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Mohammad Asif’s nightmarish adventure in international cricket continues. Languishing with a prolonged trial, in tears over his fate, Asif must wait some more to know of his future.
Asif’s life has not been easy since the..
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Rising prices for opium in Southeast Asia and the global economic downturn may trigger a surge in the cultivation of the illegal drug in Myanmar, which until recently...
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A friend has a great story about Englishman James Brett and his one-man mission to convert Afghanistan’s poppy fields into a pomegranate cash crop. In 2007, he...
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In this March, 1999 file photo, Myanmar soldiers and civilians use sticks to cut the opium poppies in a jungle field in Shan State, northeast of Myanmar. Rising prices for opium in Southeast Asia and the global economic downturn may trigger a surge in...
