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(240616) -- XIAMEN, June 16, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lee Chia-hsun (L), a young Taiwanese who graduated from Jimei University, learns about e-commerce and livestreaming at T-makers in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 14, 2024. Based in Xiamen of southeast China's Fujian Province, T-makers is a platform dedicated to providing services of innovation and entrepreneurship for young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Since its establishment in August 2016, T-makers has attracted more than 170 companies and applied for subsidies amounting to over ten million yuan for more than 100 youth businesses from Taiwan. At the same time, it provides convenience and preferential treatment in business registration, financial and tax services for young entrepreneurs and resident companies. Yu Hui-fang, head of T-makers, said that her team aims to provide more meticulous and professional services for young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, so that the platform serves young peop

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ChineseToday | Tea mixologist brings Huangshan tea culture in vogue

(240602) -- HUANGSHAN, June 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Customers drink tea beverages at a shop in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, May 23, 2024. Wang Sun is the founder of Demingshe, a tea art vocational training school in Huangshan City. Huangshan City is the place of origin of several famous teas including Huangshan Maofeng, Taiping Houkui and Keemun black tea, and boasts a long history of drinking tea. As a pioneer in developing innovative tea-making skills and alternative ways of drinking tea, Wang started the research and promotion of the new-style tea beverages in 2021. Inspired by bartenders, she uses traditional Huangshan teas as base, employing bar tools to blend the tea with fresh fruits, herbal medicines, fermented rice wine, or ice cubes, creating beverages with diverse flavours, mouthfeels, and appearances. The tea beverages hit the market and were well received by consumers, meeting their preferences of tea drinking that were dissimilar from traditional brewing methods. "Young peop

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ChineseToday | Tea mixologist brings Huangshan tea culture in vogue

(240602) -- HUANGSHAN, June 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Customers drink tea beverages at a shop in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, May 23, 2024. Wang Sun is the founder of Demingshe, a tea art vocational training school in Huangshan City. Huangshan City is the place of origin of several famous teas including Huangshan Maofeng, Taiping Houkui and Keemun black tea, and boasts a long history of drinking tea. As a pioneer in developing innovative tea-making skills and alternative ways of drinking tea, Wang started the research and promotion of the new-style tea beverages in 2021. Inspired by bartenders, she uses traditional Huangshan teas as base, employing bar tools to blend the tea with fresh fruits, herbal medicines, fermented rice wine, or ice cubes, creating beverages with diverse flavours, mouthfeels, and appearances. The tea beverages hit the market and were well received by consumers, meeting their preferences of tea drinking that were dissimilar from traditional brewing methods. "Young peop

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Israeli airstrikes kill 40 in central Gaza refugee camp

STORY: Israeli airstrikes kill 40 in central Gaza refugee camp SHOOTING TIME: May 14, 2024 DATELINE: May 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Nuseirat refugee camp 2. various of Rafah STORYLINE: At least 40 people were killed and others injured after midnight Monday by Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestine TV reported. Israeli warplanes bombed a residential building owned by the Karaja family in the south of the Nuseirat camp, with children among the casualties, it said. The Israeli army has repeatedly struck the Nuseirat camp. Israeli tanks on Tuesday marched towards the center of Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, as tens of thousands of residents fled to evade an Israeli ground offensive, a local source reported. The source told Xinhua that the tanks had reached the Al-Geneina neighborhood and were advancing towards the city center "amid heavy gunfire." Nearly 450,000 peop

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Sudan's deepening hunger crisis requires immediate, collective action, says FAO senior official

STORY: Sudan's deepening hunger crisis requires immediate, collective action, says FAO senior official SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 21, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 30, 2024 LENGTH: 00:05:09 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of conflicts in Sudan 2. various of refugees 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ABDULHAKIM ELWAER, FAO assistant director-general and regional representative for the Near East and North Africa 4. various of conflicts in Sudan 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ABDULHAKIM ELWAER, FAO assistant director-general and regional representative for the Near East and North Africa 6. various of FAO helping Sudanese farmers 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ABDULHAKIM ELWAER, FAO assistant director-general and regional representative for the Near East and North Africa 8. various of FAO distributing seeds 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): ABDULHAKIM ELWAER, FAO assistant director-general and regional representative for the Near East and North Africa STORYLINE: The prolonged civil conflict in Sudan has plunged 17.7 million peop

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At least 26 killed by rebel group in DR Congo

STORY: At least 26 killed by rebel group in DR Congo DATELINE: Oct. 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: OICHA, DR Congo CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Oicha after rebel attack 2. SOUNDBITE (French): KASEREKA MAHAMBA, Member of local civil society 3. various of Oicha after rebel attack STORYLINE: At least 26 people were killed in an attack attributed to the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on Monday evening in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a Congolese military spokesperson said on Tuesday. The rebels launched the attack around 8:30 p.m., local time, Monday on the outskirts of Oicha, a town in the eastern North Kivu province, said Anthony Mualushayi, a military spokesperson in the Beni region. SOUNDBITE (French): KASEREKA MAHAMBA, Member of local civil society "According to the information we received, when we arrived at the scene, they (the rebels) arrived and started operating with bladed weapons without making any noise. They killed people in the way that peop

