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Exhibitors seek opportunities at China-Eurasia Expo

STORY: Exhibitors seek opportunities at China-Eurasia Expo SHOOTING TIME: June 26, 2024 DATELINE: June 26, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:43 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 8th China-Eurasia Expo STORYLINE: The 8th China-Eurasia Expo commenced Wednesday at Xinjiang International Convention and Exhibition Center. It is themed "New Opportunities of Silk Road, New Vitality for Eurasian Cooperation." It has drawn over 1,900 participants from 50 countries, regions, and international organizations. Showcasing over 6,000 varieties of products, the expo will run until Sunday. Since 2011, the China-Eurasia Expo has successfully hosted seven sessions. The expo serves as a platform, facilitating exchanges and collaboration among countries in Asia and Europe. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Urumqi, China. (XHTV)

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174 migrants deported from Libya to Nigeria

STORY: 174 migrants deported from Libya to Nigeria SHOOTING TIME: June 25, 2024 DATELINE: June 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:35 LOCATION: Tripoli CATEGORY: SOCIETY/POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the migrants 2. various of the migrants departing STORYLINE: A total of 174 migrants were deported from Libya to Nigeria on Tuesday with the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), according to a Libyan official. Muhammad Baraida, an assistant for security affairs with the Libyan Illegal Immigration Control Department, told Xinhua that the repatriated migrants were mostly women "who tested positive for infectious and chronic diseases." The migrants were deported through IOM's Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) program, which facilitates the return of migrants stranded in Libya to their countries of origin. Baraida added that the voluntary repatriation was carried out in collaboration with IOM and the Nigerian embassy in Libya. Since the 2011 downfall of late leader Muammar Gadd

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1st batch of int'l exhibits for 8th China-Eurasia Expo arrives in China

STORY: 1st batch of int'l exhibits for 8th China-Eurasia Expo arrives in China SHOOTING TIME: June 21, 2024 DATELINE: June 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: HORGOS, CHINA CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of customs clearance at the Horgos Port STORYLINE: The first batch of international exhibits for the upcoming 8th China-Eurasia Expo arrived in China on Friday. Weighing 10.2 tonnes and worth 48,000 U.S. dollars, the exhibits are from Kyrgyzstan including honey and dried fruits. They underwent customs clearance at the Horgos Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The 8th China-Eurasia Expo is scheduled to be held from June 26 to 30 in Xinjiang. According to China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), the expo will cover an area of 140,000 square meters with four major exhibition zones covering investment cooperation, international exhibition, special industries, and equipment manufacturing. Since 2011, the China-Eurasia Expo has successfully held seven sessions yielding fruitful re

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Fireworks by Chinese artist Cai in Fukushima

A fireworks display created by prominent Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang is held in daylight on June 26, 2023, at Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, devastated by a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The 40,000 fireworks, representing cherry blossoms, are meant to console the souls of the quake and tsunami victims.

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TEPCO shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - People wearing protective suits stage a protest against a resumption of nuclear power plants on June 26, 2014, in front of a building in Tokyo where Tokyo Electric Power Co. held an annual shareholders' meeting the same day. TEPCO told shareholders it will seek to reactivate halted nuclear reactors as it attempts to improve its business amid continued work to contain the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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TEPCO shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. shareholders enter a building in Tokyo on June 26, 2014, to attend an annual meeting. TEPCO told the meeting it will seek to reactivate halted nuclear reactors as it attempts to improve its business amid continued work to contain the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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More Japanese firms relocating functions to Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Shunsuke Sato, the chief executive officer of Satisfaction Guaranteed, speaks at the company's head office in Singapore on June 26, 2012. The company that markets quality Japanese fashion brands online moved its head office from Japan to Singapore in November 2011 because Sato finds the business environment in Singapore more vibrant and conducive for smaller companies like his.

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'Cat island' seeks reconstruction from disaster

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman plays with a cat near a fishing cooperative on Tashiro Island in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The island, with less than 100 residents and about 100 cats, is seeking support from the public for its reconstruction efforts from the March quake and tsunami by making use of its name ''cat island.''

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Italian forces in western Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan - Armored vehicles driven by Italian forces patrol the streets of Herat in western Afghanistan on June 26, 2011. At least five people were killed the previous month in attacks in the city claimed to have been carried out by the Taliban.

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Dodgers' Kuroda donates $50,000 for cancer research

LOS ANGELES, United States - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda attends a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 26, 2011, speaking about his donation of $50,000 to ThinkCure, a nonprofit organization which raises funds for cancer research projects. Kuroda lost both his parents to cancer.

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Fukushima residents rally against nuclear plants

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People protest against nuclear power in the city of Fukushima on June 26, 2011. Around 1,000 people took part in the rally in the capital of Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located.

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Jordanian energy minister

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Khaled Touqan speaks during an interview in Amman on June 26, 2011. He said a Japan-France engineering consortium bidding for Jordan's nuclear power plant project has little chance of winning if the Japanese parliament does not approve a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement by the end of the year.

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Gay parade in New York

NEW YORK, United States - A gay ''pride'' parade is held in New York on June 26, 2011. About 2 million people took part.

