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UK: Storm Bert Triggers Severe Flooding Across England And Wales

Storm Bert struck England and Wales on Saturday, November 23, bringing heavy rain, power outages, and traffic disruptions, while triggering severe flooding in multiple regions. Over 100 flood warnings were issued across the UK.

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Vietnamese livestreamer in China's Yunnan dedicated to promoting China-Vietnam friendship

STORY: Vietnamese livestreamer in China's Yunnan dedicated to promoting Vietnam-China friendship SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 13, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: MAGUAN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Ly Thi May in Machuan County, Yunnan Province 2. various of Ly Thi May and her colleagues broadcasting live 3. various of Ly Thi May in Machuan County, Yunnan Province 4. various of Ly Thi May and colleagues sorting out Miao clothes 5. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LY THI MAY, Vietnamese livestreamer 6. various of Ly Thi May and her colleagues broadcasting live 7. various of Ly Thi May in Machuan County, Yunnan Province 8. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LY THI MAY, Vietnamese livestreamer STORYLINE: Ly Thi May is a Vietnamese girl working in the cross-border e-commerce industry in the China-Vietnam border village of Maoping in Maguan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. In 2017, she came to Maguan for job opportunities. She then quickly mastered Mandarin Chinese and several loc

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Living in China 2022 - Ep 4: Chinese technologies

STORY: Living in China 2022 - Ep 4: Chinese technologies DATELINE: Dec. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:59 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AARTHEE SALVARAJA, Operations manager from Malaysia 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BOLATITO KOREDE, Student from Nigeria 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): DMITRII KAZNACHEEV, Sales manager from Russia 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): MUHAMMAD NABIL, University student from Pakistan 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MUHAMMAD NABIL, University student from Pakistan 6. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): SELMA DURAKOVIC, Business owner from Bosnia and Herzegovina 7. SOUNDBITE 7 (English): BOLATITO KOREDE, Student from Nigeria 8. SOUNDBITE 8 (English): TAMARA KAUP, University staff member from the U.S. 9. SOUNDBITE 9 (English): MOHAMMAD YASSIN, University teacher from Canada STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AARTHEE SALVARAJA, Operations manager from Malaysia "E-commerce. When I started to use it was already 2017 or 2018 because I was still in this kind of mentality that if you know,

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Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

LAS VEGAS, United States, Jan. 19 Kyodo - Tevin Farmer (L) of the United States and Kenichi Ogawa of Japan stare at each other after a weigh-in in Las Vegas on Dec. 8, 2017, for their IBF super featherweight boxing title match. Ogawa claimed the then-vacant title but was found to have failed a doping test prior to the bout, his gym said Jan. 19, 2018.

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Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

LAS VEGAS, United States, Jan. 19 Kyodo - Tevin Farmer (L) of the United States and Kenichi Ogawa of Japan pose for a photo after a weigh-in in Las Vegas on Dec. 8, 2017, for their IBF super featherweight boxing title match the following day. Ogawa claimed the then-vacant title but was found to have failed a doping test prior to the bout, his gym said Jan. 19, 2018.

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Scene of shrine head murder in Tokyo

Scene of shrine head murder in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 15 Kyodo - Police officers work at the scene of a murder-suicide at Tomioka Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2017.

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Football: World Cup venue in Russia

Football: World Cup venue in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia, Dec. 21 Kyodo - Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow is lit up in the colors of the Russian flag on Nov. 8, 2017. The stadium is a venue of the 2018 football World Cup finals in Russia.

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Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

Tevin Farmer (L) of the United States and Kenichi Ogawa of Japan pose for a photo after a weigh-in in Las Vegas on Dec. 8, 2017, for their IBF super featherweight boxing title match the following day. Ogawa claimed the then-vacant title but was found to have failed a doping test prior to the bout, his gym said Jan. 19, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

Boxing: Farmer, Ogawa before December 2017 IBF title bout

Tevin Farmer (L) of the United States and Kenichi Ogawa of Japan stare at each other after a weigh-in in Las Vegas on Dec. 8, 2017, for their IBF super featherweight boxing title match. Ogawa claimed the then-vacant title but was found to have failed a doping test prior to the bout, his gym said Jan. 19, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese baby products firm Ficelle makes full-scale Thai debut

Japanese baby products firm Ficelle makes full-scale Thai debut

Japanese baby wear and products maker Ficelle Inc. opens its first outlet in Thailand with the help of local distributor K-AG Kin All Gen Co. Lukkana Jaovisidha, the local agent's executive director, poses with a 10mois brand sleeping vest at the store in Bangkok on Dec. 8, 2017. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-ski

Sit-ski

Tomohito Enomoto (R) of Toyota Motor Corp. and Yoshihisa Yamada of medical-care equipment maker Nissin Medical Industries Co. check a sit-ski in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2017. The rigid and lightweight sit-ski co-developed by the two companies will be used by Japan's Taiki Morii in the alpine skiing at the 2018 Pyeongchang Paralympics in South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-ski

