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Chinese experts envisage new world order in Munich

STORY: Chinese experts envisage new world order in Munich SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 16-17, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 18, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:33 LOCATION: MUNICH, Germany CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of MSC 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CUI HONGJIAN, Professor of the Academy of Regional and Global Governance at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Vice president of the Chinese Association for European Studies 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SUN CHENGHAO, Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): WANG HUIYAO, President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG) 6. various of MSC and Munich STORYLINE: A reflection on the world order was under the spotlight at the 60th Munich Security Conference which kicked off on Friday. The "2024 Munich Security Report" released recently shed light on "obvious flaws" of the existing international order. Scholars and experts from China attending the conference proposed the establishment of a fair and reasonable

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Main cause of U.S. debt crisis is political, not economic: Italian economist

STORY: Main cause of U.S. debt crisis is political, not economic: Italian economist DATELINE: July 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:01 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Andrew Spannaus 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANDREW SPANNAUS, Lecturer of Catholic University of Milan 3. various of U.S. dollar and Euro 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANDREW SPANNAUS, Lecturer of Catholic University of Milan STORYLINE: The U.S. debt crises have exposed flaws in U.S. politics and fiscal policy, an Italian economist has said, warning governments and investors around the world to be alerted. Andrew Spannaus, lecturer of Catholic University of Milan, said the U.S. government bonds have long been considered as a safe asset, but investors' confidence has been affected by the repeated debt crises which erode the creditworthiness of the U.S. government and the value of dollar assets. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANDREW SPANNAUS, Lecturer of Catholic University of Milan "The biggest problem is for the bond markets because the mar

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U.S. failed COVID-19 response reflects systematic flaws: scholars

STORY: U.S. failed COVID-19 response reflects systematic flaws: scholars DATELINE: April 5, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:28 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the U.S. 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ADHAM SAYED, Assistant professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ALEX OWITI, Professor formerly working at Aga Khan University, Kenya STORYLINE: Scholars and experts from different countries have voiced their disapproval of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pointing to systematic flaws deeply rooted in the country. Adham Sayed, an assistant professor in China, has said that the American political system only works for the top 1% of its people. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ADHAM SAYED, Assistant professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China "So for me, the most important thing in any political system is for whom this political system is working. In the USA, society is divided into the top 1% of the people, the richest people, and the other 99% of the people. So t

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Fujiya resumes confectionery production

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 1, saying that the company resumed making chocolates and other confectioneries earlier in the day. Production was suspended in mid-January due to serious flaws in quality control.

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Chinese nuke reactor closed in hush

Chinese authorities have shut down a nuclear power plant in Qinshan, Zhejiang Province since July 1998 as a result of damage caused by structural flaws, without telling the public despite a soaring concentration of radioactive material in the cooling water. File photo taken the inside the nuclear power plant in January 1995.

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U.S. political system flaws reflected in midterm elections

STORY: U.S. political system flaws reflected in midterm elections DATELINE: Nov. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:41 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people voting 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JAMES GANSKY, Voter 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): AARON SMITH, Voter 4. various of people voting 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): NOREEN CHOUDHURY, College student 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): BOBBY, Voter 7. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MICHAEL CROCE, Voter 8. various of people voting STORYLINE: "Big money." "A lot of polarization." "Not just polarized but radicalized"... While U.S. midterm election results continue to roll in, flaws in the U.S. political system have been once again reflected during the process. Here are what the voters have been concerned about and struggled with. ALL ABOUT MONEY The 2022 U.S. midterms are set to be the most expensive non-presidential races in history. The total cost of state and federal elections is projected to exceed 16.7 billion U.S. dollars. Voters complain that

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Local police chief admits flaws in security for ex-Japan PM Abe

There were flaws in the security of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot on Friday during an election campaign speech in western Japan, the local police chief said Saturday. "It is undeniable that there were problems in the security," Tomoaki Onizuka, head of the Nara prefectural police, told a press conference, a day after the shooting attack.

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U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

STORY: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws DATELINE: July 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:01 LOCATION: Washington, D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the demonstration 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ESTHER TORRES, Demonstrator from Austin, Texas 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KAYLEE WHITE, Student from West Virginia 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ESTHER TORRES, Demonstrator from Austin, Texas STORYLINE: The United States continued to feel the heat from the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two weeks ago, which eliminated the constitutional protection of abortion rights for women in the nation. Thousands of demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand more action from the White House to safeguard abortion access, as the fight over abortion rights is splitting America further along ideological and party lines. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ESTHER TORRES, Demonstrator from Austin, Texas "I think it is important that we women have a voice and a choice with our bodies

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend a rally calling for abortion rights in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 9, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Demonstrators rally in Union Square during a protest after U.S. Supreme Court made decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, in New York, the United States, June 24, 2022. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend a rally calling for abortion rights in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 9, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the United States, June 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend a rally calling for abortion rights in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 9, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend a rally calling for abortion rights in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 9, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Xinhua Headlines: U.S. backsliding on women's rights underscores systemic flaws

(220710) -- WASHINGTON, July 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend a rally calling for abortion rights in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 9, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Trains set on fire in India as anti-recruitment scheme protests continue

STORY: Trains set on fire in India as anti-recruitment scheme protests continue DATELINE: June 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:19 LOCATION: New Delhi CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of protest 2. various of trains on fire 3. various of protests in several parts of India STORYLINE: Violent protests continued in several parts of India, including Delhi, on Friday against the newly-announced recruitment scheme "Agnipath" in the armed forces, the agitated protesters set trains on fire at many places in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. More than 50 students assembled outside the ITO Metro Station in central Delhi, protesting against the new recruitment scheme even as the security personnel struggled to remove them. The protests have been going on in India for the past three days. The protesters allege several flaws in the new recruitment scheme, mainly the age bracket of 17-and-a-half years to 21 years and the fact that 75 percent of the recruits would be removed from service after four years as per the sc

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Women flaw detection team in NW China

STORY: Women flaw detection team in NW China DATELINE: March 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:00 LOCATION: YINCHUAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the women flaw detection team 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) LV YE, Yinchuan Works Section of China Railway Lanzhou Group Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: Along a railway section in northwest China's Ningxia, a nine-member team is working on tracks to detect rail flaws to ensure the safety of railway operations. All the team members are women with the oldest aged 27 and the youngest 24. They need to walk nearly 2,000 km each year on the railway tracks. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) LYU YE, Yinchuan Works Section of China Railway Lanzhou Group Co., Ltd. "Our team is the only women rail flaw detection team of China Railway Lanzhou Group Co., Ltd. The youngest of us was born in 1998. Our work mainly uses ultrasonic waves to do 'physical examinations' on rails, the same work as medical examinations. Our rail detecting devices weigh more than 40 kg when filled with water, making it diffi

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Facebook, Whatsapp And Instagram Massive Outage

The social networks most used by people to communicate with family and friends belonging to the Facebook brand of the American businessman Mark Zuckerberg, such as whatsapp, instagram and Facebook, show flaws in their service at a global level. Users have been cut off because the Facebook system crashed for several hours. Mexico City, Mexico, October 4, 2021. Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fujiya resumes confectionery production

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 1, saying that the company resumed making chocolates and other confectioneries earlier in the day. Production was suspended in mid-January due to serious flaws in quality control. (Kyodo)

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Builder fudged data for Hokkaido estate, stoking fears of wider flaws

A Hokkaido official explains the situation surrounding Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp.'s use of flawed groundwork data in the expansion of a public housing estate in Kushiro city in the early hours of Oct. 29, 2015. There are concerns that more projects involving the under-fire Tokyo construction company face similar problems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on April 13, 2021, shows (from back) the Nos. 5, 6 and 7 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. Japan's nuclear regulator decided on April 14 to effectively ban the utility from restarting the plant due to serious safety flaws.

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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on April 13, 2021, shows Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. Japan's nuclear regulator decided on April 14 to effectively ban the utility from restarting the plant due to serious safety flaws.

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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on April 13, 2021, shows Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. Japan's nuclear regulator decided on April 14 to effectively ban the utility from restarting the plant due to serious safety flaws.

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Critics flag up "flaws" in Constitution referendum system

Members of a civic group calling for the need to improve the current constitutional referendum campaigning rules, hold a meeting with Diet members in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2018. The members include movie director Masaki Miyamoto (far R) and writer Ryu Homma (far L). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Critics flag up "flaws" in Constitution referendum system

Masaki Miyamoto, a 44-year-old movie director, calls for the need to impose tougher regulations on TV advertising in constitutional referendum campaigning, during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese nuke reactor closed in hush

Chinese authorities have shut down a nuclear power plant in Qinshan, Zhejiang Province since July 1998 as a result of damage caused by structural flaws, without telling the public despite a soaring concentration of radioactive material in the cooling water. File photo taken the inside the nuclear power plant in January 1995.

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Chinese nuke reactor closed in hush

Chinese authorities have shut down a nuclear power plant in Qinshan, Zhejiang Province since July 1998 as a result of damage caused by structural flaws, without telling the public despite a soaring concentration of radioactive material in the cooling water. File photo taken the inside the nuclear power plant in January 1995.