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[Breaking News] Nemophila flowers in eastern Japan

HITACHINAKA, Japan, April 18 Kyodo - Nemophila flowers are in full bloom at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 18, 2024. (Kyodo)

Dutch Keukenhof park celebrates 75th anniversary

STORY: Dutch Keukenhof park celebrates 75th anniversary SHOOTING TIME: March 21, 2024 DATELINE: March 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:57 LOCATION: LISSE, the Netherlands CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of people visiting the Keukenhof park in Lisse, the Netherlands 2. SOUNDBITE (English): MARY ROSE BUGTO, Visitor STORYLINE: The Keukenhof park opened its doors to the public on Thursday in Lisse, the Netherlands, also celebrating its 75th anniversary with millions of beautiful flowers and colorful performances. The park first opened its doors in 1950 and has since developed into a popular destination for tourists from home and abroad. Covering an area of 32 hectares, the Keukenhof park holds its famous flower exhibition from March to May every year. This year it will be open for about eight weeks, with more than 7 million bulb flowers showcasing over 1,600 varieties, including more than 800 varieties of tulips. The organizers are expecting 1.4 million visitors from around the world. SOUNDBITE (English): M

Magnolia trees bloom in Zagreb

STORY: Magnolia trees bloom in Zagreb SHOOTING TIME: March 8, 2024 DATELINE: March 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: Zagreb CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of King Tomislav Square in Zagreb 2. various of blooming trees 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTE PRPIC, Local citizen 4. various of visitors taking photos of a magnolia tree 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Croatian): JELENA RISTIC, Visitor 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Croatian): JELENA RISTIC, Visitor 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): GURPREET SINGH, Visitor STORYLINE: Spring arrives early this year in Zagreb, Croatia, and its renowned magnolia trees have burst into flower weeks ahead of their usual schedule. People flock to the park to see the trees in full bloom. These trees, nestled amidst the bustling streets in Zagreb's King Tomislav Square, are a symbol of renewal and vitality for residents and visitors alike. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTE PRPIC, Local citizen "This square is one of the most beautiful squares in Zagreb and especially these magnolias are the most beautiful in sp

Festive mood fills Hong Kong's Lunar New Year fairs

STORY: Festive mood fills Hong Kong's Lunar New Year fairs SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 5, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:49 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the fair STORYLINE: Visiting Lunar New Year fairs is a traditional activity in Hong Kong to welcome the new year. This year, there are a total of 15 fairs across the territory which kicked off on Sunday to sell flowers and festive goods. The fair in Victoria Park in Hong Kong is the largest one, with flower stalls crowded with people choosing flowers and plants for home decorations to celebrate the Chinese festival. Some of them asked stall owners about the price, some discussed the planting method, and some stopped to take pictures, creating a festive atmosphere. Besides flowers, there are also Chinese New Year couplets and various decorations with the theme of the Year of the Dragon on sale at the fairs. After five years, the fair at Victoria Park has resumed stalls selling dry, wet goods and fast food, crea

Rare blue bee in western Japan

KONAN, Japan, Aug. 28 Kyodo -A rare Thyreus decorus blue bee is spotted at a flower garden within the Chojuji temple grounds in Konan, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 26, 2023. (Kyodo)

Rare "corpse flowers" in bloom in Dutch botanical garden

STORY: Rare "corpse flowers" in bloom in Dutch botanical garden DATELINE: March 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: LEIDEN, the Netherlands CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the plants of the Amorphophallus gigas at Leiden Botanical Garden STORYLINE: Two plants of the Amorphophallus gigas, a species in the rare Amorphophallus known as the "corpse flower," were in bloom on Saturday in the Leiden Botanical Garden in the Netherlands. The larger one of the two Amorphophallus gigas plants is over three meters tall. The blooming plants, which give off a terrible smell of decay, attracted a flock of visitors to the oldest garden in the Netherlands. It was already the third time for the rare "corpse flower" to bloom in the garden in less than one year. In July last year, a plant of the Amorphophallus titanum blossomed while another species of the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus decus-silvae, was in bloom last October. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Leiden, the Netherlands. (XHTV)

Tulip Festival in Istanbul feasts Turks' eyes on colorful flowers

STORY: Tulip Festival in Istanbul feasts Turks' eyes on colorful flowers DATELINE: April 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Tulip Festival in Emirgan Park 2. various of Tulip Festival STORYLINE: The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. Some 7.5 million flowers of 160 different species, such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and muscaris, have been planted in Istanbul's parks, gardens and streets for the 2022 festival. The Emirgan Park, one of the largest public parks in Istanbul, has distinguished itself as the main hub of the festival by virtue of its more than 3.5 million bulbous plants on display. Outstanding floral designs in the park, located on a hill along the European coast of the Bosphorus Strait, include a giant tulip stream, a traditional Turkish evil eye be

Dutch tulip fest Keukenhof reopens to public

STORY: Dutch tulip fest Keukenhof reopens to public DATELINE: March 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:34 LOCATION: LISSE, the Netherlands CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the flower garden 2. STANDUP (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua correspondent STORYLINE: The Keukenhof Park in Lisse, the Netherlands, has opened to the public this year, allowing visitors to experience the floral splendor again. From March 24 to May 15, visitors from all over the world could enjoy the blooming tulips, daffodils and hyacinths in the "Garden of Europe." With over 800 varieties of tulips blooming in its flower beds, Keukenhof is regarded as the world's most famous tulip garden. STANDUP (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua correspondent "We are now in the Keukenhof, one of the best places in the world to appreciate the blooming tulips. Located on the western coast of the Netherlands, it is also known as the most beautiful spring garden in the world. At Keukenhof, you'd think you are adrift on a sea of flowers. The park remained closed fo

Kobe marks 27th anniversary of deadly quake

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overview of Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2022, the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people. The western Japan city of Kobe on Monday marked the 27th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed 6,434 people in the area. Local residents and victims' families observed a moment of silence at 5:46 a.m., the time the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck the port city in Hyogo Prefecture and neighboring areas on Jan. 17, 1995. In a predawn event at Higashi Yuenchi, a park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, people lit about 3,000 bamboo lanterns that were aligned to form "1.17," the date of the disaster.

Japan's wartime, postwar English texts reflect changing ideas

Shigeru Takabayashi, who was a student at a branch of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, from spring to summer of 1945, stands in front of the Hikawa Maru cruise liner in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo with the only remaining copy of the academy's English textbook and his diary at that time. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

1 million tulips in full bloom at Nagasaki flower park

SASEBO, Japan - Tulips are in full bloom at the Huis Ten Bosch park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The park, one of largest flower parks in the world, boasts 300 species of tulips with a total of 1 million plants, so that tulips will be flowering all the time during the spring. (Kyodo)

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