Zimbabwe's manufacturing industry optimistic despite operational challenges

STORY: Zimbabwe's manufacturing industry optimistic despite operational challenges DATELINE: April 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:09 LOCATION: Harare CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of delegates at the event 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): KURAI MATSHEZA, President, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) 3. various of delegates at the event 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KURAI MATSHEZA, President, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) 5. various of delegates at the event 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): JOHN MANGUDYA, Governor, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe 7.more of delegates 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): SEKAI NZENZA, Zimbabwe's Minister of Industry and Commerce 9. various of delegates at the event STORYLINE: Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector remains optimistic despite operational challenges, a recent 2022 manufacturing sector survey has indicated. Conducted by the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), the country's largest manufacturing lobby group, and presented on Thursday, the annual survey provided a detailed insi

S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai (C), deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, leaves the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

S. Korea protests Japan's renewed claim to islets

S. Korea protests Japan's renewed claim to islets

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, arrives at the foreign ministry in Seoul on April 5, 2013. South Korea summoned Kurai to lodge a protest against Japan's renewed claim, in an annual foreign policy report, to a pair of South Korean-held islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese.

New textbooks describe Takeshima, Senkakus as Japan's

New textbooks describe Takeshima, Senkakus as Japan's

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, leaves the foreign ministry in Seoul on March 26, 2013, after being summoned. South Korea summoned Kurai to lodge a protest over Japan's approval of high school textbooks containing its territorial claim over islets in the Sea of Japan known as Dokdo in Korean.

Seoul protests Japan ceremony

Seoul protests Japan ceremony

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, leaves the South Korean foreign ministry on Feb. 22, 2013, after being summoned by Park Jun Yong, director general of Northeast Asian affairs in the ministry, to lodge a protest against the ''Takeshima Day'' ceremony held in Japan the same day to promote its claim to islets situated about halfway between the two countries in the Sea of Japan. South Korea controls the islets and calls them Dokdo, while Japan claims the islands are part of Shimane Prefecture and calls them Takeshima.

Japan names new ambassadors

Japan names new ambassadors

Undated combined photo shows Kazuo Sunaga (L), 58, and Takashi Kurai, 60. The Japanese government named Sunaga as ambassador to the Japanese mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Kurai as ambassador to Pakistan on Feb. 19, 2016. The appointments will take effect the following week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo