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Hong Kong's paper crafters work overtime to feed hungry ghosts  Monday, Aug 26, 2013 11:30 PM PDT By Grace Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - At a workshop in an old Hong Kong neighborhood, paper craftsman Ha Chung-kin uses delicate sheets of paper and sticks of bamboo to fashion a huge, expensive boat that will soon be consigned to the flames. The Hungry Ghosts festival that has prompted Ha's exquisite labors centers on a superstition that the spirits of the dead return to Earth during the seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, which runs from August 7 to September 4 this year. ... Full Story	Top
Blundering Peruvian team in another moment of farce  Monday, Aug 26, 2013 12:23 PM PDT (Reuters) - The coach of hapless Peruvian side Union Comercio said his team deserved to go into the Guinness Book of Records after they conceded a slapstick goal for the third week in a row. "I don't think anything like this has happened to any team in the world," Edgar Ospina, whose side are one off the bottom of the Peruvian championship, told the website of El Comercio newspaper (www.elcomercio.com). "We deserve to be in the Guinness Book of Records. I've never seen anything like it. ... Full Story	Top

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