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Teacher battles adult illiteracy with online video courses

STORY: Teacher battles adult illiteracy with online video courses DATELINE: April 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: YINCHUAN, China CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of Jin Xia lecturing in online video courses 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JIN XIA, Teacher 3. various of Jin Xia lecturing in online video courses 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIN XIA, Teacher STORYLINE: Each day, Jin Xia gives online reading lessons to her students. Over the past year, the 41-year-old from northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has been using video-sharing and livestreaming app Kuaishou to teach illiterate people to read, following a program of 600 lessons she designed herself. Armed with a computer, a cellphone and some textbooks, she now has about 100,000 online followers and teaches basic Chinese and mathematics to an online class of over 1,000 students. Each student pays just 100 yuan (about 14.5 U.S. dollars) for the courses. Jin is a resident of one of the largest settlement areas for relocated peop

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U.S. "Summit for Democracy" very divisive: expert

STORY: U.S. "Summit for Democracy" very divisive: expert DATELINE: April 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of U.S. related footage 2. SOUNDBITE (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, Lecturer on international relations at the Nairobi-based United States International University-Africa STORYLINE: The so-called second "Summit for Democracy" hosted by the U.S. side is very divisive, and is used by the U.S. government to manipulate people, said a Kenyan analyst in an interview with Xinhua. SOUNDBITE (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, Lecturer on international relations at the Nairobi-based United States International University-Africa "We can see the last so-called seminar on democracy was very divisive. America decides who to invite for the summit. So it is 'us' against 'them'; if you're not 'for us,' that is, if you're not 'for America,' then (you're) 'against us.' So it is just another tool of 'divide and rule' like they have used other strategy games to try and manipulate peop

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Woman helps organize translators for Chinese rescuers in quake-hit Türkiye

STORY: Woman helps organize translators for Chinese rescuers in quake-hit Türkiye DATELINE: Feb. 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:22 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Guo Guoying 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): GUO GUOYING, Head of a language training center, SW China's Guizhou Province 3. various of Zhang Huiying in quake-hit Türkiye 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG HUIYING, Chinese language volunteer in Türkiye 5. various of Chinese rescue teams in Türkiye STORYLINE: As Chinese rescuers worked day and night to find survivors in Türkiye following devastating earthquakes, a woman in China's Guizhou has also been working hard to offer assistance from afar. Guo Guoying is the head of a language training center in Guizhou. She has organized more than a hundred translators for Chinese rescuers working in Türkiye, mainly through WeChat group chats. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): GUO GUOYING, Head of a language training center, SW China's Guizhou Province "Initially, there were only three to four peop

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Chinese community in Syria donates quake-relief aid to Syria

STORY: Chinese community in Syria donates quake-relief aid to Syria DATELINE: Feb. 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:55 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the aid boxes 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): SHI HONGWEI, Chinese Ambassador to Syria 3. various of the aid boxes 4. various of the arrival of China's quake relief aid STORYLINE: The Chinese community in Syria on Sunday donated relief supplies to the Syrian people after the country was rocked by twin massive earthquakes. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) received humanitarian aid during a ceremony in Syria's capital Damascus. The aid included infant formulas, winter clothes, and medical supplies. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): SHI HONGWEI, Chinese Ambassador to Syria "The aid is an expression of the Chinese people's solidarity and standing with the Syrian people. It's just the beginning, as more aid will arrive soon." On Thursday, the Red Cross Society of China sent the first batch of emergency medical supplies to Syria by plane. More than 33,000 peop

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GLOBALink | China optimizes COVID-19 response

As the pathogenicity of the Omicron virus weakens, more people are vaccinated and experience in containing the virus is accumulated, China is optimizing its COVID-19 response. The districts of Haizhu, Tianhe, Panyu and Liwan in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, announced the lifting of all temporary control measures on Wednesday. All areas except for designated high-risk ones are classified as low-risk areas or implement regular control measures. Beijing has optimized its COVID-19 control measures to minimize their impact on people's livelihoods. It has ordered closed management measures to be lifted in a timely manner for eligible residential complexes, and it has allowed virus-hit supermarkets to reopen after being closed for one day. From Wednesday, Beijing residents who do not engage in social activities are no longer required to participate in community nucleic acid screenings if they do not need to leave their homes. This includes groups such as homebound seniors, children and peop

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Somalia appeals for urgent donor support amid severe drought

STORY: Somalia appeals for urgent donor support amid severe drought DATELINE: Sept. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:32 LOCATION: UN headquarters CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ABDIRAHMAN ABDISHAKUR WARSAME, Special Presidential Envoy for Drought Response of Somalia 2. various of drylands in Somalia 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ABDIRAHMAN ABDISHAKUR WARSAME, Special Presidential Envoy for Drought Response of Somalia STORYLINE: "If the humanitarian response plan is not met, people will die as they died in 2011 when we lost almost 280,000 people," the Somali president's special envoy for drought relief said on Thursday. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ABDIRAHMAN ABDISHAKUR WARSAME, Special Presidential Envoy for Drought Response of Somalia "The situation in Somalia is very critical and we are facing a dire situation. People who are affected by the drought are 7.7 million. They don't have homes. One million of them are displaced by the drought. The majority of them are children, women, and elderly peop

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Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in drone strike

STORY: Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in drone strike DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Biden addressing the nation 2. various of the White House STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday evening that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. "I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield," Biden said in live remarks from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House, "There were no civilian casualties." Al-Zawahiri became head of al-Qaeda in 2011 after its longtime leader, Osama bin Laden, was shot and killed by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan during a raid. Biden's announcement came nearly a year after the U.S. military completed a withdrawal from Afghanistan that it invaded in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks carried out by al-Qaeda operatives against targets on American soil, which killed nearly 3,000 peop

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Peru's monkeypox cases climb to 15

STORY: Peru's monkeypox cases climb to 15 DATELINE: July 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:10 LOCATION: Lima CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of a file 2. various of a press conference 3. various of Peru STORYLINE: Twelve new cases of monkeypox have been detected in Peru in recent days, bringing the total number to 15, Health Minister Jorge Lopez said on Monday. The patients, aged between 20 and 39, reside in five districts of Metropolitan Lima, Lopez said at a press conference. All patients are in stable condition and are at home under the guidance of health personnel, he said. Lopez added that the Health Ministry is following up with all of the patients' close contacts. The ministry recently issued a health alert in order to strengthen the epidemiological surveillance and investigation system for the disease, as well as to adopt necessary prevention and control measures. The first monkeypox case in the South American country was confirmed on June 26 in a foreigner residing in Lima who had contact with peop

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Free meals distributed in Erbil, north Iraq

STORY: Free meals distributed in Erbil, north Iraq DATELINE: June 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: ERBIL, Iraq CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people queuing for a free afternoon meal 2. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish): ISMAIL ABDUL AZIZ, Member of Administrative Board of Barzani Charitable Foundation 3. various of people queuing for a free afternoon meal STORYLINE: Hundreds of low-income workers and retirees are queuing in front of a small restaurant in the center of Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, waiting for a free afternoon meal. The Galiawa Group, with the support of the Barzani Charitable Foundation and in cooperation with the Erbil Governorate, opened on Monday a charitable restaurant in the middle of the city park near the historic Erbil Citadel, to provide food for workers, passers-by, street vendors and so on. The restaurant distributes daily about 1,000 meals, consisting of rice, broth and bread. The amount of cooked food will increase with the growing number of peop

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Protesters rally in Tokyo against U.S. political agenda in Asia-Pacific

STORY: Protesters rally in Tokyo against U.S. political agenda in Asia-Pacific DATELINE: May 24, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the protest on Monday 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): KAYOKO ARAI, Protester 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KAYOKO ARAI, Protester 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): CHIAKI AKAMINE, Protester STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden has paid a three-day visit to Japan. High on his agenda were a U.S.-Japan summit and a summit of the Quad group, which also involves Japan, Australia and India. About 150 protesters took to the street in Tokyo on Monday against Biden's political agenda, after a similar protest of some 750 people was held a day earlier. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): KAYOKO ARAI, Protester "While visiting Japan, President Biden will hold talks with (Japanese Prime Minister) Fumio Kishida. We believe that this meeting aims to establish a U.S.-Japan alliance." SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KAYOKO ARAI, Protester "Yesterday (May 22) was Sunday. Many peop

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Beijing conducts 3 rounds of nucleic acid testing amid COVID-19 resurgence

STORY: Beijing conducts 3 rounds of nucleic acid testing amid COVID-19 resurgence DATELINE: April 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of nucleic acid testing 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHU LINLIN, Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taiyanggong Community Health Service Center, Chaoyang District 3. various of nucleic acid testing 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHU LINLIN, Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taiyanggong Community Health Service Center, Chaoyang District STORYLINE: Beijing has been battling against a COVID-19 resurgence since April 22. Most infection cases were found in Chaoyang District. The city is conducting 3 rounds of nucleic acid testing from Monday to Saturday. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHU LINLIN, Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taiyanggong Community Health Service Center, Chaoyang District "On the first day (of nucleic acid testing), about 3,200 people received nucleic acid testing at this site. I once tested over 1,000 peop

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China's "two sessions" showcase whole-process people's democracy at work

STORY: China's "two sessions" showcase whole-process people's democracy at work DATELINE: March 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:30 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): WU YAO, Xinhua correspondent 2. STANDUP 2 (English): WU YAO, Xinhua correspondent 3. STANDUP 3 (English): WU YAO, Xinhua correspondent 4. STANDUP 4 (English): WU YAO, Xinhua correspondent 5. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOHN PANG, Senior fellow at Bard College, New York 6. STANDUP 5 (English): WU YAO, Xinhua correspondent 7. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): EDUARDO REGALADO, Senior researcher at International Policy Research Center of Cuba 8. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, International relations lecturer, United States International University (USIU-Africa) 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): CARLOS MARTINEZ, Author and political commentator in the UK 10. STANDUP 6 (English): WU YAO, Xinhua Correspondent STORYLINE: China's annual "two sessions" kicked off to offer outsiders a great opportunity to see China's whole-process peop