China's Juncao technology helps PNG people improve livelihood: former official

STORY: China's Juncao technology helps PNG people improve livelihood: former official SHOOTING TIME: June 16, 2024 DATELINE: June 18, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the meeting 2. various of Juncao 3. SOUNDBITE (English): PETI LAFANAMA, Former governor of Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands Province STORYLINE: The 19th International Conference on Juncao Industry Development was held in Fuzhou, east China's Fujian Province on Sunday. Over 71 representatives from 19 countries and regions and more than 200 Chinese experts, scholars, and business representatives attended the meeting. Juncao, which in Chinese literally means "mushroom" and "grass," can be used to grow edible and medicinal mushrooms, as livestock feed or as a green barrier to control soil erosion. Having taken root in over 100 countries and regions, Juncao has been hailed by the locals as "the grass of happiness." SOUNDBITE (English): PETI LAFANAMA, Former governor of Papua

Guardian of the Flooded Village, Scots Pine, Pinus silvestris

Guardian of the Flooded Village, Scots Pine, Pinus silvestris

The winner and the European Tree of the Year 2020 was declared on March 17, 2020, the Guardian of the Flooded Village Chudobin, Scots Pine, Pinus silvestris, which grows on the bank of Vir dam in Vir, Vysocina Region, Czech Republic, on the photo of October 1st, 2019. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

World Biathlon Cup in Czechia to be held without audience, Vysocina Arena

World Biathlon Cup in Czechia to be held without audience, Vysocina Arena

The World Biathlon Cup will be held in Nove Mesto na Morave, South Moravia, this week without the audience present in connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak, the National Security Council (BRS) decided on March 2, 2020, Interior Minister Jan Hamacek has told CTK. Tens of thousands of fans were to come to see the biathlon races at the Vysocina Arena, pictured on March 2, 2020, in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)