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UK celebrates annual Dragon Boat Festival

STORY: UK celebrates annual Dragon Boat Festival DATELINE: June 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:05:32 LOCATION: MANCHESTER, U.K. CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG BONING, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of the dragon boat race 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CAMERON MAXWELL, Paddler, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer team 4. various of the dragon boat race 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): TRACEY, Spectator 6. various of the dragon boat race 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): PAUL DENNETT, Salford's mayor 8. various of performances to celebrate the festival 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): YANG HANXIN, Chairman, Xinhua Chinese Association STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG BONING, Xinhua correspondent "Listen to the drumbeats and cheers! This is a dragon boat race heating up on Saturday in Salford, in Britain's Greater Manchester. With 40 amateur teams competing, this race is just one part of this year's UK Chinese Dragon Boat Festival." Launched in 2012, this event has gained popularity in the country and across Europe. As t

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Taiwan, China sign investment, customs pacts

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Chiang Pin-kung (R front), chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, and Chen Yunlin (L front), chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, hold documents after signing two trade agreements in Taipei on Aug. 9, 2012. Taiwan and China signed agreements on investment protection and customs cooperation under the framework of a landmark economic cooperation pact concluded in June 2010.

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China's April-June economic growth slows to 7.6%

BEIJING, Canada - Photo shows a worker at a construction site of a condominium in Beijing on July 9, 2012. China's economic growth further slowed in the April-June quarter of 2012, expanding 7.6 percent from a year earlier compared to the 8.1 percent rise in the first quarter, according to government data released on July 13.

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China's consumer prices up 2.2% in June

BEIJING, China - Customers buy bargain sale vegetables at a supermarket in Beijing on July 8, 2012. Government data showed on July 9, 2012, that China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.2 percent in June from the same month a year earlier, slowing from 3.0 percent in May.

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Serena Williams advances to 4th round at Wimbledon

LONDON, Britain - Serena Williams of the United States plays against Zheng Jie of China in a women's singles third-round match at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in London on June 30, 2012. Williams advanced to the fourth round with a 6-7 (5), 6-2, 9-7 win.

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London in festive mood before Olympics

LONDON, England - The Olympic torch is relayed in Lewiston, Scotland, on June 9, 2012. Britain is increasingly in a festive mood ahead of the July 27 opening of the London Olympics.

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Ichiro tops 2,500 hits in MLB career

PHOENIX, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki races to first base after hitting a single -- and the 2,500th hit of his U.S. major league career -- during the first inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 19, 2012. Suzuki went 4-for-5 with two RBIs in the Mariners' 12-9 victory.

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Ichiro tops 2,500 hits in MLB career

PHOENIX, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki belts a single -- and the 2,500th hit of his U.S. major league career -- during the first inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 19, 2012. Suzuki went 4-for-5 with two RBIs in the Mariners' 12-9 victory.

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Ichiro tops 2,500 hits in MLB career

PHOENIX, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki belts a single -- and the 2,500th hit of his U.S. major league career -- during the first inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 19, 2012. Suzuki went 4-for-5 with two RBIs in the Mariners' 12-9 victory.

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Crisis-hit Greeks turn to barter currency

VOLOS, Greece - Photo taken June 9, 2012, shows an outdoor market in Volos, central Greece, where an informal barter currency called TEM is used to exchange goods and services.

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Crisis-hit Greeks turn to barter currency

VOLOS, Greece - Photo taken June 9, 2012, shows an outdoor market in Volos, central Greece, where an informal barter currency called TEM is used to exchange goods and services.

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Matsuzaka loses on return from surgery

BOSTON, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka gives a press conference after a game against the Washington Nationals at Fenway Park in Boston on June 9, 2012. Matsuzaka returned to the mound nearly a year to the day after having reconstructive elbow surgery and worked five innings, allowing four runs on five hits in the Red Sox's 4-2 loss.

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Torch relay on Loch Ness

INVERNESS, Britain - A man holds the Olympic flame on a boat on Loch Ness in Scotland on June 9, 2012, the 22nd day of the 70-day torch relay for the London Games.

