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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s central bank held interest rates at a record low 1.50 percent Tuesday after annual inflation moved back into its target range, as it treads water ahead of the federal budget next week. The Reserve Bank of Australia slashed 300 basis points from borrowing costs between November 2011 and August last year to support non-resources industries as the economy transitions out of a mining investment boom. It has remained on […]
LOPBURI, THAILAND (Reuters) — A province in Thailand famous for its monkey population laid out an annual fruit buffet on Sunday (November 27) to thank them for bringing in tourists and helping the local economy. The event in Lopburi province, also known as the “Monkey Province”, is for the thousands of Crab-eating Macaques, also known as Long-tailed Monkeys, which live there. The monkeys have the run of the town, climbing over buildings and onto visitors. […]
by Benjamin CARLSON YULIN, China (AFP) — International groups and celebrities, backed by millions of foreign petitioners, have rallied against an annual dog meat festival in the Chinese city of Yulin: but the protests may have backfired, residents say, spurring more people to eat man’s best friend. “My store’s dog-meat sales are much higher than before, last year was up more than 50 percent,” the owner of Yulin Number One Crackling Dog Meat Shop told […]
