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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Five Years after the COVID 19 Pandemic in Colombia

A taxi cab is seen out and about in an empty highway during the first day of a preventive quarantine imposed by Bogota's mayor Claudia Lopez on march 20, 2020. This collection of images showcases the daily life in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in what many called new normality, COVID-19 lockdowns started in Colombia on march 20, 2020 as mayor Claudia Lopez enforced a preventive quarantine that was later followed by a nation wide lockdown to prevent the spread of cases. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Five Years after the COVID 19 Pandemic in Colombia

Few people are seen out and about in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first day of a preventive quarantine imposed by Bogota's mayor Claudia Lopez on march 20, 2020. This collection of images showcases the daily life in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in what many called new normality, COVID-19 lockdowns started in Colombia on march 20, 2020 as mayor Claudia Lopez enforced a preventive quarantine that was later followed by a nation wide lockdown to prevent the spread of cases. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Five Years after the COVID 19 Pandemic in Colombia

Few people are seen out and about in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first day of a preventive quarantine imposed by Bogota's mayor Claudia Lopez on march 20, 2020. This collection of images showcases the daily life in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in what many called new normality, COVID-19 lockdowns started in Colombia on march 20, 2020 as mayor Claudia Lopez enforced a preventive quarantine that was later followed by a nation wide lockdown to prevent the spread of cases. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Five Years after the COVID 19 Pandemic in Colombia

Few people are seen out and about in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first day of a preventive quarantine imposed by Bogota's mayor Claudia Lopez on march 20, 2020. This collection of images showcases the daily life in the streets of Bogota, Colombia during the first months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in what many called new normality, COVID-19 lockdowns started in Colombia on march 20, 2020 as mayor Claudia Lopez enforced a preventive quarantine that was later followed by a nation wide lockdown to prevent the spread of cases. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dollar tops 157 yen

A monitor at a currency trading company in Tokyo shows the dollar topping 157 yen for the first time in about five months on Dec. 19, 2024.

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Imports via south China border gate hit high in Jan-Feb

STORY: Imports via south China border gate hit high in Jan-Feb SHOOTING TIME: March 19, 2024 DATELINE: March 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the port 2. various of the imports 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI QIANCHANG, Employee of Guangxi Oheng Import and Export Co., Ltd. 4. various of the port STORYLINE: The Youyiguan border gate in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region saw a significant increase in trade with ASEAN countries in the first two months of 2024, according to local customs. The total imports and exports with ASEAN countries via the Youyiguan border gate in January and February reached 65.6 billion yuan (about 9.1 billion U.S. dollars), up 25.8 percent year-on-year, accounting for 99 percent of the port's total. Among the goods, agricultural imports from ASEAN countries amounted to 1.54 billion yuan (about 214 million U.S. dollars), making up 6.7 percent of the total imports from ASEAN countries. Notably, fresh durian import

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U.S.-NEW YORK-CGCC-LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DRAGON GALA

(240119) -- NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Hu Wei, chairman of the China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A. (CGCC), president and CEO of Bank of China U.S.A., speaks at the China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A.(CGCC) 2024 Lunar New Year of the Dragon Gala in New York, the United States, on Jan. 18, 2024. Business leaders from Chinese and American corporations are more upbeat about China-U.S. relations as bilateral ties have experienced stabilization and improvement in recent months. (Xinhua/Liu Yanan)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-CGCC-LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DRAGON GALA

(240119) -- NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Ni Pin, vice chairman of the China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A.(CGCC) and president of Wanxiang America Corporation, speaks at the China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A.(CGCC) 2024 Lunar New Year of the Dragon Gala in New York, the United States, on Jan. 18, 2024. Business leaders from Chinese and American corporations are more upbeat about China-U.S. relations as bilateral ties have experienced stabilization and improvement in recent months. (Xinhua/Liu Yanan)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-CGCC-LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DRAGON GALA

(240119) -- NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Raj Subramaniam, president and CEO of FedEx Corporation, speaks at the China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A.(CGCC) 2024 Lunar New Year of the Dragon Gala in New York, the United States, on Jan. 18, 2024. Business leaders from Chinese and American corporations are more upbeat about China-U.S. relations as bilateral ties have experienced stabilization and improvement in recent months. (Xinhua/Liu Yanan)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-CGCC-LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DRAGON GALA

(240119) -- NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Xu Xueyuan (at the podium and on the screen), minister of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, speaks at the China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A.(CGCC) 2024 Lunar New Year of the Dragon Gala in New York, the United States, on Jan. 18, 2024. Business leaders from Chinese and American corporations are more upbeat about China-U.S. relations as bilateral ties have experienced stabilization and improvement in recent months. (Xinhua/Liu Yanan)

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Gathering in support of Japanese abductees by N. Korea

Sakie Yokota (L), whose daughter Megumi was abducted to North Korea at age 13 in 1977, talks with Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea in 1978 before being repatriated in 2002, at a gathering organized by fellow Christians in support of Yokota in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2023. Soga, who was 19 when she was abducted, lived with Megumi for about 18 months in North Korea.

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CHINA-HAINAN-IMPORT AND EXPORT OF GOODS-TOTAL VALUE-INCREASE (CN)

(230913) -- HAIKOU, Sept. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A consumer shops for cosmetics at Haikou Riyue Plaza Duty Free Shop in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2023. The total import and export of goods in south China's Hainan Province hit 152.07 billion yuan (about 20.89 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of this year, up 21.8 percent year on year, according to official data released recently by Haikou Customs. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

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Concerning trends continue throughout occupied Palestinian territory: UN Mideast envoy

STORY: Concerning trends continue throughout occupied Palestinian territory: UN Mideast envoy DATELINE: Aug. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:19 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Security Council Chamber 2. various of UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland 3. SOUNDBITE (English): TOR WENNESLAND, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process 4. various of delegates 5. various of the Security Council Chamber STORYLINE: Concerning trends seen in recent months continue throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said on Monday, underscoring the need to restore a political horizon and achieve a two-state solution. Palestinians and Israelis are killed and injured in near-daily violence that is fueled and exacerbated by a growing sense of despair about the future, Wennesland said in a briefing to the Security Council. SOUNDBITE (English): TOR WENNESLAND, UN Special

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Turkish lira falls ahead of central bank decision

STORY: Turkish lira falls ahead of central bank decision DATELINE: July 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:54 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul city 2. various of exchange office in Istanbul 3. various of Türkiye's central bank 4. various of Hafize Gaye Erkan, governor of Türkiye's central bank STORYLINE: Turkish lira weakened more than 2 percent on Tuesday against the U.S. dollar ahead of a key rate decision by the central bank. The lira stood at 26.96 against the dollar at 4:00 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) after falling to a record low of 27. The currency has lost about 30 percent of its value against the greenback this year. Lira's depreciation came as the central bank is due to make a decision on its key interest rate on Thursday. In June, the bank hiked the interest rates by 15 percent, the first increase in 27 months, under the central bank's new governor Hafize Gaye Erkan. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a staunch supporter of low rates policy despite soaring infl

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Suncheonman International Garden Expo to kick off in S. Korea

STORY: Suncheonman International Garden Expo to kick off in S. Korea DATELINE: March 29, 2023 LENGTH: 0:04:19 LOCATION: SUNCHEON, South Korea CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): YANG CHANG, Xinhua Correspondent 2. various of the Suncheonman International Garden Expo STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): YANG CHANG, Xinhua Correspondent "This is the site of the Suncheonman International Garden Expo 2023, located about 400 kilometers south of Seoul. The event will take place for seven months, under the theme of 'We live in the Garden.' Let's follow our camera and have a look!" The Suncheonman International Garden Expo 2023 will run from April 1 to October 31. It is expected to set the benchmark for cities of the future amidst climate change and local crises. The organizers aim to attract 8 million visitors, and have already secured 1.6 million group visitors through various business agreements and attraction activities. In addition to creating a sustainable legacy for Suncheon, the city also plans to

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Japan supermarket sales drop for first time in 8 months

STORY: Japan supermarket sales drop for first time in 8 months DATELINE: March 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views in Tokyo STORYLINE: Supermarket sales in Japan fell for the first time in eight months in February as food prices continue to soar, according to the latest industry data. According to the Japan Chain Stores Association, sales at major stores across the country totaled about 1 trillion yen (about 7.6 billion U.S. dollars) last month, down 2 percent in yen terms from the previous year. Food sales, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the total, fell 1.7 percent, the association said, while sales of clothing and cosmetics rose as people went out more as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. Officials at the association said that consumers are buying less per shopping trip as they are becoming more cost-conscious and thrifty amid rising food prices. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tokyo. (XHTV)

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Chinese consumers, technology to lift China's domestic growth: PwC global chairman

STORY: Chinese consumers, technology to lift China's domestic growth: PwC global chairman DATELINE: Jan. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:33 LOCATION: DAVOS, Switzerland CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): MARTINA FUCHS, Xinhua reporter 2. various of import and export 3. various of pedestrians 4. SOUNDBITE (English): BOB MORITZ, PwC Global Chairman 5. various of consumers 6. various of cityscape in China 7. various of technology STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): MARTINA FUCHS, Xinhua reporter "Hi, everyone from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I'm Martina Fuchs. One of the 'Big 4' accounting firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has just released a new survey showing 73 percent of CEOs around the world believe global economic growth will decline over the next 12 months. It's the most pessimistic outlook in over a decade. I spoke to (PwC) Global Chairman Bob Moritz about the main outcomes and the results from China." SOUNDBITE (English): BOB MORITZ, PwC Global Chairman "The IMF, the World Bank

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Mudslide debris removal work progresses in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Aerial combination photo shows the Yagi area of Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima City, western Japan, on Aug. 20, 2014, the day a mudslide hit the area (L), and on Nov. 19, about three months after the disaster.

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Fire at Japanese Embassy

KINSHASA, Congo - Photo shows the building housing the Japanese Embassy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 19, 2013, about five months after the diplomatic office located on the third and fourth floors of the building was partially destroyed by fire on June 20. Soot is still seen on its outer wall. A diplomat who worked for the embassy was arrested on Dec. 2 on suspicion of setting a fire at the embassy office to destroy evidence of his fund embezzlement, police said.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Photo shows Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide after returning to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Photo shows Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (C) after returning to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Photo shows Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (C) after returning to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves after he returns to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves after he returns to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide leaves a Soyuz spacecraft (L) after he returns to Earth along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Astronaut returns to Earth

ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves after he returns to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft along with an American and a Russian colleague in the suburbs of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Hoshide spent about four months in the International Space Station.

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Fukushima nuclear plant 19 months after accident

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2012, shows folded paper cranes displayed in a building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 12, 2012. Conditions at the facility about 19 months after the nuclear accident were shown to the press. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant 19 months after accident

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2012, shows the building housing the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 12, 2012. Conditions at the facility about 19 months after the nuclear accident were shown to the press. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant 19 months after accident

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2012, shows the building housing the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 12, 2012. Conditions at the facility about 19 months after the nuclear accident were shown to the press. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant 19 months after accident

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2012, shows the building housing the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 12, 2012. Conditions at the facility about 19 months after the nuclear accident were shown to the press. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Princess Masako plants a memorial tree at a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. The 45-year-old princess, who is undergoing treatment for an adjustment disorder, attended the event along with Crown Prince Naruhito, carrying out an official duty outside Tokyo for the first time in about 15 months.

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako wave to the crowd as they attend a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. It was the first time in about 15 months that the princess, who is undergoing treatment for an adjustment disorder, had carried out an official duty outside Tokyo.

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako attend a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. It was the first time in about 15 months that the 45-year-old princess, who is undergoing treatment for an adjustment disorder, had carried out an official duty outside Tokyo.

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako attend a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. It was the first time in about 15 months that the 45-year-old princess, who is undergoing treatment for an adjustment disorder, had carried out an official duty outside Tokyo.

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (far L) and Crown Princess Masako (far R) plant memorial trees at a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. It was the first time in about 15 months that the 45-year-old princess, who is undergoing treatment for an adjustment disorder, had carried out an official duty outside Tokyo.

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako wave to the crowd as they attend a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. It was the first time in about 15 months that the princess had carried out an official duty outside Tokyo.

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Crown princess attends greenery event in Yokohama with crown prince

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Crown Princess Masako attends a greenery event in Yokohama on April 19. The 45-year-old princess, who is undergoing treatment for an adjustment disorder, attended the event along with Crown Prince Naruhito, carrying out an official duty outside Tokyo for the first time in about 15 months.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru (front) leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru prior to leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship services from Japan resumes

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the cruise ship Nippon Maru leaving Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship service from Japan resumes

People see off the cruise ship Nippon Maru as it departs from Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship service from Japan resumes

People see off the cruise ship Nippon Maru as it departs from Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship service from Japan resumes

People see off the cruise ship Nippon Maru as it departs from Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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International cruise ship service from Japan resumes

People see off the cruise ship Nippon Maru as it departs from Yokohama port near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2022, marking the resumption of cruise ship operations from Japan following a hiatus of about two years and nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.