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Pricey food, typhoon worsen Philippine poverty
Associated Press, Published on 06/03/2015
» MANILA — Poverty worsened in the Philippines in the first half of 2014 due to government restrictions on rice imports and the lingering effects of a killer typhoon, an official said Friday.
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China is now world's No. 3 arms exporter
Business, Associated Press, Published on 17/03/2015
» BEIJING: China has overtaken Germany to become the world's third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5% of the market remains small compared to the combined 58% of exports from the United States and Russia, a new study says.
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Recovery teams find Germanwings black box
Associated Press, Published on 25/03/2015
» SEYNE-LES-ALPES, FRANCE — A black box recovered from the scene and pulverised pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides held clues to what caused a German jetliner to take an unexplained eight-minute dive Tuesday midway through a flight from Spain to Germany, apparently killing all 150 people on board.
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Chinese banks a haven for web counterfeits
Associated Press, Published on 08/05/2015
» SHANGHAI — Kim Sbarcea knew exactly what she wanted. She typed “Tiffany Elsa Peretti mesh earrings” into Google and scrolled through impeccable photos of the delicate US$450 diamond-shaped earrings until she chanced upon a pair for -- deal of deals! -- $32.
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Chinese man on trial for opening aircraft door
Associated Press, Published on 12/05/2015
» Chinese air travelers have opened aircraft emergency doors without authorization 12 times so far this year during taxiing or while the plane is at a standstill, and one passenger has now been taken to court, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said Monday.
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Hackers steal 100,000 US tax records
Associated Press, Published on 27/05/2015
» WASHINGTON — Sophisticated criminals used an online service run by the Internal Revenue Service to access personal tax information from more than 100,000 US taxpayers, part of an elaborate scheme to steal identities and claim fraudulent tax refunds, the IRS said.
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Highest-paid CEOs work in the media
Business, Associated Press, Published on 28/05/2015
» NEW YORK: They're not Hollywood stars, they're not TV personalities and they don't play in a rock band, but their pay packages are in the same league.
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US firms 'less optimistic about future sales'
Business, Associated Press, Published on 21/07/2015
» WASHINGTON - US businesses took a darker outlook on sales in the coming months after sales growth slowed in the second quarter, according to a survey released yesterday.
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Certainty grows that washed-up wreckage from 'lost' MH370
Associated Press, Published on 30/07/2015
» SYDNEY – A sea-crusted wing part found on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation's most perplexing and expensive mysteries.
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Sick or swim: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2015
» RIO DE JANEIRO – Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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