Turkish automobile expert on first domestically-produced car

STORY: Turkish automobile expert on first domestically-produced car DATELINE: Nov. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:20 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Togg's C-SUV 2. various of first car manufacturing plant inauguration 3. SOUNDBITE (Turkish): EMRE OZPEYNIRCI, Journalist and automobile expert STORYLINE: A Turkish automobile expert said that the recently-unveiled first domestically-produced car in Türkiye is not competitive due to its "small amount of production." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in late October inaugurated the country's first car manufacturing plant and rolled out the first domestically-produced car. The first model of Togg, or Türkiye's Automobile Joint Venture Group, is a C-SUV electric vehicle, for which pre-sales will start in February. Togg, a brand officially established in 2018, was founded as a joint venture by domestic industrial giants Anadolu Group, BMC Türkiye, Turkcell, Zorlu Holding, and the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges. The

Death toll in building collapse in India's Mumbai rises to 14

STORY: Death toll in building collapse in India's Mumbai rises to 14 DATELINE: June 29, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:43 LOCATION: MUMBAI, India CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rescue operations STORYLINE: Death toll in a four-storey building collapse in India's Mumbai rose to 14 while rescue operations were underway on Tuesday evening. The dilapidated building that collapsed on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, saw several persons being trapped under the debris. Of the total number of 27 injured persons, 14 were reported dead while nine persons were discharged after treatment, and the remaining four are undergoing treatment at the civic hospital, said the city civic body, BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on its social microblogging site. Ahead of the monsoon season that starts from June to September, the BMC had identified 337 dilapidated buildings across Mumbai, down from 465 buildings last year. The annual survey of dilapidated buildings is being conducted before th

Identifiable hadrosaur embryo fossils discovered in China

STORY: Identifiable hadrosaur embryo fossils discovered in China DATELINE: May 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the fossils STORYLINE: Two egg fossils containing identifiable hadrosaur embryos have been discovered in the city of Ganzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province, scientists said. The fossils, which date back to 66 to 72 million years ago, are now preserved at the Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum in Fujian Province. The better-preserved egg has the shape of a prolate spheroid, with a total volume of approximately 660 ml. The embryo fills about 40 percent of the egg's area. A paper on the finding, co-authored by researchers in China and Canada, has been published in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. While hadrosaur embryo fossils have been discovered before, the two found in Ganzhou are so far the best-preserved of their kind, according to the research team. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Fuzhou, China. (XHTV)