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Nikkei drops below 11,000 level for 1st time since May 2005

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian walks past an electric board in Tokyo's Nihombashi area that shows the key Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange having plunged below the 11,000 level during the morning session Oct. 3.

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Damaged neutrino detector 'Super Kamiokande' restored

GIFU, Japan - A large neutrino detector operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in Gifu Prefecture is shown off to the media Sept. 24 after it was repaired following severe damage sustained in an accident in November 2001. About 7,000 or 60% of the 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) attached to the neutrino detector in the town of Kamioka in the central Japanese prefecture were found broken last Nov. 12 due to a chain reaction, but it is now repaired to a level that experiments can resume, ICRR officials said.

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Thousands of medics rush to Shanghai to aid COVID-19 battle

STORY: Thousands of medics rush to Shanghai to aid COVID-19 battle DATELINE: April 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN CONG, Medic from Hubei 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG XUBIN, Medic from Anhui 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LU XIANG, Medic from Jiangsu 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): MA QUANFU, Medic from Hubei STORYLINE: More than 38,000 medics from 15 provincial-level regions have rushed to China's business hub Shanghai to aid the megacity in its fight against resurging COVID-19. Some 27,000 medics are responsible for sampling and testing work, and another 11,000 work in temporary hospitals. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN CONG, Medic from Hubei "I come from Wuhan, Hubei Province. I heard that Shanghai needs support, so we volunteered to come here immediately." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG XUBIN, Medic from Anhui "A total of 650 medics from Anhui Province have arrived here." SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LU XIANG, Medic from Jiangsu "As yo

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Nikkei drops below 11,000 level for 1st time since May 2005

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian walks past an electric board in Tokyo's Nihombashi area that shows the key Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange having plunged below the 11,000 level during the morning session Oct. 3. (Kyodo)

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Damaged neutrino detector 'Super Kamiokande' restored

GIFU, Japan - A large neutrino detector operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in Gifu Prefecture is shown off to the media Sept. 24 after it was repaired following severe damage sustained in an accident in November 2001. About 7,000 or 60% of the 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) attached to the neutrino detector in the town of Kamioka in the central Japanese prefecture were found broken last Nov. 12 due to a chain reaction, but it is now repaired to a level that experiments can resume, ICRR officials said. (Kyodo)