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Legislative elections 2024: AD

Lisbon, 10/03/2024 - Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, makes his first statements during election night at the Hotel Sana Marquês where the Democratic Alliance (AD): Social Democratic Party (PSD), People's Party (CDS-PP) and Monarchist People's Party (PPM) are following the results of the 2024 Legislative Elections

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Legislative elections 2024: AD

Lisbon, 10/03/2024 - Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, makes his first statements during election night at the Hotel Sana Marquês where the Democratic Alliance (AD): Social Democratic Party (PSD), People's Party (CDS-PP) and Monarchist People's Party (PPM) are following the results of the 2024 Legislative Elections

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Legislative elections 2024: AD

Lisbon, 10/03/2024 - Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, makes his first statements during election night at the Hotel Sana Marquês where the Democratic Alliance (AD): Social Democratic Party (PSD), People's Party (CDS-PP) and Monarchist People's Party (PPM) are following the results of the 2024 Legislative Elections

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Legislative elections 2024: AD

Lisbon, 10/03/2024 - Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, makes his first statements during election night at the Hotel Sana Marquês where the Democratic Alliance (AD): Social Democratic Party (PSD), People's Party (CDS-PP) and Monarchist People's Party (PPM) are following the results of the 2024 Legislative Elections

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Legislative elections 2024: AD

Lisbon, 10/03/2024 - Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, makes his first statements during election night at the Hotel Sana Marquês where the Democratic Alliance (AD): Social Democratic Party (PSD), People's Party (CDS-PP) and Monarchist People's Party (PPM) are following the results of the 2024 Legislative Elections

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Legislative elections 2024: AD

Lisbon, 10/03/2024 - Luis Montenegro, president of the PSD, makes his first statements during election night at the Hotel Sana Marquês where the Democratic Alliance (AD): Social Democratic Party (PSD), People's Party (CDS-PP) and Monarchist People's Party (PPM) are following the results of the 2024 Legislative Elections

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Record companies eye new businesses as CD sales dwindle

TOKYO, japan - Comedian Hikaru Tanaka (L) hands an autographed copy of his comic "Dr. Nakajima's World Conquest," published by Pony Canyon Inc., to a fan during a book-signing event outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2014. Amid shrinking sales of CDs, Pony Canyon and other Japanese record companies are diversifying into all sorts of other fields in search of new business opportunities.

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Record companies eye new businesses as CD sales dwindle

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of the comic "Dr. Nakajima's World Conquest," published by Pony Canyon Inc., are shown at a book-signing event by author and comedian Hikaru Tanaka outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2014. Amid shrinking sales of CDs, Pony Canyon and other record companies in Japan are diversifying into all sorts of other fields in search of new business opportunities.

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High-resolution sound available with Sony's new 'Walkman'

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. announces in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2014, the launch of a new model of its portable audio player "Walkman" offering higher resolution and better sound quality than CDs.

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Trail listening of music for Olympic figure skaters

NAGOYA, Japan - CDs and records of music selected by Japanese and overseas figure skaters for their performances at the Sochi Olympic Games are available for trial listening at a special section created in the Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. The section "Music on Ice" is shown in this photograph taken on Jan. 24, 2014.

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Textbook creator

TOKYO, Japan - Junko Kurata, a producer of textbooks and CDs for Japan's major English language school operator Aeon Corp., holds some of the texts she produced, on May 15, 2013 at the company's headquarters in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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CD book expected to deepen awareness on Ainu culture

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2012, shows a songbook explaining the meanings and backgrounds of the lyrics of traditional Ainu pieces as well as their vocalism, with accompanying CDs. Photos are also provided enabling readers to visualize how Ainu people dance to the songs.

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Tokyo jazz record shop boasts 100,000 CDs, LPs

TOKYO, Japan - A man shops inside ''diskunion JazzTokyo,'' which claims to be one of the world's largest jazz record shops with some 100,000 new and used CDs and LPs, in Tokyo's Ochanomizu area on Jan. 11, 2011.

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Pirated goods

BEIJING, China - Pirated DVDs and CDs are destroyed in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2011. Around 5.21 million pirated goods were disposed of across China the same day.

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Pirated goods

BEIJING, China - Pirated DVDs and CDs are gathered for destruction in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2011. Around 5.21 million pirated goods were disposed of across China the same day.

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HMV Shibuya closed on sales slump

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors at an outlet of HMV, a major retailer of CDs, DVDs and books, in Tokyo's Shibuya district look at a farewell message Aug. 22, 2010, the store's closing down day. HMV Japan K.K. decided to wind up its business in the trend-setting area due to sluggish sales at a time when many potential customers are seeking content online.

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HMV Shibuya closed on sales slump

TOKYO, Japan - A woman takes a cellphone shot of an outlet of HMV, a major retailer of CDs, DVDs and books, in Tokyo's Shibuya district Aug. 22, 2010, the store's closing down day. HMV Japan K.K. decided to wind up its business in the trend-setting area due to sluggish sales at a time when many potential customers are seeking content online.

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Bookstores turn into lively sales space for music CDs

TOKYO, Japan - The Libro bookstore in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward sells CDs featuring a new single by singer Yumi Matsutoya, nicknamed Yuming, and rock duo Quruli on Feb. 19, 2010.

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Beatles' digitally remastered CDs hit store shelves

TOKYO, Japan - A corner is reserved for digitally remastered CDs of The Beatles' 14 albums at Yamano Music CD shop in Tokyo's fashionable Ginza district on Sept. 9, 2009. At the shop, some 150 people gathered for the commemoration event to mark the worldwide release of the legendary rock band's albums at around the previous midnight.

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Classical music CDs getting popular

TOKYO, Japan - The ''Best Classic 100'' CDs put on sale by Toshiba EMI Ltd.

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Japanese CDs go on sale in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean woman looks at a CD released by the popular Japanese surf band Tube in Seoul on Jan. 7 after Japanese pop music went on sale in the country the same day as part of a gradual opening of the domestic market to Japanese cultural products.

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(7)U.S. forces head for Baghdad

SOUTHERN IRAQ, Iraq - A U.S. soldier (R) listens to CDs in southern Iraq on March 24.

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Koizumi buys CDs in Seoul shopping mall complex

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) buys CDs mainly featuring South Korean pop music in a popular shopping mall complex in Seoul on March 21. Koizumi arrived in the South Korean capital earlier in the day for talks with President Kim Dae Jung to promote bilateral relations.

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Gov't to reinforce countermeasures for pirated products+

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) presides over a meeting of his Strategic Council on Intellectual Property on March 20. The panel of academics and experts from the public and business sectors discussed reinforcing countermeasures to protect intellectual property rights of Japanese products, which are widely pirated in the Asian region, including motorcycles, music CDs and game software.

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Copy-control feature on CDs proves ineffective

TOKYO, Japan - A new compact disk featuring South Korean singer BoA's new song ''Every Heart -- Minna no Kimochi'', released by Avex Inc. on March 13 were found to be playable or recordable, contrary to the company's claim it is impossible to illegally copy.

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Retailers vexed by pirated CDs in Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Employees at a music store in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, examine pirated compact discs (CDs), a major headache for such retailers. The owner of the shop said pirated music CDs and videos are mass produced in China, smuggled into Vietnam and sold at one-fourth regular prices. Vietnamese authorities have begun considering legal measures to regulate pirated CDs, but are unlikely to be able to stem their spread, at least for now in the absence of adequate laws in the country protecting intellectual property rights.

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Amazon.com to market Pokemon goods

NEW YORK, United States - Holding a stuffed Pokemon character, Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, an Internet retailer dealing mainly in books and CDs, attends a press conference in New York on Nov. 9. Bezos announced that Amazon will begin marketing some 100 kinds of Pokemon merchandise from Nintendo Co. of Japan from Nov. 10.

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Jazz singer to give CDs to 4,300 U.S. retirement homes

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Jazz vocalist Shoko Shiraishi, 30, poses July 31 as she prepares for a jazz concert on Aug. 2 in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, the proceeds from which will be used to donate compact discs of her music to about 4,300 U.S. retirement homes. The CD features American jazz music of the 1930's and 40's.

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Turkish currency hits lowest in 2022 against U.S. dollar

STORY: Turkish currency hits lowest in 2022 against U.S. dollar DATELINE: July 20, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:59 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkiye CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul 2. various of banks 3. various of Istanbul STORYLINE: Turkish currency hit its lowest point against the U.S. dollar as of 2022 on Tuesday, accelerating its continuous downward trend. One dollar was traded at 17.57 Turkish liras at 13:45 a.m. local time (1045 GMT), losing around 25 percent of its value this year. The record low of 18.00 was broken last December for a short period after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to keep cutting interest rates, aiming to increase exports and production to stabilize the currency. Wildly fluctuating exchange rates since then have steadily crept closer to the record low. Turkiye's five-year credit default swap (CDS) risk also rose to over 900 points, a point high above the levels of the 2008 crisis. CDS increases effectively complicate the country's efforts to acquire fo

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Copy-control feature on CDs proves ineffective

TOKYO, Japan - A new compact disk featuring South Korean singer BoA's new song ''Every Heart -- Minna no Kimochi'', released by Avex Inc. on March 13 were found to be playable or recordable, contrary to the company's claim it is impossible to illegally copy.

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Gov't to reinforce countermeasures for pirated products+

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) presides over a meeting of his Strategic Council on Intellectual Property on March 20. The panel of academics and experts from the public and business sectors discussed reinforcing countermeasures to protect intellectual property rights of Japanese products, which are widely pirated in the Asian region, including motorcycles, music CDs and game software.

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Koizumi buys CDs in Seoul shopping mall complex

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) buys CDs mainly featuring South Korean pop music in a popular shopping mall complex in Seoul on March 21. Koizumi arrived in the South Korean capital earlier in the day for talks with President Kim Dae Jung to promote bilateral relations.

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Jazz singer to give CDs to 4,300 U.S. retirement homes

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Jazz vocalist Shoko Shiraishi, 30, poses July 31 as she prepares for a jazz concert on Aug. 2 in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, the proceeds from which will be used to donate compact discs of her music to about 4,300 U.S. retirement homes. The CD features American jazz music of the 1930's and 40's.

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Japanese CDs go on sale in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean woman looks at a CD released by the popular Japanese surf band Tube in Seoul on Jan. 7 after Japanese pop music went on sale in the country the same day as part of a gradual opening of the domestic market to Japanese cultural products. (Kyodo)

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Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Rachel Weisz & Ryan Reynolds Characters: Summer Hartley & Will Hayes Film: Definitely, Maybe (USA/UK/FR/DE 2008) Director: Adam Brooks 24 January 2008 Date: 24 January 2008

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Festival celebrating ethnic minority group in Myanmar

A woman (L) wearing traditional clothes of Myanmar's Pa-O people smiles as she attends to customers at a stall selling CDs and DVDs, during a festival celebrating the ethnic minority group in Shan State, northeastern Myanmar, in March 2016. An armed insurgent group consisting of people of the Pa-O signed a ceasefire agreement with the Myanmar government in 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People in Minnesota commemorate local hero Prince

Members of a family who are admirers of the late American pop superstar Prince pose for a photo at a CD store section dedicated to his music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 30, 2016. Prince used to frequent the shop and his CDs have been selling well in the wake of his sudden death on April 21 at age 57. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Total sales of AKB48 singles hit 36 million copies, a Japan record

Songwriter Yasushi Akimoto (C) is surrounded by members of the Japanese all-girl pop group AKB48 in Tokyo in this file photo taken in May 2013. Total sales of CDs with just one song by AKB48 have reached 36,158,000 copies, the most ever by a recording artist or group in Japan, music information provider Oricon Inc. said Dec. 9, 2015. Combined sales of single CDs written by Yasushi Akimoto surpassed 100 million copies, another first in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Jamaica agree to cooperate on U.N. reform, maritime security

