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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2026. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SNCF Reseau Railway Track Heating System - Rambouillet

Illustration – SNCF Réseau's track heating system during the cold snap that has been affecting France for the past two days. During periods of snowfall, ice accumulation can damage railway infrastructure and cause delays. Frost on overhead lines, for example, can paralyze certain lines. To deal with this, SNCF Réseau deploys several measures: switch heaters to free switches from ice, increased monitoring by staff, de-icing of overhead lines using electrical circuits and heating gas, and the use of scraper locomotives. Rambouillet, France, January 7, 2025. Photo by Christopher Charpaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rebels Liberate Sednaya Prison From Assad's Sadistic Grip - Syria

A man stands atop heaters from the prison, repurposed as makeshift barricades positioned in front of the Sednaya complex entrance More than 30,000 people were killed over decades in the ‘human slaughterhouse’ outside Damascus where the regime sought to suppress dissent by execution. Sednaya, the infamous “human slaughterhouse” outside Damascus, was where thousands of regime opponents had been locked up, tortured and killed from the earliest days of the 2011 uprising to the long brutal years of civil war. Rebels filmed as they entered Sednaya, nestled incongruously in the peaceful hills north of Damascus, alongside a monastery and the country villas of Syrian and Arab elites. Syria, December 10, 2024. Photo by Sandro BasiliABACAPRESS.COM

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An Appliance Trade-in Promotion Event in Handan

HANDAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 7, 2024 - Consumers buy water heaters at an appliance trade-in promotion event in Handan, North China's Hebei province, Oct 7, 2024.

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Police Arrests Five With Fake Banknotes - Dhaka

Detective Branch of police on Saturday arrested five people, including the mastermind, Liakat Hossain Zakir, and four women with fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore at a fake currency factory in Kadamtali area of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2024. A DB team of the Lalbagh Division raided the fake currency factory at a house from about 9:00am to 12 noon in the area. DB officials said that they had recovered fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore and materials for making Tk 3 crore fake currencies from two houses, including special papers and cloths, special colours, four laptops, four printers, white papers, heaters, scales and paper-cutters. They said that the ring was making fake currency targeting Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals for Muslims. Zakir has been doing retail and wholesale business of fake currency for the past 25 years and he is an expert in making fake taka and rupees, according to the DB. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Police Arrests Five With Fake Banknotes - Dhaka

Detective Branch of police on Saturday arrested five people, including the mastermind, Liakat Hossain Zakir, and four women with fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore at a fake currency factory in Kadamtali area of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2024. A DB team of the Lalbagh Division raided the fake currency factory at a house from about 9:00am to 12 noon in the area. DB officials said that they had recovered fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore and materials for making Tk 3 crore fake currencies from two houses, including special papers and cloths, special colours, four laptops, four printers, white papers, heaters, scales and paper-cutters. They said that the ring was making fake currency targeting Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals for Muslims. Zakir has been doing retail and wholesale business of fake currency for the past 25 years and he is an expert in making fake taka and rupees, according to the DB. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Police Arrests Five With Fake Banknotes - Dhaka

Detective Branch of police on Saturday arrested five people, including the mastermind, Liakat Hossain Zakir, and four women with fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore at a fake currency factory in Kadamtali area of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2024. A DB team of the Lalbagh Division raided the fake currency factory at a house from about 9:00am to 12 noon in the area. DB officials said that they had recovered fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore and materials for making Tk 3 crore fake currencies from two houses, including special papers and cloths, special colours, four laptops, four printers, white papers, heaters, scales and paper-cutters. They said that the ring was making fake currency targeting Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals for Muslims. Zakir has been doing retail and wholesale business of fake currency for the past 25 years and he is an expert in making fake taka and rupees, according to the DB. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Police Arrests Five With Fake Banknotes - Dhaka

Detective Branch of police on Saturday arrested five people, including the mastermind, Liakat Hossain Zakir, and four women with fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore at a fake currency factory in Kadamtali area of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2024. A DB team of the Lalbagh Division raided the fake currency factory at a house from about 9:00am to 12 noon in the area. DB officials said that they had recovered fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore and materials for making Tk 3 crore fake currencies from two houses, including special papers and cloths, special colours, four laptops, four printers, white papers, heaters, scales and paper-cutters. They said that the ring was making fake currency targeting Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals for Muslims. Zakir has been doing retail and wholesale business of fake currency for the past 25 years and he is an expert in making fake taka and rupees, according to the DB. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Police Arrests Five With Fake Banknotes - Dhaka

