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Zambian family praises Chinese medical team after successful surgery

STORY: Zambian family praises Chinese medical team after successful surgery SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 31, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: Lusaka CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mary Mbetwa 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 3. various of a Chinese doctor doing medical check-up for Mary Mbetwa 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 5. various of Chinese doctors training local doctors 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): MICHAEL MBETWA, Mary Mbetwa's husband 8. various of Mary Mbetwa talking with her Chinese doctor 9. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MICHAEL MBETWA, Mary Mbetwa's husband STORYLINE: When Mary Mbetwa, a 46-year-old resident of Lusaka, the Zambian capital, started experiencing some discomfort in the right side of her nose in 2011, she did not pay much attention to it and dismissed it as one of those feelings that would go away. As the discomfort persisted, however, she decided to seek

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), nearly a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 27, 2014 (R).

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Fukushima inks renewable energy pact with German state

DUSSELDORF, Germany - Vice Gov. Fumio Murata (2nd from R) of Fukushima Prefecture shakes hands with North Rhine-Westphalia Environment Minister Johannes Remmel on Feb. 10, 2014, in Dusseldorf, Germany, after signing a cooperation agreement to introduce German technology for renewable energy in the Japanese prefecture that hosts the Fukushima nuclear power plant crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Higashimatsushima to launch tsunami tracking system

SENDAI, Japan - Hideo Abe, mayor of Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, explains on Feb. 10, 2014, a new system to keep track of tsunami in real-time through surveillance cameras set up along the city's coastline and on top of the city hall. The northeastern Japan city, affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, plans to start operating the system in April.

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Works by deaf composer written by someone else

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in 2011, Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer of classical music, poses with a CD of Symphony No. 1 "Hiroshima". A lawyer for Samuragochi, dubbed a modern Beethoven by the media, said on Feb. 5, 2014, that the composer had someone else write his pieces for over 10 years, including "Hiroshima". Samuragochi is a Hiroshima native and the son of atomic bomb survivors.

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Young volunteers stay to support victims of March 2011 disaster

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Volunteer Yusuke Kato (L), holding a dosimeter, explains to a tour participant about a checkpoint set up 10 kilometers north of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March 2011 disaster. Photo was taken Feb. 2, 2013, in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture.

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Restoration work is under way as many gravestones remain tumbled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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11 months after tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - Lights are lit at temporary housing units in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, for people hit by the March 2011 quake as evening came down on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Ravage of the March 2011 tsunami remains in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Burned cars are piled up and a large ship brought by the March 2011 tsunami remained ashore in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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S. Korean lawmakers head to industrial complex in N. Korea

PAJU, South Korea - South Korean lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties wave in Paju, South Korea, on Feb. 10, 2012, before heading to the joint inter-Korean industrial complex in the North Korean border city Kaesong. It is the first visit to the complex by South Korean lawmakers after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in December 2011.

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Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote the reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, put up a signboard bearing the name of the agency at the new entity in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2012, as it was launched the same day. (Pool Photo)

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Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo as the agency was launched on Feb. 10, 2012.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows participants of a disaster drill getting on the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tokyo Bay on Feb. 3, 2012. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a disaster drill get on the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tokyo Bay on Feb. 3, 2012. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo Bay heading to the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, taking part in a disaster drill in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. Seen in the background is the Tokyo Sky Tree tower. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Higashikokubaru forms political group

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru speaks to reporters at a hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2011. Higashikokubaru, who set up a political organization the same day, said he will decide whether to run in the April 10 Tokyo gubernatorial election by around March 10.

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Tokyo governor race

TOKYO, Japan - Miki Watanabe, head of restaurant chain operator Watami Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Feb. 15, 2011. He said he will run in the April 10 Tokyo gubernatorial race as an independent.

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Protest in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters demonstrate in Cairo, calling for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 10, 2011.

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New Olympus president

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, the British president of Olympus Europa Holdings GmbH (R), shakes hands with Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, president of Olympus Corp., during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011. The Japanese precision instruments maker said Woodford will succeed Kikukawa on April 1.

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Ozawa spurns Kan's call to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo after holding a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, current head of the DPJ, on Feb. 10, 2011. Ozawa said he was urged by Kan to leave the ruling party following his indictment last week over a funds scandal. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada said the same day that Ozawa had refused to do so voluntarily and that the party will begin the process of taking punitive action against him on Monday.

