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By AFP As civil war pounds Myanmar’s economy and drives up prices, garment worker Ma Wai Wai often starts her shift making clothes for international brands on an empty stomach. The orders she and thousands of others churn out for big names including Adidas, H&M and others bring in billions of dollars in export earnings […]
A civil war is devastating Myanmar, but thousands of garment workers in the country still churn out clothing for brands like Adidas and H&M. Photo: Ye Aung THU / AFP/FileSource: AFP As civil war pounds Myanmar’s economy and drives up prices, garment worker Wai Wai often starts her shift making clothes for international brands on […]
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A major storm swept across the northwest US, battering the region with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages and downing trees that killed at least two people. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect as the strongest atmospheric river — a large plume […]
Shazam has now officially surpassed over 100 billion song recognitions since it launched. To help put that into perspective: That’s equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth. A person would need to use Shazam to identify a song every second for 3,168 years to reach 100 billion. That’s more than 2,200x the […]
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