Living with earthquakes Located in the most earthquake-prone region of the world, Japan lives through earthquakes of smaller magnitude almost every passing week.
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Looting a continent Laws allow foreign companies to contribute very little in the way of taxes, quite lawfully, to the Kenyan economy.
Rearing to invent China does not want to make other people's products forever. It plans to start inventing products of its own.
A world of fantasy... A Taiwanese couple poses for photographers at the Taipei Comics Festival on Sunday in Taipei, Taiwan. Participants dressed as characters from comics, animation, and online role-play games for a hobby. AP
The government has taken a decision to ban smoking in work places, and also in homes if the maids object. Is it possible to implement the ban?
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