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Japan-Australia FTA talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano speaks during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011, on free trade negotiations between Japan and Australia. The two countries ended their latest round of bilateral free trade negotiations the same day in Tokyo apparently without seeing a substantial breakthrough over the major sticking point of farm trade issues.

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Sapporo to make Pokka subsidiary

TOKYO, Japan - Sapporo Holdings Ltd. Managing Director Tsutomu Kamijo (L), who is set to become the next president of the holding firm of beverage makers, Masatoshi Hori, president of another beverage producer Pokka Corp. (C) and Takao Murakami, current president of Sapporo Holdings (R), shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011. The two companies said Sapporo will turn Pokka into a subsidiary in late March as a first step to integrate their management in April 2012, in an effort to better compete in drink and food markets amid an adverse business environment.

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Ozawa spurns Kan's call to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan meets reporters at his office in Tokyo after holding a one-on-one meeting with former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa there on Feb. 10, 2011. Ozawa said he was urged by Kan to leave the ruling party following his indictment last week over a funds scandal. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada said the same day that Ozawa had refused to do so voluntarily and that the party will begin the process of taking punitive action against him on Monday.

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Ozawa spurns Kan's call to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo for a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, current head of the DPJ, on Feb. 10, 2011. Ozawa said after their hourlong meeting he was urged by Kan to voluntarily leave the ruling party following his indictment last week over a funds scandal. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada said the same day that Ozawa had refused to do so voluntarily and that the party will begin the process of taking punitive action against Ozawa on Monday.

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First snow of season comes late in Beijing

BEIJING, China - The Forbidden City is covered by snow in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2011, after the first snow of the season came at the latest time in 60 years.

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Dentsu new president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Dentsu Inc. Executive Vice President Tadashi Ishii. The major ad agency has decided that Ishii will succeed President Tatsuyoshi Takashima in April, company sources said on Feb. 10, 2011.

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First snow of season comes late in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Armed police officers remove snow at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2011, after the first snow of the season came at the latest time in 60 years.

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First snow of season comes late in Beijing

BEIJING, China - An armed police officer stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2011, after the first snow of the season came at the latest time in 60 years.

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture offer flowers at a cenotaph in the school premises to commemorate the collision between the school's fisheries boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii on the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 10, 2011. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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U.S. backs Toyota in acceleration problems

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks at a press conference on Feb. 8, 2011, at the U.S. Transportation Department in Washington. The department said its joint 10-month investigation with NASA found that there was no electronics-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, supporting the Japanese automaker's position.

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ASEAN mediates Thai-Cambodian border dispute

BANGKOK, Thailand - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) and Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya speak to reporters after their meeting in Bangkok on Feb. 8, 2011. Natalegawa visited Thailand after Cambodia in an effort to mediate in a border dispute between the two countries. Indonesia currently chairs the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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ASEAN eyes mediating Cambodia, Thailand border dispute

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (L) shakes hands with Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong in Phnom Penh on Feb. 7, 2011. Natalegawa visited Cambodia before Thailand in an attempt to mediate a border dispute between the two countries. Indonesia currently chairs the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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Japan, Australia resume FTA talks

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of Japan (L) and Australia resume bilateral free trade negotiations at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7, 2011. The expected focal point of the negotiations, which were held for the first time in 10 months, is how far Japan would make concessions on its tariffs on sensitive farm products such as beef and dairy products, while Japan seeks to remove Australia's tariff on cars.

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Morocco's Baday wins Beppu-Oita Marathon

OITA, Japan - Morocco's Ahmed Baday crosses the finish line at Oita Athletic Stadium in the city of Oita on Feb. 6, 2011, winning his first Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 14 seconds.

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Panasonic's 3-D Viera series

OSAKA, Japan - A woman watches 3-D images on the screen of a Panasonic Corp. Viera television model. The company said Feb. 3, 2011, that it will launch 10 new 3-D models in the Viera series from March 11.

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Luxury seats on Hayabusa bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Children try out leather reclining chairs in a corner reproducing the interior of East Japan Railway Co.'s Hayabusa bullet train's new luxury seats, during a promotional event at JR Tokyo Station on Feb. 3, 2011. The train, which debuts March 5 on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori, will offer ''GranClass'' services using the chairs and also including meals, beverages, blankets, slippers, newspapers and magazines, intended to rank with airlines' first-class seats. They will be available for an additional 9,000 to 10,000 yen on top of regular fares.

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JSA Chair Hanaregoma at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hanaregoma (R) describes alleged match fixing at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2011. The chairman apologized for yet another scandal involving the national sport but said he was not able to confirm the truth of the allegation after summoning about 10 people the same day for questioning over cellphone text messages implying rigged bouts.

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JSA Chair Hanaregoma at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hanaregoma bows in apology for yet another scandal involving the national sport at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2011. The chairman said, however, he was not able to confirm the truth of the allegation after summoning about 10 people the same day for questioning over cellphone text messages implying rigged bouts.

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National lawmaker dedicated to promoting Miao embroidery and creating jobs

STORY: National lawmaker dedicated to promoting Miao embroidery and creating jobs DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2021 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: various of Wei ZuyingSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese) WEI ZUYING, National lawmakerSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese) WEI ZUYING, National lawmakervarious of workers STORYLINE: Wei Zuying is an inheritor of Miao embroidery in Congjiang County of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Guizhou Province. In 2011, she returned home after working in the southern Guangdong Province for 10 years. In 2014, she started a cooperative specialized in Miao embroidery. Wei, who learned embroidery at the age of six, has been dedicated to promoting Miao embroidery and creating jobs, to improve local economy and livelihood. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese) WEI ZUYING, National lawmaker "Since I was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress (China's top legislature) in 2018, my proposals have focused on the issues of the inheritan

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10 road-paving firms, 11 officials face criminal accusation

Photo taken Feb. 29, 2016, in Tokyo shows the Tokyo headquarters of Nippon Road Co. The Japan Fair Trade Commission filed a criminal complaint against 10 road-paving firms, including Nippon Road, as well as 11 company officials, for rigging bids for projects to repair expressways damaged by the March 2011 disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10 road-paving firms, 11 officials face criminal accusation

Photo taken Feb. 29, 2016, in Tokyo shows the Tokyo headquarters of Maeda Road Construction Co. The Japan Fair Trade Commission filed a criminal complaint against 10 road-paving firms, including Maeda, as well as 11 company officials, for rigging bids for projects to repair expressways damaged by the March 2011 disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10 road-paving firms, 11 officials face criminal accusation

Photo taken Feb. 29, 2016, in Tokyo shows a building housing the headquarters of road-paving company Nippo Corp. The Japan Fair Trade Commission filed a criminal complaint against 10 road-paving firms, including Nippo, as well as 11 company officials, for rigging bids for projects to repair expressways damaged by the March 2011 disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combined photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 10, 2011, (L) and Feb. 16, 2016, show the northeastern Japanese town of Otsuchi devastated by earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The tourism boat Hamayuri washed up on the rooftop of an inn by tsunami, seen in the left photo, has been removed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Brother of Rangers' Darvish arrested over baseball gambling

Photo taken Feb. 10, 2011 shows Sho Darvish, the 26-year-old younger brother of Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish. Sho Darvish, a resident of Fujiidera, western Japan who runs a worker dispatching service, has been arrested on suspicion of running a gambling ring for profit and gambling on baseball games, police said Oct. 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police comb Pacific shores nearly 4 years after tsunami disaster

Police officers search for the remains of people still unaccounted for in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami on the Pacific coast of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2015, three years and 11 months after the disaster. A total of 2,586 people remained missing as of Feb. 10 in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in northeastern Japan, according to the National Police Agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (top) taken on March 14, 2011, shows a large fishery vessel that drifted into the tsunami-devastated Kesennuma city in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Photo (middle) shows the same area on Sept. 10, 2013, while photo (bottom) taken on Feb. 21, 2021, shows shops and public houses (R) for the affected people ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (L) taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 22, 2011, shows the tsunami-devastated Onagawa town in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, about 10 days after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Photo (R) taken from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, shows public houses built for the affected people (upper right) on elevated land and a new railway station (C) in the same area.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Streets are quiet in Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2021. The town near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains deserted with access still restricted almost 10 years after the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that triggered the nuclear disaster at the plant.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Three photos taken from a Kyoto News helicopter show an area hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The first photo (top) was taken June 10, 2011, while the second photo (middle) taken Sept. 1, 2014, shows a huge conveyor belt used for land elevation work, followed by the third photo (bottom), taken Feb. 12, 2021, showing a memorial park that was built in the area as a reminder of the disaster for future generations.