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Tokyo, Dec 4 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Franck Robichon) The postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the measures against the coronavirus pandemic will represent an additional cost of about 2,700 million of dollars, the organizing committee reported on Friday.FOOTAGE OF TOKYO.
Rio de Janeiro, Jul 20 (EFE).- A few days before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games begin, the Olympic Park inaugurated five years ago for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 event is still the target of criticism.The Olympic facilities that were the pride of the city five years ago and that cost more than 40 billion reais (about $7.6 billion at the current exchange rate) are today abandoned, degrading and haunted by corruption scandals.Several of its pavilions are now "white elephants," while the fate of the velodrome, the Olympic swimming pools and two of the Rio arenas has yet to be defined. (Camera: JANAÍNA QUINET/ANTONIO LACERDA).SHOT LIST: ABANDONED OLYMPIC VENUES IN IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL. INCLUDES FOOTAGE TAKEN WITH A DRONE OF ABANDONED RIO OLYMPIC VENUES.
Tokyo, Jul 1 (EFE).- Disposable plastic bags the Japanese regularly use in their country's stores began costing money as of Wednesday, in a radical turn for a society addicted to them. (Camera: DEMOFILO PELAEZ)FOOTAGE SHOWS PLASTIC CONSUMPTION IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Tokyo, May 12 (EFE).- (Camera: Archive). Japanese car manufacturer Toyota Motor said Wedensday it increased its net profit by 10.3 percent in the fiscal year 2020 (which ended in March), to 2.24 trillion yen ($20 billion), thanks to cost reduction and some recovery in sales.ARCHIVE OF TOYOTA MOTOR.
Once considered too far off the radar, expatriates are moving to Taiwan thanks to its calm and friendly atmosphere. And as Tara Joseph reports, residents also say the cost of living is much more reasonable than Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo.
The United States "will not accept" a situation where underpriced Chinese goods flood the global market, battering industries elsewhere, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday as she wrapped up high-level talks in China. This was the situation over a decade ago when Chinese government support led to a surge in steel exports, she told reporters, adding: "I know that these serious concerns are shared by our allies and partners." SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of people in the southern Nigerian city of Lagos protest the high cost of living in the country as part of a nationwide call to demonstrate by the Nigerian workers union. IMAGES
During a press conference on his two-day state visit to Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron says that "the cost of a Russian victory is too high for all of us" and that Europe must support Ukraine "whatever it takes, whatever it costs." SOUNDBITE
Worshippers at a Tokyo shrine welcome the new year with an ice-cold bath in an annual tradition that dates back about 70 years Participants warm up through stretches and chants before plunging into a pool filled with huge ice blocks. IMAGES
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