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CHINA: DEVELOPMENT
APTN File - Qinghai, August 6, 1999
1. Medium shot people on tractor driving through grassland
2. Close shot dry plant on grassland
APTN File - Dunhuang area, Gansu province, September 6, 1997
3. Medium shot desert, camel...
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FRANCE: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER GAO XINGIJAN
Natural Sound
Gao Xingjian, the self-exiled author whose individualistic works are banned in his native China, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday - the first Chinese to win the award in its 100-year history.
The Swedish Academy...
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Opening session of China People's Political Consultative Conference
1. Wide of people walking towards the Great Hall of the People
2. Delegates in traditional dress arriving
3. Police in front of Chairman Mao Zedong picture hanging on the Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen) building
4. Red flags in...
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UPITN 15 9 76 PEOPLE MOURNING MAO ZEDONG IN PEKING (BEIJING)
The body of Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong) lying in state in a Great Hall of People in Peking and large crowds paying their last respects.
1. ms Chairman Mao lying in state
2. gv Great Hall of People
3. various of crowds paying respects
4....
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CHINA: TAI CHI EXHIBITION ON TIANANMEN SQUARE
Mandarin/Nat
Over ten thousand people gathered on Tiananmen Square in Beijing for a mass exhibition of the traditional Chinese exercises known as Tai Chi or Taijiquan.
The late Deng Xiaoping gave his approval to Taijiquan in the...
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Andy Warhol retrospective to open in Washington D.C.
1. Museum exteriors
2. Various of people looking at paintings
3. Audience listening to speaker
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Tom Sokolowski, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum:
"Andy Warhol was an extraordinary painter but what made him great...
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WRAP Countdown clock shows 1 day; security, pollution tests
Beijing - 07 August 2008
1. Wide pan of Beijing Olympics logo in Tiananmen Square
2. Mid of portrait of former leader Mao Zedong on Forbidden City entrance
3. Close of Olympic countdown clock showing one day until opening ceremony
4. Mid...
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NPC moves to embrace private property rights and the issue of human rights.
March 3, 2004
1. Wide shot of Great Hall of the People
2. Pan from the Great Hall to TV crew doing a stand up
3. Close up crew
4. Pan of delegates arriving for the opening of the CPPCC
March 5, 2004
5. Tilt down interior of Great Hall of...
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Rebels blockade city by threat, empty streets, reax
1. Stop sign at entrance to Katmandu Valley
2. Various of soldiers and police on road
3. Roadside stall
4. Wide shot Katmandu Valley
5. Various of bus on road
6. Car passes sandbags on road (security post)
7. Soldier checking car,...
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CHINA: BEIJING: WOMAN TURNS HER FLAT INTO PET SANCTUARY
Mandarin/Nat
A former classical literature professor, who once tutored Chairman Mao Zedong, Lu Di has become the country's first known activist for the protection of animal rights.
Cultural attitudes towards domestic animals in the West...
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CHINA: CHINESE DISSIDENT LI JINHONG INTERVIEW
Changsha, Hunan Province; Shenyang, Liaoning Province and Beijing - China - August 16 1998 and file
Changsha City, Hunan Province - August 16
1. Wide shot of Changsha city street with cars moving towards camera
2. Wide shot of...
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CHINA: BEIJING: INTERNATIONAL INVENTION EXHIBITION
Mandarin/Nat
Many Chinese may not know they need a multi-purpose escape-vest with attached steel cable for jumping safely from high buildings.
But this is just one invention which some inventors are pushing at an exhibition which ...
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Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat, Fan Bingbing, and John Woo attend film opening
Chinese movie stars gathered Wednesday (8 June 2011) to launch what the Chinese government hopes will be a blockbuster movie celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. The official anniversary will come on July...
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+4:3 Man expected to be China's next leader spent his younger years living in cave dwelling
Liangjiahe, Shaanxi - 18 October 2012
1. Wide of house built into hillside where Vice President and leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping lived during the early 1970s
2. Tilt up of entrance to the house built into hillside
3. Close interior of...
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Chinese National Ballet celebrates 50th anniversary
music/video/performance rights must be cleared
AP Television
Beijing, China - August, 22, 2009
1. Various of performance - "Onegin"
2. Close of ballet shoe
3. Mid of dancers stretching
4. Mid of male dancer stretching
5. Various of...
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President speaks as thousands rally to support campaign for UN membership
Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan
1. Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian walking to stage at rally
2. Various of rally, huge crowds, wide shots
3. SOUNDBITE (Taiwanese) Chen Shui-bian, Taiwanese President:
"We want to use Taiwan as our country's...
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Community reaction as Police focus on Uighurs after Tiananmen car attack
Muslim Uighurs living in Beijing complained of police harassment on Wednesday, following an apparent suicide car crash at Tiananmen gate on Monday which killed five people and injured dozens.
Chinese police are circulating a list of...
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A city of ice brings China's imperial past to Jerusalem
Jerusalem - 20 February 2013
1. Walking shot of family passing through ice maze into an igloo
Jerusalem - 18 February 2013
2. Pan left from ice igloo dome to ice Chinese wall
Jerusalem - 20 February 2013
3. Mid children on ice slide...
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Former New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka is among several poets who used the election of Barack Obama as inspiration to write
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died. He was 79.
His booking agent,...
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Taiwanese-Americans begin march to mark anniversary of 1947 rebellion
1. Pan from Constitution Centre to protesters
2. Close-up sign reading "Recognise Taiwan"
3. Pan from sign reading "March to Taiwan" to protester
4. Wide shot Michael Yeun, Event Organiser
5. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Michael Yeun, Event...
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CHINA: BEIJING UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Beijing University is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary this week.
But the government marked the centenary with a sober warning against any ambitions by its students for democratic reform.
Some former students...
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President Jiang opens party congress
1. Exterior of Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square
2. Chinese state emblem in background, policeman in foreground
3. Close up on state emblem
4. Various of police and security dogs
5. Pan of People's Liberation Army delegates...
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Chavez condemns Israeli strikes in Lebanon as similar to acts by Hitler
1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greets reporters at news conference
2. Chavez speaking to reporters
3. Chavez walks to podium
4. Wide of news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President:
"They talk about...
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Changing face of China, AP focus on female imams in Ningxia
Wuzhong, Ningxia Province - 8, 10 April 2008
AP Television - AP Clients Only
1. Mid of mosque minarets in sunset with UPSOUND of muezzin prayers
2. Wide of mosque in sunset with muezzin prayer in background
3. Mid Mandarin sign that says...