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A fuel shortage is driving Laos which is on the brink of a debt default — to seek out cheap Russian oil
Long queues have been forming at gas stations in Laotian capital city of Vientiane as motorists scr…
Huileng Tan
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Miss Laos traveled 48 hours to compete in the Miss Universe pageant in New Orleans
Miss Laos Payengxa Lor's voyage to the competition, which takes place in New Orleans this year, inc…
Anneta Konstantinides
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Plane Crash In Laos Kills At Least 40
The flight took off from the capital, Vientiane, and was bound for the southern part of the country…
Alex Davies
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Eight men own half of the world's wealth: Oxfam
"Over the next 20 years, 500 people will hand over USD 2.1 trillion to their heirs - a sum larger t…
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An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago
Scientists were looking at how humans in southeast Asia today have some genes of an ancient human s…
Marianne Guenot
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Marico is giving ₹10 for every plastic bottle that is returned at Big Bazaar outlets in Mumbai
Marico has partnered with Future Retail’s format Big Bazaar to launch a plastic recycling program ‘…
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One of the biggest meteorite crashes in Earth's history flung debris across 3 continents 800,000 years ago. Scientists finally found the crater.
Then they measured gravitational fields around the Bolaven Plateau. Sure enough, the researchers fo…
Aylin Woodward
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All Of The Pirate Bay's Founders Are Now Behind Bars
Another co-founder, Peter Sunde, was arrested in May 2014 when Swedish police raided the farm he wa…
James Cook
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A Pirate Bay co-founder has been released from prison
The 37-year-old Swede was first found guilty of copyright infringements by a Swedish court in 2009,…
Rob Price
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The Rarest Mammal On The Planet Was Spotted In Vietnam
The saola was first discovered in 1992 in Vietnam near its border with Laos when a survey team from…
Dina Spector
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I traveled to 7 countries this year. Here are 3 places I'd love to return to in 2024.
Places like Portugal and Thailand offered such great solo travel experiences that I'd love to revis…
Dominique Mills
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Silk Road smuggling
Other forms of illegal activity are rife. Weapons smuggling is on the rise; signs written on walls …
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Obama breaks into laughter when reporter asks him to respond to Trump's thoughts on his legacy
Obama's reaction to Trump's attack on his legacy comes as the real-estate magnate has attempted to …
Maxwell Tani
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How This Education Entrepreneur Learned To Scale Idealism
So in October 2008, he founded Pencils of Promise, an education nonprofit that's now built more tha…
Drake Baer
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An inmate who helped fight California's wildfires is now facing deportation
Bounchan Keola, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison when he was 16, wants to stay in the US and…
Kelly McLaughlin
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21 stunning Instagram photos that show the true beauty of Asia
As western tourists and backpackers flock to the far-off continent, they're kind enough to keep us …
Charles Clark
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16 trips everyone should take in Asia in 2017
Clearly there's no shortage of things to do and see, which is why we narrowed it down to create the…