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Bangladesh holds "Chinese Bridge" preliminary contest

STORY: Bangladesh holds "Chinese Bridge" preliminary contest SHOOTING TIME: May 31, 2024 DATELINE: June 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:29 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: CULTURE/EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of the preliminary round of the 23rd edition of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition for college students in Bangladesh 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): BUSHRA MUBASSERA MAHMUD, Winner of preliminary round of 23rd edition of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition for college students in Bangladesh 3. various of the preliminary round of the 23rd edition of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition for college students in Bangladesh 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JANNATUN NAHER, Assistant professor of Department of Chinese at Institute of Modern Languages at University of Dhaka STORYLINE: The preliminary round of the 23rd edition of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese proficiency competition for college students in Bangladesh was held on Friday in Dhaka, the country's capital. Nine contestants f

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APEC ministerial meeting

BEIJING, China - Copies of a book containing remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping are distributed on Nov. 7, 2014, at the media center for journalists covering a series of APEC meetings in Beijing. The book is available in nine languages including Chinese, English and Japanese.

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Anti-disaster guidebook published in 9 languages

KOBE, Japan - Copies of a disaster prevention guidebook for parents and children published in nine languages by the nonprofit Hyogo International Association are shown to the press in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 15, 2014. The publication precedes the 20th anniversary next January of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that hit the western Japan region, including the prefecture which has a population of some 100,000 foreign residents.

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Yokohama develops multilingual World Cup emergency software

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A Yokohama City Fire Bureau official demonstrates software installed on a computer which can deal with emergencies in nine languages -- English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Italian. The bureau has developed the software ahead of the final match of the upcoming World Cup soccer finals in the city.

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2nd Confucius Institute inaugurated in Nepal

STORY: 2nd Confucius Institute inaugurated in Nepal DATELINE: Aug. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: Kathmandu CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of the inauguration ceremony STORYLINE: The Confucius Institute at Tribhuvan University, the second of its kind in Nepal, was inaugurated on Tuesday in the Nepali capital Kathmandu, with the stakeholders pledging more resources to make it a better platform for cooperation. Though initiated in 2019, the university's institute hit a two-year hiatus from 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Liu Yueming, the Chinese director of the institute. Addressing the inauguration ceremony via video link, Nepali Minister for Education, Science and Technology Devendra Paudel noted that the Nepali side has recognized the importance of the Chinese language and listed it as an optional course for students from grade nine to grade 12 starting this year. The minister believes that the learning of each other's languages and cultures helps elevate relation

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Germany scholar aspires to become cross-cultural ambassador

STORY: Germany scholar aspires to become cross-cultural ambassador DATELINE: July 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of Lanzhou UniversitySOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ULRICH THOMAS FORDERER, Faculty staff, Lanzhou Universityvarious of UlrichSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG JUNYI, Student, Lanzhou UniversitySOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LI JIAYANG, Student, Lanzhou UniversitySOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): LIN LINGNA, Faculty staff, Lanzhou University STORYLINE: Ulrich Thomas Forderer, a 64-year-old German scholar, has been teaching at Lanzhou University in northwest China's Gansu Province for nine years. SOUNDBITE 1(Chinese): ULRICH THOMAS FORDERER, Faculty staff, Lanzhou University "I'm Ulrich, a teacher at the German Department of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Lanzhou University. I teach both the German language and culture, as well as German philosophy. I'm very interested in Chinese philosophy. I present a comparative study between Chinese and German philos

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Tunisian students participate in "Chinese Bridge" language competition

STORY: Tunisian students participate in "Chinese Bridge" language competition DATELINE: June 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:58 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of 21st "Chinese Bridge" language competition STORYLINE: The Tunisia final of the 21st "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students was held on Thursday in the capital city of Tunis. Under the theme of "One World One Family," the competition was co-organized by the Chinese Embassy in Tunisia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Carthage, and the Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis (HILT). Nine students from the HILT competed in the final, which consisted of three parts: keynote speech, knowledge quiz, and talent show. Some participants told Xinhua that it is China's growing prosperity and global influence that drove them to learn hard and compete in the contest. "I'm bullish on the prospects of China and aspiring to do business there. That's one of my motivations to learn Chinese so hard

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Chinese Bridge language contest attracts enthusiastic Egyptian teenagersChinese Bridge language contest attracts...

STORY: Chinese Bridge language contest attracts enthusiastic Egyptian teenagers DATELINE: June 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:31 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of contest 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): NASHWA FAHMY, top prize winner 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): MERVAT MOHAMED, Director of the Egyptian Chinese Friendship School STORYLINE: "The Chinese Bridge contest was a challenge for me to defy my fears and learn one of the most difficult languages in the world," said Malak Ihab, an 18-year-old high school student who won on Tuesday the second place in the Chinese language contest for secondary school students in Egypt. The teenage girl, along with nine others, took part in the 15th Chinese Bridge language contest, which was held at the Confucius Institute at Cairo University under the auspices of the Chinese embassy in Cairo. "I plan to finish the advanced levels of the language course and find good job opportunities in the future," said Ihab, who is currently studying at the Egyptian

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Kansai airport offers tourists multilingual signage via smartphone

Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, begins on Jan. 20, 2015, offering two-dimensional bar codes (R, bottom) at about 100 locations to provide tourist information in nine languages via smartphone or tablet computer. Visitors can obtain information in their preferred language by scanning the codes with their handsets or tablets. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yokohama develops multilingual World Cup emergency software

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A Yokohama City Fire Bureau official demonstrates software installed on a computer which can deal with emergencies in nine languages -- English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Italian. The bureau has developed the software ahead of the final match of the upcoming World Cup soccer finals in the city.

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APEC ministerial meeting

BEIJING, China - Copies of a book containing remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping are distributed on Nov. 7, 2014, at the media center for journalists covering a series of APEC meetings in Beijing. The book is available in nine languages including Chinese, English and Japanese. (Kyodo)

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Anti-disaster guidebook published in 9 languages

KOBE, Japan - Copies of a disaster prevention guidebook for parents and children published in nine languages by the nonprofit Hyogo International Association are shown to the press in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 15, 2014. The publication precedes the 20th anniversary next January of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that hit the western Japan region, including the prefecture which has a population of some 100,000 foreign residents. (Kyodo)