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Berlin Facetime: Director Lance Daly on Black 47

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Lance Daly’s “Black 47” is a potent mix of social drama and violent revenge story, centering its intense action during Ireland’s Great Famine. Daly recruited an exceptionally strong cast for “Black 47,” including Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Jim Broadbent, Moe Dunford and Barry Keoghan. Read More...

Buhari Directs Increase Of Beneficiaries From 500,000 To 1m

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The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has been directed by President Muhammadu Buhari to increase N-Power beneficiaries from 500, 000 to 1,000,000. The Minister in charge of the ministry, Sadiya Farouq, while speaking on the development on Monday, noted that the directive is part of the President’s promise to lift 100m Nigerians from poverty in the next 10 years. Farouq added that Buhari also ordered an increase in the number of beneficiaries of the Home-Grown School Feeding by 5,000,000. Read More...

Burma's Mong La: Debauched Haven of Drugs, Prostitution and Gambling

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Mong La’s degeneracy became all too apparent straight after check-in. On the hotel carpet, in the doorway of Room 286, lay a calling card advertising prostitutes as young as 16. The flat-screen TV shows round-the-clock porn — mostly Japanese housewives punctuated by bronzed American couples — and a sign by the bed lists hotlines serving up yet more sex with teenagers. “We’ve got girls aged 15,” said the Yunnanese madam who runs the massage parlor cum brothel adjoining the Ba Lai Hotel. Read More...