Sharp to enter digital portable music player market

Sharp to enter digital portable music player market

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. will launch card-sized digital music players (photo) on April 15. The players can record music from personal computers, CD players, radio receivers and Internet music distribution sites, the company said on March 31.

Chinese embassy donates electric wheelchairs to Syrian war victims

STORY: Chinese embassy donates electric wheelchairs to Syrian war victims DATELINE: Sept. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of electric wheelchairs in package 2. various of receivers of the donated wheelchairs 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MUHAMMAD SEIF AL-DEEN, Syrian minister of social affairs and labor 4. various of meeting 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): YANG XU, Chinese charge d'affaires to Syria STORYLINE: The Chinese embassy on Wednesday donated a batch of electric wheelchairs to Syrians who were maimed during the prolonged war. Syrian ministry of social affairs received the wheelchairs at a delivery ceremony. Muhammad Seif al-Deen, the minister of social affairs and labor, and Yang Xu, Chinese charge d'affaires to Syria, attended the ceremony. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MUHAMMAD SEIF AL-DEEN, Syrian minister of social affairs and labor "We will distribute the chairs to the people who need them as we have secured the names of those in need, the people who have alr

Sharp to enter digital portable music player market

Sharp to enter digital portable music player market

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. will launch card-sized digital music players (photo) on April 15. The players can record music from personal computers, CD players, radio receivers and Internet music distribution sites, the company said on March 31. (Kyodo)

Japan city to start tracking service for missing dementia sufferers

Japan city to start tracking service for missing dementia sufferers

Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2015, shows a Bluetooth tag (L) to be leased by the western Japanese city of Nagaokakyo to help find missing dementia patients. In the first attempt in Japan, the city will start providing 200 tags for free from February 2016 and installing receivers at 18 locations, including at the foot of a mountain. The city will ask people to download a dedicated app so their smartphones can work as receivers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo