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The European Council on Tourism and Trade (ECTT) has named Cambodia as the World Best Tourism Destination for 2016.   Some 30 countries joined the competition for the illustrious award this year, an ECTT press release issued late Wednesday said, adding that Cambodia presented its...

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The accounts of Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder and CEO of social media giant Facebook, on Twitter and Pinterest were compromised over the weekend, a media report said.   The hacker group 'OurMine Team' behind the hacking claimed that it was possible due to the LinkedIn password dump that...

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Nina Martin (ProPublica) 06 June 2016
Sixteen months after her arrest, Katie Darovitz 2014 one of at least 500 women prosecuted under Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation chemical endangerment law 2014 has had her case dismissed.   Darovitz's story, first chronicled by ProPublica last year, was especially wrenching: She has...

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Asia contains literally four billion people. So it's kind of weird that every time I visit the West, people say: "You're from Asia? I met a guy from there once; I wonder if you know him?" The really weird thing is that I always do.   Talking of East-West issues, at a writers' festival...

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Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu  and   Lauren Kirchner (ProPublica) 01 June 2016
Courtrooms across the nation are using computer programs to predict who will be a future criminal. The programs help inform decisions on everything from bail to sentencing. They are meant to make the criminal justice system fairer 2014 and to weed out human biases.   ProPublica tested...

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The Quaker Oats Company (a subsidiary of food and beverage giant PepsiCo), has also made a rather embarrassing gaffe on the trademark enforcement front,  on the heels of a recall for its Quaker Quinoa Granola Bars. And unfortunately, demand letters are far more difficult to...

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Abrahm Lustgarten (ProPublica) 23 May 2016
Wedged between Arizona and Utah, less than 20 miles up river from the Grand Canyon, a soaring concrete wall nearly the height of two football fields blocks the flow of the Colorado River. There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 200 miles of plasma-red...

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Nury Vittachi (IANS) 20 May 2016
I never used to be a risk-taker but then I had children who would play in the park and say things like: "Daddy, close your eyes and open your mouth." You soon learn what true courage is.   A gutsy decision was made recently: a couple who got top score on a farm-themed mobile phone...

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Sarah Smith (ProPublica) 20 May 2016
When record-high floodwaters hit counties across Mississippi in March, over 650 homes sustained major damage or were destroyed entirely. People fled for shelters, and roadways were washed out. State officials told the press the damage was the most widespread they'd seen since Hurricane...

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An EgyptAir flight with 66 people on board heading from Paris to Cairo disappeared from the radar on Thursday.   There was a distress call from the flight at 4.26 a.m., nearly two hours after the plane disappeared from the radar, the airline said in a statement.   The plane...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 19 May 2016
Google “Silicon Valley.” Go ahead, we’ll wait. You might expect some interesting news about the tech center of the universe to pop up. Sure enough, it does.   Notice these “headlines” in a slider on the page: Stanford Robotics Reports “Bam-Bot” Damaged in Field...

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Joe Sexton (ProPublica) 18 May 2016
I didn't get to do a lot of original reporting in 1985 as a clerk on United Press International's sports desk in New York. My job was to move copy and box scores to our client newspapers as fast as possible, and so every night I took dictation from sportswriters around the country 2013 at...

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Almost a year after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Himalayan nation of Nepal, a new international report says a staggering 4,312 landslides were triggered by the temblor and aftershocks.   It says the major destruction by the landslides was of newly-developed...

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The main runway at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here was closed for operations after a Lufthansa flight suffered four tyre bursts late Friday, officials said on Saturday.   The Mumbai International Airport Ltd. has opened up the secondary runway for regular operations...

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Sarah Smith (ProPublica) 11 May 2016
The Obama administration has roundly criticized states such as North Carolina and Mississippi for passing laws that allow discrimination in the name of religious freedom. But at the same time, the administration has left in place a 2007 memo from the Bush White House that allows religious...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 22 April 2016
Federal action could spell the end of emergency room reality television   NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has agreed to pay a $2.2 million penalty to federal regulators for allowing television crews to film two patients without their consent 2013 one who was dying, the other in...

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Cezary Podkul  and   Marcelo Rochabrun (ProPublica) 15 April 2016
The move comes after a ProPublica investigation that documented how the government was making it hard for disabled borrowers to get their loans forgiven   The federal Department of Education said on Tuesday it would offer to write off $7.7 billion of student debt owed by disabled...

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The company calls this new device the Facebook Surround360, and this summer, it will give away both the camera's hardware designs and the complex software for free   Taking the video recording to a next level, social media giant Facebook unveiled its own 360-degree stereoscopic 3D...

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Hawking and Milner made the joint announcement at a press conference held at One World Observatory in New York City on Tuesday, Xinhua reported   World-renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday teamed up with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook founder Mark...

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Under the plans all multinational companies with a turnover greater than 750 million euros would be obliged to meet tougher standards on public disclosure   Tax avoidance by multinational corporations will be forced into the open under proposals to be unveiled by European regulators...

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