Vietnam's coffee exports slow in Q1 as domestic prices rise

STORY: Vietnam's coffee exports slow in Q1 as domestic prices rise DATELINE: April 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: Hanoi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of coffee harvesting in Vietnam 2. various of roasting and packaging process of coffee beans in Vietnam 3. various of the coffee festival in the central highlands Dak Lak province STORYLINE: Vietnam's coffee exports in the first quarter this year edged down 1.6 percent to 572,000 tons from a year ago, the General Statistics Office has said, adding that coffee export revenue for the same period reached 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, down 2.3 percent on the year. Vietnamese coffee prices surging this year, coupled with rising interest rates on bank loans, have made exporters refrain from building their stockpiles and reluctant to have contracts for delivery in the future on concerns about global price volatility, said Nguyen Xuan Hien, head of staff of the Vietnam Coffee-Cocoa Association (Vicofa). Also, Vietnamese farmers are in no rush to sell their

Ship carrying nuclear fuel from France arrives in Japan

Ship carrying nuclear fuel from France arrives in Japan

SAGA, Japan - The Pacific Heron, a transport ship carrying recycled nuclear fuel from France for Japanese power reactors, arrives at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture on June 28, 2010. A French radio station said the ship was loaded with 15 tons of uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel, apparently containing around 1.3 tons of plutonium, when it left France in April.

Kagawa meat shop raided over mislabeled beef in school lunch

Kagawa meat shop raided over mislabeled beef in school lunch

MARUGAME, Japan - Meat shop Fujiya Seiniku-ten in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, is raided by police July 26 on suspicion it supplied 1.3 tons of Australian beef falsely described as domestic meat for local school lunches from December to January.

2 Britons set sail to cross the Pacific in rowboat

2 Britons set sail to cross the Pacific in rowboat

CHOSHI, Japan - Tim Welford (L), 33, and Dominic Mee, 30, pose for photographers May 5 before they set sail from the port of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, for San Francisco in a manually-powered rowboat. The two, both members of the British Royal Marines, aim to arrive in San Francisco in about 120 days with no outside support on the voyage of some 9,200 kilometers. The boat is 7.1 meters long, about 1.9 meters wide and weighs around 1.3 tons fully outfitted.

Malaysia's palm oil stocks rise to 2.09 million tons in August

STORY: Malaysia's palm oil stocks rise to 2.09 million tons in August DATELINE: Sept. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:34 LOCATION: Kuala Lumpur CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of workers harvesting palm seeds on tree 2. various of palm oil plantation area 3. various of palm oil factory and oil truck on road STORYLINE: Malaysia's palm oil stocks rose 18.16 percent from the previous month to 2.09 million tons in August, official data showed Monday. According to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, the world's second-largest palm oil producer saw its crude palm oil production grow 9.67 percent month on month to 1.73 million tons in August. Palm oil exports slipped 1.94 percent month on month to 1.3 million tons in the same month. From January to August, Malaysia exported 9.81 million tons of palm oil worth 59.93 billion ringgit (13.31 billion U.S. dollars). Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kuala Lumpur. (XHTV)

Kagawa meat shop raided over mislabeled beef in school lunch

Kagawa meat shop raided over mislabeled beef in school lunch

MARUGAME, Japan - Meat shop Fujiya Seiniku-ten in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, is raided by police July 26 on suspicion it supplied 1.3 tons of Australian beef falsely described as domestic meat for local school lunches from December to January. (Kyodo)

2 Britons set sail to cross the Pacific in rowboat

2 Britons set sail to cross the Pacific in rowboat

CHOSHI, Japan - Tim Welford (L), 33, and Dominic Mee, 30, pose for photographers May 5 before they set sail from the port of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, for San Francisco in a manually-powered rowboat. The two, both members of the British Royal Marines, aim to arrive in San Francisco in about 120 days with no outside support on the voyage of some 9,200 kilometers. The boat is 7.1 meters long, about 1.9 meters wide and weighs around 1.3 tons fully outfitted.

Ship carrying nuclear fuel from France arrives in Japan

Ship carrying nuclear fuel from France arrives in Japan

SAGA, Japan - The Pacific Heron, a transport ship carrying recycled nuclear fuel from France for Japanese power reactors, arrives at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture on June 28, 2010. A French radio station said the ship was loaded with 15 tons of uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel, apparently containing around 1.3 tons of plutonium, when it left France in April. (Kyodo)