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CHINA-STARBUCKS-COFFEE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN (CN)

(231201) -- BEIJING, Dec. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A barista brews coffee at the Starbucks Beijing Xitieying Wanda signing store in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 23, 2023. At the ongoing China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has attracted great attention through its coffee industrial chain and products. Starbucks entered the Chinese mainland in 1999 and now operates more than 6,800 stores in over 250 cities in China. In 2012, a Starbucks Farmer Support Center was set up in Pu'er of Yunnan Province, the first of its kind in Asia, to further bolster the local coffee farming community. In 2017, Starbucks opened a Roastery location in Shanghai, its second after the one in Seattle in Washington state on the U.S. west Pacific. This September, Starbucks opened a new coffee innovation park in Kunshan of Jiangsu Province, the company's largest manufacturing and distribution investment outside the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Mengqi)

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Egypt raises interest rate to contain high inflation

STORY: Egypt raises interest rate to contain high inflation DATELINE: Dec. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:57 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the Central Bank of Egypt 2 various of an accountant counting banknotes STORYLINE: Egypt announced on Thursday to raise the interest rate by 300 basis points to contain soaring inflation. In Thursday's meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in Egypt decided to raise the central bank's deposit rate to 16.25 percent and lending rate to 17.25 percent. Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation rate "continued to accelerate," rising from 16.2 percent in October to 18.7 percent in November, the highest rate since December 2017 when it reached 21.9 percent. The Egyptian economy has been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict which led to increased costs of food and oil imports, given that the most populous Arab country is one of the world's largest importers of wheat, most of which came from Russia and Ukraine. Th

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay.

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay.

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay.

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Terminal 1 (background) and Terminal 2 of Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Yokohama waterfront

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area in Yokohama, near Tokyo.

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Yokohama waterfront

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area in Yokohama, near Tokyo.

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Tokyo sky

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - A plane flies over Tokyo's Arakawa River after taking off from Haneda airport, in this file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017.

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Tokyo waterfront

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - A plane flies over Tokyo's waterfront area after taking off from Haneda airport, in this file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017. In the center is the Rainbow Bridge, a popular tourist landmark.

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Terminal 1 (foreground) and Terminal 2 of Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Nomadic lives in Mongolia

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Dec. 23 Kyodo - Mandahtuya (R) prepares dinner near her husband Nergui (L) and their son Davaakhuu in their house called a "ger" in Tov Province on Dec. 2, 2017.

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Yokohama Bay Bridge

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Yokohama Bay Bridge in Yokohama, near Tokyo.

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Shin-Yokohama station, Nissan Stadium

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the JR Shin-Yokohama Station (foreground) and Nissan Stadium (background) in Yokohama, near Tokyo.

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Tokyo waterfront

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - Photo taken Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the waterfront areas in central Tokyo. The Rainbow Bridge (C), a popular tourist landmark, links Shibaura Pier (L) and the Odaiba artificial island.

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Japanese skier Taihei Kato

RUKA, Finland, Dec. 30 Kyodo - Japanese skier Taihei Kato is pictured riding a ski lift at a men's Nordic combined World Cup event in Ruka, Finland on Nov. 23, 2017.

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Maglev train

NAGOYA, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - A tunnel under construction for Central Japan Railway's maglev train service is opened to the public in Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2017. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Japanese lawmaker to quit party over alleged abuse against staffer

TOKYO, Japan, June 23 Kyodo - Mayuko Toyota points at her name listed at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2012, on her first trip to parliament after being elected to the House of Representatives. Toyota submitted an application to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on June 22, 2017, after a weekly magazine released an audio file seeming to back up allegations that she physically and verbally abused a secretary.

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Yokohama Bay Bridge

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Yokohama Bay Bridge in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yokohama waterfront

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

File photo taken Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Terminal 1 (foreground) and Terminal 2 of Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yokohama waterfront

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shin-Yokohama station, Nissan Stadium

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the JR Shin-Yokohama Station (foreground) and Nissan Stadium (background) in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

File photo taken Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Terminal 1 (background) and Terminal 2 of Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo waterfront

A plane flies over Tokyo's waterfront area after taking off from Haneda airport, in this file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017. In the center is the Rainbow Bridge, a popular tourist landmark. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Haneda airport

File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo sky

A plane flies over Tokyo's Arakawa River after taking off from Haneda airport, in this file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo waterfront

Photo taken Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the waterfront areas in central Tokyo. The Rainbow Bridge (C), a popular tourist landmark, links Shibaura Pier (L) and the Odaiba artificial island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace lit up

The Imperial Palace in Tokyo is lit up on a trial basis on Dec. 16, 2016. Part of the palace will be lit up from Dec. 23, the birthday of Emperor Akihito, to Jan. 8, 2017, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace lit up

The Imperial Palace in Tokyo is lit up on a trial basis on Dec. 16, 2016. Part of the palace will be lit up from Dec. 23, the birthday of Emperor Akihito, to Jan. 8, 2017, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyeongchang Olympics

Photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017 shows Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova (C) posing beside a Christmas tree after winning the women's title of the Russian figure skating championships in St. Petersburg, Russia, with runner-up Maria Sotskova (L) and third-place Alena Kostornaia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki and Yu Darvish

Combined file photo shows Ichiro Suzuki (L) in Japan's Aichi Prefecture on Dec. 23, 2017, and Yu Darvish in Arlington, Texas, on July 31, 2017. The outfielder and pitcher remain unsigned as of the end of January 2018 for the upcoming season. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Run-up to Pyeongchang Olympics

A girl looks at a ski jump-themed installation of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics displayed at Seoul station on Dec. 23, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indonesian tsunami in 2004

Wirdawati, a 20-year-old Indonesian college student whose grandmother was killed in the massive tsunami that hit Sumatra in 2004, shares her thought on the tragedy on Dec. 23, 2017 with the general public through her letter on the topic, being exhibited at a postal box set up at Aceh Tsunami Museum. The 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the west coast of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggering history's deadliest tsunami and leaving more than 160,000 dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Syrian civil war

A Syrian military spokesperson (L) points to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Dec. 23, 2017, in Al Gunaytirah in southwestern Syria. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children at nursery facility in Hyogo

Children put their pictures on the board of a class room at a nursery facility in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 23, 2017. The nursery, originally established to provide mental support to children whose parents were killed in the massive Hanshin earthquake in 1995, will be closed in March 2018 when its lease contract expires. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children at nursery facility in Hyogo

Children draw pictures at a nursery facility in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 23, 2017. The nursery, originally established to provide mental support to children whose parents were killed in the massive Hanshin earthquake in 1995, will be closed in March 2018 when its lease contract expires. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Center on cultural impact of Mt. Fuji

A ceremony to open a center dedicated to the cultural impact of Mt. Fuji, which is Japan's highest mountain and was put on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2013, is held in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture on Dec. 22, 2017. The Fujisan World Heritage Center will open to the general public on Dec. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Center on cultural impact of Mt. Fuji

Journalists stand Dec. 19, 2017 on the roof of a center in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture dedicated to the cultural impact of Mt. Fuji, which is Japan's highest mountain and was put on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2013. The Fujisan World Heritage Center will open to the general public on Dec. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Center on cultural impact of Mt. Fuji

A center dedicated to the cultural impact of Mt. Fuji, which is Japan's highest mountain and was put on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2013, is opened to the media in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture on Dec. 19, 2017. The Fujisan World Heritage Center will open to the general public on Dec. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Maglev train works bidding scandal

Photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, in Tokyo, Japan, shows the logos of major Japanese construction companies Obayashi Corporation, Taisei Corporation and Shimizu Corporation, that are involved in a bid obstruction scandal over the Tokyo-Osaka maglev train project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor Akihito's 84th birthday

Crown Prince Naruhito (L), Princess Aiko (C), and Crown Princess Masako wave on their way to the Imperial Palace to celebrate the emperor's 84th birthday on Dec. 23, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo