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Kenyan railway staff join Chinese New Year celebrations

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STORY: Kenyan railway staff join Chinese New Year celebrations
SHOOTING TIME: recent footage
DATELINE: Feb. 4, 2025
LENGTH: 00:00:44
LOCATION: Nairobi
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of celebration
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOYCE, Afristar employee
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): WINNIE JEMTAI, Afristar employee
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): RITA KORIR, Daughter of an Afristar employee

STORYLINE:

Kenyan employees of the Africa Star Railway Operation Company (Afristar) celebrated the Chinese New Year alongside their Chinese colleagues.

Afristar is the operator of the Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway.

They made dumplings and yuanxiao, or sweet glutinous rice dumplings, and wrote the Chinese character "Fu (meaning blessing)."

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOYCE, Afristar employee
"We are celebrating it together as a company so that we can share the culture."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): WINNIE JEMTAI, Afristar employee
"We've been here today to celebrate with the Chinese their New Year. We are really happy about that. We are happy to be with them, and we wish them a happy new year here in Kenya."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): RITA KORIR, Daughter of an Afristar employee
"I'm happy that my mother gets to work here, and I'm also happy to participate in the Chinese celebration."
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nairobi.
(XHTV)

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