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Hard life among the dead in Philippines
New York Times, Published on 26/06/2017
» MANILA -- Manila North Cemetery, opened in 1904, is one of the oldest and largest in the Philippines. Its elaborate mausoleums and endless rows of humble, stacked tombs are home to an estimated 1 million of the dead -- and a few thousand of the living.
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Trump weighs new travel order
New York Times, Published on 11/02/2017
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump vowed on Friday to order new security measures by next week intended to stop terrorists from entering the United States, even as aides debated whether to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate his original ban blocked by lower courts.
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Man to serve up to five years for attacking American
New York Times, Published on 29/10/2016
» MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A Thai man will serve a maximum of five years in prison after pleading guilty to obscene behaviour and causing serious injury to a New York tourist, who fell off a cliff in southern Thailand as she fled his initial attack, authorities said Friday.
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Pharmacy in Paris is now tourist hot spot
New York Times, Published on 21/09/2016
» PARIS: A to-do list for a South Korean tourist visiting Paris:
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Swarovski, maker of all things bejewelled, tries on a hoodie
Business, New York Times, Published on 15/10/2016
» A group of millennial programmers swapped jokes recently in their office's well-stocked kitchen while preparing salads for a weekly barbecue. Others mingled around a new foosball table, playfully arguing over the prospective teams.
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Smuggled mobile phones become lifeline to outside world
News, New York Times, Published on 28/03/2016
» The man drove Ju Chan-yang to a mountain overlooking North Korea's border with China. He looked around, making sure they were alone. Then he dialled his Chinese cellphone and handed it to her.
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Cambodia’s new cultural jewel
Life, New York Times, Published on 28/01/2016
» The giant mural in the foyer depicting a smiling stone face offers a mere taste of the grandiosity within the new Angkor Panorama Museum here. Inside, a 360-degree painted vista covers an area the size of nearly four basketball courts. Over 45,000 figures populate this cyclorama, a depiction of 12th century Angkorian history.
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Lionsgate seeks to build on film properties with theme parks
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2015
» Three years ago, as the first Hunger Games movie was breaking box-office records, Jon Feltheimer, the chief executive of Lions Gate Entertainment, asked his lieutenants to investigate ways to turn their hit movie into a Disneyland-style ride.
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Giving guests what they need
New York Times, Published on 30/09/2015
» Investing at record levels, owners of hotels across the United States are doing everything from rewiring their rooms and buying smart TVs, to replacing bathtubs with more easily maintained walk-in showers.
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Lotte tower rises, and leery Koreans watch
Business, New York Times, Published on 20/07/2015
» SEOUL: For people hiking in the hills around Seoul, it is an unmistakable sight: the Lotte World Tower taking shape like a gigantic bamboo shoot.
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