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Chinese Culture Day held during Tunisia International Book Fair

STORY: Chinese Culture Day held during Tunisia International Book Fair SHOOTING TIME: April 24, 2024 DATELINE: April 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:22 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event STORYLINE: Chinese Culture Day was held Wednesday at the ongoing 38th Tunis International Book Fair. The event drew students and teachers from the Confucius Institute at Carthage University and the Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis. Also in attendance was the former Tunisian ambassador to China, alongside experts from Tunisian translation and publishing circles. Chinese songs and tea art performances attracted large audiences to the event. The Tunis International Book Fair kicked off on April 19 and is organized annually by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tunis. (XHTV)

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PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-CHINESE NEW YEAR-GALA

(240122) -- ISLAMABAD, Jan. 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani children sing songs "Happy New Year" and "Long Live Pakistan-China Friendship" in two languages at a Chinese Lunar New Year gala in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, Jan. 21, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Pakistani, Chinese children celebrate Chinese New Year with joy, unity" (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

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China's Langfang to hold int'l carnival

STORY: China's Langfang to hold int'l carnival DATELINE: Sept. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:55 LOCATION: LANGFANG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of artists visiting Langfang 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LESLIE ELI, Member of Orchestra Traditional Malaysia 3. various of performances and rehearsals 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ADNAN JAHANGIR, Dancer of Pakistani Cultural Troupe 5. various of performances 6. aerial view of Langfang City STORYLINE: The "Dream Langfang - International Carnival" will be held from Sept. 16-17 and Sept. 23-24 in Langfang city, north China's Hebei Province. The carnival, themed "Harmony and Coexistence," is hosted by the Silk Road International Arts Center in Langfang. The event will feature 13 works created and arranged by artists from 15 countries and regions, with a total of 22 performances. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LESLIE ELI, Member of Orchestra Traditional Malaysia "Hi, I'm Leslie from Malaysia. We bring 10 people from Malaysia. (There are) so many languages in Malaysia,

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Ceremony for quake victims in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Hisao Yoshida (3rd from L), principal of the Toyama College of Foreign Languages in central Japan, delivers a speech in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2013, at a memorial service for students and staff of an English language school who died in an earthquake that struck the area on Feb. 22, 2011.

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Smartphone app translates illness symptoms in 22 languages

MAEBASHI, Japan - A smartphone display shows an image from the free smartphone application "Health Life Passport." Researchers at Gunma University Hospital have worked out the app for producing a medical interview sheet for presentation to a doctor in up to 22 languages, based on replies to a multilingual questionnaire on the user's biodata, symptoms and illness history. It has been developed for those preparing for doctor visits in foreign countries, such as foreign nationals in Japan not confident about expressing symptoms in Japanese as well as Japanese visiting hospitals overseas.

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Kin of Japanese NZ quake victims

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Family members of students from Toyama College of Foreign Languages leave for New Zealand from Kansai airport, Osaka Prefecture on Feb. 24, 2011. Ten students from the school in Toyama Prefecture remain missing in the wake of a major earthquake in New Zealand on Feb. 22, when they were studying at a local language school.

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Japanese missing in N.Z. quake

TOYAMA, Japan - Staff at Toyama College of Foreign Languages in Toyama are busy gathering information after some students went missing in quake-hit Christchurch in New Zealand on Feb. 22, 2011.

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Arabic Harry Potter in Guantanamo library

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Arabic-language translation of a Harry Potter story in this Sept. 1, 2009 photo is a popular library book at a detention camp complex in the U.S. naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. The library is stocked with about 16,000 books and 1,400 magazines in 22 languages as well as DVDs of movies. Detainees can check out books and they are delivered to their cells for reading. Disney cartoons are also popular.

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries.

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Initiative launched to facilitate Egyptian students' Chinese language learning

STORY: Initiative launched to facilitate Egyptian students' Chinese language learning DATELINE: Oct. 4, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:22 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the activity 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): QUGAYA SHERIF, Egyptian student 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG HUASHENG, Science and technology counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Egypt 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): SAHAR AL-GAMAL, Principal of the Al Jazeera Official Experimental Languages School STORYLINE: At the Al Jazeera Official Experimental Languages School in downtown Cairo, a group of volunteers held a range of interactive activities on Chinese customs, symbols and language on Monday to help Egyptian students better understand China and the Chinese language. The activities are part of a three-day initiative launched by the Chinese Bridge Club in Cairo to facilitate Egyptian students' Chinese language learning, after a pilot program for teaching the Chinese language began in September in 12 Egyptian public middle schools. Du

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IRELAND-DUBLIN-CHINESE PROFICIENCY COMPETITION

(220425) -- DUBLIN, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Anna Roth (L), a 22-year-old student of foreign applied languages from University College Cork, is awarded with the first prize at a Chinese proficiency competition in Dublin, Ireland, April 24, 2022. The 21st "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Irish College Students was held here at the Confucius Institute of University College Dublin (UCD) in the Irish capital on Sunday. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Chinese proficiency competition for Irish college students held in Dublin" (Xinhua/Liu Yanyan)

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RWANDA-KIGALI-CHINESE COMMUNITY-LIBRARY-READING CULTURE-PROMOTION

(220423) -- KIGALI, April 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A girl reads a book at a library at A-Link Chinese Restaurant in Kigali, Rwanda, April 22, 2022. The Chinese community in Rwanda on Friday launched a library at A-Link Chinese Restaurant in Kimihurura of Kigali, the Rwandan capital. The library, which has so far been equipped with more than 5,000 books in Chinese, Korean and English languages among others, aims at promoting book reading culture among the Rwandan population. The books' topics range from literature, science, culture, technology, politics and history. (Photo by Eugene Uwimana/Xinhua)

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No entry sign in 4 languages stands on Mt. Aso in southern Japan

A signboard stands with a "No Entry" warning in four languages on Mt. Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 22, 2015, as the volcano spews columns of smoke into the sky. Aso city authorities take pains to secure the safety of foreign tourists, many of whom often dare to enter the off-limit zone on the volcano. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries. (Kyodo)

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Kin of Japanese NZ quake victims

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Family members of students from Toyama College of Foreign Languages leave for New Zealand from Kansai airport, Osaka Prefecture on Feb. 24, 2011. Ten students from the school in Toyama Prefecture remain missing in the wake of a major earthquake in New Zealand on Feb. 22, when they were studying at a local language school. (Kyodo)

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Japanese missing in N.Z. quake

TOYAMA, Japan - Staff at Toyama College of Foreign Languages in Toyama are busy gathering information after some students went missing in quake-hit Christchurch in New Zealand on Feb. 22, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Memorial held in Japan for 2011 Christchurch quake victims

Mourners attend a memorial ceremony commemorating the sixth anniversary of the powerful earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 22, 2017, at Toyama College of Foreign Languages in Toyama, central Japan, 12 of whose students were among the total of 185 victims. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Arabic Harry Potter in Guantanamo library

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Arabic-language translation of a Harry Potter story in this Sept. 1, 2009 photo is a popular library book at a detention camp complex in the U.S. naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. The library is stocked with about 16,000 books and 1,400 magazines in 22 languages as well as DVDs of movies. Detainees can check out books and they are delivered to their cells for reading. Disney cartoons are also popular. (Kyodo)