Sit-ski

Photo taken Dec. 8, 2017, shows a sit-ski to be used by Japan's Taiki Morii in the alpine skiing at the 2018 Pyeongchang Paralympics in South Korea. The rigid and lightweight sit-ski was developed by Toyota Motor Corp. and medical-care equipment maker Nissin Medical Industries Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Young Japanese stand-up finding his feet in the world of comedy

Young Japanese stand-up finding his feet in the world of comedy

Japanese stand-up comedian Saku Yanagawa gestures during a performance at Tokyo Sports Cafe Dec. 8, 2017. Based in Tokyo and Chicago, Yanagawa is aiming to become the first Japanese regular on "Saturday Night Live." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scene of shrine head murder in Tokyo

Scene of shrine head murder in Tokyo

Police officers work at the scene of a murder-suicide at Tomioka Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

A CH-53E helicopter, with a tarpaulin affixed to its left window, is seen parked at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 14, 2017. A metal-framed window weighing almost 8 kilograms fell from an aircraft onto the sports ground of a nearby elementary school the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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H.K. activists urge China to free wife of Nobel prize laureate Liu

H.K. activists urge China to free wife of Nobel prize laureate Liu

Activist groups in Hong Kong rally at the Central Government Liaison Office, Beijing's representative in the former British colony, on Dec. 8, 2017 to urge China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, wife of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. The protesters mourned Liu's death and commemorated the ninth anniversary of the release of his democratic reform initiative, Charter 08. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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H.K. activists urge China to free wife of Nobel prize laureate Liu

H.K. activists urge China to free wife of Nobel prize laureate Liu

Activist groups in Hong Kong rally at the Central Government Liaison Office, Beijing's representative in the former British colony, on Dec. 8, 2017 to urge China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, wife of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. The protesters mourned Liu's death and commemorated the ninth anniversary of the release of his democratic reform initiative, Charter 08. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Organizers pose for the media at the opening ceremony of the Daisuki Tohoku promotional event in Taipei on Dec. 8, 2017. The three-day event opened the same day to promote tourism in six northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Mai Kato (C), head of the Tsuchiyu Onsen Tourism Association in Fukushima, and Maki Watanabe (far R), a member of the Happy Fukushima Troupe, and other troupe members pose for a photo at a promotional event in Taipei on Dec. 8, 2017. The three-day event opened the same day to promote tourism in six northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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H.K. activists urge China to free wife of Nobel prize laureate Liu

H.K. activists urge China to free wife of Nobel prize laureate Liu

Activist groups in Hong Kong rally at the Central Government Liaison Office, Beijing's representative in the former British colony, on Dec. 8, 2017 to urge China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, wife of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. The protesters mourned Liu's death and commemorated the ninth anniversary of the release of his democratic reform initiative, Charter 08. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Northeastern Japan travel festival opens in Taipei

Toshikazu Kangyuu from Iwate Prefecture shreds kombu (dried kelp) at a promotional event in Taipei on Dec. 8, 2017. The three-day event opened the same day to promote tourism in six northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Otani narrows field

Baseball: Otani narrows field

Combined photo shows Nippon Ham Fighters two-way star Shohei Otani hitting (L) at MetLife Dome on Sept. 8, 2017, and pitching at Sapporo Dome on Sept. 12, 2017. Otani and his representatives informed several major league clubs on Dec. 3 that he will not negotiate with them. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Tourists come to see the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2017. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet formally approved the same day the date of April 30, 2019, for Emperor Akihito's abdication. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Tourists look at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2017. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet formally approved the same day the date of April 30, 2019, for Emperor Akihito's abdication. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) enters a room for a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2017, as Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (L) bows. The Cabinet formally approved the date of April 30, 2019, for Emperor Akihito's abdication. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Japan's Cabinet approves emperor's abdication date of April 30, 2019

Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko leave the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2017 for an official duty. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet formally approved the same day the date of April 30, 2019, for the emperor's abdication. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinto shrine in Tokyo

Shinto shrine in Tokyo

People visit Tomioka Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2017, a day after its head Nagako Tomioka was killed with a sword on its premises. The attacker and another woman also died. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinto shrine head, 2 others killed in Tokyo sword attack

Shinto shrine head, 2 others killed in Tokyo sword attack

A pedestrian walks past the main gate of Tomioka Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2017. Shigenaga Tomioka, 56, is suspected of killing himself after having attacked and killed his 58-year-old sister Nagako Tomioka, the chief priest of the shrine, and his girlfriend at the shrine on Dec. 7. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife attack in Tokyo

Knife attack in Tokyo

Police officers investigate the scene of a knife attack in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Dec. 7, 2017, in which two men and two women were injured. At around 8:30 p.m., police received an emergency call saying there was a person holding an edged weapon in an area about 500 meters east of Monzennakacho Station on the Tozai Subway Line and near Tomioka Hachimangu shrine.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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John, Yoko's "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition in Tokyo

John, Yoko's "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition in Tokyo

Visitors pose for a photo in a bed installed at an exhibition of photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous 1969 "Bed-In for Peace" taken by Gerry Deiter, in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2017. The exhibition will open to the general public from Dec. 8 until Jan. 8, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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John, Yoko's "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition in Tokyo

John, Yoko's "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition in Tokyo

People view photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous 1969 "Bed-In for Peace" taken by Gerry Deiter, at an exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2017. The exhibition will open to the general public from Dec. 8 until Jan. 8, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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John, Yoko's "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition in Tokyo

John, Yoko's "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition in Tokyo

People view photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous 1969 "Bed-In for Peace" taken by Gerry Deiter, at an exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2017. The exhibition will open to the general public from Dec. 8 until Jan. 8, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace lit up

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

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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Train derailment in South Korea

Train derailment in South Korea

Photo taken Dec. 8, 2018, shows carriages of a KTX high-speed train damaged in derailment in Gangneung, South Korea. The bullet train line that crosses the north of the country from coast to coast opened in December 2017 to link Pyeongchang Winter Olympic venues and Seoul. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Train derailment in South Korea

Train derailment in South Korea

Photo taken Dec. 8, 2018, shows a KTX high-speed train carriage damaged in derailment in Gangneung, South Korea. The bullet train line that crosses the north of the country from coast to coast opened in December 2017 to link Pyeongchang Winter Olympic venues and Seoul. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Train derailment in South Korea

Train derailment in South Korea

Photo taken Dec. 8, 2018, shows a derailed KTX high-speed train in Gangneung, South Korea. The bullet train line that crosses the north of the country from coast to coast opened in December 2017 to link Pyeongchang Winter Olympic venues and Seoul. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Train derailment in South Korea

Train derailment in South Korea

Photo taken Dec. 8, 2018, shows a derailed KTX high-speed train in Gangneung, South Korea. The bullet train line that crosses the north of the country from coast to coast opened in December 2017 to link Pyeongchang Winter Olympic venues and Seoul. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian's Novatek

Russian's Novatek

Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2017 shows Leonid Mikhelson, CEO of Russian natural gas provider Novatek, speaking at a press conference in Sabetta, northern Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LNG plant in Russia

LNG plant in Russia

Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2017, shows liquefied natural gas facilities operated by Russian natural gas producer Novatek in Sabetta, Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Figure skating: Uno

Figure skating: Uno

Composite photo taken on Dec. 8, 2017, shows Shoma Uno of Japan performing a quad salchow in the men's free program at the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chen at GP Final

Chen at GP Final

Nathan Chen of the United States poses with his medal after winning the men's free skate at the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Nagoya on Dec. 8, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chen at GP Final

Chen at GP Final

Nathan Chen of the United States spins in the air during the men's free skate at the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Nagoya on Dec. 8, 2017. Chen won the competition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Setagaya murder case prayer

Setagaya murder case prayer

Setsuko Miyazawa (2nd from L), 86, whose son was one of the four victims murdered in their Tokyo home in 2000, carries a flower to lay at an alter set up for a local meeting on Dec. 16, 2017, ahead of the 17th anniversary of the slayings. In the unsolved case, Mikio Miyazawa, 44, wife Yasuko, 41, daughter Niina, 8, and son Rei, 6, were found murdered in their house in Setagaya Ward on Dec. 30, 2000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Setagaya murder case prayer

Setagaya murder case prayer

Setsuko Miyazawa, 86, whose son was one of the four victims murdered in their Tokyo home in 2000, offers a prayer at an alter on Dec. 16, 2017, ahead of the 17th anniversary of the slayings. In the unsolved case, Mikio Miyazawa, 44, wife Yasuko, 41, daughter Niina, 8, and son Rei, 6, were found murdered in their house in Setagaya Ward on Dec. 30, 2000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Investigators believed to be from the Okinawa prefectural police look at a CH-53E helicopter stationed at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan in the southwestern Japanese prefecture on Dec. 14, 2017. A metal-framed window weighing almost 8 kilograms fell from an aircraft onto the sports ground of a nearby elementary school the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Tsutomu Kinjo (center L), head of the Komeito party's Okinawa branch, hands a letter of protest to Koichiro Nakajima, head of the Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau, in the southwestern Japanese prefecture town of Kadena on Dec. 14, 2017. The protest letter was in response to the previous day's accident in which a metal-framed window, weighing almost 8 kilograms, fell from a U.S. military CH-53E chopper onto the sports ground of an elementary school in Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Toshiba president Nishida

Ex-Toshiba president Nishida

Atsutoshi Nishida, seen in this file photo taken in May 2009, one of the three former Toshiba Corp. presidents involved in a damages suit over a bookkeeping scandal, died of a heart attack Dec. 8, 2017, the company said Dec. 9. He was 73. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Speed skating: Japan wins women's team pursuit at World Cup

Speed skating: Japan wins women's team pursuit at World Cup

(From L) Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi and Ayano Sato of Japan celebrate after winning the women's team pursuit in a world record at the speed skating World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec. 8, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan wins women's team pursuit at speed skating World Cup

Japan wins women's team pursuit at speed skating World Cup

(From L) Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi and Ayano Sato of Japan react after winning the women's team pursuit in a new world record at the speed skating World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec. 8, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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