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SUU KYI MEETS MIGRANT WORKERS FROM MYANMAR NEAR BANGKOK
More than one thousand Burmese migrant workers in Bangkok cheered and chanted in an emotional welcome to democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, as she delivered her first speech outside Myanmar in more than two decades.
Suu Kyi offered...
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Village in Henan province rooted in collectivism of bygone era
1. Wide of statue of Mao Zedong standing in the middle of the major square in Nanjiecun
2. Mid of statue of Mao Zedong
3. Close of statue of Mao Zedong
4. Mid of statue, tilt down to foot of statue with Mao's motto "Serve the People"
5....
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Evacuation of foreigners, photos of missing Libyans posted at court
1. Pan of area near local court house in Benghazi
2. Wide of Libyan flag belonging to era before current Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
3. Mid of cars
4. People looking at photos of Libyans who have been missing over the last 10 years of...
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1000 people take part in national anthem performance
1. Various over 1,000 people singing Chinese National Anthem
2. Mid of the artist (Left) Shu Yong and Wang Xiafang, 82-year-old Eight Route Army Soilder singing and applauding
3. Wide pan of the participants
4. Wide of the artist Shu...
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Millions of Chinese workers head for home to celebrate New Year
1. Pan of passengers lining up to buy tickets at Beijing railway station
2. Close-up of passenger buying ticket
3. Tilt up from passengers to exterior of station
4. Wide of station
5. Wide of crowds
6. Tilt up woman passenger and...
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Migrant workers contained to prevent spread of SARS
1. Tilt up shot of Beijing's Fortune Plaza construction site
2. Mid shot of man wearing mask at the gate
3. Pan of a red banner reading "Prevent SARS with a scientific attitude! We should all fight against SARS together! Let's all work...
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Arrest made after Indonesian maid beaten by employer
Hong Kong police arrested a woman on Monday for allegedly torturing her Indonesian maid, the latest case to provoke outrage over abuses suffered by the city's army of foreign domestic workers.
Police said they detained a 44-year-old...
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President Barack Obama on Thursday will announce on national television go-it-alone steps he will take to shield up to 5 million immigrants illegally in the United States from deportation. (Nov. 19)
SOUNDBITE (English) Yulexi Plata, from Birmingham, Alabama:
"All of a sudden they could be separated from you because I'm here and this is my home but they are not legal ..."
SOUNDBITE (English) Reyna Garcia, Undocumented immigrant:...
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Muslims brave freezing weather to gather for prayers marking Eid
1. Wide of street filled with Muslim worshippers getting on their knees, praying, pan left
2. Mid of people praying
3. Close-up man praying
4. Wide of street filled with worshippers, pan left
5. Mid of people on their knees, rising
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Second in a series of three general strikes by unions
1. Various of health workers protest, strikers holding banners and singing
2. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Joo Ho Lee, Korean Health and Medical Union
"We workers also want a successful World Cup and for Korea to make it to the second round. But...
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CHINA: HEBEI: PROVINCE: CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
Mandarin/Nat
Millions of Chinese are now in the middle of family reunions to celebrate Spring Festival -or the Lunar New Year -- the most important holiday on the calendar.
Roughly 200 (m) million people are estimated to have moved...
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Migrant workers fear being caught up in Iraq attack
1. Various street scenes central Kuwait City with migrant workers gathering in spare time
2. Mid shot of shop sign "Manila Supermarket"
3. Mid shot of group of migrant workers talking on the street
4. Various migrant workers in central...
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PHILIPPINES: SARAH BALABAGAN HAS TEARFUL REUNION IN MANILA
Tagalog/Eng/Nat
The Filipina maid released from prison in the United Arab Emirates (U-A-E) after being convicted of killing her employer has had a tearful reunion in Manila with family.
Sarah Balabagan -- who said she killed the man...
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AP report on economic stimulus to cushion blow of global slowdown
Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 10 November 2008
1. Wide of passengers walking into Guangzhou East Railway Station
2. Low shot of passengers feet and luggage as they go into station, people sitting on pavement in background
3. Wide of...
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PHILIPPINES: CAMPAIGN FOR GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UAE CONTINUES
Manila October 20, 1995 and file where noted1. Wide shot exterior UAE Embassy with protest outside2. Muslim woman speaking through megaphone with banner "Justice for Sarah Movement"3. Close up Muslim woman protester4. ...
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Rally outside Indian consulate over alleged treatment of maid by diplomat
Protesters gathered outside the Consulate General of India in New York on Friday in support of Sangeeta Richard, the former housekeeper for India's deputy consul general, Devyani Khobragade.
Khobragade was arrested on December 13 and...
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Myanmar migrants work on rubber plantations in Malaysia
Outer Georgetown, Penang State - Malaysia - 20/21 April 2007
1. Mid shot of Myanmar migrant workers climbing mountain
2. Close feet walking up mountain
3. Mid shot men walking up mountain
4. Wide of rubber trees
5. Close tool scraping...
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Young people turn their backs on the countryside
Xiaozhefa Village, Hebei, China - Oct 27 , 2011
1.Close shot scissors in hands cutting branches on grape tree
2.Close shot elderly man cutting branches on grape tree
3.Wide shot vineyard
4.Close shot branch being dropped on...
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Lawyer takes on industrial accident cases of poor migrant workers
Shenzen - June 7
1. Wide shot of Shenzen marketplace and industrial buildings
2. Close-up of poster with Deng Xiao-ping and slogan in Chinese saying "Education for moderniation, to face the world and to face the future."
3. Various...
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HONG KONG: FILIPINO DOMESTIC HELPER MURDER LATEST
English/Nat
Filipino migrant workers groups in Hong Kong have gone to court to win justice for the family of a Filipino domestic helper found murdered in May this year.
Glenda Giron Lorio ran away from her employer after she claimed he...
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People hoping to escape fighting in port city trapped by shelling
1. Mid of migrants waiting for medicine handouts by the Libyan red crescent
2. Wide of food being distributed near port in tent city for migrant workers waiting to board ship
3. Wide of migrant camp site
4. Mid of migrants as they walk...
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PHILIPPINES: MANILA: MIGRANT WORKERS
Eng/Taga/Nat
A shortage of well paid work forces more than 600-thousand people to leave the Philippines every year for jobs overseas.
Of those who leave in search of brighter job prospects, few get lucky and some lose their lives.
But...
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Rally against US reform plans, boycott of US goods
Guatemala City - 1 May 2006
1. Wide shot of march
2. Man in mask playing drum
3. Marchers with signs and banners
4. Marchers with signs
5. Banner saying "who are the terrorists? The migrants or the warmongers"
6. Exterior of...
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IOM ship ferries displaced and injured from Misrata to Benghazi
1. Wide of migrant workers previously stranded in Misrata standing on deck of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) "Ionian Spirit" ship
2. Mid of migrants walking on deck of ship
3. Migrants sitting on deck
4. Close up of face...