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Zimbabwean farmers find fulfillment in rabbit breeding program

STORY: Zimbabwean farmers find fulfillment in rabbit breeding program SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage DATELINE: March 17, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:33 LOCATION: RUWA, Zimbabwe CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Monica Mudonhi and rabbits 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MONICA MUDONHI, Rabbit farmer 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MONICA MUDONHI, Rabbit farmer 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): REGIS NYAMAKANGA, ZICORBA President 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): PAIDA NYAMAKANGA, Executive director, Raymeg Rabbit Producers STORYLINE: Monica Mudonhi is a rabbit farmer in Ruwa, about 22 km to the southeast of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. The 68-year-old has been breeding rabbits for about three years, and it has become more than just a source of income; it is a way of life. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MONICA MUDONHI, Rabbit farmer "It's a habit now, and wherever you are, you are thinking of your rabbits, especially when you know that they are about to kindle, you are not settled wherever you are." Mudonhi is among the beneficiaries of a

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China's cataract eradication project brings hope to patients in Cambodia

STORY: China's cataract eradication project brings hope to patients in Cambodia SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 28, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 30, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:54 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the project 2. various of surgical operation 3. various of cataract patients 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): DUK SARUN, Cataract patient in Cambodia 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Khmer): SO SOPANHAVATEI, Director of Prey Veng Provincial Referral Hospital, Cambodia 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LU HUAWEN, Leader of Chinese medical team from Wuzhou Gongren Hospital, China STORYLINE: A cataract eradication project, backed by China's GX Foundation, has been carried out in five countries across Asia and Africa, including Cambodia, Laos, Djibouti, Mauritania and Senegal. Duk Sarun, a 68-year-old cataract patient in Cambodia, is the project's 10,000th patient globally and the 3,138th patient in Cambodia to benefit from free-of-charge cataract surgery performed by Chinese ophthalmologists. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): DUK SARUN, Cataract

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Lonely death in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - File photo taken in November 2017 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, shows an apartment room where a 68-year-old man was found dead on a chair alone about a month after his death. More people in Japan are living alone but what is particularly alarming is their identity: mainly men with loose ties to their local communities.

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68-year-old woman gets doctoral degree in Ainu attire

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows Nobuko Tsuda, a 68-year-old curator of the Hokkaido Ainu Center who received a doctoral degree in the transition of embroidery in Ainu traditional attire from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Kanagawa Prefecture in September 2014. Receiving a doctoral degree is rare for an Ainu woman.

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Ford names Fields new president

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken in Detroit in January 2014 shows Mark Fields, a former president of Japanese automaker Mazda Motor Corp. Ford Motor Co. said May 1, 2014, that President and CEO Alan Mulally will step down and the 68-year-old will be succeeded by Fields, effective July 1.

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Ford names Fields new president

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken in New York on April 16, 2014 shows Mark Fields, a former president of Japanese automaker Mazda Motor Corp. Ford Motor Co. said May 1 that President and CEO Alan Mulally will step down and the 68-year-old will be succeeded by Fields, effective July 1.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) attends a New Year party in Hiroshima on Jan. 4, 2011. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said he will not seek a fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) attends a New Year party in Hiroshima on Jan. 4, 2011. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said he will not seek a fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said Jan. 4, 2011, that he will not run for his fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10.

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Caslavska receives Japanese order

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Vera Caslavska, a gymnast from the former Czechoslovakia, shows off the medal of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon conferred by Japan in a ceremony at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Prague on Dec. 7, 2010. Caslavska, a 68-year-old gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was awarded under the 2010 autumn decoration for her contribution to the enhancement of friendship between the Czech Republic and Japan.

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Caslavska receives Japanese order

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Vera Caslavska, a gymnast from the former Czechoslovakia, addresses an award ceremony after receiving the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from Japan at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Prague on Dec. 7, 2010. Caslavska, a 68-year-old gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was awarded under the 2010 autumn decoration for her contribution to the enhancement of friendship between the Czech Republic and Japan.

