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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Topples Archway of Tainan’s Nankunshen Daitian Temple

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Budai Township, Chiayi County around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday. The storm toppled Tainan's iconic archway of Nankunshen Daitian Temple, causing widespread flooding across the neighborhood.

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Hacked Emails Expose Bashar al-Assad and Wife (Files)

Syrian head of state Bashar al-Assad and London-born wife Asma al-Assad appear to live in a surreal psychological bubble, insulated from the grotesque violence that has claimed the lives of 8,000 Syrians, according to a cache of some 3,000 alleged emails and documents obtained by Syrian activists and published by the Guardian issue dated March 15, 2012. File photo : © Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACA. EXCLUSIVE. 40867-1. London-UK, 18/12/2002. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad poses with wife Asma and their one year old son Hafez in London before their departure after a three day visit.

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Hacked Emails Expose Bashar al-Assad and Wife (Files)

Syrian head of state Bashar al-Assad and London-born wife Asma al-Assad appear to live in a surreal psychological bubble, insulated from the grotesque violence that has claimed the lives of 8,000 Syrians, according to a cache of some 3,000 alleged emails and documents obtained by Syrian activists and published by the Guardian issue dated March 15, 2012. File photo : © Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACA. EXCLUSIVE. 40867-1. London-UK, 18/12/2002. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad poses with wife Asma and their one year old son Hafez in London before their departure after a three day visit.

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"Total Dictation" held in Russia

STORY: "Total Dictation" held in Russia SHOOTING TIME: April 20, 2024 DATELINE: April 21, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: ST. PETERSBURG, Russia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the "Total Dictation" event in St. Petersburg, Russia STORYLINE: The International Russian Language Grammar Test "Total Dictation" was held simultaneously on Saturday in dozens of cities in Russia and worldwide. During the annual cultural event, people got together to write down a dictation in the Russian language, which will be checked and nominated by a special grammar commission. According to the organizer, this year's event took place in over 40 countries and regions. Total Dictation was created to draw attention to literacy and to develop a culture of literate writing in the Russian language. The first such event was organized by philology students from Novosibirsk, Russia on March 11, 2004. Since 2012, the Total Dictation has become an international event that was supported by Russians abroad and people studying

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Senegalese cast ballots to elect new president

STORY: Senegalese cast ballots to elect new president SHOOTING TIME: March 24, 2024 DATELINE: March 25, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: Dakar CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of a polling station in Dakar STORYLINE: The first round of the Senegalese presidential election was held on Sunday. According to statistics from the General Directorate of Elections, approximately 7.37 million voters, over 7 million domestically and the remainder abroad, were expected to cast their ballots to elect the fifth president of Senegal. Senegalese voters voted in about 16,440 polling stations from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The General Directorate of Elections said 2,457 observers were accredited for the election. Nineteen candidates are competing to succeed the outgoing president, Macky Sall, who was elected in 2012 and re-elected in 2019. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dakar. (XHTV)

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Italian luxury carmaker Lamborghini reports record sales in 2023

STORY: Italian luxury carmaker Lamborghini reports record sales in 2023 SHOOTING TIME: March 22, 2024 DATELINE: March 23, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: MARKET SHOTLIST: 1. various of Lamborghini cars in Rome STORYLINE: Italian supercar manufacturer Lamborghini's annual deliveries surpassed 10,000 for the first time ever last year, sources with the company said. In a press statement released on Thursday, the company called 2023 its "best ever" year, with 10,112 vehicles delivered worldwide, a record profit margin of 27.2 percent, and 2.66 billion euros (2.91 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue, a 12-percent increase year-on-year. China is Lamborghini's third-largest market last year with 845 vehicles sold. Meanwhile, the company sold 3,000 cars to the United States and 961 to Germany, the statement said. Lamborghini, part of Germany's Volkswagen Group, has maintained long-term ties with China. Its Ursus SUV was first unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in 2012. Last year, the company

