Preparations underway for Bengali New Year celebrations

STORY: Preparations underway for Bengali New Year celebrations SHOOTING TIME: April 9, 2024 DATELINE: April 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:40 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of people at Dhaka University making paper works STORYLINE: As Bengali New Year nears, preparations are in full swing across Bangladesh, especially in the capital, Dhaka. The day, usually celebrated every year on April 14, is marked by grand festivities. Currently, artists from Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts are dedicating their time to crafting paper masks and large bamboo symbolic animal figures. They will be used at the main colorful new year procession called the Mangal Shobhajatra (March of Good Tidings). The flagship procession was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dhaka. (XHTV)

Chinese-built railway opens via Bangladesh's Padma Bridge

STORY: Chinese-built railway opens via Bangladesh's Padma Bridge DATELINE: Oct. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of beautifully decorated Chinese-built train 2. various of guests speaking 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Bengali): MD. SHAH JAMAL, Local resident 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Bengali): SHEIKH AZHAR HOSSAIN, Local resident STORYLINE: As the first train of Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) departed from a new station on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka on Tuesday, the first section of the biggest railway in Bangladesh formally opened. The PBRLP, one of significant projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Bangladesh, was built by the China Railway Group Limited (CREC) and funded by the Export-Import Bank of China. The first section of the railway link is about 80 km long from Dhaka to Bhanga. SOUNDBITE 1 (Bengali): MD. SHAH JAMAL, Local resident "Today is a joyful day for the residents of Munshiganj. This railway brought good tidings, floods of

JOC President admits authorizing Black Tidings payment

JOC President admits authorizing Black Tidings payment

Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda meets the press in Tokyo on May 23, 2016. Takeda, who was head of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics bidding committee, admitted it was his call to approve the more than $2 million payment made to Singaporean consulting firm Black Tidings in connection with Tokyo's successful bid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Olympics: Tokyo 2020 bid CEO denies knowledge of suspect $2.8m contract

Olympics: Tokyo 2020 bid CEO denies knowledge of suspect $2.8m contract

Undated photo shows Masato Mizuno, the CEO of Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics. Amid bribery allegations, Mizuno insisted on May 19, 2016 that he knew nothing of a suspect $2.8 million payment to Singaporean consulting firm Black Tidings in the months immediately before and after Tokyo's victory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Team to be created to investigate Tokyo bid turmoil

Team to be created to investigate Tokyo bid turmoil

Photo taken May 17, 2016, in Paris shows a retail complex where Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack, the disgraced ex-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, spent around 130,000 euros on jewelry around the same time as the Tokyo Olympics bid committee's first payment to Singaporean consulting company Black Tidings. It is believed that Papa Massata Diack had business links with Black Tidings. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Team to be created to investigate Tokyo bid turmoil

Team to be created to investigate Tokyo bid turmoil

Photo taken May 17, 2016, in Paris shows a retail complex where Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack, the disgraced ex-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, spent around 130,000 euros on jewelry around the same time as the Tokyo Olympics bid committee's first payment to Singaporean consulting company Black Tidings. It is believed that Papa Massata Diack had business links with Black Tidings. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Olympics: Tokyo bid chief calls payments accountable

Olympics: Tokyo bid chief calls payments accountable

Photo taken May 13, 2016, in Singapore shows public housing where the registered address for Black Tidings, a company at the center of an alleged Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal, is located. Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid committee paid 2.8 million Singapore dollars ($2.04 million) to a bank account of the company. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo