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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Topples Archway of Tainan’s Nankunshen Daitian Temple

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Budai Township, Chiayi County around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday. The storm toppled Tainan's iconic archway of Nankunshen Daitian Temple, causing widespread flooding across the neighborhood.

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Chinese beverage company Mixue provides 500,000 jobs worldwide

STORY: Chinese beverage company Mixue provides 500,000 jobs worldwide DATELINE: Aug. 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views 2. various of beverage stores 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Filipino): NIREL FUENTES, Employee, Mixue store in the Philippines 4. various of Mixue marketing 5. various of Mixue stores operating 6. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIAN SU, Franchisee of Mixue in Indonesia 7. various of Mixue stores operating 8. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): BAI DI, Vice President of Mixue Bingcheng Co., Ltd. 9. various of foreign customers trying Mixue beverage 10. various of Mixue stores operating STORYLINE: As the Chinese beverage market is growing rapidly in recent years, many domestic companies have entered the overseas market to become globally recognized brands. Mixue Ice Cream & Tea was founded in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province in 1997. Its first overseas store, which opened in Vietnam in 2018, had a turnover exceeding 210,000 yuan (about

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Tokyo stock trading suspended due to system error

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a blank price board of a brokerage house in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Nov. 1. Trading in stocks and convertible bonds on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended because of a system malfunction. It is the bourse's first major system failure since Aug. 1, 1997.

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Tokyo stock trading suspended due to system error

TOKYO, Japan - The price board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. carries no prices as trading remains suspended due to a system malfunction on Nov. 1. The company made an announcement shortly before trading was to begin at 9 a.m. It is the bourse's first major system failure since Aug. 1, 1997, it said.

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(1)China stages military parade in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - The Chinese People's Liberation Army stages a military parade in Hong Kong Aug. 1, its first public review since the return of the island to China in 1997. The occasion was the 77th anniversary of the army's foundation.

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(2)China stages military parade in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - The Chinese People's Liberation Army stages a military parade in Hong Kong Aug. 1, its first public review since the return of the island to China in 1997. The occasion was the 77th anniversary of the army's foundation.

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Pairing assistance brings sea change to NW China mountains

STORY: Pairing assistance brings sea change to NW China mountains DATELINE: Aug. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:49 LOCATION: YINCHUAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of views in Minning Town 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XIE XINGCHANG, Former Party chief at Funing Village, Minning Town 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LIN CHUANXUAN, Deputy head of Xiji County, Ningxia (official from Fujian) 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YU ZHENGBANG, Deputy director of Rural revitalization bureau, Haiyuan County STORYLINE: Thanks to the assistance from east China's coastal province, a once poverty-stricken town deep in the country's northwestern barren mountains has seen a sea change in people's livelihood over the past decades. Affluent Fujian Province was paired with landlocked Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 1996 under a pairing-up scheme between developed and underdeveloped areas. In 1997, Fujian and Ningxia agreed to build a new village near Ningxia's capital Yinchuan to relocate villagers in arid mountains to habitable are

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Reading room commemorating Iris Chang opens at San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall

STORY: Reading room commemorating Iris Chang opens at San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall DATELINE: Aug. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:44 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. Various of the opening ceremony, visitors in the reading room 2. Iris Chang's mother Zhang Yingying in the reading room 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JENNIFER CHEUNG, President of Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia STORYLINE: The San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall has set up a reading room to commemorate the late Chinese-American writer Iris Chang, renowned for her books on history, including Japan's invasion of China. Chang, whose Chinese name was Zhang Chunru, was the author of "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II," a best-selling book published in 1997. With the book, she brought to light the horrifying atrocities known as "the Nanjing Massacre," committed by invading Japanese troops in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937. More than 3

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Tokyo stock trading suspended due to system error

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a blank price board of a brokerage house in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Nov. 1. Trading in stocks and convertible bonds on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended because of a system malfunction. It is the bourse's first major system failure since Aug. 1, 1997. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo stock trading suspended due to system error

TOKYO, Japan - The price board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. carries no prices as trading remains suspended due to a system malfunction on Nov. 1. The company made an announcement shortly before trading was to begin at 9 a.m. It is the bourse's first major system failure since Aug. 1, 1997, it said. (Kyodo)

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(2)China stages military parade in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - The Chinese People's Liberation Army stages a military parade in Hong Kong Aug. 1, its first public review since the return of the island to China in 1997. The occasion was the 77th anniversary of the army's foundation. (Kyodo)

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(1)China stages military parade in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - The Chinese People's Liberation Army stages a military parade in Hong Kong Aug. 1, its first public review since the return of the island to China in 1997. The occasion was the 77th anniversary of the army's foundation. (Kyodo)