Support rate for Japan's Kishida cabinet hits fresh low: poll

STORY: Support rate for Japan's Kishida cabinet hits fresh low: poll SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage DATELINE: April 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kishida cabinet and prime minister's office of Japan (source: Prime minister's office of Japan) 2. various of the prime minister's office STORYLINE: The support rate for the cabinet led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dropped to 16.6 pct in April, marking a new low for the administration, according to the latest Jiji Press opinion poll. The approval rate dropped by 1.4 percentage points from the previous month, a fresh low for the administration since its launch in October 2021, while the disapproval rate climbed 2.0 percentage points to 59.4 percent, the survey showed Thursday. The reading breached the previous low of 16.9 percent marked in February, sinking to the worst level since the return of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power in December 2012, Jiji Press said. Punish

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

U.S.-ECONOMY-HOME SALES

(230823) -- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows an advertisement in front of a real estate for sales in Millbrae, California, the United States. The sales of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 2.2 percent in July from June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.07 million units, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. Sales were 16.6 percent lower compared with July of last year, while homes were sold at the slowest July pace since 2010. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)

Japan books 16.6 bln USD current account surplus in February

STORY: Japan books 16.6 bln USD current account surplus in February DATELINE: April 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:47 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views of Tokyo 2. various of port STORYLINE: Japan logged a current account surplus of 2.2 trillion yen (16.6 billion U.S. dollars) in February, the government said in a report on Monday, back to the black following a deficit in January. According to the Finance Ministry's preliminary information, the figure was 2.3 percent lower than in the same period last year. According to the ministry, the country had a goods trade deficit of 604.1 billion yen (4.56 billion U.S. dollars) and a services trade deficit of 220.4 billion yen (1.66 million U.S. dollars), among key components in the recording period. Imports and exports expanded 9.8 percent and 4.5 percent year on year, respectively, the preliminary data showed. The report also showed that the primary income, which reflects returns on overseas investments, booked a surplus o

Mizuho Financial's 1st-half net profit falls 16.6%

Mizuho Financial's 1st-half net profit falls 16.6%

TOKYO, Japan - Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14 as the banking group said its consolidated net profit for the first half of fiscal 2007 dropped 16.6 percent from a year before to 327.06 billion yen.

Türkiye posts 198-mln-dollar budget surplus in August

STORY: Türkiye posts 198-mln-dollar budget surplus in August DATELINE: Sept. 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views 2. various of counting money 3. various of port STORYLINE: Türkiye's budget balance recorded a 3.6 billion Turkish liras (198 million U.S. dollars) surplus in August after posting a deficit for two consecutive months, according to data released by the Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry on Thursday. The figure increased from a 64 billion Turkish liras (3.5 billion dollars) deficit in July. Spending excluding interest payments was 279.7 billion liras (15.4 billion dollars) in August, rising 204 percent from the same month in 2021. Interest payments were 22.6 billion liras (1.2 billion dollars) in August. Türkiye's budget revenues were 305.9 billion liras (16.8 billion dollars) as tax revenues rose over 107 percent to 271.9 billion liras (14.9 billion dollars), while expenditures amounted to 302.3 billion liras (16.6 billion dollar

Chinese game firms seeks to expand global reach

STORY: Chinese game firms seeks to expand global reach DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:32 LOCATION: CHONGQING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1 various of online games 2 SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): DENG YONGJIN, Vice President of Pathea Games in Chongqing 3 various of views in Chongqing 4 SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): DENG YONGJIN, Vice President of Pathea Games in Chongqing STORYLINE: China's game developers have been seeking to expand their presence in overseas markets. According to a report released by GameLook, a gaming industrial research institute, China's self-developed games raked in more than 18 billion U.S. dollars in sales overseas last year, up about 16.6 percent year on year. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): DENG YONGJIN, Vice President of Pathea Games in Chongqing "Our games are developed by integrating the elements that people all over the world can understand. There are also a lot of foreign employees in our company, who would offer help for making our gaming products better understood by foreigners. A

Mizuho Financial's 1st-half net profit falls 16.6%

Mizuho Financial's 1st-half net profit falls 16.6%

TOKYO, Japan - Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14 as the banking group said its consolidated net profit for the first half of fiscal 2007 dropped 16.6 percent from a year before to 327.06 billion yen. (Kyodo)