China is second only to Japan in its holdings of US Treasury bills.

It is also the world s top exporter of merchandise and the second largest exporter of goods and services.

However, evidence of real political will is evidenced in the establishment of a programme offering sufferers access to anti retroviral therapies (Decision No.

Croatia is ranked as the 18th most popular tourist destination in the world.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ecuador finished ahead of Poland and Costa Rica finishing second behind Germany in Group A in the 2006 World Cup.

Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively, fifth and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.

Unless they're Wonderwoman, in which case underwear is last.

But the US also has disturbingly low rankings in the quality of its infrastructure ( 24), technology availability and absorption ( 18), and the sophistication and breadth of its supply chain production processes ( 14).

But Milton Friedman ran a close second.

Yemen also has the death penalty and ranks sixth in the world when it comes number of executions, according to Amnesty International. Saudi Arabia ranks fourth, behind China, Iran, and Iraq. The United States ranks fifth.

Third on the panel s list is increased investment in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure.

According to the World Bank, Brazil ranks 130th out of 185 countries in terms of the ease of doing business.

The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan was in second place with some 26 of the vote.

Indeed, the second ranked country in terms of total annual military spending, the United Kingdom, lags far behind, at 55 billion, followed by France ( 45 billion), Japan ( 41 billion), and Germany ( 35 billion).

In this view, factors such as gender, race ethnicity, economic background, social networks, or neighborhoods geography are secondary to hard work and education or are altogether irrelevant in the pursuit of success.

The Georgetown University Law Center of Washington, D.C., United States, was placed second and the National Law School of Bangalore University, India, third. The Eilene M.

NEW YORK China now sits atop 2.4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, the largest stockpile of any country in the world (Japan stands in second place with 1 trillion).

Both projects continue to co exist, but the Spanish Wikipedia is by far the more active of the two.

In second place isThe Myths of Argentine History, Volume One.

The limiting factors must be considered in the context of the poverty or extreme poverty in which a large percentage of the population lives, including a disproportionate number of women.

He came second to Manuel Zelaya with 46 of the vote in the 2005 general election.

In the 1960 s, the British pound was the world s second reserve currency.

Malign neoplasm ranks second (18 per cent) and their number increased in last decades.

Iran's monitoring technology is believed to be among the most sophisticated in the world, perhaps only second to China.

And the mathematicians and scientists in the crowd will recognize these two progressions as a first order discrete differential equation and a second order discrete differential equation, derived by six year olds.

When the bombings had ceased, it had disregarded their opinion and held official meetings with foreign investors and local construction companies and promoting Vieques land sales, thereby subordinating the local population's interests to those of United States agencies and corporations.

It is ranked 30th overall on that scale, but is behind only three countries having a population over 16 million.

The Republic of Korea has overtaken the United States and now ranks number three worldwide (after New Zealand and Sweden), with a penetration rate of 65.7 per cent.

Omar said that the number of Palestinian visitors to the Al Jazeera Talk blog comes in second place after Egypt.

The electromagnetic force is very strong, second only in strength to the strong interaction, but unlike that force it operates over all distances.

In that war, among United States territories, Puerto Rico had ranked second (after the Hawaiian Islands) in terms of deaths and third in terms of other casualties.

2nd place In a group of craftswomen Carmen found the strength to leave her abusive partner.

A second priority will be to decide the fate of Nepal s centuries old monarchy.

Through these efforts Germany was second to Britain in trading and shipping in China by 1896.

Indeed, India stands only behind Iraq in the number of people killed each year in terrorist attacks.

The fisheries Aquatic biodiversity in the Mekong river system is the second highest in the world after the Amazon.

The silver medal (which represents second place) is made up of 92.5 percent silver, with the remainder copper.

Trade with China alone is worth more than 1 billion per day, second only to trade with the US.

Preservation of evidence, while vital to the success of any investigation, is secondary to the preservation of life and to the recovery of bodies.

Malign neoplasm is in second place with 18 per cent and its number increased in the last few decades.

Peru was at a close second, receiving 9.4 million (up from 1.6 million in 2003).

This places the tubercle bacillus second only to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the list of top microbial killers.

By 2020, it is likely to rank second, behind heart disease.

He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.

That will soon be the case again, even though in terms of per capita wealth China ranks roughly 100th in the world, trailing Albania.