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) receives basketful of gifts including Bob Marley's CDs from Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in Kingston on Sept. 30, 2015. The two leaders agreed to cooperate closely in reforming the U.N. Security Council, ensuring maritime security and advancing disaster risk reduction the same day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Veteran voice actor reads spy novel into CD for blind people

Veteran voice actor Genzo Wakayama records a spy novel on a compact disc at the Japan Braille Library in Tokyo in this photo taken on Oct. 30, 2014. An increasing number of popular dubbing artists are voluntarily recording CDs of literary works for the blind. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dubbing artists voluntarily read literary works into CDs for blind

The Japan Braille Library shows in Tokyo on March 25, 2015, a set of compact discs containing veteran voice actor Genzo Wakayama's recording of Takiji Kobayashi's proletariat novel "Kanikosen" (The Crab Cannery Ship). An increasing number of popular dubbing artists are voluntarily recording CDs of literary works for the blind. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Beatles' digitally remastered CDs hit store shelves

TOKYO, Japan - A corner is reserved for digitally remastered CDs of The Beatles' 14 albums at Yamano Music CD shop in Tokyo's fashionable Ginza district on Sept. 9, 2009. At the shop, some 150 people gathered for the commemoration event to mark the worldwide release of the legendary rock band's albums at around the previous midnight. (Kyodo)

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HMV Shibuya closed on sales slump

TOKYO, Japan - A woman takes a cellphone shot of an outlet of HMV, a major retailer of CDs, DVDs and books, in Tokyo's Shibuya district Aug. 22, 2010, the store's closing down day. HMV Japan K.K. decided to wind up its business in the trend-setting area due to sluggish sales at a time when many potential customers are seeking content online. (Kyodo)

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HMV Shibuya closed on sales slump

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors at an outlet of HMV, a major retailer of CDs, DVDs and books, in Tokyo's Shibuya district look at a farewell message Aug. 22, 2010, the store's closing down day. HMV Japan K.K. decided to wind up its business in the trend-setting area due to sluggish sales at a time when many potential customers are seeking content online. (Kyodo)

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Bookstores turn into lively sales space for music CDs

TOKYO, Japan - The Libro bookstore in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward sells CDs featuring a new single by singer Yumi Matsutoya, nicknamed Yuming, and rock duo Quruli on Feb. 19, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Akutagawa Prize winner Kawakami's CDs becoming popular

TOKYO, Japan - Orders for music CDs by singer-writer Mieko Kawakami have soared after she won the prestigious Akutagawa literary award on Jan. 16. Victor Entertainment Inc., the distributor of her CDs, said Jan. 18 that it received 6,000 orders for her three albums the previous day. Before that, sales totaled about 800 CDs for each album. The photo is the cover image of one of three CD albums she released after she debuted as a singer in 2002. (Kyodo)

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Record companies eye new businesses as CD sales dwindle

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of the comic "Dr. Nakajima's World Conquest," published by Pony Canyon Inc., are shown at a book-signing event by author and comedian Hikaru Tanaka outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2014. Amid shrinking sales of CDs, Pony Canyon and other record companies in Japan are diversifying into all sorts of other fields in search of new business opportunities. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo jazz record shop boasts 100,000 CDs, LPs

TOKYO, Japan - A man shops inside ''diskunion JazzTokyo,'' which claims to be one of the world's largest jazz record shops with some 100,000 new and used CDs and LPs, in Tokyo's Ochanomizu area on Jan. 11, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Pirated goods

BEIJING, China - Pirated DVDs and CDs are gathered for destruction in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2011. Around 5.21 million pirated goods were disposed of across China the same day. (Kyodo)

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Pirated goods

BEIJING, China - Pirated DVDs and CDs are destroyed in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2011. Around 5.21 million pirated goods were disposed of across China the same day. (Kyodo)