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		<title>World&#8217;s &#8216;Most Expensive&#8217; Tea Grown in Chinese Panda Poo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi is convinced he has found the key ingredient to produce the world&#8217;s most expensive tea &#8211; panda poo. The former calligraphy teacher has purchased 11 tonnes of excrement from a panda breeding centre to fertilise a tea crop in the mountains of Sichuan province in southwestern China, home to the black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yogi Bends Over Backwards for Afghan Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When 30 Afghan prison guards took a break from warden duties to try yoga, they lunged sideways in unison to meditate on pursuing a more peaceful existence in Afghanistan. The unusual scene was orchestrated by French yoga enthusiast Amandine Roche, on a personal quest to promote the idea that for fighting to end and battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Life Usurps Reality as Technology Exacts Toll</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People right across Asia are becoming deathly obsessed with internet-based gadgets, writes Philip Lim A baby girl starves to death as her parents raise a virtual child online; a boy scolded for excessive gaming kills his mother then commits suicide &#8211; technology addiction is taking a toll in Asia. With more 100 million &#8220;smartphones&#8221; now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Purported Amorous Quality, a Bountiful New Idea Is Flowering in Bali</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Bali Times</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple flower is improving the lives of Bali’s poorest, writes Karin Vogt Just three years ago, it was one man’s vision to bring the extremely dry, desert-like mountain slopes of Muntigunung in northeast Bali to life by growing wild hibiscus. The idea was to provide the very poor local farmers in the area with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Bali, There’s Profit from Soul-Searching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Bali Times</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a Hindu yogi once meant renouncing worldly pleasures for a life of solitary meditation and wandering the jungle in search of union with god, but today’s new-age yogis wander the globe from one retreat to another, stay in luxury hotels and preach to the converted masses through a headset microphone, writes Angela Dewan At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia’s Luxury Kopi Luwak Brews Global Demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The country’s self-proclaimed &#8220;King of Luwak&#8221; is having a hard time keeping up with demand around the world for the beans excreted by his stable of pampered civet cats, writes Alvin Soedarjo Demand for coffee brewed with beans plucked from the dung of the furry, weasel-like creatures &#8211; known locally as luwaks &#8211; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourists Flock to Ubud’s Eat, Pray, Love Sage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providence smiled on Balinese seer Ketut Liyer the day American tourist Elizabeth Gilbert came to visit &#8211; her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, would make him richer than he ever dreamed, writes Sandra Lacut The fortune teller said to be aged in his 90s &#8211; no one knows exactly &#8211; was a poor man when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Country Club Chrysalis, a Dazzling Metamorphosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ambitious property established by a Bali expatriate who was soon after claimed by brain cancer has overcome near bankruptcy to emerge as a solid business, as one of its directors tells The Bali Times It is not yet five years old &#8212; still an infant in the world of long-established businesses &#8212; but two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Ashes of Disaster, Tourism Rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Javanese villagers who survived the violent eruptions of Mt Merapi last year are tapping into the macabre market for disaster tourism to help rebuild their shattered lives, reports Alvin Soedarjo Suwarni lost her house and father-in-law when Mt Merapi in Central Java burst into life in October and November, killing more than 350 people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesian Lives with a French Twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 7,000 Indonesians currently live in the French territory of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific as a result of a relatively little-known chapter in the history of Indonesia, writes University of Tasmania Indonesian culture and language lecturer Pam Allen Aged 65 and still working as an engineer in Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, [...]]]></description>
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