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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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Trade unions protest

17.11.2025. Tallinn. A trade union demonstration outside the Riigikogu protested a legal amendment which would allow employers to have 10-hour, variable-hour employment contracts. Photo: Eero VabamÃ¤gi, Postimees

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March-2C Rocket Launch French-Chinese SVOM - China

A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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March-2C Rocket Launch French-Chinese SVOM - China

A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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March-2C Rocket Launch French-Chinese SVOM - China

A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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March-2C Rocket Launch French-Chinese SVOM - China

A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-XICHANG-FRANCE-ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE-LAUNCHING (CN)

(240622) -- XICHANG, June 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 22, 2024. China on Saturday launched the astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts which flicker like fireworks in the farthest reaches of the universe. (Photo by Chen Haojie/Xinhua)

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4 scientists worldwide win Shaw Prize in 2024

STORY: 4 scientists worldwide win Shaw Prize in 2024 SHOOTING TIME: May 21, 2024 DATELINE: May 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference STORYLINE: Four scientists won the Shaw Prize this year for their outstanding work in the prize's three categories, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday. The Astronomy prize went to Shrinivas R Kulkarni, George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology, for his discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient astronomical objects. The Life Science and Medicine prize is awarded in equal shares to Swee Lay Thein from the National Institutes of Health in the United States and Stuart Orkin from Harvard Medical School, for their discovery of the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch that facilitated treatment for devastating blood diseases

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Smart Road in Põlva city

Põlva, 09.01.2024. Põlva's 2.5-kilometer stretch of Smart Road was built with the aim of increasing road safety and piloting an intracity average speed measurement system combined with a smart pedestrian crosswalk solution where crosswalks detect pedestrians and alert drivers with LED lights. Variable message signs were also installed at both ends of the smart road, providing drivers with real-time feedback about their driving speeds. The project in Põlva marks the first implementation of such a comprehensive solution worldwide. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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Take a glimpse of Chinese colored glaze in ancient castle in Shanxi

STORY: Take a glimpse of Chinese colored glaze in ancient castle in Shanxi SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 23, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: TAIYUAN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Zhangbi Castle 2. various of Chinese colored glaze handicrafts STORYLINE: With a history of more than 1,600 years, Zhangbi Castle is located in Jiexiu City, north China's Shanxi Province. This ancient fortress has many colored glaze handicrafts. The colored glaze is a kind of traditional handmade artwork that integrates ceramics, architecture, and sculpture. It has been widely used in palaces, temples, pagodas, and other architecture in ancient China because of its gorgeous colors and variable shapes. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Taiyuan, China. (XHTV)

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Giant variable diameter TBM unveiled in China's Changsha

STORY: Giant variable diameter TBM unveiled in China's Changsha DATELINE: April 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: CHANGSHA, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the variable diameter tunnel-boring machine (TBM) 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WU MIN, Vice President of TBM Institute of CRCHI STORYLINE: A giant variable diameter tunnel-boring machine (TBM) made by a Chinese company rolled off the assembly line on Thursday in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province. The machine was developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (CRCHI). With a variable tunneling diameter of 6.53 meters and 8 meters, the TBM can climb a slope of up to 50 degrees. The 87-meter-long TBM will be used in the construction of a pumped storage power station in Hunan Province. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WU MIN, Vice President of TBM Research Institute of CRCHI "The TBM is able to excavate both horizontal tunnels and inclined shafts, and it can also make a vertical curve turn, which is unprecedente

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Suzuki's remodeled MR Wagon minivehicle

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. President and Chairman Osamu Suzuki stands by the automaker's new MR Wagon minivehicle in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2011. The car was fully remodeled for the first time in five years, equipped with a newly developed engine and continuously variable transmission.

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Nissan Motor plans to boost output of CVT-equipped cars

AQUASCALIENTES, Mexico - Officials from Nissan Motor Co. and Jatco Ltd., Nissan's auto parts affiliate, cut the tape to open a continuously variable transmission (CVT) plant at Aguascalientes in central Mexico on Jan. 12. Nissan officials said the company is planning to install CTVs in most of its cars for sale in North America in a move to counter hybrid cars offered by its main rivals Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.

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Toyota releases hybrid version of Alphard minivan

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on July 30 released the gasoline-electric hybrid version of its Alphard minivan introduced in May last year, Alphard Hybrid. The Alphard Hybrid features a system made up of a 2.4-liter high-efficiency gas engine, front motor and continuously variable transmission. The G Edition in the Alphard Hybrid series is priced at 4.12 million yen, about 1.1 million yen more than the gasoline version.

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Nissan launches its 1st minicar model in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn stands by the company's first minicar model, the Moco, made by Suzuki Motor Corp. for Nissan, at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on April 10. The Moco is available with four-speed automatic transmission and a DOHC engine with a variable valve-timing mechanism, or a turbo-charged DOHC engine.

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Mitsubishi, Nissan to join transmission businesses

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Vice President Hiroshi Yajima, Jatco TransTechnology Ltd. Chairman Kenichi Sasaki and Nissan Motor Co. Accounting Officer Kiyohito Shinohara shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4. MMC and Nissan announced an agreement to integrate their automatic transmission (AT) and continually variable transmission (CVT) businesses. MMC will spin off its AT and CVT divisions into a new company to integrate it with Nissan's transmission subsidiary Jatco TransTechnology by the middle of 2002.

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Reusable high-thrust rocket engine achieves successful trial runs

STORY: Reusable high-thrust rocket engine achieves successful trial runs DATELINE: Nov. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ignition test (file) 2. various of engineers 3. various of the ignition test (file) STORYLINE: According to the Academy of Aerospace Propulsion Technology on Saturday, a 130-tonne class reusable liquid oxygen kerosene staged combustion cycle rocket engine has successfully completed trials twice. The engine is designed to be an Earth-space shuttling power device for China's new generation of reusable carrier rockets. It has high comprehensive performance, strong expansion ability, and high reliability. The academy said some components of the engine adopt new technologies such as 3D printing, automatic welding, and intelligent assembly, adding that the engine made breakthroughs in twice ignitions of high-pressure supplementary combustion and continuous variable thrust. The engine is expected to serve the operation of the c

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Nissan launches its 1st minicar model in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn stands by the company's first minicar model, the Moco, made by Suzuki Motor Corp. for Nissan, at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on April 10. The Moco is available with four-speed automatic transmission and a DOHC engine with a variable valve-timing mechanism, or a turbo-charged DOHC engine.

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Nissan Motor plans to boost output of CVT-equipped cars

AQUASCALIENTES, Mexico - Officials from Nissan Motor Co. and Jatco Ltd., Nissan's auto parts affiliate, cut the tape to open a continuously variable transmission (CVT) plant at Aguascalientes in central Mexico on Jan. 12. Nissan officials said the company is planning to install CTVs in most of its cars for sale in North America in a move to counter hybrid cars offered by its main rivals Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. (Kyodo)

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35MM FILMSTRIP SHOWING VARIABLE AREA OPTICAL SOUNDTRACK

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The SPACEMASTER: a close view of the lens and prism turrets

The SPACEMASTER: a close view of the lens and prism turrets and the variable stereo base upon which they are mounted. Units of two Cameflex cameras are incorporated in the new 3D camera

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Honda devises fuel-efficient 1.8-liter engine for Civic

TOKYO, Japan - Honda Motor Co. said July 5 it has developed a new 1.8-liter engine (in photo) which is one of the most fuel-efficient engines of its class in the world. The 1.8/i-VTEC engine will be mounted in the new Civic passenger car model Honda will put on the market this fall. The engine is based on Honda's intelligent VTEC (variable valve timing and lift electronic control) system that switches the valve timing for maximum efficiency during ignition and acceleration to achieve a powerful torque, and then delays intake valve closure during cruising and other low-load conditions for improved fuel economy, the automaker said. (Kyodo)

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Suzuki's remodeled MR Wagon minivehicle

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. President and Chairman Osamu Suzuki stands by the automaker's new MR Wagon minivehicle in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2011. The car was fully remodeled for the first time in five years, equipped with a newly developed engine and continuously variable transmission. (Kyodo)

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Toyota releases hybrid version of Alphard minivan

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on July 30 released the gasoline-electric hybrid version of its Alphard minivan introduced in May last year, Alphard Hybrid. The Alphard Hybrid features a system made up of a 2.4-liter high-efficiency gas engine, front motor and continuously variable transmission. The G Edition in the Alphard Hybrid series is priced at 4.12 million yen, about 1.1 million yen more than the gasoline version. (Kyodo)

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Honda's new Fit gives drivers choice of 2 transmission modes

TOKYO, Japan - A new 1.5-liter Fit car unveiled by Honda Motor Co. on Sept. 12 allows a driver to choose between two transmission-system modes -- continually variable transmission (CVT) or automatic transmission -- without removing the hands from the steering wheel. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi, Nissan to join transmission businesses

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Vice President Hiroshi Yajima, Jatco TransTechnology Ltd. Chairman Kenichi Sasaki and Nissan Motor Co. Accounting Officer Kiyohito Shinohara shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4. MMC and Nissan announced an agreement to integrate their automatic transmission (AT) and continually variable transmission (CVT) businesses. MMC will spin off its AT and CVT divisions into a new company to integrate it with Nissan's transmission subsidiary Jatco TransTechnology by the middle of 2002.