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Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia's farmers fight debt bondage
AFP, Published on 02/01/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty of Cambodia's farmers.
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India's rural millions pay price of cash ban
AFP, Published on 18/11/2016
» BULANDSHAHR, INDIA - Indian farmer Zakir Khan should be sowing his winter crops now. Instead, he is stuck at home after the government's shock move to pull high-value notes out of circulation left him with no money to pay for seeds -- or feed his family.
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Bitcoin not money, US judge rules in victory for backers
AFP, Published on 06/08/2016
» NEW YORK - Bitcoin, a Florida judge says, is not real money. Ironically, that could provide a boost to use of the crypto-currency which has remained in the shadows of the financial system.
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35 minutes at a Trump campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa
News, AFP, Published on 02/02/2016
» "Turn to your neighbour and tell them why you're going to caucus for Donald Trump," one of the candidate's men instructs the hundreds of people gathered in an airport hangar in the Iowa city of Dubuque.
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China internet czar defends web policies
AFP, Published on 14/12/2015
» BEIJING - China's internet chief fiercely defended his country's strict management of the web last week, saying that censorship of content Beijing deems illegal is necessary to protect online freedoms.
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