Detective Branch of police on Saturday arrested five people, including the mastermind, Liakat Hossain Zakir, and four women with fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore at a fake currency factory in Kadamtali area of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2024. A DB team of the Lalbagh Division raided the fake currency factory at a house from about 9:00am to 12 noon in the area. DB officials said that they had recovered fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore and materials for making Tk 3 crore fake currencies from two houses, including special papers and cloths, special colours, four laptops, four printers, white papers, heaters, scales and paper-cutters. They said that the ring was making fake currency targeting Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals for Muslims. Zakir has been doing retail and wholesale business of fake currency for the past 25 years and he is an expert in making fake taka and rupees, according to the DB. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Police Arrests Five With Fake Banknotes - Dhaka

Detective Branch of police on Saturday arrested five people, including the mastermind, Liakat Hossain Zakir, and four women with fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore at a fake currency factory in Kadamtali area of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2024. A DB team of the Lalbagh Division raided the fake currency factory at a house from about 9:00am to 12 noon in the area. DB officials said that they had recovered fake banknotes worth Tk 1.5 crore and materials for making Tk 3 crore fake currencies from two houses, including special papers and cloths, special colours, four laptops, four printers, white papers, heaters, scales and paper-cutters. They said that the ring was making fake currency targeting Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals for Muslims. Zakir has been doing retail and wholesale business of fake currency for the past 25 years and he is an expert in making fake taka and rupees, according to the DB. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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China allocates more relief supplies to quake-hit areas

STORY: China allocates more relief supplies to quake-hit areas SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 19-20, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: JISHISHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of quake-affected people receiving relief supplies 2. various of loading of disaster relief materials 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHANG YONG, Volunteer with Red Cross Society of China at Meishan City 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): DING JINPING, Driver from quake-hit Jishishan County 5. various of delivery of disaster relief materials 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): FAN YUZHONG, Deputy sales manager at Lanzhou Branch of Dayu Irrigation Group Co., Ltd. 7. various of the quake-stricken region STORYLINE: More relief supplies have been allocated to the quake-hit Gansu and Qinghai provinces in northwest China, the Ministry of Emergency Management said Wednesday. Some 135,500 relief items, such as cotton tents, rollaway beds, quilts, and heaters, have been sent to the two provinces to support the basic needs of those affected

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Jordanian artist holds exhibition to express support for quake-hit Türkiye, Syria

STORY: Jordanian artist holds exhibition to express support for quake-hit Türkiye, Syria DATELINE: Feb. 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: Amman CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the art exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DALIA KARRAIN, Jordanian artist 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): YOUSEF SHWEIHAT, Visitor STORYLINE: Sixteen-year-old Jordanian artist Dalia Karrain held her first art exhibition in Amman, aiming at supporting the victims of the recent earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Under the theme "Reminiscence," the exhibition is expected to lead visitors on a walk through time of Amman in the 1980s and 1990s. Karrain's artworks depicted famous characters from classic TV shows, vintage items like radios and gas heaters, and traditional sweets as well as old scenes of Amman downtown. The young artist decided to donate the proceeds from the sale of paintings to those in need. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DALIA KARRAIN, Jordanian artist "Art is a form of expression, so whether it is through donating t

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Lebanese resort to firewood for heating as diesel prices skyrocket

STORY: Lebanese resort to firewood for heating as diesel prices skyrocket DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: Beirut CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people collecting firewood 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): NAYEF ABDALLAH ABDALLAH, Resident in southern Lebanon 3. various of people collecting firewood 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): MOHAMMAD YAHFOUFI, Firewood trader in southern Lebanon STORYLINE: With surging diesel prices, many Lebanese have resorted to cheaper heating options to get through the harsh winter. Nayef Abdallah Abdallah, a resident of Mieh Mieh camp in southern Lebanon, said he has to collect tree trunks for heating. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): NAYEF ABDALLAH ABDALLAH, Resident in southern Lebanon "We live in the Mieh Mieh camp. We have three houses and we have old-fashioned heaters that work with firewood. We used to run heating with diesel but as you know, 20 liters of diesel now cost 1.2 or 1.3 million Lebanese pounds (120 to 130 U.S. dollars). We cannot afford it. We bought stoves

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Syrians try to overcome fuel crisis by turning to Mother Nature

STORY: Syrians try to overcome fuel crisis by turning to Mother Nature DATELINE: Jan. 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:26 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of gas stations 2. various of a worker cutting wood 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MUHAMMAD JUHA, Woodcutter 4. various of Al-muthana al-Shoufi collecting the cow dung 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AL-MUTHANA AL-SHOUFI, Farmer 6. various of the olive pomace 7. various of the pistachio shells heater 8. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABDULLAH ALI TWAIT, Owner of local heater factory 9. various of U.S. troops in Hasakah 10. SOUNDBITE 4 (Arabic): MUHAMMAD AL-OMARI, Syrian political expert 11. various of oil fields in eastern Syria STORYLINE: Amid a lingering fuel crisis, and the hardships that have come along as a result of the U.S. sanctions, Syrians had to figure out solutions to make up for the lack of diesel and gas. In the capital Damascus, the demand for firewood has dramatically increased as people started using it for heaters in the winter and for

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Xinhua Headlines: Tech, business partnerships boost China-Europe cooperation

(221221) -- HANGZHOU/BRUSSELS, Dec. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker checks electric heaters at a company in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 29, 2022. Foshan from June to August this year saw the export of heating equipments to countries of the European Union in worth of 94 million yuan (about 13.2 million U.S. dollars), up 154.4 percent year-on-year. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)

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Kyoto river boat cruise begins in spring style

KYOTO, Japan - Tourists huddle together to keep warm in the freezing cold on a sightseeing tour boat down the Hozu River in Kyoto, western Japan, on March 10, 2014, at the start of the spring/summer season without a rooftop and heaters installed during the winter season.

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Ex-Paloma chief indicted over poisoning death of gas heater user

TOKYO, Japan - Former Paloma Industries Ltd. President Toshihiro Kobayashi (file photo), along with another former official of the water heater maker, was indicted without arrest Dec. 11 over the death from carbon monoxide poisoning of a user of one of the company's heaters and injury to the user's brother in 2005, prosecutors said.

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3 dead since '03 in CO poisoning caused by Rinnai water heaters

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyasu Naito, president of Rinnai Corp., speaks at a news conference in Nagoya on Feb. 10 about carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a water heater manufactured by the company.

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Police search Paloma over fatal emissions from gas heaters

NAGOYA, Japan - Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department carry cardboard boxes out of the head office of Paloma Co. in Nagoya on Jan. 27 after searching it on suspicion of negligence in the death of a man and injury of his brother due to carbon monoxide emissions from a Paloma-brand gas-powered water heater in Tokyo in 2005.

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Paloma admits defect in heaters

TOKYO, Japan - Jiro Kawase, vice president of Paloma Industries Ltd., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26 after submitting a report to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In the report, Paloma said dozens of carbon monoxide poisoning cases caused by its gas water heaters were attributable to defective products.

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Gov't scolds Paloma over fatal CO poisonings

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese trade minister Toshihiro Nikai (L) reprimands Paloma Industries Ltd. President Toshihiro Kobayashi (R) Aug. 28 over 21 fatal carbon monoxide poisonings caused by his company's defective gas water heaters. The government issued an emergency order for the company to speed up free repairs of the product.

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Paloma offices, factory raided over CO poisoning

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the building in Nagoya housing the head offices of gas appliance maker Palmoa Industries Ltd. and its parent and sales firm Paloma Co. Japan's industry ministry searched them Aug. 10 after a series of fatal carbon monoxide-poisoning cases involving Paloma gas water heaters.

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Paloma presents report to gov't on probe into CO poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Paloma Industries Ltd. President Toshihiro Kobayashi speaks to reporters on July 31 after presenting to the industry ministry results of its in-house probe into carbon monoxide poisoning accidents that resulted from defective gas water heaters.

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Paloma presents report to gov't on probe into CO poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Paloma Industries Ltd. President Toshihiro Kobayashi (L) presents to an industry ministry official on July 31 results of its in-house probe into carbon monoxide poisoning accidents that resulted from defective gas water heaters.

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Paloma unveils 5 more deaths from water heater-caused CO poisoning

NAGOYA, Japan - Paloma Co. President Hiroaki Kobayashi (2nd from R) and his father and Chairman Toshihiro Kobayashi (far right) express their apology during a press conference at the company head office in Nagoya on July 18. The said that five more people died of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by its water heaters in addition to the initially reported 15, bringing the death toll to 20.

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Paloma water heaters caused 15 deaths from CO poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Paloma Ltd. President Hiroaki Kobayashi wipes off his sweat during a press conference in Nagoya on July 14 after the Trade and Industry Ministry said that water heaters manufactured by the company have caused 17 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning that killed 15 people between 1985 and 2005.

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Matsushita heaters found faulty after repair total 14

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshitaka Hayashi (R), senior managing director of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., bows in apology at the end of a news conference at a hotel in Osaka on Dec. 9. The company said that a total of 14 defective kerosene heaters it had recalled and repaired had subsequently broken down.

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M'shita vows to prevent recurrence of faulty heaters mishaps

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Toda (C), executive vice president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., bows in apology for carbon monoxide poisoning caused by the company's defective kerosene heaters, during a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 6.

