An Irish priest has warned his parishioners against taking part in the contemptible exercises of yoga, tai chi and reiki.

Fr Padraig OBaoill, a parish priest in Gweedore, County Donegal, made his comments made in the most recent issue of Gaoth Dobhair parish newsletter, the Donegal News reported.

Fr OBaoill said: As followers of Jesus Christ we should not partake in deeds that go against our religion.

Accordingly you should not take part in yoga, thai chi or Reiki Do not put your soul in jeopardy for the sake of these contemptible things.

Yoga teacher Sean OTuathalain told the Irish Times: I have to say that this advice appears to me to be coming from a position of ignorance.

However, I think priests in general are sceptical of yoga and Reiki.

Fr OBaoill is currently on a pilgrimage to Lourdes and will address the outcry upon his return, the newspaper adds.

Its not know why Fr OBaoill objects to yoga classes, though fellow yoga teacher Norah Graham tells the BBC he had previously banned the advertising of yoga classes in the Catholic newsletter and that she was aware he did not approve.

She said the people who regularly attended her classes had their own beliefs and religion played no part in her classes.

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Wednesday, 09 July 2014 10:59

BANGKOK: Thai rice prices were unchanged at high levels due to tight supply as the military was still in the midst of a nationwide rice stocks inspection, traders said on Wednesday.

The offer price of common grade Thai 5 percent white rice was unchanged at $420 per tonne, the highest since March 7. "Prices stayed at relatively high levels although demand was not very strong," said a Bangkok-based trader. "But it was because domestic supply remained tight as the army still controlled the warehouses for the stocks inspection."

Thailand's military government launched an inspection of rice warehouses around the country last week to work out how much grain was stockpiled by the government it ousted in May and to check on the rice quality.

Panadda Diskul, head of the government's rice inspection committee, said the check-up would finish by the end of July, when traders expected more rice supply could be release from the government stocks and prices should ease. Rice export prices in Vietnam, however, dropped this week as demand from major buyer China subsided, traders said.

Vietnam's 5-percent broken rice dropped to $415-$420 a tonne, free-on-board Saigon Port, from $420-$430 a week ago.

Vietnamese 25-percent broken rice dipped to $365-$370 a tonne, from $370-$375 last Wednesday.

"Sales to China are slowing, with more vessels left idle instead of loading as in the past at My Thoi port," a trader in Ho Chi Minh City said, referring to a port in the Mekong Delta food basket.

Sales to China, Vietnam's top buyer this year, could halve in the second half of the year from the 1.38 million tonnes exported in January-June, according to industry forecasts, the Vietnam Economic Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The drop in sales stemmed from concerns over the continuing dispute over the South China Sea, and Chinese customs officials tightening quality control of rice imported via land borders, traders said.

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