North Korea has reported a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea, following Pyongyang's widely criticised rocket...

Korean

Thousands of farmers from throughout South Korea held a rally in Seoul Tuesday to protest against rice imp
orts.
They demanded an apology from the government for importing foreign rice and...

Security was tight in central Tokyo on Wednesday ahead of US President Barack Obama's arrival in the Japanese capital.

Around 16,000 police officers have been deployed across the city for Obama's...

Mandarin/Nat

A Chinese government programme to improve the education of children in rural areas is achieving concrete resu
lts.
Under the "Hand In Hand" project better off city schools...

1. Farmers on trucks and walking with banners

2. Various of demonstrators mar
ching
3. Demonstrators carrying bags of ja
smine rice
4. Demonstrators gathered
around platform
5. Close up of man...

Song Ve Valley - 25 Oct 2003

1. Wide of woman harvesting rice in paddy
field
2. Medium of woman harvesting rice in p
addy field
3. Wide of men harvesting rice
in...

Dhaka - 1 June 2008

1. Wide of women and children queuing for subsidised
rice
2. Wide of rice shop operated by "Bangladesh Rifles" (Border g
uard unit)
3. Mid of man
weighing rice...

English/Nat

A Texas congressman and rice farmers visiting Cuba in search of new markets have asked for U-S restrictions on food and medicine sales to the communist country be...

Mandarin/Eng/Nat

Phenomenal economic growth triggered by capitalist reforms has turned China, the world's most populous nation, into a major grain cons
umer.
Beijing is worried that...

Caracas - 3 December 2011

1. Wide of Haitian President Michel Martelly talking to journal
ists
2. Mid of Martelly during the
interview
3. Close-up of Martelly du
ring interview
4....

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 7 March 2008

1. Wide of Port-au-Prince
port
2. Various of stacked containe
rs at port
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dimitri Torres,...

Wah Thin Kha Village - 29 March 2012

1. Wide of sun behind twin stupas of a p
agoda
2. Close of monk reading Buddhist prayers into a
microphone
3. Close of monk's hand o
n...

Nan Hua Village, Guizhou Province, China 17 September, 2006

1. Wide exterior pan of villagers harvesting rice in a rural
hill
2. Villager threshing rice by hand...

1. Pan shot of farmers and citizens at gathering at a Tokyo park

2. Medium shot of partici
pants
3. Close up of farmers with Engl
ish banner
4. Wide shot of South Korean d
ancers on...

North Koreans farmers are now in the most crucial stage of their work.

The rice transplanting season in May means back-breaking labour, putting seedlings of the staple crop, rice, into the main...

++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if...

FILE: Nan Hua Village, Guizhou Province - 17 September 2006

1. Wide pan of villagers harvesting
rice
2. Man threshing rice by hand in traditio
nal manner
3. Close-up of rice falling
into wooden...

Nat Sound

Investigators digging in a remote Vietnamese jungle have made an extremely rare discovery of body tissue that might be that of a missing American airman, a US official said...

APTN File - Outside Beijing, China, May 2001

1. Wide of farmers working in the f
ield
2. Tilt up farmer wor
king
3. Old farmer adjusting the pum
ping water ...

Istanbul, Turkey

1. Pan as water cannon jets pressured water at May Day demonstr
ators
2. Protesters with red flags chanting, protesters scatter as water is sprayed at...

Laotian/English

Laos is hoping that its newly-granted membership of ASEAN will usher in an era of unprecedented growth and prosperity for the poverty-stricken...

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTAP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYBalua village, Gorkha District, Nepal - 30 April 20151. Driving shot from World Food Programme aid truck showing damaged houses 2. Driver of aid truck3. Digger...

CAMBODIA RESORTS SOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH:SHOTLIST:AP Television Sala Lodge resort, Salakomreuk District, Siem Reap -...

LEAD IN:Public workers in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq are turning to farming to supplement their incomes.The area is facing an economic downturn that means many government workers are going unpaid.STORY-LINE:A water logged field...