In today's news, with Nancy and Hope:
Big fireworks, old jeans, and new Pokemon stars.
All that and more, coming up next!
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台北101 300秒跨年煙火
New Years' Light Show at Taipei 101
Are you ready to ring in the New Year?
The New Year's Eve show at the Taipei 101 is getting ready to go!
The theme for the event is "Embrace the World, Bling Your Dreams".
Officials say the show this year will be 5 minutes long.
It will use 16,000 fireworks.
The fireworks will be the same type (種類，款式) used at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
They say these fireworks hang in the sky after being fired.
They also do not create much smoke.
Taipei 101 will use the fireworks to make shapes such as wings and smiley faces.
Aside from the fireworks, the show will also use lights, lasers, animation and music.
The show will also use a new T-Pad LED light net.
This will let people on every side of the building see the show.
台北101的2023跨年燈光秀煙火總共一萬六千發，總時長300秒，使用T-Pad燈網結合光束和雷射光效，讓觀眾360度都能看到燈光效果。
Officials expect around one million people to visit Taipei 101 to see the show.
People can see Christmas lights shows at Taipei 101 too.
The shows will happen this week Friday to Sunday.
The 150-second show will be on every 15 minutes, starting from 6:05pm each of those days.
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全球最老牛仔褲
World's Oldest Jeans
Do you have a pair of jeans (牛仔褲) in your closet?
Jeans are made of tough cloth (堅韌的布料).
They can last a long time.
But how old is the oldest pair of jeans in the world?
The oldest pair of jeans ever found is at least 165 years old!
The jeans were found underwater, on a sunken ship (沉沒的船) in the ocean.
The ship was named S.S. Central America.
It was 85 meters long, and took people from Central America to the US during the 1850s.
But the ship sank during a hurricane in 1857.
Historians believe it was carrying around 21 tons of gold coins when it sank.
That's why the S.S. Central America also has a nickname, the "ship of gold".
The shipwreck was found in 1988.
And a pair of jeans were found in a box on the ship.
It has five buttons on the front.
It was white, but is now covered with grey, brown and white streaks (條紋).
Experts believe the jeans were worn by a man who was a miner.
The jeans were recently sold at an auction in the U.S., for $114,000 U.S. dollars.
That's about $3,500,000 NT (3千5百萬台幣)!
一條在美國外海的1857年沉船遺跡中尋獲的牛仔褲，在拍賣會上以11萬4000元美金賣出。
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寶可夢宣布「小智與皮卡丘」將退休
Pokemon to Go On without Main Stars
You probably know about Pokemon.
There are Pokemon cartoons, video games, card games, toys, and lots more.
It may be hard to imagine the world of Pokemon without the little boy Ash and his friend Pikachu.
But they will be leaving the anime soon.
Producers of the Japanese anime show say Ash Ketchum has fulfilled his dream when he won the Pokemon World Championship.
And Ash and Pikachu have been the stars of the show for 25 years.
So starting next spring, the show will introduce two new main characters.
They are a girl named Liko, and a boy named Roy.
The producers promise there will be lots of "action, adventure, friendship, and Pokemon".
【寶可夢】官方宣布，主角小智與皮卡丘要正式畢業了，明年4月開始由新主角接棒。
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So, in today's News Bites:
The New Year's Eve show at the Taipei 101 is getting ready to go!
Officials say the show this year will be 5 minutes long.
It will use 16,000 fireworks.
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The oldest pair of jeans ever found is at least 165 years old!
The jeans were found underwater, on a sunken ship in the ocean.
The jeans were recently sold at an auction in the U.S., for about $3,500,000 NT!
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And…
Producers of the Japanese anime show Pokemon say Ash Ketchum has fulfilled his dream when he won the Pokemon World Championship.
So starting next spring, the show will introduce two new main characters.
The producers promise there will be lots of "action, adventure, friendship, and Pokemon".
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And that's today's episode of News Bites!