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New Yorkers wrap up Lunar New Year celebrations with big parades

STORY: New Yorkers wrap up Lunar New Year celebrations with big parades SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 24, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: NEW YORK, the United States CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Lunar New Year celebrations STORYLINE: New Yorkers are winding up their Lunar New Year celebrations by staging large-scale parades and gatherings during the weekend. One such parade was held on Saturday for the first time in Chinatown near Sunset Park in Brooklyn. Organized by Asian American advocacy group the Asian American Community Empowerment, the parade was designed to celebrate both the Lantern Festival and the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. The gathering was attended by quite a few elected officials, including New York State Assembly Minority Leader William A. Barclay and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams noted Brooklyn has one of the largest Chinese communities in the United States and extended his wishes to th

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Farmers Market in Medellin Colombia

Colombian farmers from Antioquia participate in Medellin, Colombia's first Farmers Market that aims into a new economy that looks forward to bring around 32 million pesos to the city economy with several farmers market across parks and plazas of the city on February 15, 2024. Photo by: Juan Jose Patino/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Garfield Sobers Gymnasium, a bridge connecting China and Barbados

STORY: Garfield Sobers Gymnasium, a bridge connecting China and Barbados DATELINE: June 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:37 LOCATION: Bridgetown CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Barbados 2. various of Garfield Sobers Gymnasium 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): NEIL MURRELL, Director of sport at the National Sports Council of Barbados 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): CHARLES GRIFFITH, Barbados' Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment STORYLINE: Over the past four decades, China and Barbados have forged an enduring bond of cooperation and friendship since establishing diplomatic relations in 1977. Sir Garfield Sobers, the esteemed cricketer who earned numerous honors, holds a special place as a "national hero" in the hearts of Barbadians. His achievements inspire and resonate in Barbados and across the Caribbean region. In the parish of St. Michael, Barbados, stands a gymnasium named after Sir Sobers, also known locally as the Wildey Gymnasium. It shows the high respect Barbadians have for this legendary a

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BARBADOS-BRIDGETOWN-CHINA-FRIENDSHIP

(230625) -- BRIDGETOWN, June 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Charles Griffith, minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment of Barbados, reacts during an interview with Xinhua in Bridgetown, Barbados, May 31, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: Small projects make big moves. China-Barbados friendship enters new era" (Xinhua/Xin Yuewei)

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NAMIBIA-WINDHOEK-BICYCLE CENTER-IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITY-BETTER LIFE

(230610) -- WINDHOEK, June 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hileni Simeon (R), a bicycle mechanic, assists a client at the Havana Empowerment Bicycle Center in Windhoek, Namibia, June 8, 2023. Over the past 16 years, a bicycle center in an impoverished community in the Namibia's capital of Windhoek has been helping people seek a better way of life. TO GO WITH "Feature: Bicycle center helps impoverished community in Namibia pedal towards better life" (Photo by Ndalimpinga Iita/Xinhua)

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NAMIBIA-WINDHOEK-BICYCLE CENTER-IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITY-BETTER LIFE

(230610) -- WINDHOEK, June 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hileni Simeon, a bicycle mechanic, is pictured at the Havana Empowerment Bicycle Center in Windhoek, Namibia, June 8, 2023. Over the past 16 years, a bicycle center in an impoverished community in the Namibia's capital of Windhoek has been helping people seek a better way of life. TO GO WITH "Feature: Bicycle center helps impoverished community in Namibia pedal towards better life" (Photo by Ndalimpinga Iita/Xinhua)

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Kenyan rural women broaden revenue streams through basket weaving

STORY: Kenyan rural women broaden revenue streams through basket weaving DATELINE: May 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:04 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: Culture SHOTLIST: 1. Various of the weaving group 2. Various of village Katangi 3. Various of weaving women 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Kiswahili): PENINAH MUENI MAKENZI, Chairlady of 'Love your friend' group 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Kiswahili): PENINAH MUENI MAKENZI, Chairlady of 'Love your friend' group 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Kiswahili): PENINAH MUENI MAKENZI, Chairlady of 'Love your friend' group 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (Kiswahili): JECINTA KIMEU, Member STORYLINE: A group of women deftly weave sisal baskets under the cover of a tree in a sleepy Katangi village in Machakos County, east of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. For these women, weaving has become a crucial source of economic empowerment and a significant part of their cultural heritage. Peninah Mueni's association of weavers which was founded in 2015, hails from the Kamba tribe, a Bantu-speaking community that resides in the vast southeastern K

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Vice President Harris Meets with Community Leaders about COVID-19 Public Education

Vice President Kamala Harris virtually meets with President and Founder of Faith and Community Empowerment (FACE) Hyepin Im and community leaders to discuss COVID-19 public education efforts in the South Court Auditorium in Washington D.C. on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Virtual participants of the signed in and several leaders spoke about COVID-19 education and paths to combat the virus. Photo by Leigh Vogel/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Pool/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)