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Thousands flee homes as floods strike off Indonesia's Central Java

STORY: Thousands flee homes as floods strike off Indonesia's Central Java SHOOTING TIME: March 18, 2024 DATELINE: March 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Wulan River 2. various of Semarang, capital of Central Java STORYLINE: Thousands of people have fled their homes in the Indonesian province of Central Java as floods devastated the region over the weekend, the local disaster mitigation agency reported on Monday. The worst affected area is the Demak regency with more than 22,000 people reportedly taking temporary shelter due to the floodwater. According to the Demak Disaster Mitigation Agency, 89 villages in 11 subdistricts were inundated with depths ranging from 30 to over 80 centimeters. Flooding worsened in Demak after a dam on the Wulan River collapsed and cut off a section of the provincial highway connecting Demak and its neighboring regency Kudus. Disasters like floods and landslides often occur in Indonesia during the rainy se

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Harvesting Leeks Underwater - Charente-Maritime

Organic market gardener Noel Michaud harvests leeks in his flooded field in Angoulins, near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France on November 14, 2023. Usually, the leeks are drowned in 10 or 20 centimeters of water, but currently the rows disappear under 80 centimeters, due to the record-breaking rain of recent days. Photo by Leoty X/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Big harvest in N China winter fishing

STORY: Big harvest in N China winter fishing DATELINE: Jan. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: CHENGDE, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of winter fishing STORYLINE: The 2023 ice fishing festival was held in Weichang Man and Mongolian Autonomous County of Chengde City, north China's Hebei Province on Saturday, attracting about 1,000 tourists. More than 20 tons of silver carp and bighead carp were caught by a huge fishing net. Diaoyutai Reservoir has a water area of 533,000 square meters. In winter, its ice layer is as thick as 80 centimeters. Its frozen period lasts for more than 70 days, providing excellent natural conditions for winter fishing. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Chengde, China. (XHTV)

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9/11 group gives monument to Japanese city

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 25, 2012, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, shows a monument (front) in the shape of a crane, with a wing span of 80 centimeters, made from debris of the World Trade Center, which collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. An association of bereaved families of victims of the attacks donated the monument the same day to the city as a symbol of its recovery efforts from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Panasonic's tablet computers for corporate users

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the 7.0-inch (L) and 10.1-inch display models of Panasonic Corp.'s new BizPad tablet computers for corporate users to be sold from late December 2011. The consumer electronics giant said on Oct. 12, 2011, that the new tablet computers will run on Google Inc.'s Android 3.2 operating system and will not break even if the 7.0-inch model is dropped from a height of 120 centimeters and the 10.1-inch model from a height of 80 centimeters because of their shockproof structures.

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Flooded road in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman walks on a flooded road in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20, 2011. The area sank around 80 centimeters after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and high tides have been flooding the area since the disaster.

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Gold figure of god of business prosperity unveiled

OSAKA, Japan - Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. unveils a pure gold ''Ebisu'' figure, or god of business prosperity, for sale on Dec. 26 in Osaka. The figure, 40 centimeters high and 15 kilograms in weight, will be put on sale starting Jan. 2 at 80 million yen.

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm.

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Robot balances pole in its palm

OSAKA, Japan - A robot called DB, developed by a project team of Japan Science and Technology Corp., demonstrates in Kyoto on Aug. 30 its ability to balance a pole in its palm. The human-shaped robot, which is 190 centimeters tall and weighs 80 kilograms, balanced the pole for four minutes. The pole, made of vinyl chloride, is 4 centimeters in diameter and 120 centimeters in length.

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Gold figure of god of business prosperity unveiled

OSAKA, Japan - Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. unveils a pure gold ''Ebisu'' figure, or god of business prosperity, for sale on Dec. 26 in Osaka. The figure, 40 centimeters high and 15 kilograms in weight, will be put on sale starting Jan. 2 at 80 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm. (Kyodo)

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Panasonic's tablet computers for corporate users

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the 7.0-inch (L) and 10.1-inch display models of Panasonic Corp.'s new BizPad tablet computers for corporate users to be sold from late December 2011. The consumer electronics giant said on Oct. 12, 2011, that the new tablet computers will run on Google Inc.'s Android 3.2 operating system and will not break even if the 7.0-inch model is dropped from a height of 120 centimeters and the 10.1-inch model from a height of 80 centimeters because of their shockproof structures. (Kyodo)

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Rare Sesshu painting discovered at U.S. museum

TOKYO, Japan - A landscape painting by Sesshu Toyo, a noted 15th century Japanese artist, has been found preserved at an art museum in the United States, Tokyo National Museum researcher Hideaki Kunigo said Feb. 26. The Indian ink work, about 150 centimeters long and 80 cm wide, was found at an art museum affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Flooded road in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman walks on a flooded road in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20, 2011. The area sank around 80 centimeters after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and high tides have been flooding the area since the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Scenes of sumo

Bulgarian Aoiyama (L), standing 191 centimeters, defeats 173 cm-tall Ishiura on July 11, 2017, the third day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya, central Japan. Aoiyama weighs almost 80 kilograms more than his deposed opponent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese huchen fish move upstream in Hokkaido river

A breeding pair of Japanese huchen, about 80 centimeters in length, move upstream for reproduction in a river in the northern part of Hokkaido on April 29, 2017, with the male (top) in the breeding color of red. A member of the salmon family, the Japanese huchen is Japan's largest freshwater fish and is listed as endangered by the Environment Ministry. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Robot balances pole in its palm

OSAKA, Japan - A robot called DB, developed by a project team of Japan Science and Technology Corp., demonstrates in Kyoto on Aug. 30 its ability to balance a pole in its palm. The human-shaped robot, which is 190 centimeters tall and weighs 80 kilograms, balanced the pole for four minutes. The pole, made of vinyl chloride, is 4 centimeters in diameter and 120 centimeters in length.

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Researchers develop robot copy of gibbon

NAGOYA, Japan - A robot of a gibbon, developed by a group of researchers at Nagoya University in central Japan, hangs on to a bar in a demonstration at the university on Feb. 8. The researchers made the robot ape with the aim of using it to develop high-quality industrial robots. It is 80 centimeters tall and 150 cm wide when both of its arms are outstretched, and weighs about 10 kilograms.