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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A boy prays before releasing floating flowers in a lake to celebrate the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Women wearing traditional dresses and holding flowers are pictured during the celebration of the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A woman releases floating flowers in a lake to celebrate the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People prepare floating flowers to celebrate the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People release floating flowers in a lake to celebrate the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People release floating flowers in a lake to celebrate the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

(230413) -- CHATTOGRAM, April 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People wearing traditional dresses and holding flowers pose for photos during the celebration of the Boisabi festival in Chattogram, Bangladesh on April 12, 2023. With this festival, indigenous people in Chattogram Hill Tracts region bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. (Xinhua)

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Narita airport authority submits changed runway plan

NARITA, Japan - The New Tokyo International Airport Authority submits on Sept. 3 to the Transport Ministry an amended plan to build a 2,180-meter interim runway at Narita airport. According to the plan, The interim runway would be shifted about 800 meters northward (downward in the photo) compared with the original plan, to avoid tracts of land whose owners have refused to sell them.

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-HARVEST

(220916) -- CHATTOGRAM, Sept. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A farmer dries paddy on a bamboo platform in front of a hut at a village in Chattogram Hill Tracts region in Bangladesh on Sept. 12, 2022. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-HARVEST

(220916) -- CHATTOGRAM, Sept. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Farmers carry baskets of pumpkins at a village in Chattogram Hill Tracts region in Bangladesh on Sept. 12, 2022. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-HARVEST

(220916) -- CHATTOGRAM, Sept. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A farmer carries a basket of bitter gourds at a village in Chattogram Hill Tracts region in Bangladesh on Sept. 12, 2022. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-CHATTOGRAM-HARVEST

(220916) -- CHATTOGRAM, Sept. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A boy sits on a pile of freshly harvested pumpkins at a village in Chattogram Hill Tracts region in Bangladesh on Sept. 12, 2022. (Xinhua)

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Vlog: How does drip irrigation technology work in Xinjiang, China?

STORY: Vlog: How does drip irrigation technology work in Xinjiang, China? DATELINE: May 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:25 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: STANDUP (English): LI ZHIHAO, Xinhua correspondent SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI ZHIHAO, Xinhua correspondent and LIU WEI, Cotton farmer STORYLINE: Drip irrigation technology has been widely used in Xinjiang, China. A Xinhua correspondent takes you there to see how it works. STANDUP (English): LI ZHIHAO, Xinhua correspondent "Every April and May, if you fly over northwest China's Xinjiang, you will probably catch sight of something quite spectacular: vast tracts of land are gleaming under the sun, and each piece of them is in a very regular shape. You may wonder: what are they? On the ground, you will find out that they are farmlands covered with plastic mulch films. And if you take a closer look, you will also see that under the films, there are black lines extending in parallel for as long as the mulching goes. Don't they look like the 'blood

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Fish found off Mumbai coast may contain microplastics

STORY: Fish found off Mumbai coast may contain microplastics DATELINE: March 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:25 LOCATION: MUMBAI, India CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Mumbai beach 2. SOUNDBITE (Hindi): CHETAN KOLI, Fisherman STORYLINE: The Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) in India has found an abundant variety of microplastics in the gastrointestinal (GI) tracts and gills of croaker fish netted off Mumbai's coast. The research, based on a survey done along Mumbai's coastline, was recently published in the renowned Elsevier journal. It found that the GI tract and the gills of the fish had microplastics less than 100 microns in size. The study had sought to establish the intensity of microplastic pollution in demersal species or bottom-feeders found in the northeastern coastal waters of the Arabian Sea. The microplastics found in the fish tissue were predominantly black and blue in color and posed a carcinogenic risk to consumers and organisms in the food chain. Reacting to the

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-FAIR

(220106) -- DHAKA, Jan. 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A visitor sees handloom items on display at a fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 5, 2022. A four-day fair has begun in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka with a view to promoting products of the small ethnic groups in the country's southeastern Chattogram Hill Tracts region. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-FAIR

(220106) -- DHAKA, Jan. 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A visitor looks at food on display at a fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 5, 2022. A four-day fair has begun in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka with a view to promoting products of the small ethnic groups in the country's southeastern Chattogram Hill Tracts region. (Xinhua)

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Narita airport authority submits changed runway plan

NARITA, Japan - The New Tokyo International Airport Authority submits on Sept. 3 to the Transport Ministry an amended plan to build a 2,180-meter interim runway at Narita airport. According to the plan, The interim runway would be shifted about 800 meters northward (downward in the photo) compared with the original plan, to avoid tracts of land whose owners have refused to sell them.

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Global warming threat to Great Barrier Reef

SYDNEY, Australia - A photo released July 6 by Greenpeace shows divers checking coral bleaching at Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. Greenpeace said in a report that global warming may cause large tracts of the reef to die from coral bleaching within 30 years.

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Global warming threat to Great Barrier Reef

SYDNEY, Australia - A photo released July 6 by Greenpeace shows divers checking coral bleaching at Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. Greenpeace said in a report that global warming may cause large tracts of the reef to die from coral bleaching within 30 years.