WASHINGTON Nike Shox OZ D Hombre Blancas España , Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Following are the standings of National Basketball Association games on Wednesday:
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Toronto 24 10 .706 _
Brooklyn 16 19 .457 8.5
Boston 12 21 .364 11.5
Philadelphia 5 29 .147 19
New York 5 33 .132 21
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 27 8 .771 _
Washington 24 11 .686 3
Miami 15 20 .429 12
Charlotte 13 24 .351 15
Orlando 13 25 .342 15.5
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Chicago 25 11 .694 _
Cleveland 19 17 .528 6
Milwaukee 19 18 .514 6.5
Indiana 14 23 .378 11.5
Detroit 12 23 .343 12.5
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Memphis 25 10 .714 _
Dallas 26 11 .703 _
Houston 24 11 .686 1
San Antonio 21 15 .583 4.5
New Orleans 17 18 .486 8
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Portland 27 8 .771 _
Oklahoma City 17 19 .472 10.5
Denver 16 20 .444 11.5
Utah 13 23 .361 14.5
Minnesota 5 29 .147 21.5
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
Golden State 28 5 .848 _
L.A. Clippers 24 12 .667 5.5
Phoenix 22 16 .579 8.5
Sacramento 15 20 .429 14
L.A. Lakers 11 25 .306 18.5
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The Financial Street People's Court was moved from the Xicheng district court's compound to the current location to deal with the rise of financial disputes as individual and corporate economic activities grow, said the court's president Liu Jianxun.
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by William M. Reilly
UNITED NATIONS， Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appealed for 5.6 billion U.S. dollars -- 4.4 billion of it by the end of next month -- to prevent famine in northeast Nigeria， Somalia， South Sudan and Yemen where 20 million people face famine.
He was joined by UN Development Program Administrator Helen Clark， UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien， who is also the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)， and on a video link Ertharin Cousin， executive director of the World Food Program (WFP)， at a news conference here at UN Headquarters in New York.
Two counties of South Sudan have already met the criteria for a famine situation to be declared， Cousins said.
"Unless we act now， it is only a matter of time until it affects other areas and other countries，" said Guterres. "We are facing a tragedy; we must avoid it becoming a catastrophe. This is preventable if the international community takes decisive action."
"The situation is dire，" he said. "Millions of people are barely surviving in the space between malnutrition and death， vulnerable to diseases and outbreaks， forced to kill their animals for food and eat the grain they saved for next year's seeds."
Women and girls were disproportionately affected， said the UN chief， reflecting his concern at getting the UN system to reach gender parity.
"One of the biggest obstacles we face now is funding，" he said， adding that humanitarian operations in these four countries require more than 5.6 billion U.S. dollars this year.
"We need at least 4.4 billion U.S. dollars by the end of March to avert a catastrophe，" Gutteres said.
"Despite some generous pledges， just 90 million U.S. dollars has actually been received so far -- around two cents for every U.S. dollar needed，" Guterres said. "We are in the beginning of the year but these numbers are very worrying."
O'Brien， the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs， said the threatened 20 million victims are "facing famine or risk of famine or starvation over the next six months and that includes 1.4 million children who are currently at imminent risk of death from severe， acute malnutrition. The point is ... these famines can be averted if we act now."
"The lesson from the 2011 Somalia famine was by the time that we declared famine， broadly， as a world， half of those who died already had died，" he said. "This is why we are sounding the alarm now so that we can avert the catastrophe."
There were 260，000 fatalities by the time the world organization declared the Somalia famine over in mid 2012.
"We already have in place many of the aid workers and agencies and implementing partners both at national and international levels and working in and through governments， where they have that capacity to respond， to make sure that we are averting what we can see is a famine through these many causes -- different as they are -- but with the common theme of conflict，" O'Brien said.
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