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Daily Life In Rural Iran

Framed photographs and decorations on the walls of a home in Dandi, Zanjan province, Iran, on May 18, 2021. This rural area relies heavily on traditional practices for daily living, including agriculture and farming. Photo by Hamid/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Festive mood fills Hong Kong's Lunar New Year fairs

STORY: Festive mood fills Hong Kong's Lunar New Year fairs SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 5, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:49 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the fair STORYLINE: Visiting Lunar New Year fairs is a traditional activity in Hong Kong to welcome the new year. This year, there are a total of 15 fairs across the territory which kicked off on Sunday to sell flowers and festive goods. The fair in Victoria Park in Hong Kong is the largest one, with flower stalls crowded with people choosing flowers and plants for home decorations to celebrate the Chinese festival. Some of them asked stall owners about the price, some discussed the planting method, and some stopped to take pictures, creating a festive atmosphere. Besides flowers, there are also Chinese New Year couplets and various decorations with the theme of the Year of the Dragon on sale at the fairs. After five years, the fair at Victoria Park has resumed stalls selling dry, wet goods and fast food, crea

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Decorating Christmas tree

Christmas tree decorations in Espoo, Finland on December 17, 2023. LEHTIKUVA / HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Decorating Christmas tree

Christmas tree decorations in Espoo, Finland on December 17, 2023. LEHTIKUVA / HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Decorating Christmas tree

Christmas tree decorations in Espoo, Finland on December 17, 2023. LEHTIKUVA / HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Battledores of 2023 newsmakers

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Doll maker Kyugetsu Co.'s traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores are shown to the press in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2023, with decorations of images of newsmakers of the year of 2023. Those featured include two-way baseball star Shohei Ohtani, who became the first Japanese to win an MLB home run title, and shogi prodigy Sota Fujii, who became the first player ever to hold the board game's eight titles. (Kyodo)

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Battledores of 2023 newsmakers

Doll maker Kyugetsu Co.'s traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores are shown to the press in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2023, with decorations of images of newsmakers of the year of 2023. Those featured include two-way baseball star Shohei Ohtani (far R, front), who became the first Japanese to win an MLB home run title, and shogi prodigy Sota Fujii (3rd from R, front), who became the first player ever to hold the board game's eight titles.

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Battledores of 2023 newsmakers

Doll maker Kyugetsu Co.'s traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores are shown to the press in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2023, with decorations of images of newsmakers of the year of 2023. Those featured include two-way baseball star Shohei Ohtani (far R, front), who became the first Japanese to win an MLB home run title, and shogi prodigy Sota Fujii (2nd from L, front), who became the first player ever to hold the board game's eight titles.

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Battledores of 2023 newsmakers

Doll maker Kyugetsu Co.'s traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores are shown to the press in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2023, with decorations of images of newsmakers of the year of 2023. Those featured include two-way baseball star Shohei Ohtani (L, front), who became the first Japanese to win an MLB home run title, and shogi prodigy Sota Fujii (R, front), who became the first player ever to hold the board game's eight titles.

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Egypt's coppersmiths struggle to save dying craftsmanship

STORY: Egypt's coppersmiths struggle to save dying craftsmanship DATELINE: Aug. 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:31 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of coppersmith Abdel-Nabi Hindawi beating a copper sheet to make a vessel at his workshop in Cairo 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ABDEL-NABI HINDAWI, Coppersmith 3. various of copper works 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): HOSSAM AL-ASKARI, Owner of a copperware company 5. various of copper works 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): HOSSAM AL-ASKARI, Owner of a copperware company STORYLINE: In one of the narrow alleys of the Al-Jamaliya neighborhood in Old Cairo, 65-year-old coppersmith Abdel-Nabi Hindawi was making a copper pot at his workshop amid an intense heat wave. The Egyptian artisan, who has been in the business for about 40 years, is struggling to save both his shabby workshop and his endangered profession from extinction. "Out of copper sheets, I can beautifully create cookware, pots, vases, bowls, mosque top minaret decorations, domes, home decoration, and oth

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CHINA-JILIN-SIPING-BROOM MAKING-HANDICRAFTSMAN (CN)

(230622) -- CHANGCHUN, June 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rong Fengming makes a broom handicraft at home in Yushutai Town of Siping City, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 21, 2023. Rong Fengming, 63, is a local broom making handicraftsman living in Yushutai Town of Siping City in northeast China's Jilin. Till now, the making skills of traditional broom have been passed down in Rong's family for six generations. The broom handicrafts Rong has made range from over 4-meter-long large brooms to tiny brooms used as decorations. As a cleaning tool created by ancient Chinese with a long history, the broom has carried the meaning of cleaning the dust and ushering in the new as time passes. During the Dragon Boat Festival, broom handicrafts are usually hung outside the door, signifying the dust has been cleared away from the house. On the basis of inheriting the traditional making skills, Rong has designed different broom handicrafts with implied meaning of good fortune, which are favored by more and more people. (X