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Japanese immigrant taken hostage by guerrillas in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia - Masao Tsutsui (file photo), a 68-year-old Japanese immigrant who cultivates plants at a garden in southwestern Colombia, has apparently seized by left-wing Colombian guerrillas, security authorities said on June 23, 2010. The guerrillas have demanded ransom several times for Tsutsui living in Santiago de Cali, or simply Cali, Colombia's third-largest city.

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Statue unveiled to mark centennial of novelist Dazai's birth

GOSHOGAWARA, Japan - Sonoko Tsushima (3rd from R), the 68-year-old daughter of novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-1948), attends a ceremony to unveil a life-size bronze statue of Dazai in his hometown of Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, on June 19. Several hundred fans and guests attended the ceremony to mark the centennial of Dazai's birth.

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Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shigeaki Mori (L), a 68-year-old historian in Hiroshima, shows three drawings depicting U.S. soldiers killed while being detained when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on July 11. Mori brought the color-pencil drawings to the museum together with three of the eight witnesses who provided the accounts on which the drawings are based.

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(1)Nagashima items popular at Giants' charity event

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A cap from popular former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima fetches 500,000 yen in a charity auction aimed to help reconstruct earthquake-hit areas, at the site of the Giants' spring training in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 19. The cap features ''3'' handwritten by the 68-year-old Nagashima.

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Nagashima making recovery, begins rehab

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 9 shows the Tokyo Women's Medical College Hospital, where former Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima has been hospitalized since suffering a stroke on March 4. A Giants public relations official said that the 68-year-old manager of Japan's national baseball team is gradually regaining his ability to speak and eat, and began rehabilitation with a specialist.

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Domoto takes up duty as Chiba governor

CHIBA, Japan - Chiba Governor Akiko Domoto beams with joy as she is presented with flowers upon arrival at the prefectural government office April 5 to take up her duty. Domoto, a 68-year-old former upper house lawmaker, ran as an independent candidate in the March 25 election.

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Japan to field Owada as candidate for World Court judge

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hisashi Owada, a former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations whom Tokyo is planning to field in the next election of judges for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) scheduled for fall 2002. A former career diplomat in the Foreign Ministry, 68-year-old Owada is currently president of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, a private think tank, and is the father of Crown Princess Masako. The ICJ, also known as the World Court, is the U.N.'s judicial arm.

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Family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII sought

LOS ANGELES, United States - Nobuko Iinuma, a 68-year-old writer based in Los Angeles, holds a bloodstained Japanese flag as she speaks at an event in a Los Angeles suburb commemorating the 55th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 14. Iinuma said her neighbor, Gold Mayer, had asked her to help him find the family of a Japanese soldier who died in battle in the Philippines in 1944. Mayer found the flag wrapped around the dead soldier's body.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine experts help improve health for Cambodian patients

STORY: Traditional Chinese Medicine experts help improve health for Cambodian patients DATELINE: June 17, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:24 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1 various of the hospital 2 SOUNDBITE 1 (Cambodian): SOK CHEAV, Cambodian patient 3 various of Sok Cheav receiving TCM treatment 4 SOUNDBITE 2 (Cambodian): TENG VICHAI, Sok Cheav's son 5 various of the TCM clinic 6 SOUNDBITE 3 (English): XU FENG, Head of the TCM anti-COVID-19 pandemic team in Cambodia 7 SOUNDBITE 4 (Cambodian): TENG VICHAI, Sok Cheav's son STORYLINE: 68-year-old Cambodian Sok Cheav has been suffering paralysis left by a stroke for several years. After using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), she is partially regaining mobility. SOUNDBITE 1 (Cambodian): SOK CHEAV, Cambodian patient "Previously, I could not move my body and collapsed when I sat unassisted. Now, I can sit independently, and my right hand is movable, but my left hand is still unmovable. Traditional Chinese Medicine has also given me a good sleep." She

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FIJI-SUVA-CHINA-JUNCAO TECHNOLOGY-LIVELIHOOD

(220606) -- SUVA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Marika Uluinacera (L), a 68-year-old disabled man who plants mushroom, is seen during an interview with Xinhua at home in Serea village of Naitasiri province, Fiji, May 19, 2022. China's Juncao project has been benefitting Fiji since 2014 when it was introduced in the Pacific island country, Fijian officials and farmers said. TO GO WITH "Roundup: China's Juncao technology helps Fijians improve livelihood" (Xinhua/Zhang Yongxing)