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Chinese rights advocate Hu Jia

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights advocate who has helped AIDS sufferers in China. Hu returned home after he was imprisoned for subversion, his wife Zeng Jinyan said on June 26, 2011.

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Record No. of instruments used in musical performance

OTSU, Japan - Participants in a musical performance smile in front of the camera just after setting a Guinness world record by using 181 instruments in a piece of music, on June 26, 2011, in the city of Hikone, Shiga prefecture in western Japan.

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Sumo wrestlers arrive in Nagoya for July tournament

NAGOYA, Japan - Sumo wrestlers arrive at JR Nagoya Station on June 26, 2011, ahead of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament starting July 10. The tournament will be the first regular meet since January, after a match-fixing scandal forced the Japan Sumo Association to cancel the regular spring competition in March.

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Earnestly wins Takarazuka horse race

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Jockey Tetsuzo Sato celebrates on Earnestly after winning the Takarazuka Kinen horse race at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The sixth pick won his first Grade One race in a course record time.

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster.

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Seal pup born after disaster arrives at Fukushima aquarium

IWAKI, Japan - An aquarium keeper looks on as a harbor seal pup approaches a pool at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The pup was born in an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, where his mother, Kurara, and other marine mammals were being cared after the Fukushima aquarium was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Seal pup born after disaster arrives at Fukushima aquarium

IWAKI, Japan - A harbor seal pup arrives at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The pup was born in an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, where his mother, Kurara, and other marine mammals were being cared after the Fukushima aquarium was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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43rd anniv. of Chichijima's return to Japan

CHICHIJIMA, Japan - Local residents perform during a festival on June 25, 2011, on Chichijima, part of the Ogasawara island chain that was newly recognized as a World Heritage site, to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the returning of the island to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. rule. Chichijima was returned to Japan on June 26, 1968.

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Gov't forum on trade policy

SAITAMA, Japan - Koichiro Gemba, national policy minister, speaks at a debate forum in Saitama on Feb. 26, 2011, organized by the Japanese government to enhance public understanding of its policy of pursuing freer trade. Japan plans to decide on whether to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations around June.

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JR East begins testing possibly world's fastest bullet train

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co.'s brand-new shinkansen bullet train Fastech 360S leaves Sendai Station on a test run at 24:13 on June 26. The company hopes to operate the train at the world's fastest speed of 360 kilometers per hour in 2011. The test runs between Miyagi's capital Sendai and Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, will last until the spring of 2008.

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"Anti-drug grandma" heals hearts through education, love

STORY: "Anti-drug grandma" heals hearts through education, love DATELINE: June 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: HAIKOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of the detoxification centervarious of Fu Liangling workingSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): FU LIANGLING, Vice director of Coastline StationSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): FU LIANGLING, Vice director of Coastline StationSOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): FU LIANGLING, Vice director of Coastline Station STORYLINE: Sunday marked the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which is observed on June 26 every year. In Haikou, the capital of south China's Hainan Province, a community drug-detoxification center helps people quit drug addiction and get back to regular lives in families and society. Fu Liangling, 54, is the vice director of the center, named Coastline Station. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): FU LIANGLING, Vice director of Coastline Station "I came to work at the center at the Haidian community district in January 2011. At the beginning, I was afraid.

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CHINA-TIANJIN-COVID-19-TAIWANESE-DOCTOR (CN)

(220126) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on June 22, 2011 shows Huang Xinyi (L) and her mother posing for a photo at Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Fuzhou, capital city of Fujian Province. Tianjin launched its fourth citywide COVID-19 nucleic acid testing at 6 a.m. on Jan. 20. Doctor Huang Xinyi, who participated in the citywide nucleic acid testing for the second time, was in charge of the testing site of Guanyun Primary School in Hedong District of Tianjin, together with seven colleagues. Born in Kaohsiung of southeast China's Taiwan, Huang Xinyi came to Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2003 to study traditional Chinese medicine. After receiving her doctorate at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2015, she became a doctor in the infection department of Tianjin Third Central Hospital. Although the latest .....

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Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Files

File picture dated June 26, 2011 of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria. Photo by Zinou Zebar/ABACAPRESS.COM

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JR East begins testing possibly world's fastest bullet train

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co.'s brand-new shinkansen bullet train Fastech 360S leaves Sendai Station on a test run at 24:13 on June 26. The company hopes to operate the train at the world's fastest speed of 360 kilometers per hour in 2011. The test runs between Miyagi's capital Sendai and Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, will last until the spring of 2008. (Kyodo)

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Nuke regulators inspect central Japan power plant under tighter rules

Nuclear Regulation Authority officials listen to explanations from a Chubu Electric Power Co. official in front of a gigantic breakwater constructed at the utility's Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, during their inspection on June 26, 2015, for screening under tightened safety regulations to determine whether to allow reactors at the plant to be restarted. The plant, along with other nuclear plants in Japan, was taken offline in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disadvantaged Filipino kids get Japan-sponsored education

PIKIT, Philippines - Japanese author and editor Tomo Matsui, 58, who runs a foundation in the southern Philippines to help disadvantaged children get an education, is shown in this June 26, 2011, photo at a flood-submerged village near the town of Pikit. Matsui set up the Mindanao Children's Library Foundation in nearby Kidapawan city to conduct storytelling activities and medical missions and to grant scholarships. (Kyodo)

