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Brooklyn Nets celebrates Chinese New Year while hosting Detroit Pistons

STORY: Brooklyn Nets celebrates Chinese New Year while hosting Detroit Pistons DATELINE: Jan. 28, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:20 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: CULTURE/SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the arena featuring Chinese New Year decorations 2. various of Chinese Consul General in New York Huang Ping delivering remarks and exchanging gifts with Sam Zussman, CEO of BSE Global, parent company of the Brooklyn Nets 3. various of performance during the halftime 4. various of New Year wishes board, clothing collection featuring Year of the Rabbit, and Chinese food during the celebration STORYLINE: New York-based professional basketball team Brooklyn Nets celebrated Chinese New Year on Thursday evening while hosting the Detroit Pistons in an NBA game at Barclays Center. The festivities were highlighted by thematic decorations, New Year wishes board, hand-out of red envelopes for every spectator, availability of Chinese food inside the arena, and the launch of an exclusive clothing collection featuring the Chines

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Nakagawa objects to U.S. plan to reduce No. of cows checked for BSE

GENEVA, Switzerland - Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shoichi Nakagawa (far left) and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns (far right) pose for photos prior to their talks in Geneva on May 2. Nakagawa told Johanns that reducing the number of cows to be checked for mad cow disease is never likely to be accepted positively in Japan.

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U.S. beef producer sues USDA to seek blanket BSE testing

WASHINGTON, United States - John Stewart, chief executive officer and founder of Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC, speaks at a news conference in Washington on March 23.

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Food Safety Commission OKs easing of all-cow testing for BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's independent Food Safety Commission is in session in Tokyo on May 6 on the issue of the country's import ban on American beef. The panel approved an easing of the blanket testing of all cows for mad cow disease, paving the way for lifting the ban imposed after the December 2003 discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease.

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Envoy Baker's wife urges USDA to allow BSE tests by meatpackers

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker (in file photo), the wife of Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking it to reconsider its refusal to allow meatpackers to test all slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease, a copy of the letter obtained April 15 showed.

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Testing of all cattle for BSE is unscientific: U.S. exporter

TOKYO, Japan - Philip Seng, president of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on March 8. He said that Japan's request for testing all U.S. cattle for mad cow disease is unscientific.

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10th BSE case prompts checks in Kanagawa

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A Kanagawa Prefecture official checks a cow Feb. 23 at a farm in Hiratsuka, where Japan's 10th case of mad cow disease was found. The health ministry confirmed Feb. 22 that the 7-year-old Holstein had the brain-wasting disease.

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Japan, U.S. begin discussing safety steps on BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakagawa (L), head of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry's Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, and J.B. Penn, undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shake hands at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 23 before they start talks on safety measures the United States is taking for its beef following the outbreak of mad cow disease there.

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U.S. Embassy officials brief Japan on BSE discovery

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Embassy officials meet Japanese farm ministry officials in Tokyo on Dec. 24 to explain the U.S. government's announcement of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in Washington State.

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease.

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7th cow with BSE found in Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Two Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry officials speak at a news conference Jan. 23 on Japan's seventh case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) involving a cow in Hokkaido. The announcement came just four days after the finding of the 6th BSE infection case, involving a cow in Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo wholesale market launches meat safety campaign

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd a ''meat fair'' which Tokyo's central wholesale market launched in Minato Ward on Oct. 19 to promote its campaign to persuade consumers about the safety of beef and pork. Japan's food industry was hammered by the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease, in the country in September 2001.

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Kanagawa to destroy 37 cows on farm in latest BSE case

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A cow is pulled into a truck on Sept. 6 at a dairy farm in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where Japan's fifth case of mad cow disease was found last month, to be destroyed due to fear it may be infected. A total of 37 cows at the farm will be destroyed.

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(1)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - A special panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease is in session April 2 to adopt a final report on the first outbreak of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in Japan in 2001. The report blasted the farm ministry for its failure to ban meat and bone meal (MBM) feed in the mid-1990s.

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Farm minister says he will stay on to tackle BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on April 2 about his intention to remain in office. A panel issued a report the same day criticizing the farm ministry over its handling of mad cow disease.