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Koike looks at 'Warm Biz' section at department store

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yuriko Koike (L) holds up warm underwear at a department store in Tokyo on Oct. 28 during a visit there to the ''Warm Biz'' corner. The government-inspired ''Warm Biz'' campaign began Oct. 1 to promote energy conservation by encouraging business people to wear more layers of clothing and help reduce the use of heaters.

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Takashimaya opens ''Warm Biz'' corner

TOKYO, Japan - Takashimaya Co. at its outlet in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district opens the ''Warm Biz'' corner ahead of the start of the government-inspired ''Warm Biz'' campaign from Oct. 1, an autumn-winter version of the ''Cool Biz'' campaign held during summer, to promote energy conservation by encouraging business people to wear more layers of clothing and help reduce the use of heaters.

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'Warm Biz' campaign logo unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yuriko Koike unveils Aug. 26 a logo for the government-inspired ''Warm Biz'' campaign starting from Oct. 1, an autumn-winter version of the ''Cool Biz'' campaign held during summer, to promote energy conservation by encouraging business people to wear more layers of clothing and help reduce the use of heaters.

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Biofuel heaters become popular in Syria amid fuel crisis

STORY: Biofuel heaters become popular in Syria amid fuel crisis DATELINE: Dec. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the heater factory 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ABDULLAH ALI TWAIT, Heater factory owner 3. various of the heater factory 4. various inside Sulaiman al-Khaled's home 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): SULAIMAN AL-KHALED, Hama resident 6. various inside Sulaiman al-Khaled's home STORYLINE: Amid the acute fuel shortage, clean heaters fueled by firewood or pistachio shells have become popular in Syria. Abdullah Ali Twait, a 42-year-old heater manufacturer in Syria's Hama, has developed his business to cope with the long-standing fuel crisis in the war-torn country. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ABDULLAH ALI TWAIT, Heater manufacturer in Hama "Before the crisis, people used diesel for heating, but when the diesel decreased, they opted to use firewood and other forms of biofuel. When people started making calculations about the costs of biofuel, they found it

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POLAND-WARSAW-ENERGY CRISIS-AIR POLLUTION

(221108) -- WARSAW, Nov. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Heaters are seen for sale at a mall in Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 3, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Energy crisis in Poland stirs air pollution concerns" (Xinhua/Chen Chen)

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Chinese heating appliance manufacturers see surging orders from Europe

STORY: Chinese heating appliance manufacturers see surging orders from Europe DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: SHIJIAZHUANG, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of workers producing electric blankets 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG FENG, General manager, Wangfeng Technology Co. Ltd., Shijiazhuang 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): CHEN LILI, Deputy general manager, Beijiren Electrical Appliance Company, Shijiazhuang STORYLINE: China-made electric blankets, electric heaters and other heating appliances have seen rocketing orders from the European market this year as European households are preparing for a cold winter. Electric blanket manufacturers located in Xinle, north China's Hebei Province, have been busy working to meet the soaring overseas demands. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG FENG, General manager, Wangfeng Technology Co. Ltd., Shijiazhuang "Last year, the total value of our overseas orders was about 15 to 16 million yuan (about 2.07 to 2.21 million USD), and this year the figure r

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-FOSHAN-HEATING EQUIPMENT-EXPORT (CN)

(221009) -- FOSHAN, Oct. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker checks electric heaters at a company in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 29, 2022. Foshan from June to August this year saw the export of heating equipments to countries of the European Union in worth of 94 million yuan (about 13.2 million U.S. dollars), up 154.4 percent year-on-year. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-FOSHAN-HEATING EQUIPMENT-EXPORT (CN)

(221009) -- FOSHAN, Oct. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker checks electric heaters at a company in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 29, 2022. Foshan from June to August this year saw the export of heating equipments to countries of the European Union in worth of 94 million yuan (about 13.2 million U.S. dollars), up 154.4 percent year-on-year. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-FOSHAN-HEATING EQUIPMENT-EXPORT (CN)

(221009) -- FOSHAN, Oct. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker checks electric heaters at a company in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 29, 2022. Foshan from June to August this year saw the export of heating equipments to countries of the European Union in worth of 94 million yuan (about 13.2 million U.S. dollars), up 154.4 percent year-on-year. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-FOSHAN-HEATING EQUIPMENT-EXPORT (CN)

(221009) -- FOSHAN, Oct. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Workers operate at the production line of electric heaters at a company in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 29, 2022. Foshan from June to August this year saw the export of heating equipments to countries of the European Union in worth of 94 million yuan (about 13.2 million U.S. dollars), up 154.4 percent year-on-year. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)