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Vietnam Expo 2023 kicks off in Hanoi

STORY: Vietnam Expo 2023 kicks off in Hanoi DATELINE: April 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: Hanoi CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 32nd edition of the Vietnam International Exhibition in Vietnam's capital city Hanoi STORYLINE: The 32nd edition of the Vietnam International Exhibition (Vietnam Expo) kicked off here on Wednesday, attracting hundreds of enterprises. Vietnam Expo 2023 held on April 5-8 reports the participation of some 500 enterprises from countries and regions including China, Indonesia, Japan, Poland and South Korea. The four-day event aims to provide organizations and businesses with opportunities to exchange experience, promote products, seek investment, and transfer technologies to enhance efficiency in production and business activities, according to its organizers. The expo gives a focus on advanced equipment and technologies in electronics, machinery and supporting industries, digital technology and e-commerce. Vietnam Expo is held annually in Hanoi in April and in t

Indonesian students rally against Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge plan

STORY: Indonesian students rally against Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge plan DATELINE: March 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rally 2. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia): KEVIN SIDABUTAR, Protest coordinator 3. various of the rally STORYLINE: Indonesian students rallied on Tuesday against Japan's controversial plan to dump its nuclear wastewater into the sea. They delivered statements while clad in anti-radioactive costumes and holding up posters depicting perilous nuclear waste in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia): KEVIN SIDABUTAR, Protest coordinator "We demanded that Japan should not release the waste into the Pacific Ocean because there are countries bordering the ocean such as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, China, and Indonesia. I do not want it to pollute the fish in our ocean ecosystem. Our ocean is vast and rich." Japan is preparing to release more than 1 mi

Japanese, S. Korean leaders meet in Tokyo amid raging opposition

STORY: Japanese, S. Korean leaders meet in Tokyo amid raging opposition DATELINE: March 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:33 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the street view in Tokyo 2. various of the protests 3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): Protestor STORYLINE: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in Tokyo on Thursday, amid waves of opposition and criticism over ignoring history. At the Prime Minister's Official Residence, Kishida met with Yoon, who is on a two-day visit to Japan. It marked the first time in nearly five years that leaders of the two countries have held a summit in Japan. Yoon's visit followed his step to resolve the dispute over wartime laborers. South Korea earlier announced a plan that a local foundation would gather funds for South Koreans forced to work for Japanese companies during World War II and pay compensation the South Korean court judgment demanded from Japanese companies. Yoon's plan has been triggering resent

N. Korea's Kim calls for increase in grain production in key meeting

People wearing face masks walk in Pyongyang on March 3, 2023. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for increasing grain production at a key four-day ruling party meeting through Wednesday focused on agricultural development, state-run media reported, amid speculation that the country has been suffering from a chronic food shortage. At the plenary meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea, which followed the previous plenum by an unusually short interval of two months, Kim said it is "important to concentrate on increasing the per-hectare yield at all the farms," the official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday. He also stressed the need to enhance the role of the provincial, city and county guidance organs and all the farms in attaining the long-term objective of agricultural development, KCNA said.

Vietnam reopens borders for int'l tourists

STORY: Vietnam reopens borders for int'l tourists DATELINE: March 16, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:16 LOCATION: Hanoi CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the airport 2 various of the tourists STORYLINE: Vietnam on Tuesday fully reopened its borders for international tourists. According to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, foreign nationals can now enter Vietnam by air, land and sea through all border gates as long as they meet the COVID-19 prevention and control requirements. International travellers will only have to prove that they have been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 with a negative test result while having insurance coverage of at least 10,000 U.S. dollars for possible COVID-19 treatment in Vietnam. As part of the efforts to restore tourism activities, Vietnam also resumed the visa exemption policy for citizens from 13 countries including Japan, South Korea, and Russia from Tuesday. Vietnam received a record number of over 18 million international visitors in

Turkish FM says meeting with Armenian counterpart constructive

STORY: Turkish FM says meeting with Armenian counterpart constructive DATELINE: March 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:26 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish FM meeting with his Armenian counterpart STORYLINE: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday the meeting with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan was "productive and constructive." Cavusoglu and Mirzoyan met in the southern Antalya resort of Turkey, aiming to end decades-old hostilities. "I can say that it was a very productive and constructive meeting," Cavusoglu told reporters alongside Mirzoyan after they met on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. The three-day forum, kicked off on Friday, has gathered 2,000 participants from 75 countries, including 17 state heads, 80 ministers, 39 representatives of international organizations. During the press conference, the Turkish minister said Turkey and Armenia had launched talks for the normalization of ties and special representatives of the two ne

N. Korea urges Japan to include Korean schools in tuition aid

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang on April 17, 2010. Song urged Japan to include pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan in a tuition waiver program for high school students ''as early as possible.'' (Kyodo)

Saiki hints 'sampling' not mentioned in 6-way draft protocol

BEIJING, China - Chief Japanese nuclear negotiator Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters in Beijing on Dec. 9 after the second day of the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea. Saiki suggested that a draft protocol for verifying N. Korea's nuclear information presented by China during the talks did not directly refer to ''sampling'' at the North's nuclear sites as a verification method. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

Japan, U.S., S. Korea meet to push forward N. Korea nuke talks

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Kim Sook (C), the South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, pose for photos at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 19 before the start of their talks on how to proceed with North Korea's denuclearization. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

U.S., N. Korea hold talks on options for breaking nuke deadlock

GENEVA, Switzerland - Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill responds to questions from reporters before talks with North Korea in Geneva on March 13 over options for resolving a snag holding up progress in the six-way process aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs. (Kyodo)

Japan, N. Korea remain far apart at normalization talks

HANOI, Vietnam - Koichi Haraguchi, Japan's chief representative at the normalization talks with North Korea, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi on March 8 after the two countries ended the two-day talks without progress.

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