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-MOL SERVICE STATION

(220112) -- BUDAPEST, Jan. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- MOL service station is seen in Budapest, Hungary on Jan. 12, 2022. Hungary's leading gas and oil firm MOL signed a 610 million-U.S. dollar contract with Grupo Lotos SA and PKN Orlen to acquire 417 service stations in Poland, MOL announced Wednesday on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE). (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)

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HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-MOL SERVICE STATION

(220112) -- BUDAPEST, Jan. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- MOL service station is seen in Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 12, 2022. Hungary's leading gas and oil firm MOL signed a 610 million-U.S. dollar contract with Grupo Lotos SA and PKN Orlen to acquire 417 service stations in Poland, MOL announced Wednesday on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE). (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)

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Food Safety Commission OKs easing of all-cow testing for BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's independent Food Safety Commission is in session in Tokyo on May 6 on the issue of the country's import ban on American beef. The panel approved an easing of the blanket testing of all cows for mad cow disease, paving the way for lifting the ban imposed after the December 2003 discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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Japanese researchers trigger onset of mad cow disease in cows

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo released by the Hokkaido Animal Research Center on Jan. 18 shows a cow which researchers have had infected with mad cow disease in what they call the first such experiment in Japan. The center said the researchers triggered the onset of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in three cows in an experiment in which the cows were injected with abnormal prions extracted from BSE-infected cows. (Kyodo)

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U.S. beef producer sues USDA to seek blanket BSE testing

WASHINGTON, United States - John Stewart, chief executive officer and founder of Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC, speaks at a news conference in Washington on March 23. (Kyodo)

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Japanese beef-tasting event at embassy in Moscow

An event to taste Japanese beef is under way at the Embassy of Japan in Moscow on March 26, 2015. Russia resumed imports of beef from Japan this month, lifting the import ban imposed after the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in Japan. Japan has been recognized by the World Organisation for Animal Health as a country having a negligible risk, the lowest risk level under the OIE code, for BSE since May 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - A special panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease is in session April 2 to adopt a final report on the first outbreak of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in Japan in 2001. The report blasted the farm ministry for its failure to ban meat and bone meal (MBM) feed in the mid-1990s.

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Envoy Baker's wife urges USDA to allow BSE tests by meatpackers

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker (in file photo), the wife of Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking it to reconsider its refusal to allow meatpackers to test all slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease, a copy of the letter obtained April 15 showed. (Kyodo)

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Testing of all cattle for BSE is unscientific: U.S. exporter

TOKYO, Japan - Philip Seng, president of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on March 8. He said that Japan's request for testing all U.S. cattle for mad cow disease is unscientific. (Kyodo)

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10th BSE case prompts checks in Kanagawa

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A Kanagawa Prefecture official checks a cow Feb. 23 at a farm in Hiratsuka, where Japan's 10th case of mad cow disease was found. The health ministry confirmed Feb. 22 that the 7-year-old Holstein had the brain-wasting disease. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. begin discussing safety steps on BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Nakagawa (L), head of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry's Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, and J.B. Penn, undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shake hands at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 23 before they start talks on safety measures the United States is taking for its beef following the outbreak of mad cow disease there. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Embassy officials brief Japan on BSE discovery

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Embassy officials meet Japanese farm ministry officials in Tokyo on Dec. 24 to explain the U.S. government's announcement of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in Washington State. (Kyodo)

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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7th cow with BSE found in Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Two Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry officials speak at a news conference Jan. 23 on Japan's seventh case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) involving a cow in Hokkaido. The announcement came just four days after the finding of the 6th BSE infection case, involving a cow in Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo wholesale market launches meat safety campaign

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd a ''meat fair'' which Tokyo's central wholesale market launched in Minato Ward on Oct. 19 to promote its campaign to persuade consumers about the safety of beef and pork. Japan's food industry was hammered by the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease, in the country in September 2001. (Kyodo)

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Kanagawa to destroy 37 cows on farm in latest BSE case

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A cow is pulled into a truck on Sept. 6 at a dairy farm in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where Japan's fifth case of mad cow disease was found last month, to be destroyed due to fear it may be infected. A total of 37 cows at the farm will be destroyed. (Kyodo)