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'Cat island' seeks reconstruction from disaster

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman plays with a cat near a fishing cooperative on Tashiro Island in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The island, with less than 100 residents and about 100 cats, is seeking support from the public for its reconstruction efforts from the March quake and tsunami by making use of its name ''cat island.'' (Kyodo)

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Disadvantaged Filipino kids get Japan-sponsored education

KIDAPAWAN, Philippines - Students of the Mindanao Children's Library Foundation set up by Japanese author and editor Tomo Matsui in the southern Philippine city of Kidapawan gather on June 26, 2011, to read a book. Supported by benefactors from Japan, the foundation's students are a mix of Christians, Muslims and indigenous people. (Kyodo)

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Record No. of instruments used in musical performance

OTSU, Japan - Participants in a musical performance smile in front of the camera just after setting a Guinness world record by using 181 instruments in a piece of music, on June 26, 2011, in the city of Hikone, Shiga prefecture in western Japan. (Kyodo)

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Italian forces in western Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan - Armored vehicles driven by Italian forces patrol the streets of Herat in western Afghanistan on June 26, 2011. At least five people were killed the previous month in attacks in the city claimed to have been carried out by the Taliban. (Kyodo)

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Dodgers' Kuroda donates $50,000 for cancer research

LOS ANGELES, United States - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda attends a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 26, 2011, speaking about his donation of $50,000 to ThinkCure, a nonprofit organization which raises funds for cancer research projects. Kuroda lost both his parents to cancer. (Kyodo)

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Jordanian energy minister

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Khaled Touqan speaks during an interview in Amman on June 26, 2011. He said a Japan-France engineering consortium bidding for Jordan's nuclear power plant project has little chance of winning if the Japanese parliament does not approve a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement by the end of the year. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima residents rally against nuclear plants

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People protest against nuclear power in the city of Fukushima on June 26, 2011. Around 1,000 people took part in the rally in the capital of Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located. (Kyodo)

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Gay parade in New York

NEW YORK, United States - A gay ''pride'' parade is held in New York on June 26, 2011. About 2 million people took part. (Kyodo)

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Chinese rights advocate Hu Jia

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights advocate who has helped AIDS sufferers in China. Hu returned home after he was imprisoned for subversion, his wife Zeng Jinyan said on June 26, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Earnestly wins Takarazuka horse race

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Jockey Tetsuzo Sato celebrates on Earnestly after winning the Takarazuka Kinen horse race at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The sixth pick won his first Grade One race in a course record time. (Kyodo)

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster. (Kyodo)

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Seal pup born after disaster arrives at Fukushima aquarium

IWAKI, Japan - An aquarium keeper looks on as a harbor seal pup approaches a pool at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The pup was born in an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, where his mother, Kurara, and other marine mammals were being cared after the Fukushima aquarium was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Sumo wrestlers arrive in Nagoya for July tournament

NAGOYA, Japan - Sumo wrestlers arrive at JR Nagoya Station on June 26, 2011, ahead of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament starting July 10. The tournament will be the first regular meet since January, after a match-fixing scandal forced the Japan Sumo Association to cancel the regular spring competition in March. (Kyodo)

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Seal pup born after disaster arrives at Fukushima aquarium

IWAKI, Japan - A harbor seal pup arrives at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 26, 2011. The pup was born in an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture, where his mother, Kurara, and other marine mammals were being cared after the Fukushima aquarium was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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43rd anniv. of Chichijima's return to Japan

CHICHIJIMA, Japan - Local residents perform during a festival on June 25, 2011, on Chichijima, part of the Ogasawara island chain that was newly registered as a World Heritage site, to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the returning of the island to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. rule. Chichijima was returned to Japan on June 26, 1968. (Kyodo)

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CORRECTED 43rd anniv. of Chichijima's return to Japan

CHICHIJIMA, Japan - CORRECTING DESCRIPTION OF OGASAWARA ISLAND CHAIN Local residents perform during a festival on June 25, 2011, on Chichijima, part of the Ogasawara island chain that was newly recognized as a World Heritage site, to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the returning of the island to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. rule. Chichijima was returned to Japan on June 26, 1968. (Kyodo)

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Gov't forum on trade policy

SAITAMA, Japan - Koichiro Gemba, national policy minister, speaks at a debate forum in Saitama on Feb. 26, 2011, organized by the Japanese government to enhance public understanding of its policy of pursuing freer trade. Japan plans to decide on whether to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations around June. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - People wearing protective suits stage a protest against a resumption of nuclear power plants on June 26, 2014, in front of a building in Tokyo where Tokyo Electric Power Co. held an annual shareholders' meeting the same day. TEPCO told shareholders it will seek to reactivate halted nuclear reactors as it attempts to improve its business amid continued work to contain the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. shareholders enter a building in Tokyo on June 26, 2014, to attend an annual meeting. TEPCO told the meeting it will seek to reactivate halted nuclear reactors as it attempts to improve its business amid continued work to contain the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)