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What's a toilet like about 2,000 years ago in ancient China?

STORY: What's a toilet like about 2,000 years ago in ancient China? SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 14, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:36 LOCATION: HANZHONG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ancient pottery model of a toilet 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU HUI, Curator of Hanzhong Museum, Shaanxi Province STORYLINE: Nov. 19 marks World Toilet Day. What's a toilet like about 2,000 years ago in ancient China? An exhibit at Hanzhong Museum, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has the answer. The ancient pottery model of a toilet, with a height of 40 centimeters, a length of 22.5 centimeters, and a width of 15.5 centimeters, was unearthed from a tomb of Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU HUI, Curator of Hanzhong Museum, Shaanxi Province "We can tell from the structure of the relic that the toilet has already been separated by gender back in the Han Dynasty. It has a window on each side for ventilation, which was designed very scientifically." Xinhua News Agency correspondents

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Sitai Neolithic site listed one of China's new archaeological discoveries of 2022

STORY: Sitai Neolithic site listed one of China's new archaeological discoveries of 2022 DATELINE: Feb. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: SHIJIAZHUANG, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the site 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO ZHANHU, Researcher with Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology 3. various of the artifacts STORYLINE: The archaeological discoveries at the Sitai ruins in Shangyi County, north China's Hebei Province were listed as one of China's new archaeological discoveries of 2022 at a forum on Wednesday. More than 40 dwelling sites and 800 pieces of artifacts have been discovered at the Sitai ruins covering an area of about 150,000 square meters. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO ZHANHU, Researcher with Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology "This time we found six houses where ancient people lived around 10,000 years ago. We found at the Sitai site a lot of animal bones from around 10,000 years ago such as bisons' and wild horses'. This indi

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Twilight Express to end service in spring of 2015

OSAKA, Japan - A family gets a commemorative picture taken in front of the Twilight Express at JR Osaka Station on May 28, 2014. The West Japan Railway Co.'s luxurious sleeper train linking Osaka, western Japan, with Sapporo in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, will end service next spring due to the aging of the rolling stock produced about 40 years ago.

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Overnight Osaka-Sapporo train

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a Twilight Express train at JR Osaka Station in western Japan on May 28, 2014. West Japan Railway Co. said the same day that the train, its luxurious overnight express train linking Osaka with Sapporo, known for the longest travel distance in Japan, will finish service in the spring of 2015 due to the aging of the rolling stock produced about 40 years ago. It began operations in July 1989.

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U.S. Ambassador Emanuel rides local train in Japan

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (R), known as an avid railway fan, rides a Kominato Railway train in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 17, 2022. Emanuel, accompanied by Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (L), enjoyed a 40-minute ride on the local line that started operating about 100 years ago.

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Dutch bakeries on verge of collapse due to rising energy prices

STORY: Dutch bakeries on verge of collapse due to rising energy prices DATELINE: Sept. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: THE HAGUE, the Netherlands CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a bakery in Haarlem, the Netherlands STORYLINE: According to the Dutch Bread and Pastry Bakers Association (NBOV), numerous bakeries across the Netherlands have already been pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by the rising costs of energy. If the government does not intervene immediately, many bakers will have to close shop early next year because their energy bills have already increased up to tenfold compared to two years ago. "Around 40 percent to 60 percent of all bakers will no longer be able to pay their energy bills on January 1," NBOV Chairman Arend Kisteman told local media. "There are about 3,200 bakers in the country. This means more than 1,500 bakers will disappear." Asked if his bakery will be able to survive, Kisteman, a baker in the northeastern city of Zwolle, replied: "No, that will be the end of the

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Understanding China through films: British filmmaker

STORY: Understanding China through films: British filmmaker DATELINE: Aug. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of Malcolm Clarke in ChinaSOUNDBITE 1 (English): MALCOLM CLARKE, Jury Member of the 12th Tiantan Award, Beijing International Film Festivalvarious of Malcolm Clarke working in ChinaSOUNDBITE 2 (English): MALCOLM CLARKE, Jury Member of the 12th Tiantan Award, Beijing International Film Festival STORYLINE: British filmmaker and producer Malcolm Clarke was among the jury panel of the 12th Tiantan Award at the 12th Beijing International Film Festival that concluded Saturday. Clarke first came to China 40 years ago to film a documentary about China's poverty alleviation. Now living in Shanghai, the two-time Oscar winner has witnessed the sea change that has taken place in the country. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MALCOLM CLARKE, Jury member of 12th Tiantan Award, Beijing Int'l Film Festival "I first came to China decades ago. It was a very poor country. People w

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GLOBALink | Understanding China through films: British filmmaker

British filmmaker and producer Malcolm Clarke was among the jury panel of the 12th Tiantan Award at the 12th Beijing International Film Festival that concluded Saturday. Clarke first came to China 40 years ago to film a documentary about China's poverty alleviation. Now living in Shanghai, the two-time Oscar winner has witnessed the great changes that have taken place in the country. Clarke said that he wants to tell people about a China that is not different from any other country in the world through his films. Produced by Xinhua Global Service

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Identifiable hadrosaur embryo fossils discovered in China

STORY: Identifiable hadrosaur embryo fossils discovered in China DATELINE: May 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the fossils STORYLINE: Two egg fossils containing identifiable hadrosaur embryos have been discovered in the city of Ganzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province, scientists said. The fossils, which date back to 66 to 72 million years ago, are now preserved at the Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum in Fujian Province. The better-preserved egg has the shape of a prolate spheroid, with a total volume of approximately 660 ml. The embryo fills about 40 percent of the egg's area. A paper on the finding, co-authored by researchers in China and Canada, has been published in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. While hadrosaur embryo fossils have been discovered before, the two found in Ganzhou are so far the best-preserved of their kind, according to the research team. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Fuzhou, China. (XHTV)

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Ex-Osaka resident produces salt in western Japan mountains

Mitsutaka Matsuura, a 65-year-old former Osaka resident, watches boiling seawater in a giant iron pot at his salt-making factory in the depopulated Irokawa district of Nachikatsuura town on the Pacific coast on Feb. 4, 2015. The district started accepting immigrants from urban areas about 40 years ago, with these new residents now accounting for about 45% of its population. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Blue-eyed doll" from U.S. seen in Shiga Prefecture

A "blue-eyed doll" from the United States discovered at an elementary school in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, about 40 years ago is seen on Aug. 7, 2015. It is one of some 12,000 dolls sent to Japan from the United States in the 1920s to promote goodwill and peace between the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo