Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

48 Kenyan students heading to China for further studies via scholarships

STORY: 48 Kenyan students heading to China for further studies via scholarships DATELINE: Aug. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:27 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of the reception 2. various of beneficiary students 3. various of the reception 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DR. DAVID WATENE, Deputy Director of higher education in charge of scholarships, Ministry of Education in Kenya 5. various of beneficiary students 6. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): HENRY ROTICH Chairman of Kenya-China Alumni Association 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): JACOB OLOO, Student representative 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): PETER KARANJA, Beneficiary STORYLINE: The Chinese Embassy in Kenya on Thursday hosted a farewell reception-cum-award-ceremony for 48 local students who are beneficiaries of the Chinese Government Scholarships 2023. A total of 48 Kenyan students are scheduled to leave for China early next week to pursue various studies at some of the leading universities. The students drawn from local tertiary institutions will pur

E

KENYA-NAIROBI-CHINESE GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS-STUDENTS

(230810) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Lucy Kiruthu, director of Europe and Commonwealth Affairs at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, speaks during a farewell reception-cum-award-ceremony for Kenyan students who are beneficiaries of the Chinese Government Scholarships 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 10, 2023. The Chinese Embassy in Kenya on Thursday hosted a farewell reception-cum-award-ceremony for 48 local students who are beneficiaries of the Chinese Government Scholarships 2023. A total of 48 Kenyan students are scheduled to leave for China early next week to pursue various studies at some of the leading universities. The students drawn from local tertiary institutions will pursue disciplines like public management, engineering, international relations and Chinese language at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

E

KENYA-NAIROBI-CHINESE GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS-STUDENTS

(230810) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan students who are beneficiaries of the Chinese Government Scholarships 2023 pose for a group photo in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 10, 2023. The Chinese Embassy in Kenya on Thursday hosted a farewell reception-cum-award-ceremony for 48 local students who are beneficiaries of the Chinese Government Scholarships 2023. A total of 48 Kenyan students are scheduled to leave for China early next week to pursue various studies at some of the leading universities. The students drawn from local tertiary institutions will pursue disciplines like public management, engineering, international relations and Chinese language at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

E

About 35 mln people in U.S. South brace for heat wave

STORY: About 35 mln people in U.S. South brace for heat wave DATELINE: June 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:14 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of streets scenes of Houston STORYLINE: From the U.S. south-central state of Texas to southeastern Florida, about 35 million people are bracing for a widespread heat wave that is expected to last for days, the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecast on Thursday. The heat wave in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Florida is likely to break records and raise the risk of wildfires and heat-related illnesses, the weather service warned. "It wouldn't be an active summer weather pattern without oppressive heat and much of Texas and the Deep South will have plenty heading into the beginning of the holiday weekend," the NWS said in its forecast. A record-setting June heat wave is building up in many parts of Texas. The weather service said that high temperatures in the area could hit triple digits by early next week, earlier than average for th

E

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla speaks to reporters in Manila on Feb. 3, 2023, saying the country may repatriate two of the four Japanese suspects in a string of robberies across Japan as early as next week.

E

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla speaks to reporters in Manila on Feb. 3, 2023, saying the country may repatriate two of the four Japanese suspects in a string of robberies across Japan as early as next week.

E

Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa to form new party

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks after being approved as the head of a new party at a meeting at a Diet facility in Tokyo on July 4, 2012. Ozawa and lawmakers close to him held the meeting to prepare for the planned launch of a new party as early as next week, following their departure from the ruling DPJ in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal.

E

Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa to form new party

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (C), former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, smiles after being approved as the head of a new party at a meeting at a Diet facility in Tokyo on July 4, 2012. Ozawa and lawmakers close to him held the meeting to prepare for the planned launch of a new party as early as next week, following their departure from the ruling DPJ in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal.

E

Kan says he needs some time to form Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during his first press conference after being elected premier in parliament at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 4, 2010. Kan said he needs some time to form a Cabinet as he has no ideas yet for the lineup, but that he aims to announce the roster early next week.

E

Kan says he needs some time to form Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during his first press conference after being elected premier in parliament at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 4, 2010. Kan said he needs some time to form a Cabinet as he has no ideas yet for the lineup, but that he aims to announce the roster early next week.

