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U.S. Fed rate hikes spell trouble for Türkiye, emerging markets: expert

STORY: U.S. Fed rate hikes spell trouble for Türkiye, emerging markets: expert DATELINE: Sept. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:23 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people on the streets 2. various of an exchange office 3. various of Turkish Central Bank 4. SOUNDBITE (English): YALCIN KARATEPE, Economy and finance professor at Ankara University STORYLINE: A Turkish expert has said that aggressive rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve have a drastic effect on emerging markets, particularly import-reliant Türkiye floundering with a weak currency and runaway inflation. On Sep. 22, the Fed decided on a third consecutive three-quarter-point rate hike, as it continues to ramp up its fight against the country's surging inflation. Most countries have raised interest rates to fight the economic impact of the Fed's rate hikes in order to protect their currencies and prevent the outflow of foreign funds. But Türkiye did just the opposite. It has lowered its policy rate by 700 basis points since

Team USA blows away China at World Basketball Championship

SAPPORO, Japan - China's Sun Yue (C) dribbles up the court in the first quarter of the first round game against USA at the World Basketball Championship at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo on Aug. 20. Team USA won its second straight game in a 121-90 demolition of winless China. (Kyodo)

Hokkaido professors receive cash from PhD recipients

SAPPORO, Japan - Masaaki Hemmi (R), vice president of Hokkaido University, speaks at a news conference in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on April 22. Hemmi and the other university vice president, Minoru Wakita (L), met the press after nine professors and associate professors at the university were found to have received cash and gift certificates from seven people who acquired doctorate degrees after their theses were examined by them between fiscal 2007 and 2008. (Kyodo)

Twin polar bear cubs shown to press at Sapporo zoo

SAPPORO, Japan - Twin bear cubs, together with their mother (C), are shown to the press at Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on March 19. The twins, born in December, will make their public debut at the zoo on March 20. (Kyodo)

(CORRECTED)2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physic

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 7 Kyodo - Toshihide Masukawa, emeritus professor at Kyoto University, speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 7 after he, along with Makoto Kobayashi and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008. Masukawa won ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.'' (Kyodo)

Komagatake volcano in Hokkaido belches smoke

SAPPORO, Japan - The Mt. Komagatake volcano in southern Hokkaido erupts and belches smoke Oct. 28. Smoke rose about 1,200 meters from the crater at one point before subsiding later.

LDP's Yamashita wins upper house by-election in Shiga Pref.

OTSU, Japan - Hidetoshi Yamashita (C) lifts two bouquets into the air Oct. 22 after winning a House of Councillors by-election in Shiga Prefecture by running on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ticket. At right is his wife Mieko. Yamashita, a 47-year-old former banker and the son of late Defense Agency chief Ganri Yamashita, beat Shunyu Norikumo, a former professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto who ran on the Democratic Party of Japan ticket. He also vanquished Takashi Kawauchi, a member of the Japanese Communist Party. Yamashita will fill a seat vacated by Tenzo Okumura, who resigned before an unsuccessful attempt to win a lower house seat as an independent in the June 25 general elections.

Volcanic quakes continue at Mt. Asama

TOKYO, Japan - Volcanic tremors continue at Mt. Asama on Sept. 20 following an emergency warning issued the previous day by the Meteorological Agency that the mountain could erupt soon. An average of 10 to 30 volcanic earthquakes per hour were produced by the 2,568-meter mountain, which straddles Gunma and Nagano prefectures in central Japan, the agency said.

Mt. Komagatake erupts again

SAPPORO, Japan - Mt. Komagatake in southwestern Hokkaido is active again Sept. 5, belching smoke as high as 500 meters. Hiromu Okada, professor of Hokkaido University, said after observing the 1,133-meter mountain that chances of a major eruption there are not high.

Residents near Mt. Usu return home

DATE, Japan - Operators of a pleasure boat house on Lake Toya at the foot of Mt. Usu, southwestern Hokkaido, remove volcanic ashes to prepare for resumption of business June 6. Residents began to return home after the evacuation orders in place since the March 31 eruption of the volcano were partially lifted.

Expert predicts no major eruption at Mt. Komagatake

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido University professor Hiromu Okada (C) speaks at a news conference Sept. 5. The top volcanologist who observed the newly active Mt. Komagatake in southwestern Hokkaido by helicopter said that chances of the mountain's major eruption are not high.

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