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Suspected gunman identified in deadly California church shooting

STORY: Suspected gunman identified in deadly California church shooting DATELINE: May 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exterior of Geneva Presbyterian Church 2. various of local law enforcement officers attending a press briefing on Sunday STORYLINE: Authorities have identified the suspect in a shooting that left one dead and five others injured on Sunday at a church in the western U.S. state of California. The Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Monday morning that the suspect, David Chou, has been booked on one felony count of murder and five felony counts of attempted murder. The 68-year-old Las Vegas man is being held on 1 million U.S. dollars bail. The shooting happened inside Geneva Presbyterian Church in the City of Laguna Woods in Southern California's Orange County around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The suspect opened fire on an Asian church congregation when the church was hosting a luncheon to honor a former

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(1)Nagashima items popular at Giants' charity event

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A cap from popular former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima fetches 500,000 yen in a charity auction aimed to help reconstruct earthquake-hit areas, at the site of the Giants' spring training in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 19. The cap features ''3'' handwritten by the 68-year-old Nagashima. (Kyodo)

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Clinton declares victory in race for Democratic nomination

Hillary Clinton makes a speech in front of supporters in New York on June 7, 2016. The 68-year-old former secretary of state declared victory in her bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee and the first woman to lead a major American political party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clinton declares victory in race for Democratic nomination

Hillary Clinton makes a speech in front of supporters in New York on June 7, 2016. The 68-year-old former secretary of state declared victory in her bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee and the first woman to lead a major American political party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clinton declares victory in race for Democratic nomination

Hillary Clinton waves to supporters in New York on June 7, 2016. The 68-year-old former secretary of state declared victory in her bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee and the first woman to lead a major American political party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. indicts 3 over MRI Ponzi scheme targeting Japanese

Undated photo shows Edwin Fujinaga, former president and chief executive officer of Las Vegas-based investment firm MRI International Inc. The U.S. Justice Department on July 8, 2015, indicted the 68-year-old American and two Japanese citizens for their roles in the company's alleged $1.5 billion Ponzi scheme targeting Japanese. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pupils wear masks at Seoul elementary school

Pupils wear masks while attending a class at an elementary school in Seoul on June 9, 2015. South Korean health authorities announced the same day that a 68-year-old woman became the seventh fatality linked to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus and reported eight new cases, raising the total number of infections to 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pedestrians wear masks in central Seoul

People wear masks while walking in central Seoul on June 9, 2015. South Korean health authorities announced the same day that a 68-year-old woman became the seventh fatality linked to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus and reported eight new cases, raising the total number of infections to 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese woman recognized as world No. 1 kimono collector

Photo taken May 6, 2015 shows Fukiko Higuchi holding her Guinness World Records certificate in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, after she was recognized as holder of the world's largest kimono collection. The 68-year-old has collected 3,045 of the traditional clothing over 13 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lonely death in Japan

File photo taken in November 2017 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, shows an apartment room where a 68-year-old man was found dead on a chair alone about a month after his death. More people in Japan are living alone but what is particularly alarming is their identity: mainly men with loose ties to their local communities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Belief in "power of storytelling" drives Murakami

File photo shows a woman holding copies of "Killing Commendatore," a novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, at a Tokyo bookstore in the early hours of Feb. 24, 2017 shortly after the two-part book was launched. During a recent interview about the novel, the 68-year-old novelist said he is a believer in the power of storytelling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farmer seeking to bring back wild storks in Fukui, western Japan

Haruka Inaba, a 68-year-old rice farmer in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, stands by a stork statue on Nov. 4, 2015. He and other local farmers have been striving to bring wild Oriental white storks back to Echizen's skies by promoting chemical-free farming to create an environment in which they can live. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb victim's son addresses A-Bomb sufferer group's meeting

Satoru Fujii, the 68-year-old son of an atomic-bomb victim who heads the Fukuyama association of friends of A-bomb victims, addresses a general meeting of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organization in Hiroshima on May 29, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese freed from captivity in Colombia

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Masao Tsutsui, a 68-year-old Japanese plant grower in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, who was freed Aug. 15, 2010, nearly five months after being kidnapped. (Kyodo)

