12th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards - Santa Monica

12th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards - Santa Monica

Aparna Pande, Don Pell At The 12th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards At The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage In Santa Monica CA, USA on August 23, 2025. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

12th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards - Santa Monica

12th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards - Santa Monica

Aparna Pande, Don Pell At The 12th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards At The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage In Santa Monica CA, USA on August 23, 2025. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

Western governments criticized for downplaying pandemic amid warning of long COVID threat

STORY: Western governments criticized for downplaying pandemic amid warning of long COVID threat DATELINE: Oct. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:29 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of views in the U.S. 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PAUL HUNTER, Professor in medicine, University of East Anglia in Britain 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, International relations lecturer, United States International University (USIU-Africa), Kenya STORYLINE: Claims by some Western leaders that the COVID-19 pandemic "is over" have drawn criticism as the coronavirus continues to infect and kill people everyday across the world. Such claims have also sparked warnings from health experts and observers, who have stressed that the end of the pandemic is still a long way off and that downplaying the pandemic by some Western countries will have severe consequences as new threats of long COVID and monkeypox are emerging. In response, The Washington Post penned an editorial, saying straightforwardly that "the pande

Former Thai official hails CPC's devotion to responding to people's needs

STORY: Former Thai official hails CPC's devotion to responding to people's needs DATELINE: Aug. 21, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: Bangkok CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: various of Chinese people workingSOUNDBITE (English): BHOKIN BHALAKULA, Former President of Thai National Assemblyvarious of medics working STORYLINE: Bhokin Bhalakula, former President of the Thai National Assembly hails the Communist Party of China's (CPC) devotion to responding to what the people need, saying that the CPC always follows through with what it says. SOUNDBITE (English): BHOKIN BHALAKULA, Former President of Thai National Assembly "I see two things in China. And the first thing I already mentioned is that what you have achieved is to make all of your people live above the poverty line. We can see clearly that China tries to eradicate poverty. So last year, the Chinese government, the Communist Party of China declared that we have no one living under the poverty line, which is adorable. And the second thing, during the pande

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The head (L) of the Osaka prefectural police's Hiraoka station delivers about 70 face masks to a kindergarten in Higashiosaka, western Japan, on April 22, 2020. Officials at the police station made about 1,500 masks for children attending local kindergartens and nursing facilities amid the coronavirus pande (Kyodo) ==Kyodo