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CHINA-JILIN-SIPING-BROOM MAKING-HANDICRAFTSMAN (CN)

(230622) -- CHANGCHUN, June 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rong Fengming makes a broom handicraft at home in Yushutai Town of Siping City, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 21, 2023. Rong Fengming, 63, is a local broom making handicraftsman living in Yushutai Town of Siping City in northeast China's Jilin. Till now, the making skills of traditional broom have been passed down in Rong's family for six generations. The broom handicrafts Rong has made range from over 4-meter-long large brooms to tiny brooms used as decorations. As a cleaning tool created by ancient Chinese with a long history, the broom has carried the meaning of cleaning the dust and ushering in the new as time passes. During the Dragon Boat Festival, broom handicrafts are usually hung outside the door, signifying the dust has been cleared away from the house. On the basis of inheriting the traditional making skills, Rong has designed different broom handicrafts with implied meaning of good fortune, which are favored by more and more people. (X

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Giant panda Sheng Yi celebrates 2nd birthday in Malaysia

STORY: Giant panda Sheng Yi celebrates 2nd birthday in Malaysia DATELINE: June 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: Kuala Lumpur CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Giant panda Sheng Yi at its birthday celebration at the Giant Panda Conservation Center in Zoo Negara near Kuala Lumpur 2. various of birthday decorations at the Giant Panda Conservation Center STORYLINE: Giant panda Sheng Yi celebrates its second birthday Wednesday in Malaysia, where a big fruit cake is prepared for it with some decorative gifts, attracting many people to visit and take pictures. The Giant Panda Conservation Center in Zoo Negara near Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is currently home to a panda family of four, including the father Xing Xing, the mother Liang Liang, and their daughters Yi Yi and Sheng Yi. Sheng Yi is the third cub born to Xing Xing and Liang Liang. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kuala Lumpur. (XHTV)

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Palestinians prepare for Ramadan amid hopes for restoring peace in West Bank, Gaza

STORY: Palestinians prepare for Ramadan amid hopes for restoring peace in West Bank, Gaza DATELINE: March 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:16 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people preparing for Ramadan 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (ARABIC): MOHAMMED JARADA, Vendor 3. various of people preparing for Ramadan 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): WAEL AL-SAADY, Vendor STORYLINE: Palestinians are preparing to mark the Islamic holy month of Ramadan that falls on Thursday amid hopes for restoring peace in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Gaza, local residents are decorating their houses, streets, and shops with colored lights and lanterns to celebrate the upcoming holy month. Mohammed Jarada, a vendor of home decor accessories in the al-Zawiya market in Gaza, told Xinhua that he was happy as he had sold most of his goods days before Ramadan. SOUNDBITE 1 (ARABIC): MOHAMMED JARADA, Vendor "As Palestinian people, we do not feel the atmosphere of Ramadan except through Ramadan decorations. We import about 90 perc

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U.S.-CALIFORNIA-ANAHEIM-DISNEYLAND RESORT-DISNEY-100TH ANNIVERSARY

(230127) -- ANAHEIM (U.S.), Jan. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Children pose for photos in front of decorations for Disney's 100th anniversary in Anaheim, California, the United States, on Jan. 26, 2023. The Disneyland Resort, home to Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park, began to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, a premier U.S. entertainment and media company, with new entertainment and attractions on Friday. (Photo by Zeng Hui/Xinhua)

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Returning home for the lunar New Year

BEIJING, China - (From L to R) Chen Lei, a migrant worker in Beijing, his father Huacheng, another migrant worker, his mother Yang Xuanying and his brother Yang, also a migrant worker, shop for decorations for the lunar New Year, on Feb. 1, 2011, in Shihuazhen, Hubei Province. Chen returned home for the lunar New Year, the only time of the year his family is together.

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Tsunami-hit Japan city taps home-stay tourism to move forward

Dipendra Lamichhane (C), a 27-year-old Nepalese man studying in Japan, and his school mates show flower decorations hand-made by their host mother Renko Ogiwara (2nd from L), 69, after taking part in a home-stay at her house in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 17, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Returning home for the lunar New Year

BEIJING, China - (From L to R) Chen Lei, a migrant worker in Beijing, his father Huacheng, another migrant worker, his mother Yang Xuanying and his brother Yang, also a migrant worker, shop for decorations for the lunar New Year, on Feb. 1, 2011, in Shihuazhen, Hubei Province. Chen returned home for the lunar New Year, the only time of the year his family is together. (Kyodo)