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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FIRE

(231027) -- COLOMBO, Oct. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 27, 2023 shows a building where a fire broke out in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, Sri Lanka. At least 23 Sri Lankans were hospitalized on Friday morning after a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, the police said. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FIRE

(231027) -- COLOMBO, Oct. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 27, 2023 shows a building where a fire broke out in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, Sri Lanka. At least 23 Sri Lankans were hospitalized on Friday morning after a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, the police said. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FIRE

(231027) -- COLOMBO, Oct. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Firefighters work at the site of a building fire in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Oct. 27, 2023. At least 23 Sri Lankans were hospitalized on Friday morning after a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, the police said. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-FIRE

(231027) -- COLOMBO, Oct. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 27, 2023 shows a building where a fire broke out in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, Sri Lanka. At least 23 Sri Lankans were hospitalized on Friday morning after a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Pettah, the commercial center of Colombo, the police said. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

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A Shared Path | A "city on the sea" bears aspirations of Sri Lankans

STORY: A Shared Path | A "city on the sea" bears aspirations of Sri Lankans DATELINE: Oct. 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:08:11 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY STORYLINE: Sri Lanka, a "gem in the Indian Ocean." The vast expanse of the sea has always been a blessing for locals. However, it also limits the island country's potential for development. Puttalam Village Sri Lanka SOUNDBITE (Sinhalese): SANJEEWA FERNANDO, Local resident, and his son Son: "Dad, I don't want to be a fisherman when I grow up." Father: "Then, what do you want to do?" Son: "I'd like to do something that no one in our village has ever done before." Father: "Son, what's that indeed?" Son: Dad, do you think a city can grow from the sea? Sanjeewa Fernando couldn't answer his son's question. But maybe he could give him an answer the second day. SOUNDBITE (Sinhalese): SANJEEWA FERNANDO, Local resident "Son, tomorrow I'm going to the port city for a job interview. Wanna come along?" Explorers are bound to succeed. -- A Sri Lankan proverb Ferna

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Myanmar grants amnesty to over 3,000 prisoners on New Year's Day

STORY: Myanmar grants amnesty to over 3,000 prisoners on New Year's Day DATELINE: April 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of people waiting for released prisoners outside the Insein Prison 2. various of buses carrying newly released prisoners outside the Insein Prison STORYLINE: Myanmar's State Administration Council pardoned more than 3,000 prisoners in an amnesty on Monday, the first day of the Myanmar calendar New Year. The council granted amnesty to 3,015 prisoners in an order, and 98 foreign prisoners and five Sri Lankans in separate orders on New Year's Day. It is to mark the Southeast Asian country's traditional New Year with peace in mind and on humanitarian grounds, as well as in view of relations between the respective countries and Myanmar, the council said. Myanmar typically pardons thousands of prisoners in an annual amnesty to mark its traditional New Year, and it released 1,619 prisoners on New Year's Day last year. On Jan. 4 thi

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Voting begins in Sri Lanka's parliamentary election

Photo taken Aug. 17, 2015, shows a polling station in Colombo. Sri Lankans began voting the same day in a parliamentary election that has turned into a rematch between former President Mahinda Rajpakasa and the forces that combined to defeat him in January's presidential election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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6 arrested in Japan for gold smuggling

Photo taken on Jan. 29, 2018, in Tokoname, central Japan, shows 5 kilograms of gold bars worth about 23 million yen ($210,000) which were seized in July 2017. Three Sri Lankans, a Malaysian and two Japanese were arrested on suspicion of smuggling the gold bars to Japan from Singapore, hiding them in a lavatory on an airplane bound for Chubu airport in the city in Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo