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US: Labrador Puppy Slips On Icy Stairs As Major Winter Storm Hits Kansas

A major winter storm swept into the U.S. central plains on Saturday, January 4, causing icy streets and multiple crashes in Kansas. This video shows a Labrador puppy slipping down icy outdoor stairs in Lawrence.

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Japan-China meeting on maritime issues

Hiroyuki Namazu (L), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and his counterpart Hong Liang of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs at China's Foreign Ministry, shake hands as they hold a working-level meeting on maritime issues in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Foreign Relations Hearing - Washington

Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine U.S. strategy in the Pacific Island region, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Foreign Relations Hearing - Washington

Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine U.S. strategy in the Pacific Island region, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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China-aided mine clearance project saves lives, provides better livelihoods in Cambodia

STORY: China-aided mine clearance project saves lives, provides better livelihoods in Cambodia SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 16, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 18, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:19 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): RATH POTTANA, Director of the CMAC's planning and operation unit 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Khmer): SANG YON, Farmer 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Khmer): RY SAREOUT, Farmer 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): MA SHENGKUN, Deputy director general of the Department of Arms Control at China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs 5. various of a minefield in Siem Reap province 6. various of CMAC deminers searching for mines at a minefield in Siem Reap province 7. various of CMAC deminers detonating landmines at a minefield in Siem Reap province 8. various of Chinese delegation visiting a minefield in Siem Reap province STORYLINE: A China-aided mine clearance project in Cambodia has helped save many lives, reduce casualties, and alleviate poverty in the Southeast Asian country's rural areas. Carried out by the Cambodia

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Myanmar to send 111 athletes to Hangzhou Asian Games

STORY: Myanmar to send 111 athletes to Hangzhou Asian Games DATELINE: Sept. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:35 LOCATION: Nay Pyi Taw CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST 1. various of athletes training session for 19th Asian Games STORYLINE: Myanmar will send 111 athletes to the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, according to a sports official. Khun Jar Aung, director from the Sports and Physical Education Department under the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, said they will send a 173-member sports delegation, including athletes, coaches and team managers from seven sports, to the Hangzhou Games. 63 male and 48 female athletes will compete in sports such as football, taekwondo, Wushu, dragon boat racing, Esports, archery and sepak takraw. The Hangzhou Asian Games, scheduled to be held from September 23 to October 8, are expected to see approximately 12,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions. They will compete in 40 sports across 481 events. Myanmar clinched two medals from Wushu and sepak takraw in the 2018 Asia

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Foreign Relations Hearing - Washington

Kin Moy, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State, appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine AUKUS, focusing on a generational opportunity to deepen our security partnerships with Australia and the United Kingdom, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Foreign Relations Hearing - Washington

Kin Moy, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State, appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine AUKUS, focusing on a generational opportunity to deepen our security partnerships with Australia and the United Kingdom, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Foreign Relations Hearing - Washington

Kin Moy, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State, appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine AUKUS, focusing on a generational opportunity to deepen our security partnerships with Australia and the United Kingdom, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S. State Department senior official in Tokyo

Camille Dawson, the U.S. State Department's deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2023.

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Young Iraqis struggle to find jobs amid continued chaos, conflicts

STORY: Young Iraqis struggle to find jobs amid continued chaos, conflicts DATELINE: June 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:21 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Yad al-Rajaa Company in Baghdad 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): SAAD AL-KHATTAB, Owner of Yad al-Rajaa Company 3. various of asian workers working in a sweats shop in Baghdad 4. various of the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ABBAS FADEL, Deputy director general, Labor and Vocational Training Department of Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs 6. various of the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs STORYLINE: Every year, thousands of students graduate from universities across Iraq, searching for an opportunity in the labor market, yet the country's sluggish economy offers little hope. Iraq has been suffering from a severe unemployment problem since the U.S. invasion in 2003. The continued chaos and conflicts that swept the country in the past 20 years have not only hindered successive governments from

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Myanmar to send over 400 athletes to 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia

STORY: Myanmar to send over 400 athletes to 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia DATELINE: April 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of a training club in Myanmar 2. various of athletes training indoors 3. various of athletes training outdoors STORYLINE: Myanmar will send more than 400 athletes to compete in the 32nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Cambodia, according to the country's Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs on Saturday. "More than 460 coaches and athletes across 19 sports will be sent to the SEA Games," U Htay Aung, director of the Department of Sports and Physical Education of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, told Xinhua. Of the Myanmar participants at the upcoming SEA Games, more than 300 athletes are currently training in Nay Pyi Taw, while more than 100 are in Yangon, he added. In 2022, Myanmar athletes competed in 18 sports at the 31st SEA Games in Vietnam, winning nine gold, 18 silver, and 35 bronze medals. The 32nd SEA Games is sch

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Japan, N. Korea divided but agree to meet more often

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Kim Chol Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, speaks at a news conference in Ulan Bator on Sept. 6 after the end of two days of talks on the normalization of ties with Japan.

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Japan, Russia agree to hold vice minister-level talks

TOKYO, Japan - Hajime Hayashi (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, and Andrey Tatarinov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Third Asian Department, shake hands ahead of talks at the Japanese ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2014. The two sides agreed to hold a vice minister-level meeting at an early date as part of efforts to realize a visit to Japan by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015.

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N. Korean diplomat with rich Japan experience to leave for new job

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kim Chol Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department. Kim, who has long experience in dealing with Japan, is expected to leave Pyongyang soon and to become ambassador to Ethiopia, a source familiar with the situation said Dec. 3, 2014.

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea meet in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Junichi Ihara, the director general for Asian and Oceanian affairs at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on April 7, 2014, after a meeting with Glyn Davies, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, and Hwang Joon Kook, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs. The three countries restated their commitment to peacefully removing nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and pledged to continue working tightly with each other and with their allies and partners in the international community to focus international attention on the human rights situation in North Korea, according to the U.S. State Department.

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Japan official in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima (R), an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shakes hands with Kim Chol Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, upon arrival at Pyongyang airport in North Korea on May 14, 2013.

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Japan, U.S. hold talks on N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Shinsuke Sugiyama, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, answers reporters' questions at the State Department in Washington on April 18, 2013. Sugiyama held talks on North Korea issues the same day with U.S. special envoy on North Korea Glyn Davies.

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Okinawa gov. in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima answers reporters' questions after meeting with Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and Mark Lippert, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, at the State Department in Washington on Oct. 22, 2012. Nakaima lodged a protest with the United States at the meeting over the alleged rape of a Japanese woman by two U.S. sailors.

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N. Korean official in charge of Japanese affairs

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Chol Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, speaks during an interview with Japanese media in Pyongyang on Aug. 31, 2011.

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Campbell cancels trip to Asia

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. The U.S. State Department said Dec. 14, 2010, that Campbell has cancelled a round of visits to China, South Korea and Japan due to health problem.

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New U.S. defense strategy to focus on energy, climate change

SINGAPORE, Singapore - U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Wallace Gregson speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Singapore on June 6, 2010. Gregson said the U.S. Defense Department needs to seriously consider energy security, climate change and other non-traditional issues when it creates a new strategy for the Asia-Pacific region.

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Campbell positive on Ozawa meeting with Obama during U.S. trip

WASHINGTON, United States - Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to Kyodo News reporters during an interview at the U.S. Defense Department building in Washington D.C. on Feb. 12, 2010. Campbell appeared positive about the possibility of a meeting between Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa and President Barack Obama if Ozawa visits the United States.

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Ishiba discusses U.S. military base issue with Campbell

WASHINGTON, United States - Shigeru Ishiba, the policy chief of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters after meeting with Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, in front of the U.S. State Department in Washington on Jan. 6, 2010. Campbell told the former Japanese defense minister that there will be no progress on the issue of relocating a U.S. military base in Okinawa, unless the Japanese people understand the necessity of U.S. troops in Okinawa.

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Japan, China hold working-level gas talks

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichiro Sasae (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Hu Zhengyue, director general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, shake hands in Tokyo on Nov. 14 as they meet to discuss a dispute over gas exploration rights in the East China Sea.

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Japan, China remain apart over gas dispute but new idea floated

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichiro Sasae (far right), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Hu Zhengyue (2nd from left), head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, are in talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry on March 29.

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Japan, China clarify joint gas development plans, gaps remain

TOKYO, Japan - Hu Zhengyue (R), chief of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, speaks Japan-China talks on gas development in disputed East China Sea waters in Tokyo on May 18. The two countries failed to narrow their gaps. (Pool photo)

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Japan, China express intention to resolve gas row

TOKYO, Japan - Hu Zhengyue (L), head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, and Kenichiro Sasae, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands in Tokyo on May 18 at the outset of the fifth round of talks on the bilateral row over gas development in disputed East China Sea waters. (Pool photo)

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Japan, China begin gas talks, Tokyo expecting new proposal

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae (L), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Hu Zhengyue, head of Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, shake hands at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on March 6 at the outset of their talks on gas exploration rights in the East China Sea.

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Japan, N. Korea discuss abductions on 2nd day of talks

BEIJING, China - Kim Chol Ho (2nd from R), vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, and members of his delegation attend a panel meeting with Japan at a Beijing hotel on Feb. 5 to discuss ways to resolve a dispute over the past abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents. The two countries began a new three-track discussion on Feb. 4 aimed at solving problems preventing the two countries from normalizing diplomatic relations.

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N. Korea says talks with Japan will go ahead

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the Asian Affairs Department of North Korea's Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters at Beijing's international airport on Dec. 27.

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Japan, N. Korea begin 2nd day of talks on abductions, history

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the Asian Affairs Department of North Korea's Foreign Ministry, is surrounded by reporters at a hotel in Beijing on Nov. 4 before the second day of bilateral talks with Japan.

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N. Korean delegate arrives in Beijing for talks with Japan

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, is surrounded by reporters on arrivat at Beijing airport on Nov. 1 for bilateral talks with Japan beginning in the Chinese capital on Nov. 3.

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N. Korean delegate arrives in Beijing for talks with Japan

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, arrives at Beijing airport on Nov. 1 for bilateral talks with Japan beginning in the Chinese capital on Nov. 3.

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N. Korea hints at flexibility over dispute about remains of abductee

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at aPyongyang hotel on Oct. 13. He said North Korea would hear out what Japan has to say about the ashes which Japan has concluded are not of a Japanese abductee as claimed by Pyongyang.

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Japan, China hold gas fields talks, focus on info disclosure

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichiro Sasae (L), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and Cui Tiankai, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, shake hands in Tokyo on Sept. 30 before they start working-level talks over Chinese gas and oil exploration in fields in the East China Sea.

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(3)Japan, China hold talks on E. China Sea gas dispute

BEIJING, China - Cui Tiankai, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, heads the Chinese delegates to the talks with Japan that began in Beijing on May 30 on gas exploration in the East China Sea.

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Japan, China begin talks on gas exploration in E. China Sea

BEIJING, China - Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (R), shakes hands with Cui Tiankai, director general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, on Oct. 25 before talks to resolve a dispute over gas exploration projects in the East China Sea.

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(1)Japan asks N. Korea for fuller accounts of missing Japanese

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, is surrounded by reporters at a hotel in Beijing on Sept. 26 before the start of the second day of Japan-North Korea working-level talks on North Korea's abduction of Japanese.

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(2) N. Korea says has new info in Japan talks

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, speaks to reporters at a Beijing hotel Sept. 25 before Japan-North Korea working-level talks on North Korea's abductions of Japanese.

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(3)Japan, N. Korea begin talks on 10 missing Japanese

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, is about to leave the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 11 after the initial round of a two-day working-level meeting with Japan on 10 Japanese who the Tokyo government says were abducted by North Korea.

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(2)Japan, N. Korea begin talks on 10 missing Japanese

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, arrives at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 11 to represent North Korea at a two-day working-level meeting with Japan on 10 Japanese who the Tokyo government says were abducted by North Korea.

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Japan, N. Korea may talk in Jakarta over Soga family reunion

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Mitoji Yabunaka, who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, arrives in Jakarta for talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and her North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun. Yabunaka may meet Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, to discuss the possibility of a family reunion in Indonesia for repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga and her family members who remain in North Korea as a preparatory meeting prior to the foreign ministers' talks.

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Japan, China, S. Korea hold talks on 3-way alliance, N. Korea

HAKONE, Japan - Cui Tiankai (L), head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, Mitoji Yabunaka (C), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Chung Sang Ki, head of the South Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau, join hands for photos at a resort hotel in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on June 7 prior to their talks. They met to lay the groundwork for a trilateral foreign ministerial meeting which is planned for later this month.

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(1)Japan, N. Korea to hold next Red Cross talks around June

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Shigekazu Sato (R), deputy director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, give a news conference in Beijing on April 30 at the end of two days of talks between Japanese and North Korean Red Cross delegations. Both sides agreed to hold their next talks around June.

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Japan, N. Korea begin working-level talks

BEIJING, China - Koreshige Anami, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau (C), invites O Ul Rok (R), head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Department No. 14 in charge of Japan affairs, to take seat at the beginning of working-level talks on normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 21.

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Japan, China exchange views in security dialogue

TOKYO, Japan - Koreshige Anami (R), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, greets Zhang Jiuhuan, director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 7 prior to talks on security policies.

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Pooling Asian wisdom for better global governance

STORY: Pooling Asian wisdom for better global governance DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:20 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of G20 and APEC-related footage 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): KAO KIM HOURN, Minister attached to prime minister of Cambodia 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): PELAGIA KARPATHIOTAKI, Greek scholar 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): LESLIE SOEMEDI, CEO of Master Steel, Indonesia 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): CHERDCHAI CHAIVAIVID, Director-general, Department of International Economic Affairs, Thailand's Foreign Ministry 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): SELCUK COLAKOGLU, Director of the Turkish Center of Asia Pacific Studies 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, International relations lecturer, United States International University (USIU-Africa) STORYLINE: Amid the unprecedented difficulties unseen in many decades, the 17th Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Bali and the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Bangkok grouped global leaders and w

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(2) N. Korea says has new info in Japan talks

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, speaks to reporters at a Beijing hotel Sept. 25 before Japan-North Korea working-level talks on North Korea's abductions of Japanese. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan asks N. Korea for fuller accounts of missing Japanese

BEIJING, China - Song Il Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, is surrounded by reporters at a hotel in Beijing on Sept. 26 before the start of the second day of Japan-North Korea working-level talks on North Korea's abduction of Japanese. (Kyodo)