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Matsuzaka loses on return from surgery

BOSTON, United States - Boston Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches in a game against the Washington Nationals at Fenway Park in Boston on June 9, 2012. Matsuzaka returned to the mound nearly a year to the day after having reconstructive elbow surgery and worked five innings, allowing four runs on five hits in the Red Sox's 4-2 loss.

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Lee Hae Chan elected head of S. Korea's main opposition party

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in a suburb of Seoul on June 9, 2012, shows former South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae Chan. Lee was elected the same day to lead the main opposition Democratic United Party.

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Torch relay on Loch Ness

INVERNESS, Britain - A man holds the Olympic flame on a boat on Loch Ness in Scotland on June 9, 2012, the 22nd day of the 70-day torch relay for the London Games.

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Experimental turbine for floating wind power generation

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken on June 9, 2012, shows an experimental turbine for floating wind power generation off the coast of Kaba Island in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture. Its installation was shown to the media the same day.

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Experimental turbine for floating wind power generation

NAGASAKI, Japan - Installation of an experimental turbine for floating wind power generation is shown to the media off the coast of Kaba Island in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 9, 2012.

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Rainy season starts in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People walk holding umbrellas near Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on June 9, 2012. The rainy season is believed to have started in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region, including Tokyo, the Hokuriku area along the Sea of Japan and the southern Tohoku area in northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said the same day. It began one day later than in usual years in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region.

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Rainy season starts in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People walk holding umbrellas and looking up at nearby Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on June 9, 2012. The rainy season is believed to have started in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region, including Tokyo, the Hokuriku area along the Sea of Japan and the southern Tohoku area in northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said the same day. It began one day later than in usual years in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region.

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Hunting for AUM fugitive

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers leave for a patrol from JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo to look for Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM Shinrikyo cult fugitive, on June 9, 2012. Takahashi has been wanted over the cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

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Indian navy ship in Yokosuka

YOKOHAMA, Japan - An Indian navy ship enters the Maritime Self-Defense Force's port in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 5, 2012. The MSDF said the same day it will conduct its first joint exercises with the Indian navy on June 9 in Sagami Bay off Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Avant-garde artist Kusama's exhibition in London

LONDON, United Kingdom - Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama (L front) is pictured in front of her works at the Tate Modern art gallery in London on Feb. 7, 2012. Her exhibition will be held there from Feb. 9 through June 5.

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CHINA-ANHUI-HEFEI-CHAOHU LAKE-CHANGES (CN)

(220921) -- HEFEI, Sept. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows an aerial view of a boat sailing on the Chaohu Lake on Sept. 6, 2022 (upper) and a boat sailing on the Chaohu Lake in Hefei City, east China's Anhui Province, June 9, 2012. As the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China, Chaohu Lake is known as the "kidney" of the Yangtze River. In recent years, Hefei City, where Chaohu Lake is located, has taken a slew of measures to strengthen the protection of wetlands around the lake, including banning fishing, land reclamation and waste dumping in designated protected zones. Changes are happening around this freshwater lake, with more rare and endangered species inhabiting its surrounding wetlands. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)

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BRITAIN-LONDON-QUEEN ELIZABETH II-DEATH

(220909) -- LONDON, Sept. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II standing on the balcony of the Buckingham Palace in London, Britain, June 5, 2012. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch in history, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace announced on Sept. 8, 2022. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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Avant-garde artist Kusama's exhibition in London

LONDON, United Kingdom - Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama (L front) is pictured in front of her works at the Tate Modern art gallery in London on Feb. 7, 2012. Her exhibition will be held there from Feb. 9 through June 5. (Kyodo)

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Taro Aso to become postwar Japan's longest-serving finance minister

Photo taken in June 2014 in Tokyo's Finance Ministry shows Finance Minister Taro Aso. On Sept. 9, 2016, Aso will have served in the post for 1,354 days, the longest by a finance minister in the same Cabinet in postwar Japan. Aso, a former prime minister, has been in the current portfolio since December 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo