In Mongolia, 'ninjas' struggle to make a living
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ZAMAAR, Mongolia -- Oyungerel crouches among the rocks and sand in the river bed, scouring for the means to send her children to college.
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PADANG, Indonesia - Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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It is often said, with some justification, that Afghanistan isnât so much a single country as a collection of fiefdoms, each run by a local warlord.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Perhaps they should have seen it coming, but Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.
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PORONG, Indonesia -- For nine months, a gaping hole in the ground has spit out a torrent of hot, black mud, swallowing thousands of houses outside Indonesia's second-largest city and attracting amazed geologists from around the world.
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As the roar of heavy chainsaws echoes in the distance, 54-year-old Ajang Kiew, once a nomadic Penan tribesman, wages a losing battle to save his culture in Borneo's rainforests.
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The death knell for Mongolia's garment industry will ring on Jan. 1, when a decades-old global quota system is to end, bringing with it a harsh competitive order.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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Top Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is tackling martial arts subjects these days with such enthusiasm that one critic swears that knives, swords and spears fly through his latest film with the force of "fatal Frisbees."
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TRENTON, N.J. - For Tirso Furcal, having a sixth finger projecting from one hand and an extra toe on each foot made life in his impoverished country, the Dominican Republic, even more difficult.
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Militants in the country's tribal belt seem to be maneuvering for time and space, analysts say.
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A co-op of painters in Tibet are attempting to remake a culture bound by centuries of tradition and hemmed in by narrow stereotypes.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Learn to move like a shadow and hurl deadly metal stars at your enemies from a Japanese ninja master -- the latest offering for holiday thrill-seekers.
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A TRADITIONAL Oriental ritual helped to dispel
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DUOLUN COUNTY, China  - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner Mongolian village where his family had lived for three generations.
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The country's labor force is stalling as urban workers, tired of paltry pay and rat-infested apartments, seek higher wages and better conditions in rural areas.
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ZHUANGZITOU, China  - Xiao Wei's family is struggling to ensure their little girl will have more than a primary education, but in the villages of northwestern China, the odds are stacked against her.