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Indonesia inaugurates Southeast Asia's largest floating solar plant

STORY: Indonesia inaugurates Southeast Asia's largest floating solar plant SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 9, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:24 LOCATION: WEST JAVA, Indonesia CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of ceremony 2. various of stock footage of project 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU JIAYI, Vice President Director of PowerChina International Group Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DIMAS, Operation Director of Cirata floating solar PV project 3. various of floating solar plant STORYLINE: Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday inaugurated Southeast Asia's largest floating solar plant, which occupies an area of 250 hectares above the Cirata Reservoir in West Java Province. "Today is a historical day because our big dream of building a large-scale renewable energy plant is finally achieved. We managed to build the largest floating solar plant in Southeast Asia, and the third biggest in the world," Widodo said at the on-grid ceremony. Constructed by China's PowerChina Huadong Engineering

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Türkiye's Izmir aims to boost exchanges to attract Chinese tourists

STORY: Türkiye's Izmir aims to boost exchanges to attract Chinese tourists DATELINE: Jan. 31, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:51 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views in Izmir 2. SOUNDBITE (English): TUNC SOYER, Mayor of Izmir STORYLINE: The Turkish city of Izmir is keen on boosting exchanges with its Chinese counterparts to attract more Chinese travelers. Izmir, the third biggest city in Türkiye, is one of the most prominent Mediterranean port cities. SOUNDBITE (English): TUNC SOYER, Mayor of Izmir "We have three sister cities in China, and in 2019, the international fair, we invited China as the honorary guest, and with the delegation of Chengdu, we discussed so many opportunities for the future. We still keep our ambition and we still keep our enthusiasm to increase the relations between our cities. We sincerely believe that people-to-people relations are the real security for peace and sustainable relations between countries. I know also that we have to work on it (tourism). We d

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SoftBank group posts record profit of 527.04 bil yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., briefs reporters on the company's financial results at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. For the past year to March 31, SoftBank's group net profit surged 41.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 527.04 billion yen due to a rise in subscriptions and purchase of the third-biggest U.S. telecom carrier Sprint Nextel Corp.

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Sprint Nextel shop

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows a shop in New York operated by Sprint Nextel Corp., the third biggest U.S. cellphone company, on July 10, 2013. Softbank Corp. said the same day it has completed the $21.6 billion (about 1.8 trillion yen) acquisition of Sprint Nextel, giving birth to the world's third largest mobile phone carrier.

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Nikkei plunges 9% to 5-year low on panic selling

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard of a securities firm in Tokyo's Marunouchi district shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average posting its third-biggest one-day drop on record of 952.58 points to 9,203.32, marking its lowest close since June 30, 2003.

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Citigroup succeeds in tender offer for Nikko

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Kuwashima (L), president of Nikko Cordial Corp., and Douglas Peterson, chief executive officer of the Japanese branch of Citibank N.A., hold a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 27 after Citigroup Inc. successfully completed its tender offer for Japan's third-biggest brokerage.

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Citigroup succeeds in tender offer for Nikko

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Kuwashima (L), president of Nikko Cordial Corp., and Douglas Peterson, chief executive officer of the Japanese branch of Citibank N.A., shake hands after their joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 27. Citigroup Inc. said it has successfully completed its tender offer for Nikko Cordial Corp., raising its stake in Japan's third-biggest brokerage to 61.1 percent from 4.9 percent in a $7.7 billion cash bid.

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JAS staff don ethnic costumes for flights to China's Yunnan Prov

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Air System (JAS) flight attendants pose wearing ethnic clothes from China's Yunnan Province at Kansai airport in Osaka on Nov. 14. The third biggest Japanese airline launched the same day a new service in which staff don the costumes for flights between the airport and Kunming in Yunnan.

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MCI WorldCom, Sprint to merge

NEW YORK, United States - Bernard J. Ebbers (R), president and CEO of MCI WorldCom, and William T. Esrey, chairman and CEO of Sprint Corp., speak at a news conference in New York on Oct. 5 following the announcement of a merger agreement between the second and third biggest U.S. long-distance carriers.

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JAS staff don ethnic costumes for flights to China's Yunnan Prov

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Air System (JAS) flight attendants pose wearing ethnic clothes from China's Yunnan Province at Kansai airport in Osaka on Nov. 14. The third biggest Japanese airline launched the same day a new service in which staff don the costumes for flights between the airport and Kunming in Yunnan.

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Citigroup succeeds in tender offer for Nikko

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Kuwashima (L), president of Nikko Cordial Corp., and Douglas Peterson, chief executive officer of the Japanese branch of Citibank N.A., hold a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 27 after Citigroup Inc. successfully completed its tender offer for Japan's third-biggest brokerage. (Kyodo)

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Citigroup succeeds in tender offer for Nikko

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Kuwashima (L), president of Nikko Cordial Corp., and Douglas Peterson, chief executive officer of the Japanese branch of Citibank N.A., shake hands after their joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 27. Citigroup Inc. said it has successfully completed its tender offer for Nikko Cordial Corp., raising its stake in Japan's third-biggest brokerage to 61.1 percent from 4.9 percent in a $7.7 billion cash bid. (Kyodo)

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Nikkei plunges 9% to 5-year low on panic selling

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard of a securities firm in Tokyo's Marunouchi district shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average posting its third-biggest one-day drop on record of 952.58 points to 9,203.32, marking its lowest close since June 30, 2003. (Kyodo)

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Skymark files for bankruptcy protection

Photo taken in September 2014 shows a Skymark Airlines Inc. plane. Japan's third-biggest airline filed for bankruptcy protection on Jan. 28, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FamilyMart to buy midsize convenience chain Cocostore

Photo taken Sept. 8, 2015, in the central Japan city of Nagoya shows an outlet of Nagoya-based Cocostore Corp. It was reported Japan's third-biggest convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. will buy the second-tier store chain for 13 billion yen on Oct. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda president Ito to step down, engineer Hachigo named successor

Takahiro Hachigo, managing officer of Honda Motor Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 23, 2015, after being named as the next president of Japan's third-biggest carmaker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda president Ito to step down, engineer Hachigo named successor

Takahiro Hachigo, managing officer of Honda Motor Co., poses for a photo during a press conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 23, 2015, after being named as the next president of Japan's third-biggest carmaker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda president Ito to step down, engineer Hachigo named successor

Takahiro Hachigo (L), managing officer of Honda Motor Co., attends a press conference with President Takanobu Ito in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 23, 2015, after being named as the next president of Japan's third-biggest carmaker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda president Ito to step down, engineer Hachigo named successor

Takahiro Hachigo (R), managing officer of Honda Motor Co., shakes hands with President Takanobu Ito during a press conference in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 23, 2015, after being named as the next president of Japan's third-biggest carmaker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MCI WorldCom, Sprint to merge

NEW YORK, United States - Bernard J. Ebbers (R), president and CEO of MCI WorldCom, and William T. Esrey, chairman and CEO of Sprint Corp., speak at a news conference in New York on Oct. 5 following the announcement of a merger agreement between the second and third biggest U.S. long-distance carriers.