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Chinese animation gaining acceptance from audiences abroad

STORY: Chinese animation gaining acceptance from audiences abroad SHOOTING TIME: March 2, 2024 DATELINE: March 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:26 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the company and posters 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DAISY SHANG, Executive President, Fantawild Holdings Inc. STORYLINE: In recent years, leaps in the quality of Chinese animation films have brought commercial success in the domestic market. Many of them are also screened overseas and gaining acceptance from audiences abroad. In 2023, the English-dubbed version of "Boonie Bears: Guardian Code" hit the theaters in the United Kingdom and Ireland and won applause. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DAISY SHANG, Executive President, Fantawild Holdings Inc. "In the international film market, our 'Boonie Bears' series has been released in more than 130 countries and regions. It continues to hit theaters in more than 70 countries including the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In the UK and Germany, we have set many

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Cambodia's central bank, UnionPay International launch cross-border QR code payment

STORY: Cambodia's central bank, UnionPay International launch cross-border QR code payment SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 22, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:45 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and Chinese financial services provider UnionPay International STORYLINE: The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and Chinese financial services provider UnionPay International on Friday launched cross-border QR code payment. NBC's Governor Chea Serey said the introduction of cross-border QR code payments between the NBC's Bakong, a mobile payment and banking system, and UnionPay International will elevate the level of financial cooperation between both institutions, providing benefits to users in Cambodia and China, and globally. "From today onwards, visiting UnionPay cardholders will be able to use their UnionPay-enabled wallets, such as the UnionPay app and commercial bank apps that are enabled for UnionPay QR Code payment, to scan KHQR codes to co

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(2) Seibu Railway execs held over illegal payments to racketeers

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Investigators search Seibu Railway Co.'s headquarters March 1 in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, as three senior company officials were arrested for allegedly paying off a corporate racketeer in violation of the Commercial Code.

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(2)NTV head resigns industry-body posts due to ratings scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Seiichiro Ujiie, chairman of Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV), responds to questions from reporters at the NTV headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 27 after stepping down from all his posts, including chairman emeritus of the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, which manages and enforces the television and radio broadcasting code among private broadcasters, following revelations that an NTV producer paid viewers to manipulate TV ratings.

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NTV head resigns industry-body posts due to ratings scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Seiichiro Ujiie (file photo), chairman of Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV), on Oct. 27 stepped down from all his posts, including chairman emeritus of the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, which manages and enforces the television and radio broadcasting code among private broadcasters, following revelations that an NTV producer paid viewers to manipulate TV ratings.

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Panel adopts plans to allow firms to assume U.S.-style boards

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a subcommittee of the Legislative Council, an advisory panel to the justice minister, discuss revising the Commercial Code in Tokyo on Jan. 16.

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Home of former Niigata bank president searched over loans

TOKYO, Japan - Police on Jan. 18 search the home of Ryutaro Omori, a former president of Niigata Chuo Bank, in Mitaka, western Tokyo, in connection with suspected illicit lending practices that led to the bank's collapse in October 1999. They searched about 40 locations, including the homes of other bank executives, on suspicion the executives committed special breaches of trust under the Commercial Code.

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Mita Industrial searched over illegal dividends

Prosecutors and police search the offices of failed photocopier maker Mita Industrial Co. on Oct. 13 on suspicion it paid dividends to shareholders while in the red. Some former executives of the Osaka-based, unlisted company violated the Commercial Code by paying dividends after window-dressing the firm's earnings reports, investigative sources claimed. The company applied Aug. 10 for rescue under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law, effectively going under with debts of more than 200 billion yen.

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CHINA-HARBIN-COVID-19-MEASURES-AJUSTMENT (CN)

(220411) -- HARBIN, April 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member guides people to scan a QR code at the entrance of a shopping mall at the Central Street in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, April 11, 2022. The wholesale and retail markets, commercial complexes and department stores of daily consumer goods in Harbin resumed operation from Monday, while dining at restaurants, gymnasiums, training institutions and other places of entertainment which attract crowds are still suspended. (Xinhua/Xie Jianfei)

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CHINA-HARBIN-COVID-19-MEASURES-AJUSTMENT (CN)

(220411) -- HARBIN, April 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member checks health code of a deliveryman at the entrance of a department store in Xiangfang District of Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, April 11, 2022. The wholesale and retail markets, commercial complexes and department stores of daily consumer goods in Harbin resumed operation from Monday, while dining at restaurants, gymnasiums, training institutions and other places of entertainment which attract crowds are still suspended. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Panel adopts plans to allow firms to assume U.S.-style boards

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a subcommittee of the Legislative Council, an advisory panel to the justice minister, discuss revising the Commercial Code in Tokyo on Jan. 16.

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Epidemic Prevention Temporary Entry Pass

A citizen is given a temporary entry pass valid for the day after showing his health code and taking his temperature at a large commercial center near the Bund in Shanghai, China, March 18, 2021. It is reported that because the commercial center is divided into several blocks, many entrances and exits, so the mall property in combination with epidemic prevention and specific management, set up the temporary entry card system.

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Epidemic Prevention Temporary Entry Pass

A citizen is given a temporary entry pass valid for the day after showing his health code and taking his temperature at a large commercial center near the Bund in Shanghai, China, March 18, 2021. It is reported that because the commercial center is divided into several blocks, many entrances and exits, so the mall property in combination with epidemic prevention and specific management, set up the temporary entry card system.

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Epidemic Prevention Temporary Entry Pass

A citizen is given a temporary entry pass valid for the day after showing his health code and taking his temperature at a large commercial center near the Bund in Shanghai, China, March 18, 2021. It is reported that because the commercial center is divided into several blocks, many entrances and exits, so the mall property in combination with epidemic prevention and specific management, set up the temporary entry card system.

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(2)NTV head resigns industry-body posts due to ratings scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Seiichiro Ujiie, chairman of Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV), responds to questions from reporters at the NTV headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 27 after stepping down from all his posts, including chairman emeritus of the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, which manages and enforces the television and radio broadcasting code among private broadcasters, following revelations that an NTV producer paid viewers to manipulate TV ratings.

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(1)Seibu Railway execs held over illegal payments to racketeers

TOKYO, Japan - Seibu Railway Co.'s Senior Managing Director Seiichi Ikura (file photo) was arrested March 1, along with two other senior officials, for allegedly paying off a corporate racketeer in violation of the Commercial Code. (Kyodo)

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(2) Seibu Railway execs held over illegal payments to racketeers

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Investigators search Seibu Railway Co.'s headquarters March 1 in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, as three senior company officials were arrested for allegedly paying off a corporate racketeer in violation of the Commercial Code. (Kyodo)

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NTV head resigns industry-body posts due to ratings scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Seiichiro Ujiie (file photo), chairman of Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV), on Oct. 27 stepped down from all his posts, including chairman emeritus of the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, which manages and enforces the television and radio broadcasting code among private broadcasters, following revelations that an NTV producer paid viewers to manipulate TV ratings.

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Home of former Niigata bank president searched over loans

TOKYO, Japan - Police on Jan. 18 search the home of Ryutaro Omori, a former president of Niigata Chuo Bank, in Mitaka, western Tokyo, in connection with suspected illicit lending practices that led to the bank's collapse in October 1999. They searched about 40 locations, including the homes of other bank executives, on suspicion the executives committed special breaches of trust under the Commercial Code.

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3 bank ex-execs get suspended terms

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Ichiro Fujita, 60, former vice president, Akira Kanazawa, 64, former vice president, and Yasuyuki Terasawa, 58, former managing director, all of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), who were sentenced to prison terms for extending illegal loans to a ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer in violation of the Commercial Code. The three pleaded not guilty.

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Mita Industrial searched over illegal dividends

Prosecutors and police search the offices of failed photocopier maker Mita Industrial Co. on Oct. 13 on suspicion it paid dividends to shareholders while in the red. Some former executives of the Osaka-based, unlisted company violated the Commercial Code by paying dividends after window-dressing the firm's earnings reports, investigative sources claimed. The company applied Aug. 10 for rescue under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law, effectively going under with debts of more than 200 billion yen. ==Kyodo