VILNIUS Evan Engram Giants Jersey , Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Former manager of the Lithuanian basketball team Antanas Guoga left one of the country's leading basketball clubs Lietuvos rytas, announced the club on Tuesday.
Guoga, a famous poker player, businessman, philanthropist and a member of the European Parliament, has sold his 20 per cent stake in the club to major shareholder Darius Gudelis. According to the announcement from Lietuvos rytas, Guoga also donated 300,000 euros, which he previously lent to the club during its financial and management turmoil.
"We've managed to stabilize the situation, paid out the biggest part of the debts, and most importantly, we've brought back the fans to arenas," Guoga, who led the national team in 2010-12, was quoted as saying in the announcement by Lietuvos rytas.
In June, Guoga bought out the part of the basketball club from its previous owners. Lietuvos rytas then experienced financial crisis and was on the brink of losing its place in the Eurocup Basketball tournament. At that time, the club was also involved in racial scandal due to remarks from its previous owners.
"We hope Antanas with his knowledge and contacts will continue contributing to the growth of Lietuvos rytas club," said Gudelis, who now owns 40 per cent the shares, was quoted as saying.
Despite positive remarks on Tuesday, Guoga left Lietuvos rytas amid conflicts with the other shareholders of the club.
Recently, Guoga publicly accused other shareholders for making suspicious financial support contracts behind his back.
Currently, Lietuvos rytas is at the third place in the domestic league and fifth in the EuroCup tournament group.
In his recent interview to Xinhua, Guoga talked about his plans to bring Chinese basketball players to play in Lithuania.
CHANGCHUN, China, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Changchun Yatai rallied from one goal down to beat Jiangsu Suning 3-1 at home in the 28th round of the Chinese Super League (CSL) on Sunday.
Benjamin Moukandjo scored the opener for Jiangsu less than a minute into the game before Odion Ighalo had the equalizer in the 18th minute, and Yu Rui and Du Zhenyu ensured the victory for Changchun.
With the win, Changchun ranked the eighth while Jiangsu Suning placed 13th.
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's Chang'e-3, which includes its first lunar rover named Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, has successfully soft landed on the Moon Saturday, fulfilling the long-awaited dream of moon landing of the Chinese nation.
Since the successful launching of Chang'e-3 mission early December, the Chang'e-3 lunar exploration program has been put in the spotlight. Now as Jade Rabbit has made its touchdown on the moon surface, the whole world again marvels at China's remarkable space capabilities and even extends their aspiration for space cooperation with China.
"It (Developing space programs) is also a way to mobilize resources and to concentrate resources in a way that could result in certain types of spinoff technologies," said Mark Stokes, the executive director of the Project 2049 Institute, a research organization in Washington focused on security issues in Asia.
Above all, China has been learning how to orchestrate complicated engineering tasks, said Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington who has studied China's space programs.
"We in the U.S., in the West, tend to focus on the widget aspect of China's space progress," Cheng said. "But I would say what we sometimes miss is the Chinese space efforts aimed at improving their systems engineering."
As well as patriotic pride, China's space activities are generating skills to enhance the country's science, satellites and military, the New York Times quoted experts as saying. "China's advances in space include five manned flights, which are intended to pave the way for a space station."
"The Chang'e-3 details tell me that the U.S. now absolutely must start communicating with the Chinese about lunar cooperation," said U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11, in an interview with the magazine Aerospace America. "The U.S. knows more about the Moon than anyone else, and we know more about bringing together foreign partners, as we did for the International Space Station," he added.
The lander spacecraft is more than 40 percent the size of a NASA Apollo lunar module at descent stage, and the Chinese are building them on an assembly line basis, the magazine reported.
"The Chinese will be the next on the Moon, and they are going to be there for a long time, with significant staying power," said Eugene Cernan, a U.S. astronaut of Apollo 17. He and Aldrin believed Chinese manned lunar landings will be possible on larger versions of the Chang'e-3 design within 10 years.
Germany's Frankfurter Zeitung on Dec. 2 acclaimed the Chang'e-3 lunar probe as "the first successful attempt of an Asian power in the history of space travel."
"So far there have been only two countries that made it to the Moon: the United States and the Soviet Union."
"China has made rapid progress in space travel. It develops much faster than the previous world powers in space exploration projects as well as many other fields. Ten years ago, China sent its first astronaut into space, but now it is already on the way to building a space station," it added.
Cornelia von Ammon, Germany's spokesperson of the federation of aerospace industry, said the German federation pays close attention to the Chinese lunar mission. The success provides further insights into lunar exploration and impetus for further research approaches.
"An air show is scheduled to take place in Berlin in May 2014 and we are looking forward to China's participation in the show with great interest."
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