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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 18, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 23, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 23, 2024 shows the coastal railway line in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 18, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 23, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 23, 2024 shows the railway line by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 23, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 18, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coastal Railway Line In Colombo - Sri Lanka

This photo taken on December 18, 2024 shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The coastal railway line, located on the west coast of Sri Lanka and close to the Indian Ocean, is a major railway line in this island country. It is also a famous tourist attraction, where the straight coastline, the carriages without doors, and the beautiful sea view throughout the journey allow people to get the unique Ceylon-style experience. Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Princess Yuriko

Japan's Princess Yuriko and her husband Prince Mikasa are greeted with a traditional dance in August 1956 in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. Emperor Naruhito's great-aunt, the oldest member of Japan's imperial family, died at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 15, 2024, at the age of 101.

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Vlog: A taste of delicacies at China-South Asia Expo

STORY: Vlog: A taste of delicacies at China-South Asia Expo DATELINE: Aug. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:04:18 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): ZHANG LI, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of the expo 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WARUSAPPERUMA, Marketing director, Sinolan Tea Private Limited 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SACHITH DAKSHITHA GOONATILLEKE, Director, Gennspice Ceylon (Pvt) Ltd. 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): AVA BAYAT, Commercial manager, Persian Impression Beijing Trading Company 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): THIENG SOMSAT, Chairman, Meely Decore Sole Co. Ltd. STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): ZHANG LI, Xinhua correspondent "I'm at the 7th China-South Asia Expo, which is in full swing in the beautiful city of China's Kunming. This year's event is bustling with over 30,000 exhibitors, representatives and guests from 85 countries and regions, and international organizations. Many Exhibitors are attending this year's event through online mediums. And I'm super excited to get

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South Asia Tea Festival held at China-South Asia Expo

STORY: South Asia Tea Festival held at China-South Asia Expo DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:53 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the tea festival 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JINJANGA, President of Sri Lanka-China Association for Economic, Educational and Cultural Exchange and Cooperation 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SARAH BIKRAM RANA, Executive Director of Nepal Trade and Export Promotion Center 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): MA NUO, Sri Lankan Ceylon Black Tea expert 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): TAO GUOXIANG, President of Yunnan Ethnic Tea Culture Research Association STORYLINE: The first South Asia Tea Festival opened Thursday at the seventh China-South Asia Exposition in Kunming, the capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Through the tea festival, tea merchants from South Asia promote tea products and tea culture to professional buyers and consumers, to explore chances of cooperation and common development. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JINJANGA, President of Sri Lanka-

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Butterflies overwintering on subtropical island

Photo taken on Jan. 9, 2023, on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows Ceylon blue glassy tigers clustered on twigs to make it through the winter. The butterfly is found in Southeast Asia, including Taiwan and southwestern islands in Japan, and is known to cluster in groups when the temperature falls below 15 C.

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Butterflies overwintering on subtropical island

Photo taken on Jan. 9, 2023, on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows Ceylon blue glassy tigers clustered on twigs to make it through the winter. The butterfly is found in southeast Asia, including Taiwan and southwestern islands in Japan, and is known to cluster in groups when the temperature falls below 15 C.

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Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - This photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies, a semitropical species. The butterflies, whose scientific name is ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter.

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Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - This photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies, a semitropical species. The butterflies, whose scientific name is ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter.

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50th anniversary of Sri Lankan elephant's arrival in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Prince and Princess Mikasa (L and C) pose for photos with Sri Lankan Minister of National Heritage Anura Bandaranaike (R) at Tama Zoo in Tokyo's Hino on May 12 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the elephant Anura (in background) in Japan. Anura was presented to Japan by Ceylon, the former name of Sri Lanka, in 1956 to commemorate the prince's visit to Ceylon.

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FUEL SHORTAGE

(220617) -- COLOMBO, June 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People and vehicles queue to purchase fuel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 17, 2022. Sri Lanka's state-owned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said it only has 5,000 metric tons of petrol and thus only 500 metric tons will be released to gas stations each day. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-POWER CUTS

(220616) -- COLOMBO, June 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Long queue is witnessed at a filling station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 15, 2022. Sri Lanka's state-owned electricity producer Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) Engineers' Union warned on Wednesday that the country might continue to experience power cuts for at least three more years. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FUEL PRICES-INCREASE

(220524) -- COLOMBO, May 24, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People fuel motorcycles at a gas station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 24, 2022. Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has once again increased its fuel prices from Tuesday morning as the fuel shortage continues in the country. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FUEL PRICES-INCREASE

(220524) -- COLOMBO, May 24, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People fuel vehicles at a gas station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 24, 2022. Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has once again increased its fuel prices from Tuesday morning as the fuel shortage continues in the country. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)

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Sri Lanka announces further power cut to 13 hours for March 31

STORY: Sri Lanka announces further power cut to 13 hours for March 31 DATELINE: March 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Colombo city under power cut STORYLINE: The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) on Wednesday approved a 13-hour power cut for Thursday proposed by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). The PUCSL said that the decision has been taken due to low hydropower generation and the fuel shortage that has crippled thermal power generation. Meanwhile, the CEB Engineers' Union warned that the duration of power cuts might have to be increased in the coming days. Sri Lanka experienced a 10-hour power cut on Wednesday, according to the PUCSL. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Colombo. (XHTV)

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Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima Island

Photo taken Dec. 3, 2021, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies. The butterflies, whose scientific name is ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter in groups.

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Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima Island

Photo taken Dec. 3, 2021, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies. The butterflies, whose scientific name is ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter in groups.

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Cenotaph War Memorial, Galle Face Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Cenotaph War Memorial built in the 1920s to remember both Ceylonese and Europeans from Ceylon who were killed in the World War I, was constructed at the Galle Face Green. Then it was dismantled and re-erected at Victoria Park (now Viharamahadevi Park), during World War II after fears that the Japanese might use it as a marker to direct their artillery. Date: circa 1930

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SONG OF CEYLON

SONG OF CEYLON Date: 1934

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Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, dies at 100

Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, and his wife Princess Yuriko are seen riding elephants during their trip to Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, in this file photo taken in August 1956. The prince, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, died at a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 27, 2016, at 100. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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50th anniversary of Sri Lankan elephant's arrival in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Prince and Princess Mikasa (L and C) pose for photos with Sri Lankan Minister of National Heritage Anura Bandaranaike (R) at Tama Zoo in Tokyo's Hino on May 12 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the elephant Anura (in background) in Japan. Anura was presented to Japan by Ceylon, the former name of Sri Lanka, in 1956 to commemorate the prince's visit to Ceylon. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima

AMAMI, Japan - This photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies, a semitropical species. The butterflies, whose scientific name is Ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima

AMAMI, Japan - This photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies, a semitropical species. The butterflies, whose scientific name is Ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter. (Kyodo)

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Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - This photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies, a semitropical species. The butterflies, whose scientific name is ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter. (Kyodo)

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Ceylon Blue butterflies wintering on Amami-Oshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - This photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, on Amami-Oshima Island off Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu shows Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies, a semitropical species. The butterflies, whose scientific name is ideopsis similis, with distinctive light-blue patterns on their wings, can be seen in wooded areas of the island where they spend the winter. (Kyodo)