continued, throwing an arm to hide her face when tears started to spill down her cheeks before dashing them away.
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Her husband said he was working in construction before the breakout of the crisis but now he is staying with his wife hopelessly living on the relief aid humanitarian organization distribute for those in dire need for help.
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"I work as a tailor in the morning but I had to find another job because I need to cover the expenses of my three daughters and I am currently working as a taxi driver in the afternoon, because I need the job and I cannot stay indoors and watch the lives of my daughters being frozen with no hope insight," he recounted.
He said his sons in law are currently staying with almost no jobs, adding that this issue has added to his economic hardship.
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