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Granddaughter of Gen. Tojo loses in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Tojo, a granddaughter of Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime prime minister who was hanged after being convicted as a Class-A war criminal, fails to win a seat in the House of Councillors election on July 29. Tojo, a 68-year-old independent, was one of the 20 candidates who contested five upper house seats in the Tokyo metropolitan electoral district. (Kyodo)

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Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shigeaki Mori (L), a 68-year-old historian in Hiroshima, shows three drawings depicting U.S. soldiers killed while being detained when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on July 11. Mori brought the color-pencil drawings to the museum together with three of the eight witnesses who provided the accounts on which the drawings are based. (Kyodo)

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Statue unveiled to mark centennial of novelist Dazai's birth

GOSHOGAWARA, Japan - Sonoko Tsushima (3rd from R), the 68-year-old daughter of novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-1948), attends a ceremony to unveil a life-size bronze statue of Dazai in his hometown of Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, on June 19. Several hundred fans and guests attended the ceremony to mark the centennial of Dazai's birth. (Kyodo)

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Japanese immigrant taken hostage by guerrillas in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia - Masao Tsutsui (file photo), a 68-year-old Japanese immigrant who cultivates plants at a garden in southwestern Colombia, has apparently seized by left-wing Colombian guerrillas, security authorities said on June 23, 2010. The guerrillas have demanded ransom several times for Tsutsui living in Santiago de Cali, or simply Cali, Colombia's third-largest city. (Kyodo)

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68-year-old woman gets doctoral degree in Ainu attire

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows Nobuko Tsuda, a 68-year-old curator of the Hokkaido Ainu Center who received a doctoral degree in the transition of embroidery in Ainu traditional attire from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Kanagawa Prefecture in September 2014. Receiving a doctoral degree is rare for an Ainu woman. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) attends a New Year party in Hiroshima on Jan. 4, 2011. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said he will not seek a fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) attends a New Year party in Hiroshima on Jan. 4, 2011. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said he will not seek a fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said Jan. 4, 2011, that he will not run for his fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10. (Kyodo)

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Caslavska receives Japanese order

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Vera Caslavska, a gymnast from the former Czechoslovakia, shows off the medal of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon conferred by Japan in a ceremony at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Prague on Dec. 7, 2010. Caslavska, a 68-year-old gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was awarded under the 2010 autumn decoration for her contribution to the enhancement of friendship between the Czech Republic and Japan. (Kyodo)

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Caslavska receives Japanese order

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Vera Caslavska, a gymnast from the former Czechoslovakia, addresses an award ceremony after receiving the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from Japan at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Prague on Dec. 7, 2010. Caslavska, a 68-year-old gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was awarded under the 2010 autumn decoration for her contribution to the enhancement of friendship between the Czech Republic and Japan. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Gov. Koike gets first COVID-19 vaccine shot

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters at the metropolitan government headquarters in the Japanese capital on June 7, 2021. The 68-year-old governor said she received her first coronavirus vaccine shot on June 5. Japan is currently vaccinating its 65-and-over population.

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Knife-wielding man shot dead by police in Japan

Investigators study the scene in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on May 28, 2019, where police officers fired shots at a man wielding a knife. The 68-year-old was confirmed dead in hospital after being arrested at the scene on suspicion of preventing officers from performing their duty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife-wielding man shot dead by police in Japan

Investigators study the scene in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on May 28, 2019, where police officers fired shots at a man wielding a knife. The 68-year-old was confirmed dead in hospital after being arrested at the scene on suspicion of preventing officers from performing their duty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015, gives a lecture at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies on Nov. 28, 2016. The 68-year-old Alexievich, best known for her work "Chernobyl Prayer," said she visited Fukushima Prefecture on Nov. 26-27 to meet people affected by radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where she saw with her own eyes there is "no resistance culture" in Japanese society. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexievich gives lecture in Tokyo

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015, gives a lecture at the University of Tokyo in the Japanese capital on Nov. 25, 2016. The 68-year-old Alexievich, best known for her work "Chernobyl Prayer," said that in an age of confusion when democracy can break down easily, it is important not to lose imagination. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo