A bank in India is helping sex workers save their money for a brighter future. MOREINFO: The bank was started by a sex-worker collective in the heart of Mumbai's red light district. More than 1,200 sex workers now hold accounts at the Sangini Women's Co-operative Society bank, which will soon in...
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Actors Jackie Chan and Pu Cunxin and folksinger Peng Liyuan are preparing to tackle a taboo. Their new Public Service Announcements call for safe and protected sex using condoms. The Life is Too Good series of announcements are part of a drive to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Pu Cunxin wa...
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Touchscreen phones led by Apple are becoming the mobile sector's next killer application, and Asian makers and consumers are increasingly joining the party. Peter Chou, CEO of world No.1 smartphone maker High Tech Computer, is launching its Diamond touchscreens in Asia and the U.S. later this ye...
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TRIBUTE TO MADS MAGIC !!! Mumbai 3 Dec (ANI): Actress Mallika Sherawat seems to be the first choice of film makers when they wish to pay their tributes to any actor - be it sex siren Helen’s Mehbooba track or Madhuri Dixit’s ‘Choli ke Peechhe…’ act. Mallika is all set to recreate the famous o...
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Japan pledged fresh measures on Monday to try to shield the world's second-biggest economy from the financial crisis and said the Group of Seven would issue a joint statement on the yen, which has risen rapidly as investors flee riskier investments. mediascrape Kitty Bu, reporting for Reuters.
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Wall Street is not out of the woods yet, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. He told lawmakers the upheaval in financial markets continue but government officials are working to restore order. Meantime, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is also on Capitol Hill telling lawmakers reg...
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SAN-EPISODE # 2836 DATED 26 NOVEMBER 2008 WELCOME TO SOUTH ASIA NEWS LINE. I AM ARJUN CHAUDHURI WITH THE DAY’S NEWS….. THE TOP STORIES … HEADLINES PAKISTAN FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN NEW DELHI…. REITERATES RESOLVE TO IMPROVE BILATERAL TIES 500,000 INDIAN TEXTILE WORKERS MAY LOSE JOBS I...
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Kochi, October 10 (ANI): Thomas Easaw, an engineer and part-time singer in Kochi, has come out with a music album, praising the US democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama. mediascrape
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Mallika to do a Madhubala in comic Mughal-e-Azam New Delhi, Jan 9 (ANI): Mallika Sherawat seems all set to want to murder her sexy image. Mallika is geared up to step into Madhubala's shoes for her soon to be released comedy venture of 2008 MAAN GAYE Mughal-E-Azam. And the film will see her a...
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<p>Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was gunned down Thursday by an attacker who then blew himself up, killing at least 20 others.</p> <p>The assassination of Bhutto sparked riots across the country, with at least six people reported killed in the ensuing violence.&...
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A silent, 15-minute black-and-white Marilyn Monroe sex film will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for $1.5 million. Memorabilia collector Keya Morgan said he recently arranged the sale of film from the son of a dead FBI informant who possessed it to a wealthy...
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Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said he was informed Sunday by his counterpart in Afghanistan that a new family law, which critics say legalizes marital rape, has been halted and will be revised. </p> - <p> "A decision was made to halt this legislation, and at the same time s...
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India's sex workers Bank
