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Myanmar dumps dollar proxy currency
Associated Press, Published on 21/03/2013
» YANGON - Myanmar's parliament has endorsed a presidential decision to abandon the use of so-called Foreign Exchange Certificates, a special currency primarily used by tourists.
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Myanmar still enlists boy soldiers
Associated Press, Published on 02/12/2013
» CHAUNG THA — He disappeared when he was 12 years old, a skinny boy named Min Thu from the wrong side of town who thought he'd stumbled onto the golden ticket.
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China busts iPhone 6 shippers
Associated Press, Published on 28/09/2014
» SHANGHAI - China in recent days has busted a slew of smugglers bringing Apple iPhone 6 models into the country ahead of their official release here, with officials on Sunday reporting the latest seizure of 453 smartphones in Shanghai.
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EU to put Thailand 1 step away from fish ban
Associated Press, Published on 21/04/2015
» LUXEMBOURG — The European Union is to give Thailand six months to drastically change its policies on illegal and unregulated fishing or face an EU seafood import ban by the end of the year.
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Pricey tea a growing niche crop in US
Business, Associated Press, Published on 15/03/2016
» BROOKHAVEN, Mississippi: After Hurricane Katrina wiped out his timber 11 years ago, Jason McDonald wanted a crop less susceptible to Mississippi's potentially powerful storms.
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Romance novellas by women challenge tradition
News, Associated Press, Published on 19/08/2016
» Nestled among vegetables, plastic kettles and hand-dyed fabric in market stalls are the signs of a feminist revolution: Piles of poorly printed books by women that advocate forcefully against conservative Muslim traditions such as child marriage and quick divorce.
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In Iran, people buy kidneys
News, Associated Press, Published on 26/08/2016
» The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimi's life but for an unusual programme in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor.
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Struggling Gaza factory turns to recycling to survive
Business, Associated Press, Published on 25/10/2016
» In the struggling Gaza Strip, Omar Ramlawi's plastic factory is one of the few businesses that has managed to stay afloat, overcoming dire shortages of raw materials by resorting to an unusual source: recycling.
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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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Ariana Grande returns to Manchester to honour victims
Associated Press, Published on 05/06/2017
» MANCHESTER -- Ariana Grande returned to the city to pay tribute with an energetic, all-star concert featuring Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Liam Gallagher two weeks after a suicide bombing killed 22 of her fans and injured dozens of others in Manchester, England.
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