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Chile's first Chinese-made double-decker electric buses provide service for PanAm Games

STORY: Chile's first Chinese-made double-decker electric buses provide service for PanAm Games SHOOTING TIME: Nov, 3, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: Santiago CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of double-decker electric buses STORYLINE: A fleet of Chinese-made double-decker electric buses is providing service for the 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games hosted by Santiago, the capital city of Chile. The 10 buses manufactured by Chinese company BYD were unveiled in August for Santiago's public transit system. Some 7.4 kilometers of new roads were built for transportation during the games, and the fleet is being used exclusively on routes that reach the National Stadium, the country's leading sports arena located in the capital's Nunoa district, creating an electric corridor. The 12-meter-long, 4.17-meter-high double-decker, 70-seat buses are 100 percent electric and can each carry 97 passengers. The buses can travel up to 280 kilometers on a single charge, with chargin

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China's "Snow Town" attracts tourists with unique snow views

STORY: China's "Snow Town" attracts tourists with unique snow views DATELINE: Feb. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:25 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the "Snow Town" in China's Heilongjiang Province STORYLINE: Located about 280 kilometers from Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the "Snow Town" attracts visitors with its unique snow views. Used to be a forest farm, the snow town has seen a sea change over the past two decades after embracing tourism. The snow season here can last up to seven months a year, and the annual average snowfall thickness can reach 2.6 meters. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Harbin, China. (XHTV)

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Kawasaki Heavy succeeds in trial run of battery-powered tramcar

KOBE, Japan - Staff of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. successfully run a battery-powered tramcar they have developed on a trial basis on Aug. 30 in a bid to realize commercial use at the end of 2008. The 18.4-meter-long streetcar, weighing 30.8 tons and powered by 16 nickel-hydrogen batteries, smoothly ran on a 280-meter track at some 20 kilometers per hour, a normal speed for commercially operated tramcars, in the company's plant in Kobe.

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Oceanographers survey seabed transformation off Sumatra

SUMATRA ISLAND, Indonesia - Japanese oceanographers on Feb. 21 begin surveying the seabed 280 kilometers southwest of Banda Aceh on Sumatra Island that might have been transformed by the massive Dec. 26 earthquake using an unmanned probe equipped with high-vision camera. (Pool photo)

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Kyodo News obtains photos of FARC camp after gov't raid

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Colombian soldiers are seen in photo obtained by Kyodo News investigating a camp believed to be the site where the leftist guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were holding captive Chikao Muramatsu, a Japanese company executive. The camp is about 40 minutes by helicopter from San Jose del Guaviare, which is located some 280 kilometers southeast of the Colombian capital Bogota.

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Miyake residents start evacuation

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - Some 280 of the remaining residents on Miyakejima, an active volcanic island some 200 kilometers south of Tokyo, leave the island on Sept. 2 in accordance with an evacuation order issued Sept. 1 by officials of the village of Miyake due to fears of massive pyroclastic flows. The 284 people boarded ships for Tokyo to become the first batch of islanders to leave after village head Ko Hasegawa ordered the evacuation of the estimated 800 remaining residents within three days from Sept. 2.

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Oceanographers survey seabed transformation off Sumatra

SUMATRA ISLAND, Indonesia - Japanese oceanographers on Feb. 21 begin surveying the seabed 280 kilometers southwest of Banda Aceh on Sumatra Island that might have been transformed by the massive Dec. 26 earthquake using an unmanned probe equipped with high-vision camera. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Kawasaki Heavy succeeds in trial run of battery-powered tramcar

KOBE, Japan - Staff of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. successfully run a battery-powered tramcar they have developed on a trial basis on Aug. 30 in a bid to realize commercial use at the end of 2008. The 18.4-meter-long streetcar, weighing 30.8 tons and powered by 16 nickel-hydrogen batteries, smoothly ran on a 280-meter track at some 20 kilometers per hour, a normal speed for commercially operated tramcars, in the company's plant in Kobe. (Kyodo)

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Kyodo News obtains photos of FARC camp after gov't raid

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Colombian soldiers are seen in photo obtained by Kyodo News investigating a camp believed to be the site where the leftist guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were holding captive Chikao Muramatsu, a Japanese company executive. The camp is about 40 minutes by helicopter from San Jose del Guaviare, which is located some 280 kilometers southeast of the Colombian capital Bogota.

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Miyake residents start evacuation

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - Some 280 of the remaining residents on Miyakejima, an active volcanic island some 200 kilometers south of Tokyo, leave the island on Sept. 2 in accordance with an evacuation order issued Sept. 1 by officials of the village of Miyake due to fears of massive pyroclastic flows. The 284 people boarded ships for Tokyo to become the first batch of islanders to leave after village head Ko Hasegawa ordered the evacuation of the estimated 800 remaining residents within three days from Sept. 2.