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A German engineer's bond with China

STORY: A German engineer's bond with China SHOOTING TIME: March 10, 2024 DATELINE: March 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: SHIJIAZHUANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Klaus-Dieter Merz visiting battery factory in Hengshui City, Hebei Province 2. SOUNDBITE (English): KLAUS-DIETER MERZ, German engineer STORYLINE: Klaus-Dieter Merz, a 70-year-old German expert in new energy, recently revisited Gucheng County in north China's Hebei Province. During his visit, he collaborated with representatives from Chinese enterprises to facilitate the mass production of innovative sodium-ion batteries in China and Germany. Merz's first visit to China dates back to 2012. Since then, he has visited China frequently, fostering the adoption of eco-friendly new energy technologies through collaborative efforts between the two nations. He has also been deeply obsessed with Chinese culture and food. SOUNDBITE (English): KLAUS-DIETER MERZ, German engineer "And I took the opportunity to learn a little bit mor

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Civilians in DR Congo's Sake suffer from rebel M23 offensive

STORY: Civilians in DR Congo's Sake suffer from rebel M23 offensive SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 13, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: Kinshasa CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people fleeing Sake towards Goma, eastern DR Congo 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Swahili): EUSTACHE GASORE, Displaced person 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Swahili): SON AMANI, Displaced person 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Swahili): GUILAIN IRUNVA, Displaced person STORYLINE: For several weeks, residents of Sake, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have been living under the intensive exchange of heavy weapons fire as fighting flared up between government troops and March 23 Movement (M23) rebels, Xinhua correspondents observed on the ground. Located about 20 km from Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, much of which is occupied by the M23, Sake City is considered to be the last barrier for Goma, which was taken by M23 rebels in late 2012. The DRC army and military partners such as the Southern African Development

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French First League Soccer match, Olympique de Marseille Vs Toulouse FC

Stade Velodrome's illustration during the French First League Soccer match, Olympique de Marseille Vs Toulouse FC at Velodrome Stadium in Marseille, France on March 3, 2012. Toulouse won 1-0. Photo by Michel Clementz/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Australian cash rate hits record-high 3.6 pct since May 2012

STORY: Australian cash rate hits record-high 3.6 pct since May 2012 DATELINE: March 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sydney 2. various of the Reserve Bank of Australia STORYLINE: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided to lift the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 3.6 percent, while the interest rate on Exchange Settlement balances jumped by 25 basis points to 3.5 percent. This is the 10th consecutive rate hike since May of last year when the RBA announced the first 25-basis-point increase. The central bank's new decision for a 25-basis-point lift also took the cash rate to its highest level since May 2012. Following an RBA board meeting on Tuesday, the bank's Governor Philip Lowe said in a statement that high inflation makes life difficult for people and damages the functioning of the economy. "And if high inflation were to become entrenched in people's expectations, it would be very costly to reduce later, involving even higher

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New Year in disaster area

KESENNUMA, Japan - The New Year sunrise lights up an area devastated by the March 2011 tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2012. The tsunami reached three-fourths of the height of the tower seen in the center.

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New Year in disaster area

ONAGAWA, Japan - A former residential area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by the March 2011 tsunami is lit by the New Year's sunrise on Jan. 1, 2012.

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New Year in disaster area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A mailman delivers New Year cards in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2012. In the background are the remains of the town government building devastated by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Demolition of reactor building cover starts

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2012 shows the covered No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan. On Oct. 22, 2014, Tokyo Electric Power Co. began dismantling the cover, which was installed to prevent the dispersal of radioactive materials.

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Demolition of Fukushima nuke reactor cover to begin

TOKYO, Japan - The cover of a building that houses the crippled No. 1 nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., shown in this file photo taken in March 2012, is to be demolished from Oct. 22, 2014, in the first step toward complete removal of the rubble there, a process requiring nearly three years.

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Tsunami effect still felt big in Kesennuma city

SENDAI, Japan - A tsunami-swept fishing boat in the Shishiori district of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is seen above on March 1, 2012, before its removal last year, while the temporary shopping area "Central Ishinomaki Revival Marche" in the background is being moved to prefab stores seen in the foreground in the photo below taken on Aug. 31, 2014, to raise the ground level of the area.

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Court rules Dec. election invalid over vote disparity

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tetsuya Kanao, one of the lawyers who filed a lawsuit claiming the general election held in December 2012 was invalid due to significant disparities in the weight of votes, holds a press conference in Hiroshima on March 25, 2013, after the local high court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. The Hiroshima High Court ruled the same day that the results of the election in Hiroshima's No. 1 and 2 districts were invalid, becoming the first court in Japan to declare an election result void amid a series of lawsuits over disparities in the weight of votes.

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Election ruled invalid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the Hiroshima High Court in western Japan on March 25, 2013, which ruled the results of the December 2012 general election in Hiroshima's No. 1 and 2 districts were invalid due to significant disparities in the weight of votes.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Vote disparity

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers who filed a lawsuit over the 2.34 times disparity in the weight of votes seen in the Tokyo No. 1 single-seat constituency in the House of Representatives election December 2012, stand in front of the Tokyo High Court on March 6, 2013, after it ruled the disparity was unconstitutional.

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U.S. sailors convicted for rape

NAHA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the Naha District Court in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The court the same day sentenced two U.S. sailors to prison terms of nine and 10 years for raping and injuring a Japanese woman in her 20s in Okinawa Prefecture in October 2012.

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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Environment Minister Hiroyuki Nagahama answers reporters' questions on Dec. 5, 2012, in Doha, Qatar, where the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held. Greenhouse gases equivalent to 1,307 million tons of carbon dioxide were emitted in Japan in fiscal 2011 through March 2012, up 3.9 percent from the previous year, the Environment Ministry said the same day in a preliminary report.

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March against global warming

DOHA, Qatar - Environmental protection group members march in Doha, on Dec. 1, 2012, calling for enhancement of measures against global warming. The 18th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way in the Qatari capital.

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March against global warming

DOHA, Qatar - Environmental protection group members march in Doha, on Dec. 1, 2012, calling for enhancement of measures against global warming. The 18th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way in the Qatari capital.

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Toyota ups profit outlook

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2012. The automaker raised its group operating profit projection for the current business year through March to 1.05 trillion yen, from an earlier projected 1 trillion yen, on brisk sales in Southeast Asia and North America, despite declining sales in China.

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Toyota ups profit outlook

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2012. The automaker raised its group operating profit projection for the current business year through March to 1.05 trillion yen, from an earlier projected 1 trillion yen, on brisk sales in Southeast Asia and North America, despite declining sales in China.

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Toyota ups profit outlook

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2012. The automaker raised its group operating profit projection for the current business year through March to 1.05 trillion yen, from an earlier projected 1 trillion yen, on brisk sales in Southeast Asia and North America, despite declining sales in China.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp foresees record net loss

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2012. Sharp announced it expects to post its largest-ever group net loss of 450 billion yen for fiscal 2012 to March 31, 2013, due mainly to its flagging television business.

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Sharp to forecast record net loss of 450 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in September 2012 shows the headquarters of Sharp Corp. in Osaka's Abeno Ward. Sharp will revise down its earnings forecast for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, projecting a record group net loss of 450 billion yen, mainly due to its flagging television-making business, sources close to the matter said Nov. 1, 2012.

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Goldfish in bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Some 20 children invited from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, view about 1,000 goldfish in a large goldfish bowl at the Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Aug. 18, 2012.

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Disaster-hit students head to London

NARITA, Japan - Junior high school students from Japanese prefectures hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami prepare to depart Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2012, for London. About 20 children from Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures will watch some of the Games and meet local children as guests of the Japanese Olympic Committee.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Photo taken July 18, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was restarted later, around 9 p.m., the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, can be seen to the right.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 9, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was reactivated around 9 p.m. on July 18, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, stands just behind.

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"Boot camp" experience at Hokkaido SDF unit

SAPPORO, Japan - Participants at a training camp event held by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Northern Army headquarters march by a tank in Eniwa, Hokkaido, on July 1, 2012.

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S. Korea nuclear plant gets green light to resume operation

TOKYO, Japan - File photo from April 2012 shows the Gori 1 Nuclear Power Plant near Busan, South Korea. South Korean nuclear safety regulators on July 4, 2012, approved resumption of the plant that was suspended in March 2012 over safety concerns, following a blackout the previous month.

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Japan's power-saving period begins

TOKYO, Japan - A board in the head office of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. (NTT East) in Tokyo on July 2, 2012, shows the work schedules of employees, including those working only between 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. for two days per week under a "short" working hour system introduced as part of power-saving efforts. A government-requested power-saving period began in Japan the same day to cope with power supply constraints caused by the prolonged halt of nuclear reactors following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Japan to ban serving of raw beef liver

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows raw beef liver served at a Tokyo barbecue restaurant in March 2012. The health ministry will ban restaurants from serving raw beef liver, a popular dish in Japan, from July 1, 2012, in the wake of a series of food poisoning incidents caused by raw beef, including fatal cases, a government panel agreed on June 12, 2012.

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Sendai man to serve as Olympic torch runner

SENDAI, Japan - Sadaharu Mishina (L), 31, an employee at ANA Holiday Inn Sendai, shakes hands with his supervisor Kimifusa Shibata, 47, in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on June 1, 2012. Mishina, who lost his 2-year-old daughter and saw his home damaged in the March 2011 disaster that struck the region, will be a torch runner in the upcoming London Olympics, running with the sacred flame in a suburb of Leeds, a city in the north of England, on June 25.

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Young ibises in Sado

SADO, Japan - Two young crested ibises (L) look for food beside one of their parents (R) in a fallow rice paddy in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on June 1, 2012. The young birds were two of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a pair released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly in late May 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild in Japan for 38 years. (Pool photo)

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Young ibises in Sado

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis (L) lands beside one of its parents in a fallow rice paddy in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on June 1, 2012. The young bird is one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a pair released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly in late May 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild in Japan for 38 years. (Pool photo)

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Young ibises in Sado

SADO, Japan - Two young crested ibises spread their wings in a fallow rice paddy in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on June 1, 2012. The young birds were two of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a pair released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly in late May 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild in Japan for 38 years. (Pool photo)

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Utilities, organizations donate 26.3 bil. yen in 5 years

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Osaka Science Museum in Osaka on May 1, 2012. Kansai Electric Power Co. donated 250 million yen to the Osaka municipal government to help finance renovation of the museum. Japan's electric power companies, their subsidiaries and related organizations provided at least 26.3 billion yen (about $329 million) to local governments mostly as donations during five years through March 31, 2012.

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Earth Day antinuclear march in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows participants of the Earth Day Parade in Tokyo's Shibuya commercial district on April 22, 2012. The event's organizer said about 1,000 people took part to express opposition to reactivating a nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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Kumamoto given expanded administrative powers

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area of the city of Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on March 27, 2012, with a bullet train passing on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line (front). The city was accorded expanded administrative authority as it was given the status of ''government ordinance-designated city'' on April 1, 2012.

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Myanmar election

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters on March 31, 2012, as she arrived in the Kawhmu Township constituency which she is bidding to represent in parliament in April 1 parliamentary by-elections.

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Myanmar election

YANGON, Myanmar - Supporters of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi carry her portrait on March 31, 2012, in the Kawhmu Township constituency from which she is bidding for a parliamentary seat in the country's April 1 parliamentary by-elections.