E

Kan says he needs some time to form Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during his first press conference after being elected premier in parliament at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 4, 2010. Kan said he needs some time to form a Cabinet as he has no ideas yet for the lineup, but that he aims to announce the roster early next week.

E

Opposition DPJ to introduce censure motion against Fukuda

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, acting president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a news conference at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 5 about the party's decision to introduce a censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in the opposition-controlled House of Councillors early next week

E

China's nuclear negotiator likely to visit N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (left) plans to visit North Korea as early as next week in a bid to prod the hermit nation into following through on its promise to reveal all details of its nuclear programs by the year's end, a source close to U.S.-North Korea relations said Friday. Wu, the chairman of the six-party North Korea nuclear talks, will make the pitch when he meets with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan (R), the source said.

E

Mongolian maegashira involved in traffic accident

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Kyokutenho speaks to reporters at his stable in Tokyo on May 2, apologizing for causing a traffic accident last week. The Japan Sumo Association, which strictly forbids its wrestlers from driving, is set to hold a special executive committee meeting early next week to decide what kind of punishment it will hand down to the eighth-ranked maegashira.

E

Shimadzu to promote Nobel laureate Tanaka to executive post

OSAKA, Japan - Shimadzu Corp. plans to promote Koichi Tanaka (file photo) to an executive post as early as next week to reward him as a winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, company officials said Oct. 12. Tanaka is currently an assistant manager of Shimadzu's Life Science Laboratory, a post below the level of section chief.

E

LDP power broker Nonaka to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromu Nonaka, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is surrounded by reporters Dec. 1 as he emerges from a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori ahead of a cabinet reshuffle scheduled for early next week. Nonaka told reporters that, although the premier asked him to stay on, he ultimately accepted his offer to resign.

E

Kono, Goff hope for progress on tuna fishing dispute

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (far R) and his New Zealand counterpart Phil Goff (2nd from L) on Nov. 11 express hope that progress will soon be made on a dispute over Japan's tuna catches. Kono and Goff, who met at a hotel in Bandar Seri Begawan, said they hope a meeting of a group of experts to be held as early as next week will help bring about progress in resolving the dispute over Japan's catches of southern bluefin tuna.

E

Congressional panel endorses Estrada impeachment complaint

MANILA, Philippines - The justice committee of the Philippines' House of Representatives is in session Nov. 6 to consider an impeachment complaint against President Joseph Estrada. The committee endorsed the complaint to the full lower chamber, which could send the articles of impeachment to the Senate as early as next week.

E

Finance Minister Mitsuzuka resigns

Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka bids farewell Jan. 28 as he leaves the Finance Ministry after he resigned to take the blame for a bribery scandal involving two ministry financial inspectors. Hashimoto, who accepted Mitsuzuka's resignation, will hold the post of finance minister concurrently until his successor is named early next week.

E

Trump announces 2024 presidential bid

STORY: Trump announces 2024 presidential bid DATELINE: Nov. 16, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:50 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Trump 2. various of 2020 election 3. various of President Biden 4. various of Washington D.C. STORYLINE: Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he will run for the White House again. Trump, 76, also filed his paperwork establishing his candidacy to run for the U.S. presidency in 2024 with the Federal Elections Commission on Tuesday. Trump served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. He lost to his Democrat challenger Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election but has refused to acknowledge defeat and continued to promote unsubstantiated claims that the race was rigged. Biden said last week that he still intends to seek re-election and that he would likely make an official decision "early next year." The 2024 U.S. presidential election is scheduled for Nov. 5 of that year. Xinhua News Agency cor

E

U.S. House, Senate control still hangs in balance with vote counting underway

STORY: U.S. House, Senate control still hangs in balance with vote counting underway DATELINE: Nov. 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of a poll site in New York STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent "The control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate still hangs in the balance with vote counting underway for the 2022 midterm elections. Major U.S. media outlets have not called at least five Senate races and dozens of others for the House as of the early morning of Nov. 9. 'It's probably going to be election week in some states,' University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato told CBS News Radio. The outcome of the House will likely be known soon, while it could take longer to know who will control the Senate in the next Congress. In this year's midterms, 36 out of 50 states and three U.S. territories elected governors. Numerous other state and local ele

E

Mongolian maegashira involved in traffic accident

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Kyokutenho speaks to reporters at his stable in Tokyo on May 2, apologizing for causing a traffic accident last week. The Japan Sumo Association, which strictly forbids its wrestlers from driving, is set to hold a special executive committee meeting early next week to decide what kind of punishment it will hand down to the eighth-ranked maegashira. (Kyodo)

E

Opposition DPJ to introduce censure motion against Fukuda

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, acting president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a news conference at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 5 about the party's decision to introduce a censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in the opposition-controlled House of Councillors early next week (Kyodo)

E

Shimadzu to promote Nobel laureate Tanaka to executive post

OSAKA, Japan - Shimadzu Corp. plans to promote Koichi Tanaka (file photo) to an executive post as early as next week to reward him as a winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, company officials said Oct. 12. Tanaka is currently an assistant manager of Shimadzu's Life Science Laboratory, a post below the level of section chief. (Kyodo)

E

Japan, U.S. arranging to resume TPP talks

Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari, who is in charge of negotiations for a Pacific free trade agreement, answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on June 24, 2015. Japan and the United States are arranging to resume bilateral talks for the agreement as early as next week, negotiation sources said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Hobbling Kuroda may return next week

Hiroshima Carp pitcher Hiroki Kuroda visits Mazda Stadium on May 7, 2015, after being diagnosed in a local hospital with inflammation of his right fibular muscle earlier in the day. The former New York Yankee, however, could return as early as next week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

China's nuclear negotiator likely to visit N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (left) plans to visit North Korea as early as next week in a bid to prod the hermit nation into following through on its promise to reveal all details of its nuclear programs by the year's end, a source close to U.S.-North Korea relations said Friday. Wu, the chairman of the six-party North Korea nuclear talks, will make the pitch when he meets with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan (R), the source said. (Kyodo)

E

Kan says he needs some time to form Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during his first press conference after being elected premier in parliament at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 4, 2010. Kan said he needs some time to form a Cabinet as he has no ideas yet for the lineup, but that he aims to announce the roster early next week. (Kyodo)

E

Kan says he needs some time to form Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during his first press conference after being elected premier in parliament at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 4, 2010. Kan said he needs some time to form a Cabinet as he has no ideas yet for the lineup, but that he aims to announce the roster early next week. (Kyodo)

E

Kan says he needs some time to form Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during his first press conference after being elected premier in parliament at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on June 4, 2010. Kan said he needs some time to form a Cabinet as he has no ideas yet for the lineup, but that he aims to announce the roster early next week. (Kyodo)

E

Abe eyes Russia trip early next year to advance peace treaty issue

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he gives a lecture at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2016. Abe said he wants to visit Russia at an early date next year to "accelerate momentum" built with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week on resolving a territorial row and signing a post-World War II peace treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Abe eyes Russia trip early next year to advance peace treaty issue

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he gives a lecture at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2016. Abe said he wants to visit Russia at an early date next year to "accelerate momentum" built with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week on resolving a territorial row and signing a post-World War II peace treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

LDP power broker Nonaka to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromu Nonaka, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is surrounded by reporters Dec. 1 as he emerges from a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori ahead of a cabinet reshuffle scheduled for early next week. Nonaka told reporters that, although the premier asked him to stay on, he ultimately accepted his offer to resign.

E

Kono, Goff hope for progress on tuna fishing dispute

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (far R) and his New Zealand counterpart Phil Goff (2nd from L) on Nov. 11 express hope that progress will soon be made on a dispute over Japan's tuna catches. Kono and Goff, who met at a hotel in Bandar Seri Begawan, said they hope a meeting of a group of experts to be held as early as next week will help bring about progress in resolving the dispute over Japan's catches of southern bluefin tuna.

E

Congressional panel endorses Estrada impeachment complaint

MANILA, Philippines - The justice committee of the Philippines' House of Representatives is in session Nov. 6 to consider an impeachment complaint against President Joseph Estrada. The committee endorsed the complaint to the full lower chamber, which could send the articles of impeachment to the Senate as early as next week.

E

Finance Minister Mitsuzuka resig

Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka bids farewell Jan. 28 as he leaves the Finance Ministry after he resigned to take the blame for a bribery scandal involving two ministry financial inspectors. Hashimoto, who accepted Mitsuzuka's resignation, will hold the post of finance minister concurrently until his successor is named early next week.