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New Italian government seeks to raise cash ceiling
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» ROME - Cash is king in Italy, and the debate over limiting payments in notes and coins is heating up again under the country's new right-wing government.
India Post rides e-commerce wave as villagers buy online
AFP, Published on 21/02/2016
» ALWAR (INDIA) - With his rickety bicycle and sackcloth mail bag, 62-year-old Indian postman Chet Ram does not look like a worker at the vanguard of an e-commerce revolution delivering everything from mobile phones to cow manure.
Best offbeat moments in sports of 2015
AFP, Published on 15/12/2015
» PARIS - Novak Djokovic eating grass at Wimbledon, a pistol-packing referee in Brazil or a Scottish goalkeeper travelling to the wrong ground for a game. It's been a bumper year for world sports' light-hearted moments.
Samsung buys digital wallet star to take on Apple Pay
AFP, Published on 19/02/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced a deal to buy LoopPay, a young digital wallet firm challenging Apple Pay at retailer checkout terminals.
South Korea looks to wrap up ferry recovery effort
AFP, Published on 07/05/2014
» Recovery teams should try to wrap up their search for bodies from South Korea's ferry disaster by the weekend, Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won said Wednesday, three weeks after the ship sank with hundreds of schoolchildren on board.
Nigella Lawson admits using cocaine, cannabis
AFP, Published on 04/12/2013
» British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson on Wednesday admitted using cocaine and cannabis but dismissed claims she was a drug addict as an attempt by her ex-husband Charles Saatchi to "destroy" her.
Nigella Lawson in court to testify in fraud case
AFP, Published on 04/12/2013
» British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson arrived in court in London on Wednesday to testify in the trial of her two former personal assistants, after the prosecution revealed emails from her ex-husband accusing her of using cocaine.
'World's first' bitcoin ATM opens in Canada
AFP, Published on 30/10/2013
» Three young entrepreneurs have opened what they call the world's first ATM able to exchange bitcoins for any official currency.
S.Korea's traditional markets go high-tech
AFP, Published on 23/08/2013
» Seoul's traditional markets -- bustling, narrow streets of small vendors selling cheap, fresh produce -- have largely opted out of the high-tech charge to make the South Korean capital one of the most wired cities on earth.
Reforming Myanmar courts investors at 'Asia's Davos'
AFP, Published on 05/06/2013
» Myanmar touted its dramatic post-junta reforms Wednesday in a bid to entice foreign investors as hundreds of world leaders and industry chiefs visited the long-isolated nation for Asia's edition of the World Economic Forum.