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Extreme piercing cleanses souls at Phuket vegetarian festival
AFP, Published on 27/09/2022
» Taoist devotees had body parts pierced with objects ranging from skewers and swords to a model ship on Tuesday as Phuket's Vegetarian Festival returned from a two-year Covid-19 pandemic hiatus.
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Ancient skeleton reveals amputation surgery 31,000 years ago
AFP, Published on 08/09/2022
» TOKYO: A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation surgery was successfully carried out about 31,000 years ago, scientists said Wednesday.
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Japan's baby hatch hospital offers mothers 'last resort'
AFP, Published on 22/07/2022
» KUMAMOTO, Japan: When the alarm sounds at Jikei hospital in southern Japan, nurses race down a spiral staircase. Their mission: to rescue an infant left in the country's only baby hatch.
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NYPD unit that inspired 'Law & Order: SVU' faces gender bias probe
AFP, Published on 01/07/2022
» NEW YORK: The US Justice Department will investigate the New York police agency that inspired the hit TV show "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," over its treatment of sexual assault victims.
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Famed Hong Kong floating restaurant towed away after half a century
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the city Tuesday after years of revitalisation efforts went nowhere.
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Pregnancy trap for workers in controversial Japan scheme
AFP, Published on 12/04/2022
» TOKYO: When Vanessa, a worker with Japan's "technical intern" programme, told her supervisors she was pregnant, she says they first suggested an abortion and then pressured her to quit.
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Asia's biggest flower market makes stars out of influencers
AFP, Published on 06/12/2021
» KUNMING: Boxes of roses, lilies and carnations pile up as influencer Caicai speaks into her smartphone from a small studio at Asia's biggest flower market -- with thousands of customers eagerly awaiting her view on the best deals.
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Egypt unveils Pharaonic 'Rams Road' at Karnak Temple
AFP, Published on 26/11/2021
» LUXOR: Egypt unveiled on Thursday a road lined with hundreds of ram-headed sphinx statues dating back more than 3,000 years, in a grandiose night-time ceremony at Karnak Temple in archaeologically-rich Luxor.
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Brazil football crash survivor finds new life in music
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» SAO PAULO: Jakson Follmann remembers the moment the plane's engine died and everything went black. Then, an intense pain, and cold rain falling on his body.
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Florida bans transgender women from school sports
AFP, Published on 02/06/2021
» MIAMI - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in girls and women's sports at public schools in his southern US state.
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