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RMS Queen Mary in dire need of repairs
Business, Associated Press, Published on 16/03/2017
» LONG BEACH, California - The Queen Mary is so corroded that it's at urgent risk of flooding or collapse, and the price tag for fixing up the 1930s ocean liner could be near $300 million, according to a survey done by experts.
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Winter in ‘Game of Thrones’, springtime for spinoffs
Associated Press, Published on 17/07/2017
» New York -- Last night (Monday morning in Thailand), the first-to-last season of “Game of Thrones” premiered on HBO as devoted fans gleefully embraced the return of favourite characters, gruesome violence, and the series signature spider web of political intrigue. The houses of Westeros are still going at it -- at least for now, anyway.
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Not just Bali: Indonesia to develop more tourism sites
Associated Press, Published on 13/08/2019
» YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on grey stone steps atop the world's largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking mobile phones or whispering to each other as they waited for daylight.
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Meredith buying Time Inc for $1.8bn
Associated Press, Published on 27/11/2017
» NEW YORK: Meredith Corp announced Sunday that it is buying Time Inc for about $1.8 billion, a deal CEO Stephen Lacy called "a transformative and financially compelling growth opportunity" that joins two giant magazine companies.
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Toyota ends production Down Under
Business, Associated Press, Published on 04/10/2017
» SYDNEY: After looming for four years, "Carmageddon'' has hit the Australian auto industry.
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Metro typifies deep economic inequalities
Business, Associated Press, Published on 07/07/2017
» CAIRO: Cairo's subway is perhaps the cheapest in the world. For a fare equivalent to 11 US cents, you can ride as far as you want across the overcrowded, traffic-choked Egyptian capital.
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Five Transformer-theme buildings rise in Bolivia
Business, Associated Press, Published on 14/07/2017
» EL ALTO, Bolivia: The Transformers have been transformed yet again.
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US CEO average pay jumps 8.5% last year
Business, Associated Press, Published on 25/05/2017
» NEW YORK: The typical CEO at the biggest US companies got an 8.5% raise last year, raking in $11.5 million in salary, stock and other compensation last year, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for the Associated Press. That's the biggest raise in three years.
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Top retailers locked in game of shipping tag
Business, Associated Press, Published on 23/05/2017
» NEW YORK: Target Corp, Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Amazon.com Inc are engaged in a game of shipping tag, each trying to adjust their free threshold and other shipping strategies to a level that can lure shoppers away from one of the other.
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Exploring ways to farm popular Pacific fish
Business, Associated Press, Published on 29/05/2017
» The dark gray fish prized for its buttery flavour live deep in the ocean, so researchers keep their lab cold and dark to simulate ideal conditions for sablefish larvae.
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