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First Batch of Physical Social Security Cards For Foreigners in Shenyang

SHENYANG, CHINA - MARCH 26, 2025 - A foreigner who received a physical social security card shows the card at the ceremony of issuing the first batch of physical social security cards for foreigners in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China on March 26, 2025.

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CHINA-CHONGQING-FOREIGNER-TRAVEL-SERVICE (CN)

(240709) -- CHONGQING, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A police officer introduces visa-free policy to a foreigner at the department of exit-entry administration of Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau in southwest China's Chongqing, July 9, 2024. Chongqing has handled more than 150,000 inbound and outbound foreign passengers in the first half of this year, 4.9 times that of the same period last year. With optimized visa policies, Chongqing keeps on improving the itinerary management for inbound tour groups, offering foreign travelers more flexible choices on the ports of entry and exit. Meanwhile, a visa coordination mechanism has been established between ports of Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province in southwest China. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-FOREIGNER-TRAVEL-SERVICE (CN)

(240709) -- CHONGQING, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A foreigner shows his Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card at the department of exit-entry administration of Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau in southwest China's Chongqing, July 9, 2024. Chongqing has handled more than 150,000 inbound and outbound foreign passengers in the first half of this year, 4.9 times that of the same period last year. With optimized visa policies, Chongqing keeps on improving the itinerary management for inbound tour groups, offering foreign travelers more flexible choices on the ports of entry and exit. Meanwhile, a visa coordination mechanism has been established between ports of Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province in southwest China. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-FOREIGNER-TRAVEL-SERVICE (CN)

(240709) -- CHONGQING, July 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A police officer introduces visa-free policy to a foreigner at the department of exit-entry administration of Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau in southwest China's Chongqing, July 9, 2024. Chongqing has handled more than 150,000 inbound and outbound foreign passengers in the first half of this year, 4.9 times that of the same period last year. With optimized visa policies, Chongqing keeps on improving the itinerary management for inbound tour groups, offering foreign travelers more flexible choices on the ports of entry and exit. Meanwhile, a visa coordination mechanism has been established between ports of Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province in southwest China. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Huang Wei)

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Kharkiv after Russian missile attack on December 30, 2023

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 30, 2023 - First responders examine the rubble after the Russian missile strike on central Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, Russians fired at least six missiles at Kharkiv. Law enforcement officers removed the fragments of an Iskander missile. Due to the shelling, 28 civilians were injured, and 12 of them were admitted to hospital. Two children, aged 14 and 16 years, and a foreigner were also injured. The victims were in medium and mild condition.

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Kharkiv after Russian missile attack on December 30, 2023

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 30, 2023 - A first responder examines the rubble after the Russian missile strike on central Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, Russians fired at least six missiles at Kharkiv. Law enforcement officers removed the fragments of an Iskander missile. Due to the shelling, 28 civilians were injured, and 12 of them were admitted to hospital. Two children, aged 14 and 16 years, and a foreigner were also injured. The victims were in medium and mild condition.

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Kharkiv after Russian missile attack on December 30, 2023

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 30, 2023 - First responders are seen at work after the Russian missile strike on central Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, Russians fired at least six missiles at Kharkiv. Law enforcement officers removed the fragments of an Iskander missile. Due to the shelling, 28 civilians were injured, and 12 of them were admitted to hospital. Two children, aged 14 and 16 years, and a foreigner were also injured. The victims were in medium and mild condition.

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Kharkiv after Russian missile attack on December 30, 2023

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 30, 2023 - A first responder examines the rubble after the Russian missile strike on central Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, Russians fired at least six missiles at Kharkiv. Law enforcement officers removed the fragments of an Iskander missile. Due to the shelling, 28 civilians were injured, and 12 of them were admitted to hospital. Two children, aged 14 and 16 years, and a foreigner were also injured. The victims were in medium and mild condition.

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Kharkiv after Russian missile attack on December 30, 2023

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 30, 2023 - A first responder examines the rubble after the Russian missile strike on central Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, Russians fired at least six missiles at Kharkiv. Law enforcement officers removed the fragments of an Iskander missile. Due to the shelling, 28 civilians were injured, and 12 of them were admitted to hospital. Two children, aged 14 and 16 years, and a foreigner were also injured. The victims were in medium and mild condition.

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Kharkiv after Russian missile attack on December 30, 2023

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 30, 2023 - First responders are seen at work after the Russian missile strike on central Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, Russians fired at least six missiles at Kharkiv. Law enforcement officers removed the fragments of an Iskander missile. Due to the shelling, 28 civilians were injured, and 12 of them were admitted to hospital. Two children, aged 14 and 16 years, and a foreigner were also injured. The victims were in medium and mild condition.

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CHINA-FOREIGN PERMANENT RESIDENT-ID CARD-NEW VERSION (CN)

(231201) -- TIANJIN, Dec. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A foreigner applies for a Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card at the department of exit-entry administration of Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau in Tianjin, north China, Dec. 1, 2023. The National Immigration Administration (NIA) on Friday put into use a new version of the Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card of the People's Republic of China. On the same day, the first batch of 50 new cards was issued to qualified foreigners whose permanent residence applications had been approved, the NIA said. These new cardholders come from over 20 countries including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Russia, and have made outstanding contributions to China's socio-economic development. Among them are foreign high-level management and technical personnel who have been working in China for a long time, as well as foreign professors and scholars who have been teaching and conducting research at key universities and research institutions for

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Japanese girl wins award at Russia's top music school

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows Kanon Matsuda, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, who studies the piano at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music. Matsuda was given the best student award on Feb. 15, 2013, becoming the first foreigner to win the honor at the institution that has trained gifted children since the late 19th century.

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Japanese girl wins award at Russia's top music school

MOSCOW, Russia - Kanon Matsuda, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, plays the piano during a ceremony at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music, Russia's top music school, on Feb. 15, 2013. Matsuda was given the best student award, becoming the first foreigner to win the honor at the institution that has trained gifted children since the late 19th century.

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Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1974 shows Wally Yonamine (C), then manager of the Chunichi Dragons professional baseball club, being tossed in the air by Dragons players and fans after the club won the Central League championship at the former Chunichi Stadium in Nagoya. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer.

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Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in an unknown location in February 1959 shows Wally Yonamine, then outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball club. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer.

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Top favorite Neo Universe wins Japan Derby

TOKYO, Japan - Top favorite Neo Universe wins the 70th running of the Japan Derby at Tokyo Racecourse on June 1, enabling Italian jockey Mirco Demuro to become the first foreigner to win a Japan Derby race.

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Mongolian Asashoryu promoted to ozeki

KANIE, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Asahshoryu (3rd from L) smiles at his stable's lodging house in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 24 as he breaks open a wooden barrel of sake to celebrate his promotion from sekiwake to ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank. Asashoryu is the first Mongolian and fourth foreigner to become ozeki.

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Mongolian sekiwake Asashoryu meets press

NAGOYA, Japan - Mongolian sekiwake Asashoryu (L) smiles during a press conference with his stable master Takasago at a hotel in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 22, one day after he ended the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a 12-3 record. The Japan Sumo Association (JSA) basically approved the promotion of sekiwake Asashoryu to ozeki on July 21, making him the first Mongolian and fourth foreigner to attain sumo's second highest rank.

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Asashoryu beams on news he will be promoted to ozeki

NAGOYA, Japan - Sekiwake Asashoryu (L), standing with his stable master Takasago, beams in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 21 on reports he will be promoted to ozeki, making him the first Mongolian and fourth foreigner to attain sumo's second highest rank. He finished the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a 12-3 record.

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Eckrodt becomes 1st foreigner in all-Mitsubishi group meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Rolf Eckrodt, president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., became the first non-Japanese attendant at the monthly luncheon of the Mitsubishi group companies' leaders in Tokyo on July 12. His presence apparently indicates that globalization has reached one of Japan's largest business groups which was created after the pre-war Mitsubishi ''zaibatsu'' was disbanded.

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Rhodes receives Osaka honorary award and medal

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Tuffy Rhodes (R) shakes hands with Osaka Mayor Takafumi Isomura at the city government office on Oct. 17 after being given a special award for his contributions to the city. Rhodes, who matched the Japanese baseball record of 55 home runs in a single season this past season, is the first foreigner to receive the award.

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American named to Nagasaki committee for peace message

Brendon Hanna, an American resident of Nagasaki, has been appointed to a committee tasked with drafting a peace declaration to be read on the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city in August. Hanna, 34, from South Carolina, is the first foreigner to become a member of the Nagasaki municipal government's drafting committee.

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China's anti-pandemic policy in the eyes of Russian expat

STORY: China's anti-pandemic policy in the eyes of Russian expat DATELINE: Nov. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Galieva Olga's community 2. various of nucleic acid test 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GALIEVA OLGA, Russian volunteer in Harbin STORYLINE: Galieva Olga, a 34-year-old Russian expat, is living in Harbin, north China's Heilongjiang Province with her husband and two children. Once a medical worker, she felt obliged to help fight COVID-19 in her community and volunteered to work on the nucleic acid test team in 2020. To her, China's anti-pandemic policy, which puts people first, has been optimized to minimize the impact on people's life. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GALIEVA OLGA, Russian volunteer in Harbin "I have been in China for 12 years. When there were confirmed COVID-19 cases in Harbin in 2020, my community was looking for volunteers. So I asked my husband if I could apply for it. Because I'm a foreigner, I was not sure if I could be a v

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Peru's monkeypox cases climb to 15

STORY: Peru's monkeypox cases climb to 15 DATELINE: July 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:10 LOCATION: Lima CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of a file 2. various of a press conference 3. various of Peru STORYLINE: Twelve new cases of monkeypox have been detected in Peru in recent days, bringing the total number to 15, Health Minister Jorge Lopez said on Monday. The patients, aged between 20 and 39, reside in five districts of Metropolitan Lima, Lopez said at a press conference. All patients are in stable condition and are at home under the guidance of health personnel, he said. Lopez added that the Health Ministry is following up with all of the patients' close contacts. The ministry recently issued a health alert in order to strengthen the epidemiological surveillance and investigation system for the disease, as well as to adopt necessary prevention and control measures. The first monkeypox case in the South American country was confirmed on June 26 in a foreigner residing in Lima who had contact with peop

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Mongolian Asashoryu promoted to ozeki

KANIE, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Asahshoryu (3rd from L) smiles at his stable's lodging house in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 24 as he breaks open a wooden barrel of sake to celebrate his promotion from sekiwake to ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank. Asashoryu is the first Mongolian and fourth foreigner to become ozeki.

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Maverick Japanese conductor finds home with Philippine orchestra

Photo taken Dec. 17, 2015 shows Japan's Yoshikazu Fukumura, 69, the first foreigner from outside of Europe and the United States to take up the post of music director of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Western geisha denied independence

SYDNEY, Australia - File photo shows Australian geisha Sayuki (R) puts geisha makeup on a student while lecturing on Japan's geisha culture at Keio University in Tokyo in June 2010. The Australian newspaper reported in June 2011 that Sayuki, who in 2007 became Japan's first Western geisha, was denied independent operation because she is a foreigner. The paper gave her name as Fiona Graham. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in an unknown location in February 1959 shows Wally Yonamine, then outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball club. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1974 shows Wally Yonamine (C), then manager of the Chunichi Dragons professional baseball club, being tossed in the air by Dragons players and fans after the club won the Central League championship at the former Chunichi Stadium in Nagoya. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - Former Yomiuri Giants and Chunichi Dragons outfielder Wally Yonamine throws the ceremonial first pitch at a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, in April 2004. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer. (Kyodo)

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Book on Nissan's Ghosn to hit stores Sept. 10

TOKYO, Japan - A book on Nissan Motor Co. President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Carlos Ghosn, the first since the automaker achieved its goals in the three-year Nissan Revival Plan, will hit stores Sept. 10, officials of the book's publisher Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. said on Sept. 2. In the book in Japanese, Ghosn refutes the notion that he succeeded in reviving Nissan because his status as a foreigner freed him from constraints that a Japanese would face, emphasizing he would have succeeded more if he were Japanese. (Kyodo)

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Top favorite Neo Universe wins Japan Derby

TOKYO, Japan - Top favorite Neo Universe wins the 70th running of the Japan Derby at Tokyo Racecourse on June 1, enabling Italian jockey Mirco Demuro to become the first foreigner to win a Japan Derby race. (Kyodo)

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Mongolian sekiwake Asashoryu meets press

NAGOYA, Japan - Mongolian sekiwake Asashoryu (L) smiles during a press conference with his stable master Takasago at a hotel in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 22, one day after he ended the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a 12-3 record. The Japan Sumo Association (JSA) basically approved the promotion of sekiwake Asashoryu to ozeki on July 21, making him the first Mongolian and fourth foreigner to attain sumo's second highest rank.

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Asashoryu beams on news he will be promoted to ozeki

NAGOYA, Japan - Sekiwake Asashoryu (L), standing with his stable master Takasago, beams in the town of Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on July 21 on reports he will be promoted to ozeki, making him the first Mongolian and fourth foreigner to attain sumo's second highest rank. He finished the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament with a 12-3 record.

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Rhodes receives Osaka honorary award and medal

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Tuffy Rhodes (R) shakes hands with Osaka Mayor Takafumi Isomura at the city government office on Oct. 17 after being given a special award for his contributions to the city. Rhodes, who matched the Japanese baseball record of 55 home runs in a single season this past season, is the first foreigner to receive the award.

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American named to Nagasaki committee for peace message

Brendon Hanna, an American resident of Nagasaki, has been appointed to a committee tasked with drafting a peace declaration to be read on the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city in August. Hanna, 34, from South Carolina, is the first foreigner to become a member of the Nagasaki municipal government's drafting committee.