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(SP)CHINA-HUNAN-ZHANGJIAJIE-DOWNHILL MOUNTAIN BIKING-TOURISM (CN)

(240519) -- CHANGSHA, May 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on April 11, 2024 shows a view of the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province. Zhangjiajie, located in the northwest of Hunan Province, is one of the World Natural Heritage sites in China. Its breathtaking natural landscapes have attracted tourists worldwide and have drawn extreme sports enthusiasts to prove their skills. Ye Zhengwu, a 25-year-old mountain biker, was born and raised in Zhangjiajie. He developed a passion for biking at a young age. In 2015, while studying in university, he first encountered downhill mountain biking and was deeply attracted to it. "As a child growing up in the mountains, I always love exploring mountains. Riding through the forests is a great pleasure for me," Ye said. According to him, the natural resources and challenging road conditions here are ideal for downhill mountain biking. "For me, it's truly a pleasure to engage in my favorite sport in my beloved hometo

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XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2023-WORLD NEWS

(240105) -- BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- The FSO Safer tanker is seen at Ras Issa port in Hodeidah province, Yemen, on May 30, 2023. The Safer tanker, marooned off the port of Hodeidah since 2015, had been a ticking time bomb containing approximately 1.1 million barrels of oil. As the vessel's condition continued to deteriorate, concerns escalated regarding the potential for a devastating oil spill. The ship-to-ship transfer from the decaying FSO Safer to a replacement tanker began on July 25 and safely concluded on Aug. 11, avoiding what the United Nations warned could have been a devastating environmental catastrophe. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP) Phil Chetwynd looks at a video in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin during a minute's silence, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

A video in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin is displayed on screens during a minute's silence held for him, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

A video in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin is displayed on screens during a minute's silence held for him, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Members of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) stand during a minute's silence held in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP) Phil Chetwynd stands during a minute's silence held in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Members of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) stand during a minute's silence held in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP) Phil Chetwynd (L) and members of the AFP stand during a minute's silence held in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Members of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) stand during a minute's silence held in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Minute Of Silence In Tribute To The AFP Journalist Who Died In Ukraine - Paris

Members of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) stand during a minute's silence held in tribute to slain AFP video journalist Arman Soldin, at AFP headquarters in central Paris, on May 11, 2023. Arman was killed by a rocket strike as he reported with AFP colleagues from Ukrainian positions in Chasiv Yar on May 9, 2023. Arman, who was 32 and born in Bosnia, began his career as an AFP intern in the Rome bureau before moving to London in 2015. He was formally appointed as Ukraine video. Photo by Martin BUREAU/pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Stuffed bear head hangs on wall at Tokyo game meat restaurant

TOKYO, June 11 Kyodo - A stuffed bear head hangs on the wall at a restaurant serving game meat dishes in Tokyo on May 20, 2015.

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International trade fair in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, May 11 Kyodo - Liquid crystal display TVs and laptop computers are displayed on May 11, 2015, at a booth of a Hong Kong company taking part in the 18th Spring International Trade Fair that began the same day in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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Okinawa gov. to visit U.S. to air opposition to military base transfer

NAHA, Japan, May 11 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (R) meets the press at the Okinawa prefectural government offices on May 11, 2015. Onaga will visit Washington and Hawaii from late May to convey local opposition to the relocation of a U.S. military base in the southern island prefecture, prefectural government officials said the same day.

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Prize winners, judges pose after Japanese speech contest in Cairo

CAIRO, May 11 Kyodo - Award winners and judges pose after a Japanese speech contest held at Cairo University on May 2, 2015, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the foundation of its Japanese language and literature department.

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Toshiba president Sasaki in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Norio Sasaki speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 14, 2011. He said the company may be forced to revise its plan to win orders to build 39 nuclear reactors around the world by fiscal 2015 following the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima Prefecture triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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CHINA-XINJIANG-TIANSHAN-BOOK-RELEASE (CN)

(220327) -- URUMQI, March 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on May 11, 2015 shows Nurbay Abdusalih, a scientist, doing investigation on the plants of the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Botanists in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have published a book on vascular plants in the Tianshan Mountains. The book, Vascular Plant Checklist of Tianshan, introduces 6,784 wild vascular plants belonging to 924 genera and 117 families in the Tianshan Mountains, according to the Botanical Society of Xinjiang. TO GO WITH "Book on vascular plants in Tianshan Mountains released" (Xinhua)

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Doi into 3rd round after stunning Safarova

Japan's Misaki Doi hits a return to Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in the second round of the Italian Open in Rome on May 11, 2016. Doi defeated the 2015 French Open runner-up 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the third round. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doi into 3rd round after stunning Safarova

Japan's Misaki Doi pumps her fist after taking a point from Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in the second round of the Italian Open in Rome on May 11, 2016. Doi defeated the 2015 French Open runner-up 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the third round. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doi into 3rd round after stunning Safarova

Japan's Misaki Doi serves to Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in the second round of the Italian Open in Rome on May 11, 2016. Doi defeated the 2015 French Open runner-up 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the third round. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota forecasts sharp profit falls amid stronger yen

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda announces the company's earnings results for fiscal 2015 in Tokyo on May 11, 2016. The auto giant said its group operating and net profits in the year through March 2017 are expected to fall sharply, citing the recent appreciation of the yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota forecasts sharp profit falls amid stronger yen

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda announces the company's earnings results for fiscal 2015 in Tokyo on May 11, 2016. The auto giant said its group operating and net profits in the year through March 2017 are expected to fall sharply, citing the recent appreciation of the yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota forecasts sharp profit falls amid stronger yen

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda announces the company's earnings results for fiscal 2015 in Tokyo on May 11, 2016. The auto giant said its group operating and net profits in the year through March 2017 are expected to fall sharply, citing the recent appreciation of the yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata posts loss again amid global air bag recall

Yoichiro Nomura, chief financial officer of Takata Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 11, 2016, on its fiscal 2015 earnings results. The troubled air bag maker posted a group net loss of 13.08 billion yen ($120.5 million), its second straight year of red ink, but expects to return to profitability in the year to March 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota forecasts sharp profit falls amid stronger yen

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda announces the company's earnings results for fiscal 2015 in Tokyo on May 11, 2016. The auto giant said its group operating and net profits in the year through March 2017 are expected to fall sharply, citing the recent appreciation of the yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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TV watchdog urges NHK to follow broadcasting ethics

Members of a Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization panel attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2015, where they urged public broadcaster NHK to strictly follow broadcasting ethics. Examining NHK's "Close-up Gendai" news program aired in May 2014, the broadcasting and human rights committee concluded it contained serious factual errors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aquarium shows blue-colored swimming crab

Photo taken Nov. 11, 2015, shows a unique blue-colored swimming crab on display at an aquarium in the southwestern Japanese city of Oita. An official said the crab, caught in July, may change color after casting its shell, and urged people to view it before it is too late. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nintendo president Iwata dies at 55

Photo taken in May 2014 shows Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata. He died of a bile duct growth on July 11, 2015, the Japanese video game maker said. He was 55. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ozeki Kisenosato receives birthday cake

Ozeki Kisenosato smiles after receiving a cake from the media to celebrate his 29th birthday in the city of Seto, Aichi Prefecture, on July 3, 2015. Kisenosato, who had 11 wins in the previous tournament in May, one win back of the tourney winner Terunofuji, expressed his eagerness to beat Terunofuji and win the upcoming Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament to be held from July 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Beijing woman says her house expropriated without due process of law

Chen Yan Hua looks at a commercial building under construction on May 11, 2015, on the site of her house in downtown Beijing, which was expropriated in March 2012 by security officials acting for the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the ruling Communist Party of China. She said the administrative and litigation systems are at the mercy of bureaucrats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retired YS-11 airplane briefly returns to Japanese skies

A retired YS-11 twin-engine airplane arrives at Takamatsu Airport in Kagawa Prefecture on May 27, 2015, after a two-hour flight from Tokyo's Haneda airport. The airplane, purchased by a private firm, is stored at the western Japanese airport. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Caretaker of Nepal's living goddess explains quake damage

A caretaker of Nepal's Kumari living goddess speaks to a city official in Kathmandu on May 11, 2015, about damage caused by the recent earthquake disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aid for Nepali quake victims stalled without local gov't functions

A Nepalese man (L) and his family manually clean up debris at their quake-damaged home in a Kathmandu suburb on May 11, 2015. Little aid is reaching affected residents as the country's local government functions remain paralyzed, leaving the man without any means to pay for a new house. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aid for Nepali quake victims stalled without local gov't functions

A Nepalese man (front) and his family manually clean up debris at their quake-damaged home in the suburbs of Kathmandu on May 11, 2015. Little aid is reaching affected residents as the country's local government functions remain paralyzed, leaving no means for the man to pay for a new house. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Brazilian speaks to foreign worker as union official

Second-generation Japanese Brazilian Kenji Endo speaks with a foreign worker in Spanish at the office of Union Mie in Tsu in the western Japanese prefecture of Mie on May 11, 2015. Endo speaks four languages, including English and Japanese as well as his native tongue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kisenosato stuns Hakuho, sets up intriguing final day at summer meet

Ozeki Kisenosato (R) thrusts down Mongolian grand champion Hakuho on the penultimate day of the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 23, 2015. Hakuho fell into a tie for the lead with sekiwake Terunofuji at 11-3, while Kisenosato improved to 10-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kisenosato stuns Hakuho, sets up intriguing final day at summer meet

Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (L) falls in the dirt as he is downed by ozeki Kisenosato (C) on the penultimate day of the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 23, 2015. Hakuho fell into a tie for the lead with sekiwake Terunofuji at 11-3, while Kisenosato improved to 10-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakuho seizes lead, closes in on 7th straight title

Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho (R) topples ozeki Kotoshogiku on the 13th day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 22, 2015. Hakuho improved to 11-2 and seized possession of the lead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Buddhist practitioners' school on Mt. Koya

A student of Koyasan Senshugakuin, a Buddhist practitioners' school, reads a book of a Buddhist sutra on May 11, 2015, on Mt. Koya in western Japan. This year marks the 1,200th anniversary of the establishment of a monastery on the mountain by Kukai, the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clarinetist Hanaoka leads practice of all-female jazz band

Eiji Hanaoka (R), a worldly-known clarinet player, leads a practice session by an all-female big band jazz ensemble in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on May 11, 2015. Mito Station Development Co., operator of the JR Mito Station buildings, launched the big band to attract more people to the station area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Peace study group holds meeting on relocation of Futenma base

The Peace Studies Association of Japan convenes an urgent meeting in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, on the issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to the Henoko district within the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Beef bowl chain Yoshinoya launches vegetable rice dish

A model presents a bowl of Yoshinoya Co.'s new "veggie-don," a rice bowl topped with 11 kinds of vegetables to be added to the famous "gyudon" beef bowl restaurant chain's menu, during a press event in Tokyo on May 14, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rory McIlroy fires record 61 to lead Wells Fargo

Rory McIlroy of Britain watches his tee shot on the 15th hole during the third round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 16, 2015. World No. 1 McIlroy shot an 11-under 61 to break his own course record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Edo Bekko" tortoiseshell craft to be listed as traditional artifact

Three pieces of "Edo Bekko" tortoiseshell craftwork are shown at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, as examples of traditional Japanese artifacts to be added to the ministry's list of such products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Tokyo Antimony" craftwork to be listed as traditional artifact

A "Tokyo Antimony" product is shown at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, as an example of traditional Japanese artifacts to be added to the ministry's list of such craftwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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McDonald's Japan to get mothers on board for food safety project

McDonald's Holdings Co. President Sarah Casanova explains at a news conference in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, the hamburger chain operator's new project to enlist a team of mothers from the public to scrutinize its food safety efforts. Consumer confidence and patronage at McDonald's in Japan have plummeted since the revelation in summer 2014 of the use of expired chicken meat from a Chinese supplier and, more recently, multiple consumer complaints about foreign objects found in its products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Sendai Tansu" chest of drawers to be listed as traditional artifact

A "Sendai Tansu" chest of drawers is shown at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on May 11, 2015, as an example of traditional Japanese artifacts to be added to the ministry's list of such craftwork. The product, hand-made in Sendai, northeastern Japan, originated toward the end of the Edo period (1603-1867). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishing master fishes sweetfish with cormorants at Nagara River

"Ujo," a fishing master, fishes "ayu" sweetfish using cormorants on the Nagara River in the city of Gifu, Japan, on May 11, 2015, the first day of the annual fishing season. The season runs through October 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishing master fishes sweetfish with cormorants at Nagara River

"Ujo," a fishing master, fishes "ayu" sweetfish using cormorants on the Nagara River in the city of Gifu, Japan, on May 11, 2015, the first day of the annual fishing season. The season runs through October 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cormorant fishing season starts on Nagara River

The season for "ukai," traditional cormorant fishing, begins on the Nagara River in the city of Gifu, Japan, on May 11, 2015. The season runs through October 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo