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Tanzanian MPs laud BRI projects

STORY: Tanzanian MPs laud BRI projects DATELINE: Sept. 12, 2023 LENGTH: 0:04:05 LOCATION: MWANZA, Tanzania CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GODFEY MWAMBE, Member of parliament Tanzania 2. various of participants in the event 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ZHANG JUNLE, Managing Director of CCECC in Tanzania 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CHEN MINGJIAN, Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania 5. various of construction site STORYLINE: Tanzanian members of Parliament on Saturday said projects being undertaken under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) framework are helping the East African nation to open up its economy. The MPs made the commendation during a visit to two major infrastructural projects undertaken by Chinese companies in the Mwanza and Shinyanga regions. Geoffrey Mwambe, leader of the Tanzania-China Parliamentarian Friendship Group, said projects under the BRI framework were helping to support the country's social and economic development. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GODFEY MWAMBE, Member of par

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Gathering To Support JDD’s Striking Journalits - Paris

Leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) parliamentarian Alexis Corbiere joins a demonstration of striking journalists of weekly daily Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) against the nomination of Geoffroy Lejeune as the newspaper's new managing editor, in Paris, on July 19, 2023. The JDD editorial staff voted on July 19 to extend their strike against the appointment of far-right editor Geoffroy Lejeune. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gathering To Support JDD’s Striking Journalits - Paris

Leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) parliamentarian Alexis Corbiere (C) stands next to protesters holding placards reading during a demonstration of striking journalists of weekly daily Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) against the nomination of Geoffroy Lejeune as the newspaper's new managing editor, in Paris, on July 19, 2023. The JDD editorial staff voted on July 19 to extend their strike against the appointment of far-right editor Geoffroy Lejeune. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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S. Korea, Japan parliamentarian groups adopt joint statement

SEOUL, South Korea - Participants in the joint congress of the Korea-Japan and Japan-Korea Parliamentarians' League pose for photos in Seoul on Oct. 25, 2014. They adopted a joint statement that both sides will do their utmost to create circumstances for a bilateral summit.

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Japan-S. Korea lawmaker group head addresses congress

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga, head of a South Korea-Japan parliamentarian group, addresses the group's joint congress in Seoul on Oct. 25, 2014.

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Japan's ex-finance chief to meet with S. Korean Pres. Park

SEOUL, South Koare - Former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga arrives at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 24, 2014. During a meeting with President Park Geun Hye, Nukaga, head of a South Korea-Japan parliamentarian group, is expected to convey Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's message that he wants to improve ties with Seoul.

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Inoki meets N. Korean diplomat

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (L) holds a meeting with Kang Sok Ju, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, was visiting the country to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Venue of wrestling event in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Aug. 29, 2014, shows the Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium in Pyongyang. Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki, currently visiting North Korea, will co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival" at the gymnasium on Aug. 30-31.

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Inoki meets N. Korean diplomat

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (L) shakes hands with Kang Sok Ju, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, was visiting the country to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Inoki meets N. Korean diplomat

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (L) holds a meeting with Kang Sok Ju, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, was visiting the country to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Lawmaker arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki meets with reporters at a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, plans to stage a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Inoki arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (2nd from L, front) is greeted by North Korean officials upon his arrival at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, is scheduled to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Lawmaker arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (3rd from L on front row) shows his enthusiasm at a press conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, plans to stage a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Inoki arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (R) hugs Chang Ung, a North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee, upon his arrival at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, is scheduled to co-host the "International Pro Wrestling Festival," a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country, with Chang.

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Lawmaker arrives in N. Korea to stage martial arts event

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki meets with reporters after arriving at Pyongyang international airport in North Korea on Aug. 28, 2014. Inoki, 71, plans to stage a rare combat sports extravaganza in the country.

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Inoki to co-host martial arts event in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese parliamentarian and former pro-wrestling star Antonio Inoki holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 25, 2014, on a martial arts event he will co-host later in the month in Pyongyang. The opposition Party for Future Generations member of the House of Councillors is co-hosting the two-day event from Aug. 30 with North Korean authorities.

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Inoki to co-host martial arts event in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese parliamentarian and former pro-wrestling star Antonio Inoki (C), who will co-host a martial arts event in Pyongyang, and some of the athletes taking part in the event pose for photos at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 25, 2014. The opposition Party for Future Generations member of the House of Councillors is co-hosting the two-day event from Aug. 30 with North Korean authorities.

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Inoki hopes sports event to improve Japan-N. Korea ties

TOKYO, Japan - Parliamentarian and former pro-wrestling star Antonio Inoki attends a press conference on Aug. 21, 2014, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Inoki said he hopes a martial arts event he will co-host later this month in Pyongyang will improve Japan-North Korea ties.

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Inoki hopes sports event to improve Japan-N. Korea ties

TOKYO, Japan - Parliamentarian and former pro-wrestling star Antonio Inoki attends a press conference on Aug. 21, 2014, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Inoki said he hopes a martial arts event he will co-host later this month in Pyongyang will improve Japan-North Korea ties.

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Inoki hopes sports event to improve Japan-N. Korea ties

TOKYO, Japan - Parliamentarian and former pro-wrestling star Antonio Inoki attends a press conference on Aug. 21, 2014, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Inoki said he hopes a martial arts event he will co-host later this month in Pyongyang will improve Japan-North Korea ties.

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Meeting of lawmakers' league against abduction

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group of families of victims kidnapped by North Korea (3rd from R), and Shigeru Yokota (2nd from R) and Sakie Yokota (extreme R), parents of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea, attend a general meeting of the parliamentarian's league working to resolve the issue of abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea at the Diet in Tokyo on June 5, 2014.

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Crimean Tatar activist opposes Russian control of Crimea

KIEV, Ukraine - Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Ukrainian parliamentarian who promotes the rights of Crimean Tatars, says he opposes Russia's control over the Crimean region at a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine on March 5, 2014.

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Senior German lawmaker opposes ECB's bond purchase

TOKYO, Japan - Volker Kauder, chairman of the ruling Christian Democratic Union-led caucus in the German parliament, is interviewed by Kyodo News at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 7, 2012. The senior German parliamentarian expressed opposition to the European Central Bank's plan to resume buying bonds of troubled eurozone economies to lower their borrowing costs.

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Salary cut for lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 28, 2011, shows Yoshihisa Inoue (L, facing), secretary general of the New Komeito party, Nobuteru Ishihara (C), secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Katsuya Okada (2nd from R) secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, ahead of their discussions in the Diet in Tokyo. Prime Minister Naoto Kan's DPJ and the two opposition parties agreed the same day to cut 3 million yen from each parliamentarian's salary to help generate funds for reconstruction work following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan's new internal affairs minister Katayama

TOKYO, Japan - Non-parliamentarian Yoshihiko Katayama enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010, after being named as minister of internal affairs and communications in Prime Minister Naoto Kan's reshuffled Cabinet. Katayama is a former governor of Tottori Prefecture.

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New office building for Diet members

TOKYO, Japan - A parliamentarian's room in a new office building for House of Councillors members in Tokyo's Nagatacho district, which was opened to the press on June 28, 2010.

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Ex-lawmaker Nagata commits suicide in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Hisayasu Nagata (in file photo), who resigned as a parliamentarian in April 2006 after using a fake e-mail message to grill a ruling party lawmaker, jumped to his death from an apartment building in an apparent suicide in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3.

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Upper house president ends 30-year career in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi is seen off by upper house staff in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27 as she ends her 30-year career as a parliamentarian. Ogi had served as president of the upper chamber of the Diet since 2004 and was the country's first female head of the upper house.

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Upper house president ends 30-year career in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi is seen off by upper house staff in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27 as she ends her 30-year career as a parliamentarian. Ogi had served as president of the upper chamber of the Diet since 2004 and was the country's first female head of the upper house.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat, has a parliamentarian's badge pinned on her Sept. 21 before attending a special Diet session after the Sept. 11 general election.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, a former Japanese ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament and a professor at Sophia University, has a parliamentarian's badge pinned on her Sept. 21 as she arrived at the Diet to attend a special session after the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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(1)80 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers, including former House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki (3rd from R), visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 22 to mark the occasion of its annual spring festival as in past years, despite already testy relations with China. A nonpartisan parliamentarian group promoting worship at the shrine said 80 Diet members and 88 representatives of lawmakers belonging to the group visited the shrine. No incumbent Cabinet minister took part.

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'Cro Cop' hands Koizumi letter from Croatian premier

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi poses for fighting during his meeting with Mirko Filipovic (L), a mixed martial-arts fighter and Croatian parliamentarian widely known as ''Cro Cop,'' at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 13. Filipovic handed Koizumi a goodwill letter from Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.

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Former posts minister Oide dies

TOKYO, Japan - Shun Oide (file photo), a former posts and telecommunications minister and a long-time parliamentarian, died Nov. 8 at a hospital in Yokohama. He was 79. Oide, a former member of the opposition Japan Socialist Party, now called the Social Democratic Party, was known as a leading polemicist on security and defense issues in Diet debates, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.

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N. Korea's Jong meets Japanese politicians

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R), who heads a delegation for talks with Japan, meets and shakes hands with Japanese politicians at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 22. From left are Hiromu Nonaka, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, Masaaki Nakayama, head of the Japanese parliamentarian group for friendship with North Korea, and former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. Japanese and North Korean negotiators kicked off their second round of talks the same day on establishing diplomatic ties.

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Yamasaki files candidacy for LDP leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Taku Yamasaki speaks to reporters at a parliamentarian's residential building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 9 shortly before filing his candidacy for the party's Sept. 21 presidential election to challenge Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.

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Political prisoner released in Indonesia

Former parliamentarian Sri Bintang Pamungkas signs a government decree ordering his release at Jakarta's Cipinang penitentiary early Tuesday. He is one of two prominent dissidents who were pardoned as a first step in the implementation of a pledge by new Indonesian President B.J. Habibie to release noncommunist political prisoners.

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Pro-wrestling icon, ex-lawmaker Inoki dies at 79

File photo shows Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki posing in Tokyo on May 11, 2016. Inoki died on Oct. 1, 2022, at 79.

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Pro-wrestling icon, ex-lawmaker Inoki dies at 79

File photo shows Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (R) posing at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang in July 2014. Inoki died on Oct. 1, 2022, at 79.

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Egyptian parliament approves 13-minister cabinet reshuffle

STORY: Egyptian parliament approves 13-minister cabinet reshuffle DATELINE: Aug. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:07 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Egypt's lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives 2. various of the Egyptian cabinet headquarters 3. various of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly speaking (file) 4. various of a cabinet meeting (file) 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): MOSTAFA BAKRY, Egyptian parliamentarian 6. a photo of El-Sisi's Facebook account 7. various of the Egypt's lower house of parliament STORYLINE: Egypt's lower house of parliament approved on Saturday a 13-minister cabinet reshuffle made by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. The reshuffle, which was endorsed in an extraordinary session of the House of Representatives, involves the appointment of new ministers of tourism and antiquities, higher education, health and population, education, trade and industry, water resources and irrigation, emigration, manpower and immigration, culture, local developmen

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(1)80 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers, including former House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki (3rd from R), visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 22 to mark the occasion of its annual spring festival as in past years, despite already testy relations with China. A nonpartisan parliamentarian group promoting worship at the shrine said 80 Diet members and 88 representatives of lawmakers belonging to the group visited the shrine. No incumbent Cabinet minister took part. (Kyodo)

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniko Inoguchi, a former Japanese ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament and a professor at Sophia University, has a parliamentarian's badge pinned on her Sept. 21 as she arrived at the Diet to attend a special session after the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo)

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat, has a parliamentarian's badge pinned on her Sept. 21 before attending a special Diet session after the Sept. 11 general election. (Kyodo)

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Upper house president ends 30-year career in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi is seen off by upper house staff in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27 as she ends her 30-year career as a parliamentarian. Ogi had served as president of the upper chamber of the Diet since 2004 and was the country's first female head of the upper house. (Kyodo)

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Upper house president ends 30-year career in parliament

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Chikage Ogi is seen off by upper house staff in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27 as she ends her 30-year career as a parliamentarian. Ogi had served as president of the upper chamber of the Diet since 2004 and was the country's first female head of the upper house. (Kyodo)

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Ex-lawmaker Nagata commits suicide in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Hisayasu Nagata (in file photo), who resigned as a parliamentarian in April 2006 after using a fake e-mail message to grill a ruling party lawmaker, jumped to his death from an apartment building in an apparent suicide in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3. (Kyodo)

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Former posts minister Oide dies

TOKYO, Japan - Shun Oide (file photo), a former posts and telecommunications minister and a long-time parliamentarian, died Nov. 8 at a hospital in Yokohama. He was 79. Oide, a former member of the opposition Japan Socialist Party, now called the Social Democratic Party, was known as a leading polemicist on security and defense issues in Diet debates, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Lower house approves resignation of scandal-hit lawmaker

Kensuke Miyazaki of the Liberal Democratic Party bows as the House of Representatives approves his resignation during a plenary session in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2016. Miyazaki tendered his resignation to the lower house four days earlier following the revelation he had an affair with a woman while his wife, a fellow LDP parliamentarian, was pregnant. With his departure, a lower house by-election is scheduled for April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lower house by-elections set for April 24

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Sadakazu Tanigaki attends a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2016. Tanigaki said the party is looking at various options on a lower house by-election for a district in Kyoto on April 24, following the resignation of party member Kensuke Miyazaki who had an affair with a woman while his wife, a fellow LDP parliamentarian, was pregnant. Another by-election for a district in Hokkaido is scheduled the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Paternity leave" lawmaker resigns over affair

Liberal Democratic Party member Kensuke Miyazaki bows in apology during a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2016. Miyazaki, who had vowed to become the first lawmaker in Japan to take paternity leave, resigned from the House of Representatives that day after admitting to having an affair with a woman while his wife, a fellow LDP parliamentarian, was about to give birth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo