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CHINA: SHANGHAI: NEW YEAR HOLIDAY EXODUS
Mandarin/Nat
Like Christmas in the West, the Chinese New Year is a time for families to get together, with children returning to the parental home in time for New Year's Eve.
On Friday, on the cusp of the Year of the Dragon, millions...
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New measures taken by building industry to prevent spread of SARS
1. Tilt shot of Beijing Fortune Plaza construction site
2. Mid shot of man wearing mask at the gate
3. Pan shot of a red banner, 'Prevent SARS with a scientific attitude! We should all fight against SARS together! Let's all work hard to...
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Polls open in third round of polling in parliamentary elections
1. Wide of entrance to closed polling station, people waiting
2. Reverse shot of policeman looking through wire
3. Early voters waiting in schoolyard to vote
4. Wide of security inside voting station
5. Voters talking to officials
6....
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Bulgarians travel to Greece in search of work
1. Exterior of train station in Sofia
2. Close-up of sign reading: "Sofia"
3. Various of people on platform
4. Various of family having photos taken in front of train
5. SOUNDBITE (Bulgarian) Nedeljkova Sevda, Bulgarian in search of...
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Memorial service for HK citizens killed in Philippines bus siege
1. Wide of Filipino workers gathering for religious service in memory of victims of bus hijack
2. Mid of Filipino worker handing out posters for participants
3. Close of poster with text in Chinese characters and English reading: "Our...
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Preps for return of bodies, Filipino workers, reax
Manila, Philippines
1. Pan of coffins with bodies of hostage victims inside
2. Close of name listed on coffin
3. Wide of coffins
4. Wide of wooden crates to be used to transport coffins back to Hong Kong
5. Wide of onlookers outside...
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Egyptian migrant workers cross from Gadhafi-controlled area to rebel territory
5kms west of Ajdabiya
1. Various rebel soldiers with tanks and anti-aircraft weaponry
Brega
2. Various of Egyptian migrant workers riding on back of trailer truck having passed over frontline from Gadhafi controlled area into rebel...
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Authorities threatening to close school for migrant children in Shanghai
1. Exterior of residence of a migrant family
2. Three girls getting ready to leave for school
3. Child drawings on the wall
4. Children leaving for school saying goodbye to their mother
5. Mother's hands repairing shoes
6. Mother...
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China plans new measures to tackle increasing unemployment
March 4, 2004
1. Tilt up shot, construction site
2. Crane
3. Mid shot, migrant workers
4. Worker carrying scaffold tube
5. Workers on scaffolding
6. Wide shot, construction site
March 9, 2004
7. Wide shot, presser by ministry of Labour...
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CHINA: BEIJING: AFFLUENT COMMUNITY EXCITED ABOUT CLINTON VISIT
Mandarin/Nat
U-S President Clinton has arrived in Beijing -- the setting for the most controversial stop on his tour of China.
On Saturday morning Chinese leader Jiang Zemin will greet Clinton at Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- where...
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Migrants workers return to big cities for work after holiday
Zhugao Town, Sichuan Province - 6 February 2009
1. Wide of migrant workers with luggage at bus station waiting to head back to Guangdong
2. Mid migrant workers with children, waiting for bus
3. Mid of worker smoking while waiting for...
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Legal migrant workers protest treatment in US
Mexico City, Mexico - 13 April 2005
1. Mid shot members of non-profit organisations at news conference
2. Cutaway media
3. Wide shot news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Manuel Camero Torres, migrant worker:
"No call to eradicate the...
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Thousands gather for first anti-WTO protest
1. Ground, pan up to Japanese protesters, holding anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) banner and placards
2. Japanese protester chanting anti-WTO slogan
3. Police watching by the street
4. Wide shot of protesters holding banners
5....
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Safety measures stepped up at railway stations
1. Migrant workers walking to Beijing Railway station with luggage
2. Wide shot workers walking to railway station
3. Close billboard saying "Emergency notice: all passengers are required to fill out a health report before boarding a...
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+4:3 Evacuees leaving Misrata and arriving in rebel capital
Misrata, Libya - 13 April, 2011
1. Wide of man handing over a child to be taken on board a fishing ship
2. Mid of women and children waiting to embark the ship
3. Wide of woman in wheelchair being taken on board
4. Close of evacuees...
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Gujarat prepares for a cyclone building in Arabian Sea.
Alang, Gujarat, May 25
1. Wide shot of ships at ship-breaking yard
2. Various of workers at yard still working
3. SOUNDBITE: (Hindi) Randir, migrant worker from Orissa
"What's the point of being afraid? My house and my village are not...
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INDONESIA: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES BUDGET TO EASE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Indonesian/Nat
President Suharto has announced a budget to ease Indonesia's economic crisis after its currency plunged to a new record low on Tuesday.
But experts say the new budget, with an increase of 32 per cent in both revenue and...
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Migrant workers accused of killing young British tourists appear in court
The trial of two migrant workers from Myanmar accused of killing two young British tourists opened on a resort island in southern Thailand on Friday.
Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 21, were indicted on charges covering conspiracy to...
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Millions rush home for the Lunar New Year festival
Beijing Train Station
1. Wide exterior of Beijing Train Station
2. Various of people in line to buy tickets
3. Person buying tickets
4. Passengers walking to train station with bags and luggage
5. Various of people on escalator
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Scene of Sunday's racially-motivated rioting sparked by death of Russian man
The death of a Russian man has ignited anger in parts of Moscow against people from the North Caucasus, with the streets of Biryulyovo tense on Monday morning following a night of unrest which saw demonstrators breaking into a shopping...
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Thai court dismisses case against British activist filed by fruit processing company
A Thai court on Wednesday dismissed the first of four criminal and civil defamation cases filed against a British human rights activist by a Thai fruit processing company accused of mistreating migrant workers.
The activist, Andy Hall,...
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12 Haitians join team working on Mineirao football stadium ahead of World Cup
1. Aerial shot of Mineirao football stadium, where some matches of the 2014 World Cup will be played
2. Wide of exterior of stadium
3. Various of construction work inside stadium
4. Pan of Haitian survivors of 2010 earthquake doing...
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AP pix of quake survivors; rescue and relief effort; monks
1. Wide pan of King Ghesar plaza with refugee camp
2. Mid of statue of King Ghesar
3. Wide of refugees in tent
4. Wide of people sleeping on ground
5. Mid of people sleeping on ground
6. Wide of people boiling water on fire
7. Close...
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SINGAPORE: NO STAY OF EXECUTION FOR FILIPINO MAID
English/Nat
Despite impassioned pleas from her children, Singapore has refused to stay Friday's scheduled execution of a Filipino maid convicted of a double murder.
The sentence has led to large demonstrations in the Philippines and...