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60 tourists stranded at Malay resort
Reuters, Published on 24/12/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR — Nearly 60 foreign tourists are among almost 100 people stranded at a resort in a Malaysian national park lashed by its heaviest rainfall in more than four decades, staff said on Wednesday as authorities sent boats and a helicopter to rescue them.
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Hun Sen imperils truce with jail threat
Reuters, Published on 19/01/2015
» PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen took a swipe at the country's opposition Monday and threatened its lawmakers with jail, accusing it of breaching terms of a political truce that now looks increasingly precarious.
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Ocean heatwave harming world's coral reefs
Reuters, Published on 09/10/2015
» OSLO -- Coral reefs are suffering a severe underwater heatwave this year for the third time on record, including a mysterious warm patch in the Pacific known as "The Blob", scientists say.
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11 activists to be charged
Reuters, Published on 21/12/2015
» Thai police on Monday said they will charge 11 activists who tried to stage a protest over suspected corruption in an army-built park with illegal assembly as allegations of irregularities in the park's funding persist.
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South Korean market set for record IPO year
Business, Reuters, Published on 29/03/2016
» HONG KONG: Riding a Seoul stocks revival, some of South Korea's biggest family firms are set to clean house this year with multi-billion dollar initial public offerings that will fire the country to a record year for new listings.
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Brexit bargains attract buyers
Business, Reuters, Published on 17/08/2016
» LONDON: Price cuts of nearly 20% and a drop in the value of the pound have created "Brexit discount" bargains on some of the most expensive homes in central London -- if you have millions of pounds to spare.
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Oil drilling begins in rainforest
Business, Reuters, Published on 09/09/2016
» TIPUTINI, Ecuador: Ecuador began drilling for oil on Wednesday near an Amazon nature reserve known as Yasuni, a site that President Rafael Correa had previously sought to protect from development and pollution under a pioneering conservation plan.
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UN slams Thai 'culture of torture'
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2017
» GENEVA - Thailand has dropped legislation to criminalise torture and disappearances after years of working on the bill, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, leaving state employees unaccountable for serious crimes.
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Floods in India's northeast kill 40; endanger rare rhinos
Reuters, Published on 13/07/2017
» GUWAHATI, India -- Floods in northeast India that have killed at least 40 people and displaced nearly 1.5 million have also inundated a national park that is home to the world's largest concentration of one-horned rhinoceros.
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Eclipse chasers put small US towns on the map
Business, Reuters, Published on 20/07/2017
» Driggs, Idaho: Hyrum Johnson, mayor of the tiny city of Driggs, Idaho, expects some craziness in his one-stoplight town next month when the moon passes in front of the sun for the first total solar eclipse in the lower 48 US states since 1979.
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