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Move over, rickshaw: Cambodia launches public buses
AFP, Published on 09/02/2014
» Motorcycles, cars, tuk-tuks and the humble rickshaw dominate its traffic-clogged roads, but now the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh is launching a new weapon in the fight against chronic congestion: its first public buses in over a decade.
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Uber locks horns with NY city hall over fleet expansion
AFP, Published on 20/07/2015
» NEW YORK - The ride-booking app Uber is fighting New York's city hall, which wants to keep in check a fleet of vehicles that already far outnumbers the Big Apple's trademark yellow cabs.
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Barcelona city hall fines Airbnb, Homeaway
AFP, Published on 22/12/2015
» BARCELONA - Barcelona's left-wing city hall said Monday it had slapped home rental websites Airbnb and HomeAway with a fine of 60,000 euros ($65,000) each for marketing lodgings in the Spanish city that lacked permits to host tourists.
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Kiev readies for protest as focus moves to occupied city hall
AFP, Published on 16/02/2014
» Anti-government protesters in Kiev readied for a new, mass demonstration on Sunday, amid expectations that the capital's occupied city hall could soon be vacated in what would be a highly symbolic move.
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Paris City Hall backs Olympic bid
AFP, Published on 13/04/2015
» PARIS - Paris City Hall Monday gave its green light to the city's bid to organise the 2024 Olympics, a key step in the process to host the summer Games for a third time.
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In Paris, 'love locks' conquer all, even City Hall
AFP, Published on 15/08/2012
» They say you can't beat City Hall, but Paris authorities who once took a dim view of the thousands of "love locks" adorning the bridges of the Seine river have had a change of heart.
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New Seoul city hall sparks controversy over design
AFP, Published on 24/05/2012
» The South Korean capital Thursday unveiled its latest landmark, a controversial $256 million city hall with an undulating glass structure that looms over its preserved colonial-era stone predecessor.
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Khan's rise from London housing estate to city hall
AFP, Published on 07/05/2016
» LONDON - London's new mayor Sadiq Khan has gone from a public housing estate in the British capital to running the city, a remarkable rise for the Pakistani immigrant bus driver's son.
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Elderly abandoned, die in retirement homes in Spain
AFP, Published on 24/03/2020
» MADRID: Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the novel coronavirus pandemic have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes.
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Sporadic clashes but low turnout in French 'yellow vest' protests
AFP, Published on 12/05/2019
» PARIS: "Yellow vest" protesters gathered in Paris and other French cities Saturday for the 26th straight week of rallies against President Emmanuel Macron, with scattered incidents of violence but overall a marked decline in the size of the crowds.
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