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Chinese grandmother Fu Suqing celebrated her 119th birthday on August 2 in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province of China. According to official documents, Fu Suqing was born in 1897, back when the emperor of the Qing Dynasty still ruled China. She's left behind quite a large legacy too - 68 people in her immediate family, including six children and a great-great-grandson, who was born just before her birthday.
An elderly Indian man obsessed with setting world records has removed all his teeth so he can fit 500 straws in his mouth.
Mizoram, Oct 14 (EFE/EPA).- When Tial Hnin, a Burmese refugee in India, learned about a gunfight between guerrillas and the Myanmar Army back home, the first thing he did was to contact his two sons, who joined a revolutionary rebel group.The assistant professor at the University of Hakha, the capital of the Chin region in Myanmar, fled to the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram on Sep 10, after the military regime intensified the crackdown on civilians to suppress an anti-coup uprising.His two sons joined a civil militia, known as the Chinland Defense Force, one of the groups fighting the Myanmar military after the Feb.1 coup. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: INTERVIEW WITH BURMESE REFUGEES IN THINGSAI VILLAGE, MIZORAM STATE, NEAR THE INDIA-MYANMAR BORDER. SOUND BITES: TIAL HNIN, A BURMESE REFUGEE IN INDIA; SUNG KI, WIFE OF TIAL HNIN; AND CHAN MYAE LWIN, ARCHITECT WORKING IN LUNGLER & THANTLANG TOWNS IN CHIN STATE (IN BURMESE). TRANSLATION: 1. TIAL HNIN, A BURMESE REFUGEE IN INDIA -We all worked very hard for making Myanmar a democratic state, and then just in a flash, it disappeared, I knew my sons have to stick around, stick around for the cause of democracy, they have to prove to themselves, prove it to whomever, that there is a cause to fight for. 2. SUNG KI, WIFE OF TIAL HNIN -We were physically, mentally tired. We were exhausted from running and refugee camps, being on high alert constantly. And now it looks the same, there's nowhere safe for us in Myanmar. 3.CHAN MYAE LWIN, ARCHITECT WORKING IN LUNGLER & THANTLANG TOWNS IN CHIN STATE, MYANMAR-We sought refuge here, I know New Ngharchhip is a small village with only around 100 household, how long can they provide us food. I don't know when I can go back and rebuild my career, I have just learned that my family back in Myanmar are safe at this moment, but for how long? I don't know.
India has some of the highest farmer suicide rates in the world, and experts fear the crisis could worsen if three laws affecting them aren't repealed. The new laws that they have passed, we call them death warrants of farmers and laborers. Kewal Singh Farmer, Punjab According to Business Insider, the laws deregulate the buying and selling of agricultural goods. That's led farmers to fear they will be exploited by corporations. The massive country's government is in talks with farmers, who continue to block road and rail routes across the country.
Just days before being canned by President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper denied serving as the president's yes-man in the Pentagon. According to Business Insider, Esper told the Military Times he challenges the president more than any other Cabinet-level leader. President Donald Trump fired Esper Monday, providing no reason. However, the president has previously purged officials for a perceived lack of loyalty. Esper and the Commander in Chief have locked horns on numerous issues, most notably over Esper's order to cease flying the Confederate flag on US military bases. Also, Esper also tried to distance himself from a politically-charged photo op, in which Trump awkwardly clutched a Bible in front of a church near the White House. Federal troops pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park, so the way would be cleared for Trump, Esper, and other officials to walk to the church.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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