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Consumers hit by rise in price in rice prices, raising fears of public turmoil
Manila, Philippines - 23 March 2008
1. Wide of a ship's cargo haul filled with sacks of rice
2. Various of workers unloading rice from ship
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Piolito Santos, Assistant Regional Director, National Food Authority:...
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Farmers protest against free trade deal as negotiators continue talks
South Korean farmers gathered in Seoul on Tuesday to protest against a proposed free-trade agreement (FTA) between China and South Korea.
Beijing and Seoul are currently holding a seventh round of trade negotiations in the Chinese city...
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Farmers block roads in protest against US free trade pact
CHANNEL 9 - No access Peru
Juliaca
1. Various of stones blocking road
2. Various of people walking through road block
3. Various of protest
CHANNEL 9 - No access Peru
Arequipa
4. Pan of road block
5. Close up of replica dolls of...
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Anti-corruption body presents charges against prime minister, protest outside
Thailand's anti-corruption commission on Thursday summoned Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to hear charges of negligence for allegedly mishandling a government rice subsidy programme.
Her supporters blocked access and chain-locked one...
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Anti-government protest leader collects donations to help rice farmers who haven't been paid by the govt
Thailand's anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban collected donations in Bangkok on Friday to help rice farmers who haven't been paid by the Thai government's rice-buying scheme.
Supporters of the protest movement trying to get...
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Cambodia - Aftermath of plane crash
65 people were killed when a Vietnam Airlines aircraft exploded on Wednesday (3/9) as it tried to land in heavy rain at Phnom Penh's international airport in Cambodia. The Russian-built Tupolev-134 crashed into rice fields as it was...
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CRACKDOWN ANNIVERSARY MARKED, VICTIM'S FAMILY
The sister of Italian freelance photographer Fabio Polenghi, who was shot dead during the Thai protests two years ago, revisited Bangkok on Saturday to mourn his death.
Saturday marks the second anniversary of the military crackdown over...
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SKorean farmers ship food aid to North Korea
AP Television News, Inchon, South Korea, January 8, 2009
Inchon, South Korea
1. Truck driving past with 'Unification Rice' sacks
2. Various of people moving rice sacks
3. Close-up of rice sack
4. Wide of rice sacks lined up
5. Tilt-down...
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Update on clashes, night-time protests
++Day shots++
1. Protesters throwing rocks at police
2. Riot police with shields standing on top of red shipping crate and hosing protesters with jets of water
3. Protesters pulling on a rope
4. Various of clashes showing masked...
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BURMA: DRUGS BARON SAYS HE'S RETIRING FROM NARCOTICS TRADE
Thai/Natsound
Khun Sa, one of the world's most notorious drug lords, says he's retiring from the narcotics trade to raise chickens and grow vegetables.
The United States has issued a warrant for Khun Sa's arrest but his extradition from...
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+4:3 Profile of Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra, who has been found guilty of abuse of power
Thailand's first female prime minister has survived two-and-a-half years in one of Asia's most unforgiving jobs.
A political novice when she took office, Yingluck Shinawatra became skilled at offering her opponents no target.
But after...
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JAPAN: SCHOOLCHILDREN HELP FAMINE STRICKEN NORTH KOREA
Japanese/Nat
Hundreds of ethnic Korean schoolchildren living in Japan have planted rice for famine-stricken North Korea.
The organisers of the planting campaign, Mothers without Borders, say the Japanese and Korean governments are not...
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The clash in Spain's top restaurants between traditional and modern cuisine
1. Wide exterior shot of town hall
2. Pan across "fallas" being assembled
3. Various shots of people eating paella at restaurant
4. Various shots of fishing boats arriving at port
5. Various shots of fishermen unloading fish
6....
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Scattered arson attacks and continued looting in capital
1. Wide of people gathered outside FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) warehouse
2. Various of people looting warehouse, taking away bags of grains and seeds
3. Wide of smoke billowing
4. Various of houses on fire
5. Various of...
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Over 1500 rally for reunification of the Korean peninsula
1. Wide top shot of South Korean peace activists sitting on ground and chanting at rally
2. Activists chanting and waving small placards
3. Close-up of children singing on stage
4. Activists singing along, zoom in to people holding...
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China suffers its worst drought in 50 years
19 August 2006, Longquancun village, Chongqinghua
1. Wide lotus fields and the home of (Mrs) Qing Gonglu (42) in the village of Longquancun.
2. Qing Gonglu preparing runner beans before for the wholesaler arrives
3. Close up on Qing...
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SOUTH KOREA: FARMERS CLASH WITH POLICE OVER RISE IN PRICE OF RICE
Korean/Nat
About seven-thousand South Korean farmers have clashed with riot police in the capital Seoul during a protest against what they say is an unfair rise in rice prices.
The farmers are demanding a 12.3 per cent price hike for...
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Thailand tallies rising cost of nationwide floods
1. Wide of people unloading the sandbags from the truck
2. Mid of sandbags
3. Wide low shot of sandbags unloaded
4. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Sirirat Pewkreu, Phathum Thani resident, 28-years-old:
"I may have to move and stay at my relatives...
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Locals use makeshift trains built with bamboo
Battambang - September 5+ 6 2008
1. Wide shot of sky at dusk
2. Exterior of children playing outside Battambang train station
3. Close-up clock at Battambang train station showing a few minutes past eight
4. Mid of boy squatting beside...
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CHINA: PEASANTS TRY TO SALVAGE RICE HARVEST AFTER FLOODS
Mandarin/Nat
In one of central China's main rice-growing areas, Hubei province, peasants are struggling to salvage a harvest wrecked by floods along the Yangtze River and its tributaries.
With more rain expected in August, the...
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Defiant Fukushima farmer flouts mandatory evacuation order
1. Mid of Japanese farmer remaining inside exclusion zone, Naoto Matsumura, trying to feed cows running wild
2. Pan from rice field to Matsumura
3. Mid of Matsumura walking in field with his dog
4. Pan from rice field to Matsumura,...
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Reax as price of rice is expected to rise again
1. Pan of people queuing to buy rice at NFA rice stall (= National Food Authority, the state-run grain importer)
2. Mid of rice stall
3. Close-up of rice being packed
4. Wide of people in queue
5. Close-up of sign giving NFA rice price...
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Philippine: Volcano, Germany - Cows, Philippines - Rice And Methane Emissions, Germany - Coal-Fired Power Station
RR9127A - Philippine: Volcano
Philippines - 28 June 1991 and file
Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines , throwing debris into the stratosphere that shields the Earth from solar energy, which helps interrupt the warming trend. Average...
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Farmed field frogs in Cambodia are fighting crop pests the organic way
Frogs are a natural, organic alternative to pesticides for farmers in Cambodia fighting against the insects ravening their fragile rice seedlings.
But despite their green-credentials, widespread hunting is preventing more farmers from...