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Cross-border e-commerce booms in NE China's border city

STORY: Cross-border e-commerce booms in NE China's border city DATELINE: April 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of aerial views of Northeast China's Suifenhe 2. various of the e-commerce base in Northeast China's Suifenhe 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHUANG LISHA, Manager of a local e-commerce business 4. various of the e-commerce base in Northeast China's Suifenhe STORYLINE: Northeast China's Suifenhe on the China-Russia border has seen soaring cross-border e-commerce volume as China continues to deepen economic and trade ties with countries and regions along the Belt and Road. At an e-commerce base in Suifenhe, shared live-streaming rooms have been built where more than 100 enterprises at the base promote their goods that are imported from over 20 countries and regions. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHUANG LISHA, Manager of a local e-commerce business "In recent years, relying on the geographical advantages of the border city of Suifenhe, we run our business bo

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic man learns embroidery at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic man makes handicraft at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic man makes a fabric at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic woman (R) learns bonsai arts at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic man makes handicraft at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic man draws at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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THAILAND-BANGKOK-AUTISM VOCATIONAL CENTER

(230402) -- BANGKOK, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An autistic man shows his painting at the Thai Autism Vocational Center in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2, 2023. The Thai Autism Vocational Center provides career development and independent living trainings for people with autism. The 2,400-square-meter vocational center houses art therapy rooms, basic skills classrooms, and computer classrooms. Now, it serves as a school for more than 100 autistic people. World Autism Awareness Day is marked annually on April 2. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year.

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Luxury paid public toilet at Akihabara draws crowds

TOKYO, Japan - A luxury paid public toilet built at the new Akihabara shopping district in Tokyo is doing good business, drawing more than 30,000 customers in just half a year. The toilet, which has 160 square meters of floor space and features changing rooms and a computer corner with access to the Internet , is said to be popular with both tourists and trendy youths. Officials of Chiyoda Ward, which built the toilet adjacent to the JR Akihabara Station, say the changing rooms inside the toilet are particularly popular with ''costume play'' teenage girls who use the facility to change into maid uniforms or other trendy costumes for play. The fee is 100 yen per person, and free of charge for people with physical disabilities and pre-high school students.

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Luxury paid public toilet at Akihabara draws crowds

TOKYO, Japan - A luxury paid public toilet built at the new Akihabara shopping district in Tokyo is doing good business, drawing more than 30,000 customers in just half a year. The toilet, which has 160 square meters of floor space and features changing rooms and a computer corner with access to the Internet , is said to be popular with both tourists and trendy youths. Officials of Chiyoda Ward, which built the toilet adjacent to the JR Akihabara Station, say the changing rooms inside the toilet are particularly popular with ''costume play'' teenage girls who use the facility to change into maid uniforms or other trendy costumes for play. The fee is 100 yen per person, and free of charge for people with physical disabilities and pre-high school students. (Kyodo)

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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year. (Kyodo)

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Protest staged in Tokyo against controversy-linked hotel chain

About 100 people, many of them Chinese, stage a protest in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2017, against the APA hotel chain, which has placed in its guest rooms a controversial history book asserting that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, which China says resulted in the deaths of more than 300,000 people, was fabricated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest staged in Tokyo against controversy-linked hotel chain

About 100 people, many of them Chinese, stage a protest in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2017, against the APA hotel chain, which has placed in its guest rooms a controversial history book asserting that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, which China says resulted in the deaths of more than 300,000 people, was fabricated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo