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Cargo hub for China-Europe freight trains inaugurated in China's Shenyang

STORY: Cargo hub for China-Europe freight trains inaugurated in China's Shenyang DATELINE: March 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: SHENYANG, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a new cargo consolidation hub for the China-Europe freight trains 2. various of a train leaving 3. various of cargoes and containers STORYLINE: A new cargo consolidation hub for the China-Europe freight trains on Saturday was put into operation in Shenyang, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. A train carrying 55 containers left for Russia on Saturday morning, marking the inauguration of the China Railway Express (Shenyang) Hub. The hub covers a total land area of 92,000 square meters, including 80,000 square meters under customs supervision. The hub is large enough for the storage of 3,000 twenty-foot equivalent units at the same time, with the capacity of handling 1,000 China-Europe freight trains every year. The operation of the hub is expected to further meet the needs of the development of Chi

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Construction of large pumped-storage hydropower project starts in China's Sichuan

STORY: Construction of large pumped-storage hydropower project starts in China's Sichuan DATELINE: Dec. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: GANZI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the construction launch ceremony 2. various of the hydropower project STORYLINE: Construction of a large pumped-storage hydropower project started on Thursday in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province. At an altitude of 3,000 meters, the Yalong River Lianghekou pumped-storage hydropower plant is believed to be the highest-altitude of its kind in China. The project depends on two reservoirs, the Lianghekou hydropower plant upstream and the Yagen hydropower station downstream, and will install four 300,000 kW reversible units. The total installed capacity of the project is designed to reach 4.2 million kW, including the 3 million kW of Lianghekou hydropower station. The project is expected to improve efficiency of electricity supply in Sichuan Province, optimize grid network, and

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Toyota's new Prius

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s new ''Prius a'' (Prius alpha) hybrid vehicle. The Japanese automaker said June 14, 2011, it had received around 52,000 orders for the vehicle in the first month since its debut, well above its target of 3,000 units per month.

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Housesitter robot to be launched in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Robot developing company tmsuk Co. has began taking orders for a housesitter robot named Roborior (in photo), which can be wirelessly controlled via a mobile phone from a remote place, at a price of 294,000 yen per unit. The Kitakyushu-based company exhibited the robot at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi to solicit orders ahead of its planned launch in September. It aims to sell about 3,000 units of the 26-centimeter-high robot weighing 3.25 kilograms.

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Mitsubishi's new Grandis minivan gets over 7,000 orders

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said June 3 it had received 7,187 orders for its new Grandis minivan (in handout photo) launched May 17. The figure far exceeds Mitsubishi Motors' monthly sales target of 3,000 units for the new four-door minivan with three rows of seats and a 2.4 liter engine, the automaker said.

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118 prefab houses loaded for Kosovo

KOBE, Japan - Workers begin loading a cargo ship with 118 prefabricated housing units, the first batch of 500 units to be provided by the Hyogo prefectural government for Kosovo residents, at Kobe port on Aug. 8. The units, originally used to accommodate those made homeless by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, are being sent to Kosovo at the request of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The prefectural government has already provided about 3,000 prefabs for refugees overseas.

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Kenya announces mortgage scheme for slum dwellers through social housing plan

STORY: Kenya announces mortgage scheme for slum dwellers through social housing plan DATELINE: Oct. 5, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:49 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the buildings 2. various of Kenya's president inspecting a construction site 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenya's President 4. various of the housing scheme 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenya's President 6. various of audience STORYLINE: Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday announced a mortgage payment scheme that will allow Kenyan slum dwellers to own homes through a social housing programme. The programme offers different kinds of housing units. To live in these units, people pay a certain amount of money as a mortgage instead of rent, which allows them to become homeowners in the end. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenya's President "The first priority with this project is to get the people living in Mukuru (slums) to come live here. The 3,000 shillings (about 24.82 USD) they are pa

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 18, 2022 shows all six power generation units of Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energy bases. The operation

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 18, 2022 shows a ceremony celebrating the operation of all power generation units of Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China'

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CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 18, 2022 shows a ceremony celebrating the operation of all power generation units of Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China'

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ATOUN's powered suit, "ATOUN Model Y."

On April 24, ATOUN (Nara City), a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, announced that it will enter the nursing care industry in earnest. The company will offer the "ATOUN Model Y" power suit (photo), mainly for tasks that require long hours and a heavy workload, such as helping people change clothes in bed. The company is proposing to sort out the tasks that are easy to use in nursing care and those that are not. In the future, the company will also improve the suit's functions by making it smaller and lighter. On the same day, Takayuki Fujiwara, deputy director of teaching at Osaka College of Health and Welfare (Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City), saying, This time, the company plans to add the nursing care industry to its lineup and expand its annual sales volume to about 3,000 units, about three times the current level, by fiscal 2020. Photo taken on July 24, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Mitsubishi's new Grandis minivan gets over 7,000 orders

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said June 3 it had received 7,187 orders for its new Grandis minivan (in handout photo) launched May 17. The figure far exceeds Mitsubishi Motors' monthly sales target of 3,000 units for the new four-door minivan with three rows of seats and a 2.4 liter engine, the automaker said. (Kyodo)

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Honda release new hybrid minivan

Honda Motor Co. releases a new hybrid minivan, "Jade," on Feb. 13, 2015. The Japanese automaker targets monthly sales of 3,000 units. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII fighter displayed at builder's plant in central Japan

A "Hien" fighter plane, used by the Japanese military during World War II, is shown to the press at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s plant in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 18, 2015. The plant, which produced some 3,000 units of the aircraft, will repair the only existing plane, owned by the Japan Aeronautic Association of Tokyo, ahead of display at the company's museum in Kobe, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Housesitter robot to be launched in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Robot developing company tmsuk Co. has began taking orders for a housesitter robot named Roborior (in photo), which can be wirelessly controlled via a mobile phone from a remote place, at a price of 294,000 yen per unit. The Kitakyushu-based company exhibited the robot at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi to solicit orders ahead of its planned launch in September. It aims to sell about 3,000 units of the 26-centimeter-high robot weighing 3.25 kilograms. (Kyodo)

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Toyota's new Prius

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s new ''Prius a'' (Prius alpha) hybrid vehicle. The Japanese automaker said June 14, 2011, it had received around 52,000 orders for the vehicle in the first month since its debut, well above its target of 3,000 units per month. (Kyodo)

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118 prefab houses loaded for Kosovo

KOBE, Japan - Workers begin loading a cargo ship with 118 prefabricated housing units, the first batch of 500 units to be provided by the Hyogo prefectural government for Kosovo residents, at Kobe port on Aug. 8. The units, originally used to accommodate those made homeless by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, are being sent to Kosovo at the request of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The prefectural government has already provided about 3,000 prefabs for refugees overseas.