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Mixed-reality Apple device

Photo taken on Feb. 2, 2024, shows Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro headset on display at an Apple store in New York after being launched the same day, marking Apple's first major product since the Apple Watch in 2015.

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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year.

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Apple's iPad goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp., a parent company of Softbank Mobile Corp., shakes hands with a customer who bought an Apple iPad at Softbank Mobile's Omotesando outlet in Tokyo's Shibuya district on May 28, 2010, the first day of sales for the product in Japan. Apple Inc. began selling the iPad the same day in Japan at about 180 Apple stores, major electronics retailers and Softbank Mobile Corp. branches.

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Osaka mint to accept orders for Winter Asian Games silver coin

OSAKA, Japan - The Finance Ministry's Mint Bureau in Osaka said Nov. 15 it will accept mail orders from Nov. 22 to Dec. 5 for its first colored silver coins to mark the fifth Winter Asian Games to be held in Aomori Prefecture in February 2003. The 1,000-yen coin made of pure silver features a skier and a skater on the front, and apples and the games' symbol on the back. The apples a major local product of Aomori.

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Panamanian sea cucumber eyes great potential in Chinese market

STORY: Panamanian sea cucumber eyes great potential in Chinese market DATELINE: Dec. 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Panama City CATEGORY: MARKET SHOTLIST: 1. various of the sea cucumber aquaculture company 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): AUGUSTO VALDERRAMA, Panama's Minister of Agricultural Development 3. various of the sea cucumbers STORYLINE: PanaSea Global, the first sea cucumber aquaculture company in Panama, eyes China as a key market, as Chinese consumers' demand for sea cucumbers is rising. The company is currently welcoming its first harvest of sea cucumbers. Panama's Minister of Agricultural Development Augusto Valderrama visited the company on Friday, stressing the possibilities of increasing commercial relations with China. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): AUGUSTO VALDERRAMA, Panama's Minister of Agricultural Development "Due to this new product that has major demand in Asia, especially in China, we can see the possibilities of increasing commercial relations. We know, in terms of the Panamanian government a

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#CHINA-MAJOR INDUSTRIAL FIRMS-COMBINED REVENUES (CN)

(221128) -- BEIJING, Nov. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man works on an automobile wheel hub production line at an aluminum product manufacturer in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 27, 2022. Profits of China's major industrial firms declined 3 percent year on year in the first 10 months of the year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Sunday. Industrial firms with annual main business revenue of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million U.S. dollars) each saw their combined profits reach about 6.98 trillion yuan in the period, the NBS said. The combined revenues of these firms sustained growth during the period, rising 7.6 percent year on year to 111.78 trillion yuan. (Photo by Geng Yuhe/Xinhua)

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GLOBALink | China's economy on more solid ground with steady Q3 growth

China's economy is on more solid ground in the third quarter of this year with major indicators showing positive signs of stabilization, backed by the country's efforts to balance epidemic control and economic and social development. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.9 percent year on year to 30.76 trillion yuan (about 4.32 trillion U.S. dollars) in the third quarter, 3.5 percentage points higher than that in the second quarter. The NBS said that in the first three quarters, China's GDP increased 3 percent year on year, 0.5 percentage points faster than that in the first half of 2022. The NBS said that many major economic indicators saw significant improvements compared with that in the second quarter, with production demand gradually recovering, and prices and employment remaining stable. Produced by Xinhua Global Service

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China's economy on more solid ground with steady Q3 growth

STORY: China's economy on more solid ground with steady Q3 growth DATELINE: Oct. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese economic activity STORYLINE: China's economy is on more solid ground in the third quarter of this year with major indicators showing positive signs of stabilization, backed by the country's efforts to balance epidemic control and economic and social development. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.9 percent year on year to 30.76 trillion yuan (about 4.32 trillion U.S. dollars) in the third quarter, 3.5 percentage points higher than that in the second quarter. The NBS said that in the first three quarters, China's GDP increased 3 percent year on year, 0.5 percentage points faster than that in the first half of 2022. The NBS said that many major economic indicators saw significant improvements compared with that in the second quarter, with production demand gradually recov

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China's GDP expands 4.8 pct in Q1

STORY: China's GDP expands 4.8 pct in Q1 DATELINE: April 18, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:08 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of general views 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): FU LINGHUI, Spokesperson, National Bureau of Statistics STORYLINE: According to the data released from the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday, China's economy got off to a steady start in the first quarter of 2022 despite challenges from an increasingly complex international environment and resurgences of COVID-19 cases at home. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): FU LINGHUI, Spokesperson, National Bureau of Statistics "According to preliminary estimates, China's gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter reached 27 trillion yuan, up 4.8 percent year-on-year and 1.3 percent quarter-on-quarter at constant prices." China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, went up 3.3 percent year on year in the first quarter, totaling around 10.87 trillion yuan (about 1.7 trillion U.S. dollars)

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Apple's iPad goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp., a parent company of Softbank Mobile Corp., shakes hands with a customer who bought an Apple iPad at Softbank Mobile's Omotesando outlet in Tokyo's Shibuya district on May 28, 2010, the first day of sales for the product in Japan. Apple Inc. began selling the iPad the same day in Japan at about 180 Apple stores, major electronics retailers and Softbank Mobile Corp. branches. (Kyodo)

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New antivirus hospital operating room to go on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Kikuo Toyoda, senior managing director at major industrial gas and medical product supplier Air Water Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014, about the company's new antivirus hospital operating room that will be available from April 2015. Air Water aims to win contracts for 100 rooms in the first fiscal year. (Kyodo)

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Osaka mint to accept orders for Winter Asian Games silver coin

OSAKA, Japan - The Finance Ministry's Mint Bureau in Osaka said Nov. 15 it will accept mail orders from Nov. 22 to Dec. 5 for its first colored silver coins to mark the fifth Winter Asian Games to be held in Aomori Prefecture in February 2003. The 1,000-yen coin made of pure silver features a skier and a skater on the front, and apples and the games' symbol on the back. The apples a major local product of Aomori. (Kyodo)

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Sanyo develops washing machine that uses electrolyzed water

OSAKA, Japan - Sanyo Electric Co. has developed what it claims to be the world's first automatic washing machine that uses electrolyzed water and needs no detergent to remove grime from clothing. The major Japanese consumer electronics maker said June 22 the new product will be put on the domestic market on Aug. 1.