Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Sabah elected as new OCA president

STORY: Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Sabah elected as new OCA president DATELINE: July 9, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:01 LOCATION: Bangkok CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the OCA general assembly 2. various of Sheikh Talal delivering campaign speech before the election 3. various of delegates casting votes 4. various of Sheikh Talal celebrating after winning the election STORYLINE: The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) elected Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Sabah as its new president at the 42nd OCA Congress in Bangkok on Saturday. Sheikh Talal received 24 of the 44 votes cast. The other candidate, the OCA director general and president of World Aquatics Husain Al-Musallam, who is also from Kuwait, received 20 votes. Sheikh Talal, 58, is the son of the first OCA president Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who was president from 1982 to 1990, and the younger brother of the previous OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah, who led the organization from 1991 to 2021. Sheikh Talal joined the OCA in 2007 and serve

Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies

Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Leading Japanese theoretical physicist Koji Fushimi (in file photo taken 1988) dies of old age at a hospital in Yokohama on May 8, his family said. He was 98. Fushimi headed, from 1977 to 1982, the Science Council of Japan, a Cabinet Office organization that is given the task to promote and enhance science, and to have science reflect and permeate into administration, industry and people's lives. He was elected to the House of Councillors in the 1983 upper house election. He retired from the Diet after serving out a six-year term.

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Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies

Physicist Fushimi, ex-head of Science Council of Japan, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Leading Japanese theoretical physicist Koji Fushimi (in file photo taken 1988) dies of old age at a hospital in Yokohama on May 8, his family said. He was 98. Fushimi headed, from 1977 to 1982, the Science Council of Japan, a Cabinet Office organization that is given the task to promote and enhance science, and to have science reflect and permeate into administration, industry and people's lives. He was elected to the House of Councillors in the 1983 upper house election. He retired from the Diet after serving out a six-year term. (Kyodo)