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Boao: transformation of a fishing village

STORY: Boao: transformation of a fishing village SHOOTING TIME: March 23, 2024 DATELINE: March 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: BOAO, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Boao in Hainan Province 2. various of venue of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) STORYLINE: Themed "Asia and the World: Common Challenges, Shared Responsibilities," the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2024 will be held from March 26 to 29 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province. Boao boasts the permanent venue of BFA, a non-governmental and non-profit international organization founded to promote regional economic development and cooperation. Since the founding of BFA in 2001, Boao has undergone tremendous changes, transforming from a small fishing village into a name card of Hainan, which features modernity and vibrancy. The transformation of Boao has also spurred the development of the local tourism industry, with homestays, restaurants and bars springing up. Currently, there are more than 100 such businesses, a

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(FOCUS)U.S.-HENRY KISSINGER-PASSING AWAY

(231130) -- BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This file photo taken on March 18, 2001 shows former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger playing table tennis ahead of a reception held by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries to mark the 30th anniversary of the "ping-pong Diplomacy" in the China-U.S. relationship at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, capital of China. Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at the age of 100. Kissinger had made it his lifelong pursuit to promote the development of China-U.S. relations and enhance the friendship between the two peoples. (Xinhua/Xinhua)

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Rally In Solidarity With Israel - Paris

A poster referring to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the November 13, 2015 attacks in Fran during a "march of solidarity for Israel" organized by the CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France). Paris, October 9, 2023.Jeremy Paoloni/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S. Fed hikes interest rates by 25 basis points

STORY: U.S. Fed hikes interest rates by 25 basis points DATELINE: July 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference 2. various of exterior of the U.S. Federal Reserve STORYLINE: The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to the range of 5.25 to 5.5 percent, the highest level in over two decades, as it continues to ramp up its fight against inflation. It is the 11th interest rate increase since the Fed began its aggressive rate hiking campaign in March 2022, taking the federal funds rate to its highest level since early 2001. "Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated," the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed's policy-setting body, said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon, after a two-day policy meeting. The FOMC "s

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Water diversion project safeguards ecology in China's Gansu

STORY: Water diversion project safeguards ecology in China's Gansu DATELINE: April 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the water diversion project 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEI ZAIXIN, Local official 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIA GUANGYU, Deputy director with the water diversion program STORYLINE: A water diversion project across a desert in northwest China has been in operation for more than two decades, providing much-needed water to residents and safeguarding the local ecology. In one section of the project, water is diverted from the Yellow River, China's second largest river, to Minqin, a county in Gansu Province that had long suffered severe water shortages. Construction of the project began in 1995, and was completed in 2000. The project was put into operation in March 2001. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEI ZAIXIN, Local official "A total of 1.755 billion cubic meters of water had been transferred to Minqin by the end of 2022. This has provid

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Booming eco-tourism leads Tibetan village to prosperity

STORY: Booming eco-tourism leads Tibetan village to prosperity DATELINE: March 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the village 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): DAWA ZHOMA, Owner of a family hotel in Jieba Village 3. various of the village 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): GAESANG TSETEN, Party official, Jieba Village 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): DAWA ZHOMA, Owner of a family hotel in Jieba Village STORYLINE: Jieba Village, a small village located along Basomtso Lake in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, has enjoyed the ecological and economic benefits brought by eco-tourism in the past two decades. Nowadays, homestays, B&Bs and restaurants are seen everywhere in the village, offering better services to visitors both from home and abroad. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): DAWA ZHOMA, Owner of a family hotel in Jieba Village "My family has been running a B&B since 2001. Last year, we started to upgrade the B&B to a family hotel, with floor heating and separate bath

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U.S. regulators close New York's Signature Bank following Silicon Valley Bank collapse

STORY: U.S. regulators close New York's Signature Bank following Silicon Valley Bank collapse DATELINE: March 14, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:52 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Signature Bank STORYLINE: New York-based Signature Bank, a key lender in the crypto industry, was shut down Sunday by state regulators over a "similar systemic risk exception." This is according to a joint statement by the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The move came two days after California's Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed as depositors rushed to withdraw funds. Regulators promised that all depositors of Signature Bank "will be made whole," and "as with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, no losses will be borne by the taxpayer." The authorities also said "shareholders and certain unsecured debtholders will not be protected." Founded in 2001, Signature Bank is a New York state-chartered commercial bank. Xinhua News Agency c

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Wildlife at Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve in China's Inner Mongolia

STORY: Wildlife at Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve in China's Inner Mongolia DATELINE: March 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: ARAXAN LEFT BANNER, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of red deer STORYLINE: In the early spring, herds of red deer forage in the mountains of Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve in Araxan Left Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. As the ecological environment of Helan Mountain continues to improve and wildlife resources continue to increase, there are 352 species of vertebrates in the reserve, including 13 species of first-class national key protection wildlife and 62 species of second-class national key protection wildlife. In recent years, the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve has stepped up efforts to protect wild animals. The number of red deer has increased from more than 2,000 in 2001 to more than 7,000, and the number of rock sheep has increased from 16,000 to 50,000. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Araxa

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Public bath, inspiration for building in film "Spirited Away"

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 22 Kyodo - Photo taken March 27, 2003, shows the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum's Kodakara-yu public bathhouse, which became the inspiration for a building that featured in "Spirited Away," the 2001 Oscar-winning animated film by Hayao Miyazaki.

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Japan doctor offers medical relief abroad

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuko Kurosaki, president of the Japanese arm of Doctors without Borders, speaks on May 21, 2013 at the entity's office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Kurosaki, who assumed her current position in March 2010, has offered humanitarian medical aid as a volunteer surgeon on a total of 11 missions to such countries as Sri Lanka, Somalia and Jordan since 2001. Most recently she was in Syria for about a month from mid-April.

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USJ has 100 millionth guest

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Yamashita from Tokyo holds a number plate at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012, upon becoming the 100 millionth visitor to the U.S.-originated Hollywood movie theme park since its opening in March 2001.

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USJ has 100 millionth guest

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Yamashita from Tokyo holds a number plate at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012, upon becoming the 100 millionth visitor to the U.S.-originated Hollywood movie theme park since its opening in March 2001.

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9/11 group seeks continued support for Tohoku disaster victims

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Ielpi (far L), head of the September 11th Families' Association, meets reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano (R) in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2012. Bereaved families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States called for continued support for survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit eastern and northeastern Japan in their meeting with the Japanese minister.

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9/11 group gives monument to Japanese city

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 25, 2012, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, shows a monument (front) in the shape of a crane, with a wing span of 80 centimeters, made from debris of the World Trade Center, which collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. An association of bereaved families of victims of the attacks donated the monument the same day to the city as a symbol of its recovery efforts from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Stranded vessel in Iwate

KAMAISHI, Japan - A large stranded vessel blocks a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture on March 16, 2001, following Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

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USJ to mark 10th anniversary

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese TV idol Becky, who was named as the ''10th anniversary ambassador'' of Universal Studios Japan, kisses a dinosaur during an event at the theme park in Osaka on Feb. 28, 2011, ahead of its anniversary. USJ opened on March 31, 2001.

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USJ to mark 10th anniversary

OSAKA, Japan - Performers take the stage during the musical ''Dreams Are Universal,'' a special 10th anniversary show of Universal Studios Japan, which was unveiled to members of the media at the theme park in Osaka on Feb. 28, 2011. USJ opened on March 31, 2001.

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USJ to mark 10th anniversary

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese TV idol Becky (L front) and mascot characters take the stage at an event ahead of Universal Studios Japan's 10th anniversary at the theme park in Osaka on Feb. 28, 2011. USJ opened on March 31, 2001.

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Ex-envoy says papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts possibly dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the Foreign Ministry's treaties bureau, talks to reporters in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after speaking about so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Togo told the panel that key documents related to the secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

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Papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts may have been dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the ministry's treaties bureau, told the Diet that key documents related to so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

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Ikeda Elementary School designated 'int'l safe school'

IKEDA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School principal Daisuke Fujita (L) holds up an ''International Safe Schools'' certificate with Max Vosskuhler, chair of the ISS committee affiliated with the World Health Organization, in the city of Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture, on March 5, 2010. The school, where eight pupils were murdered by an intruder in 2001, became the first school in Japan to be designated as a ''safe school'' by the WHO for its efforts to build safety.

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Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara arrested for graffiti in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - This file photo taken in 2001 shows Yoshitomo Nara, a contemporary Japanese pop artist known for sculptures and paintings of doe-eyed figures. Nara was arrested in late February for tagging graffiti in the Union Square subway station, a New York Police Department official said March 9.

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Court finds air traffic controllers not guilty over 2001 near miss

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Hachitani (2nd from R) and Yasuko Momii (L), two air traffic controllers charged with professional negligence in causing injuries to passengers when two Japan Airlines planes almost collided in January 2001 over the Pacific off Shizuoka Prefecture, holds an ''innocence'' banner at a meeting of their supporters after they were found not guilty at the Tokyo District Court on March 20. The court ruled that they are not guilty, saying that they could not foresee the accident.

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Japan women join antiterror mission in Indian Ocean for 1st time

SASEBO, Japan - Female crew members of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's fleet support ship Oumi line up for photos before the 13,55-ton ship leaves the MSDF Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture on March 14 for the Indian Ocean. A total of 16 women were deployed in the area for the first time in an operation that began in 2001 based on a special law against terrorism.

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(1)Kyoto dance master Inoue Yachiyo IV dies at 98

KYOTO, Japan - Inoue Yachiyo IV, a living national treasure and the master of the Inoue school of Kyoto dancing, died March 19, her family said March 24. She was 98. Photo shows Inoue dancing in Kyoto on November 14, 2001.

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Renovated Kintaikyo Bridge opens to public

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - People stroll across the Kintaikyo Bridge, a popular tourist spot in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on March 20 following a ceremony to mark the completion of renovation work on the bridge, which was originally built in 1673. The work started in November 2001 and cost some 2.6 billion yen.

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Jones named chief operating officer of Vodafone K.K. (Japan)

TOKYO, Japan - Vodafone K.K. (Japan) said March 10 that David Jones (in file photo), chief executive officer of Vodafone Netherlands, will assume the newly created post of chief operating officer on April 1. A native of Britain, Jones joined British mobile phone company Vodafone Group PLC in 1986 and has been in his current post since 2001. Vodafone K.K. (Japan) is a unit of Vodafone Group.

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Spain's Rios wins Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon

OTSU, Japan - Jose Rios of Spain wins the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 7, hitting the tape at Ojiyama track and field stadium in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 42 seconds -- just eight seconds outside the meet record set by his compatriot Antonio Pena in 2001.

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(3)Body found in Colombia believed to be abducted Japanese

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2001 shows a street in Bogota, Colombia, where Japanese businessman Chikao Muramatsu was kidnapped in 2001 by a gang group, which later handed him over to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The Colombian military found on Nov. 24 what is believed to be Muramatsu's body.

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Singer Sugi performs in memorial concert for Li Su Hyon

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese singer Ryotaro Sugi sings in a memorial concert in Seoul on March 18 for Li Su Hyon, a 26-year-old South Korean who was killed while jumping onto the tracks and trying to pull a drunken man to safety at JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo's Shinjuku district in January 2001.

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Nagoya Prison officer indicted over inmate's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Atsushi Nakayama (C), chief warden at Nagoya Prison, and his aides bow in apology at a news conference March 4 after a deputy chief warden was indicted on charges of assault resulting in the death of a male inmate at the prison in 2001.

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(1)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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Marubeni hit by back taxes for 'concealing' income

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 7 shows the head office of major trading house Marubeni Corp. in Osaka, which has been ordered by tax authorities to pay 1.2 billion yen in back taxes after it failed to declare 3.5 billion yen in income in the four years to March 31, 2001.

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(2)USJ park inspected 2nd time over use of industrial water

OSAKA, Japan - The Universal Studios Japan (USJ) Hollywood movie theme park is seen from a Kyodo News helicopter July 26. The park in Osaka opened to the public on March 31, 2001 and attracted 11 million visitors in its first 12 months of operation.

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Industrial water used in Universal Studios Japan fountain

OSAKA, Japan - Officials from the Osaka city health center check water from a drinking fountain at the Universal Studios Japan (USJ) theme park in Osaka's Konohana Ward on July 23. The fountain used untreated industrial water during the nine months after the park opened provisionally in March 2001 due to mislaid piping.

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2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. enter a building in Sapporo's Chuo Ward on June 27 to attend the company's shareholders' meeting. Some 2,020 companies in Japan held shareholders' meetings the same day. The shareholders' meeting were those of listed and unlisted firms whose 2001 business year ended March 31 this year.

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USJ gains 110 bil. yen, 11 mil. visitors in initial year

OSAKA, Japan - Akira Sakata, president of USJ Co., speaks in Osaka on May 31. He said Universal Studios Japan (USJ) brought his company some 110 billion yen in revenues in the initial year of fiscal 2001, having attracted 11 million visitors. The Hollywood movie theme park, which opened in Osaka on March 31, 2001, is now expected to turn profitable well ahead of the planned fourth year, Sakata said.

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Toshiba's group net balance sinks into red

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. Vice President Kiyoaki Shimagami speaks at a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 25. The electronics equipment giant said its group net balance sank into the red in the year to March 31, 2001 due chiefly to poor sales and price cuts in information technology products such as computer memory chips.

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2001 rookie of year boxer Yoshihiro Irei dies

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese 2001 rookie boxer of the year, flyweight Yoshihiro Irei, shown in this photo taken after a six-round bout on March 24, died of a brain hemorrhage at a Tokyo hospital on April 9. He was 22. Irei lost consciousness after the hard-fought flyweight bout against Yoshinori Naito in Tokyo on March 24, and never regained consciousness.

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Tokyo stocks close FY 2001 sharply lower in thin trading

TOKYO, Japan - The price board outside a Tokyo brokerage house indicates the closing of the Nikkei Stock Average on March 29, the last business day of fiscal 2001.

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Nichiren temple monk accused of evading tax

KOFU, Japan - File photo shows Shichimenzan Keishinin, an affiliate of the Nichiren sect's head temple Minobusan Kuonji, in the town of Minobu. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau on March 28 filed a complaint against Yuko Nakazato, a former chief monk of the Buddhist temple, accusing him of concealing 330 million yen in income and evading 120 million yen in taxes over a three-year period up to March 2001.

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DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt to head MMC

TOKYO, Japan - DaimlerChrysler AG's representative at its partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), Rolf Eckrodt (file photo), will take over the presidency of the Japanese carmaker from Takashi Sonobe, MMC sources said on March 26. Eckrodt, 59, chief operating officer at MMC since January 2001, will succeed Sonobe pending approval by an MMC shareholders' meeting in late June.

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Farm ministry raids Marubeni unit over labeling fraud

SENDAI, Japan - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials enter the Sendai branch office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a subsidiary of major trading house Marubeni Corp., to inspect the office. On March 15, it admitted it passed off chicken imported from Brazil as higher-priced domestic chicken between 1999 and 2001.

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Marubeni arm passed off imported chicken as domestic

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Nishizono, president of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a subsidiary of trading house Marubeni Corp., tells reporters March 15 in Tokyo that his company's branch office in Sendai passed off imported chicken as higher-priced domestic chicken between 1999 and 2001.

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Scandal-hit Japan group sought huge loan from Philippine bank

MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Genta Ogami, 39, founder and honorary chairman of the Tokyo-based G.O. Group which is suspected of defrauding member investors, sought 400 million yen (about $3.1 million) in loans from Unitrust Development Bank (shown in file photo) in Makati City in Metro Manila shortly after the group acquired the bank in 2001, a former senior bank official said March 7.

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(2)Sato Kogyo file for bankruptcy

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Yoshida, president of Sato Kogyo Co., speaks with the media in Tokyo on March 3 after his company and eight of its subsidiaries filed for protection from creditors with the Tokyo District Court under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law. Sato Kogyo is the second midsize general construction contractor to collapse in three months since Aoki Corp. folded in December 2001.

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Universal Studios Japan marks 10 mil. visitors

OSAKA, Japan - Yuichi Matsumoto (L), his wife and son are greeted by Universal Studios Japan (USJ) President Akira Sakata (2nd from R) as USJ's 10 millionth visitor on March 3. The number of visitors hit the milestone 338 days after the first Hollywood movie theme park outside the United States opened in Osaka March 31, 2001, a world record for a theme park, USJ said.

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Ministry official took care of Suzuki remittance

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the ''Suzuki Hall,'' a part of a junior high school completed in Tanzania in September 2001 with Japanese foreign aid. It was named after Muneo Suzuki, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker. A Foreign Ministry in-house probe showed March 1 that the ministry transmitted $70,000 (8 million yen) to Tanzania on behalf of Suzuki as a donation for construction of the school facilities.

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Court begins hearing lawsuit on Koizumi's shrine visit

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Plaintiffs, who filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for his August 2001 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, enter the Matsuyama District Court on March 1 to attend the first hearing of their trial. The plaintiffs, including relatives of the war dead and Buddhists, have claimed that Koizumi violated the Constitution, which calls for separation of state and religion.

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Pechstein of Germany wins women's 3,000 meters

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Claudia Pechstein of Germany responds to spectators after winning the women's 3,000 meters at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics on Feb. 10. She broke her own world record set in March 2001 with a 3:57.70.