Twin actors starred in NHK drama series

Twin actors starred in NHK drama series

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Japanese twin actors Mana Mikura (L) and Kana Mikura, both playing starring roles in public broadcaster NHK's television drama series "Futarikko," visit the ACROS Fukuoka multi-purpose hall in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on March 8, 1997, for the recording of a TV commercial related to the Asian Development Bank.(Kyodo)

Dragon boat racing celebrates Chinese New Year in Sydney

STORY: Dragon boat racing celebrates Chinese New Year in Sydney SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 16, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 17, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:41 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sydney New Year Dragon Boat Racing 2. SOUNDBITE (English): DAVID KRANTZ, CEO of Dragon Boats NSW (New South Wales), Australia STORYLINE: The three-day Sydney New Year Dragon Boat Racing kicked off at Darling Harbour in Sydney on Friday. It marks the Year of the Dragon and is the finale of Sydney's Chinese New Year celebrations. The annual dragon boat race, one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, is in its 40th year and has attracted more than 3,000 participants from all over Australia and abroad, according to the organizer, the New South Wales Dragon Boat Association. SOUNDBITE (English): DAVID KRANTZ, CEO of Dragon Boats NSW (New South Wales), Australia "This is Sydney Lunar New Year Dragon Boat Festival here in Sydney Darling Harbour. It's a fantastic event. We will have over 3,500 paddlers acros

Pelosi's provocative Taiwan visit sparks sharp criticism

STORY: Pelosi's provocative Taiwan visit sparks sharp criticism DATELINE: Aug. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): NKOLO FOE, Member of the Consultative Committee of the China-Africa Institute, Cameroon 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): JACQUES CHEMINADE, Head of Solidarity and Progress party, France 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): OKELLO ORYEM, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Uganda 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): LING XINGGUANG, Japan-China Science, Technology and Culture Center, Japan 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): HASSAN ASLAM SHAD, International lawfare specialist in Pakistan 6. SOUNDBITE 6 (Spanish): SERGIO RODRIGUEZ GELFENSTEIN, Political analyst and writer in Venezuela 7. SOUNDBITE 7 (English): ANDREY GUBIN, Associate professor at Russia's Far Eastern Federal University STORYLINE: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited China's Taiwan region recently, despite Beijing's strong opposition and stern representations. The visit has sparked sharp criticism acros

Women Started Online Twitter Campaign - Afghanistan

Women Started Online Twitter Campaign - Afghanistan

★This is what an afghan woman looks like. this is our culture. this is our traditional dress. we love lots of colour. even our rice is colourful and so is our flag. Afghan women have started an online Twitter campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos with traditional clothes. The photos went viral with a hashtag: #DoNotTouchMyClothes. That hashtag and #AfghanistanCulture soon became a worldwide trend on social media. It all started with one photograph from Dr Bahar Jalali, a former history professor at the American University in Afghanistan. The photos, the hashtags and the viral online campaign soon became a global protest- where Afghan women were saying 'No' to the Taliban diktat on clothes. Dr Bahar Jalali, an Afghan historian and gender studies expert, posted the first photo using the #DoNotTouchMyClothes hashtag, which has since inspired Afghan women acros