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Young volunteer strives to promote high-quality coffee from SW. China's Yunnan

STORY: Young volunteer strives to promote high-quality coffee from SW. China's Yunnan DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:40 LOCATION: PU'ER, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the coffee plantation in Yunnan 2. various of the coffee estate 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIN WENZHE, Coffee volunteer 4. various of the coffee estate 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG HONGJIAN, Founder of Yeyatang valley coffee estate STORYLINE: Famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, Pu'er City in southwest China's Yunnan Province is making a name for itself as China's coffee capital. As one of the must-visit destinations for coffee lovers, a coffee estate in Pu'er has drawn many young volunteers from across the country. Lin Wenzhe from southeast China's Fuzhou is one of them. He runs a coffee shop back home but is working in Pu'er as a volunteer. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIN WENZHE, Coffee volunteer "I think it's quite meaningful. As a city resident, I'd rarely been to the countryside before. So

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LEBANON-BEIRUT-RAMADAN

(230324) -- BEIRUT, March 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Workers prepare sweets on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a sweet shop in Beirut, Lebanon, March 23, 2023. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)

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GREECE-ATHENS-CHOCOLATE FEST

(230212) -- ATHENS, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An employee of a pastry shop presents a chocolate sweet at the 4th Chocolate Fest in Athens, Greece, Feb. 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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Farmers' group promotes pumpkins grown from space seeds

CHIBA, Japan - Mamoru Hayashi (L), leader of a citizens' group in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, promoting pumpkins grown from seeds brought to and back from space, poses with the owner of a local Japanese confectionary shop in the Tokyo suburb on Oct. 17, 2014. The shop sells "dorayaki" that uses the "space pumpkins" as the filling sandwiched between sweet Japanese pancakes.

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Last-minute buying pushes up sales of sweet buns named after Abe

TOKYO, Japan - ''Shin-chan Manju,'' sweet buns named after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, are sold at a souvenir shop in the grounds of Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Sept. 17. The buns have been enjoying brisk sales following Abe's abrupt announcement Sept. 12 of his decision to resign. On Sept. 17 alone, a total of 1,900 boxes of the buns were sold and demand has been so high that production cannot keep up with it.

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Sweet buns named after PM Abe sell well at Diet souvenir shop

TOKYO, Japan - Sweet buns and cookies named after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie are popular at a souvenir shop near the Japanese Diet building.

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Woman, 3 children die in midnight fire

OTSU, Japan - Policemen and firefighters check a sweet shop and an adjoining house which were gutted by a predawn fire Aug. 31. A woman and her three children who lived in the house were killed in the fire in Omi-Hachiman in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan.

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Xinhua Headlines: China actively optimizes COVID-19 response measures

(221201) -- GUANGZHOU, Dec. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Customers enjoy dessert at a sweet shop in Liwan District of Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)

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China's booming coffee industry pursues high-quality development

STORY: China's booming coffee industry pursues high-quality development DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of coffee plantations 2. various of farmers 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG WEI, Manager, Local international coffee trading center 4. various of coffee production lines 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG RUIXING, Coffee shop owner 6. various of coffee shops STORYLINE: Famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, Pu'er City in southwest China's Yunnan Province is making a name for itself as China's coffee capital. Pu'er has 668,000 mu (around 44,530 hectares) of coffee plantation in 2021, producing the highest yield of coffee beans of 46,000 tonnes in China. This is thanks to the efforts of the local government to develop coffee planting and processing as a backbone industry. In 2019, Pu'er City launched a pilot insurance program for the pricing of green coffee beans in the city, so as to reduce the burden on coffee pro

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9 mln int'l migrants live in Egypt: IOM

STORY: 9 mln int'l migrants live in Egypt: IOM DATELINE: Aug. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sudanese migrants 2. various of Syrian migrants (in restaurants, cafes, and mobile shop) 3. various of Yemeni migrants (in a sweet shop and a hospital where injured receiving treatment) STORYLINE: According to figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday, more than 9 million international migrants from about 130 countries live in Egypt. In a statement, IOM said the number of international migrants residing in Egypt is 9,012,582, which constitutes 8.7 percent of the Egyptian population. According to the statement, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of international migrants since 2019, because the prolonged instability in Egypt's neighboring countries prompted Sudanese, South Sudanese, Syrians, Ethiopians, Iraqis and Yemenis to seek refuge in the North African country. The IOM noted international migrants have

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Italian chef combines Chinese flavor with Italian desserts in SW China

STORY: Italian chef combines Chinese flavor with Italian desserts in SW China DATELINE: Aug. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: CHONGQING, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: various of the shopvarious of the dessertsSOUNDBITE 1 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Italian dessert chefSOUNDBITE 2 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Italian dessert chef STORYLINE: Franco Bergamino, a 62-year-old Italian dessert chef, is running a dessert shop in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Bergamino's shop, which sells desserts that combine Chinese ingredients and flavors with Italian specialties, attracts lots of young Chinese customers. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Italian dessert chef "Some are real traditional Italian taste desserts,and some are a little bit of fusion like molihua(jasmine). At the beginning, someone tasted our cake, saying oh my god, too sweet. Then we understand that it was too sweet for the Chongqing taste. So we study, and we try and try and try again until we find the solution to change t

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-TURKISH SWEET

(220422) -- RAFAH, April 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker makes Turkish delight sweets or "holkum" ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at a sweet shop in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, April 22, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-TURKISH SWEET

(220422) -- RAFAH, April 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Workers make Turkish delight sweets or "holkum" ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at a sweet shop in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, April 22, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-TURKISH SWEET

(220422) -- RAFAH, April 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker makes Turkish delight sweets or "holkum" ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at a sweet shop in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, April 22, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-TURKISH SWEET

(220422) -- RAFAH, April 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker makes Turkish delight sweets or "holkum" ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at a sweet shop in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, April 22, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-RAMADAN-SWEET

(220413) -- DAMASCUS, April 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A Syrian sweet shop owner prepares Naem cake, a kind of traditional Syrian food, during the holy month of Ramadan at the Bab Srijeh marketplace in Damascus, Syria, on April 13, 2022. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-RAMADAN-SWEET

(220413) -- DAMASCUS, April 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A Syrian sweet shop owner makes Naem cake, a kind of traditional Syrian food, during the holy month of Ramadan at the Bab Srijeh marketplace in Damascus, Syria, on April 13, 2022. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-BALKH-CONFECTIONERY SHOP

(220125) -- MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Jan. 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People work at a confectionery factory in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh province, Afghanistan, Jan. 18, 2022. Contrary to alleged reports of women being confined to home under Afghanistan's Taliban administration, nearly a dozen women and girls are seen hard at work in a confectionery shop here. TO TO WITH "Feature: Afghan woman make their own sweet living in Mazar-i-Sharif" (Photo by Kawa Basharat/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-BALKH-CONFECTIONERY SHOP

(220125) -- MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Jan. 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman works at a confectionery factory in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh province, Afghanistan, Jan. 18, 2022. Contrary to alleged reports of women being confined to home under Afghanistan's Taliban administration, nearly a dozen women and girls are seen hard at work in a confectionery shop here. TO TO WITH "Feature: Afghan woman make their own sweet living in Mazar-i-Sharif" (Photo by Kawa Basharat/Xinhua)

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SLOVENIA-LJUBLJANA-COVID-19-CASES

(220116) -- LJUBLJANA, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Children stand in front of a sweet shop in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jan. 15, 2022. Slovenia recorded 7,580 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, which is a new all-time high, up from 6,918 a day before, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) reported on Saturday. (Photo by Zeljko Stevanic/Xinhua)

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