Baseball: Yu Darvish

Baseball: Yu Darvish

Japan's Yu Darvish reacts after not allowing Taiwan to score despite giving up a single hit to the first batter in the first inning of a 2008 Beijing Olympic baseball qualifying game at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan, on Dec. 3, 2007.

Tea cultivation helps boost rural revitalization in town of China's Shanxi

STORY: Tea cultivation helps boost rural revitalization in town of China's Shanxi SHOOTING TIME: File DATELINE: Dec. 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: YUNCHENG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of tea plants in Wangjiahe Village, Yuncheng City 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN XIAOYUAN, Founder of a tea factory in Wangjiahe Village, Yuncheng City 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): FU HUIXIA, Worker at the tea factory 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): CHEN XIAOYUAN, Founder of a tea factory in Wangjiahe Village STORYLINE: Shanxi Province in north China was once deemed unsuitable for tea cultivation, due to its low temperatures and scarce rainfall. However, in a rural area of Yuncheng in Shanxi, a woman has led a team of villagers to successfully cultivate a vast area of high-altitude tea. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CHEN XIAOYUAN, Founder of a tea factory in Wangjiahe Village, Yuncheng City "We came to the Wangjiahe Village of Sijiao Township in 2008 to experiment with tea cultivation. After five years of efforts,

Chinese language courses gaining popularity in Madagascar

STORY: Chinese language courses gaining popularity in Madagascar DATELINE: Dec. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:54 LOCATION: Antananarivo CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of Confucius Institute at the University of Antananarivo 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Malagasy): ONINIAINA ANDRIAMAMONJY, Executive assistant 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): ONINIAINA ANDRIAMAMONJY, Executive assistant 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): RAVO, Student 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (French): MIRADO, Student 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (French): ONINIAINA ANDRIAMAMONJY, Executive assistant STORYLINE: Nearly 20,000 people have taken Chinese language courses in the various training establishments attached to the Confucius Institute at the University of Antananarivo since its creation in 2008. SOUNDBITE 1 (Malagasy): ONINIAINA ANDRIAMAMONJY, Executive assistant "The number of Chinese language graduates from this institute has almost quadrupled in 10 years for only Antananarivo establishment. That's to say: it went from 30 to 111 students." Two years after its creation, the annexes of

White-naped cranes in Kagoshima Pref.

White-naped cranes in Kagoshima Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2008, shows a flock of white-naped cranes in the Izumi Plains in Kagoshima Prefecture. A white-naped crane in the plains is suspected of being infected with avian influenza, a local official said on Dec. 23, 2010.

High European inflation symptom of deeper economic shift: economist

STORY: High European inflation symptom of deeper economic shift: economist DATELINE: Dec. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:36 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): Carlo Altomonte, Professor of political economics at Bocconi University in Milan 2. various of the factory 3. various of supermarket 4. various of good in shop STORYLINE: An Italian economist has said that record rates of inflation that have hit European Union (EU) member states this year are a symptom of a wider economic paradigm shift. Inflation in the 19-nation eurozone was 10 percent in November, following a record-high of 10.6 percent the month before, and the highest year-on-year price increases since the creation of the euro currency have all taken place in the last nine months. Carlo Altomonte, professor of political economics at Bocconi University in Milan, said the record price increases are part of a broad economic shift for European countries. This shift is even more extreme than that of the 2008-2009 fina

L.A. coroner officially declares Miura committed suicide

L.A. coroner officially declares Miura committed suicide

LOS ANGELES, United States - This undated file photo shows Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura, who died in October, 2008, in a Los Angeles jail. The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, in its report released Dec. 3 after an autopsy, officially concluded that the cause of death of Miura, 61, in a Los Angeles jail in October was suicide. Miura died Oct. 10 after arriving from Saipan, a U.S. territory, to face trial on a conspiracy charge over the fatal shooting of his then wife Kazumi in Los Angeles in 1981. (Kyodo)

L.A. coroner officially declares Miura committed suicide

L.A. coroner officially declares Miura committed suicide

LOS ANGELES, United States - This undated file photo shows Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura, who died in October, 2008, in a Los Angeles jail. The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, in its report released Dec. 3 after an autopsy, officially concluded that the cause of death of Miura, 61, in a Los Angeles jail in October was suicide. Miura died Oct. 10 after arriving from Saipan, a U.S. territory, to face trial on a conspiracy charge over the fatal shooting of his then wife Kazumi in Los Angeles in 1981. (Kyodo)

White-naped cranes in Kagoshima Pref.

White-naped cranes in Kagoshima Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2008, shows a flock of white-naped cranes in the Izumi Plains in Kagoshima Prefecture. A white-naped crane in the plains is suspected of being infected with avian influenza, a local official said on Dec. 23, 2010. (Kyodo)