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Marketplace® is your liaison between economics and life. Noted for timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business news across both audio and digital platforms, Marketplace programs are heard by more than 14 million weekly listeners. This makes the Marketplace portfolio the most widely heard business or economic programming in the country. Via Andy Dorn 
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Evenly spread over all of the world’s mountains, deserts and other terrains, we would be standing 150 metres away from our nearest neighbours. In the most densely populated cities – from Dhaka to Medellin – we’re right on top of them Via Andy Dorn
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The glossy advertising around high-end building sites in major cities show expensive developments bustling with white thirtysomethings. Who are they aimed at, exactly? Via Andy Dorn
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Over Memorial Day weekend, when The New York Times tracked every shooting in Chicago, the largest concentration of them was in the city’s 11th police district. But why? Via Andy Dorn
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A wealthy central London council is being accused of social cleansing over plans to move some of the area's poorest residents miles out of the borough. Conservative-controlled Westminster City Council has approved plans to buy 24 new one- and two-bed flats 11 miles away in Hounslow town centre despite the protests of its Labour-controlled local authority. Via Andy Dorn
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Latest news, politics, business and sport from Thailand and Asean, plus features, opinion and multimedia from across Southeast Asia. Via Andy Dorn
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Traffic jams in Bangkok and other big cities waste about 97 million baht worth of fuel each day on average, about 35 billion baht a year, according to the chairman of a National Reform Steering Assembly... Via Andy Dorn
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As city populations rapidly swell, our ability to prevent and control infectious disease will come under ever greater strain Via Andy Dorn
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Special report: With just weeks to go until the start of the Games is it possible to assess exactly how this city of more than 6 million has really been impacted – for good and bad – by the awarding of the Olympics? Jonathan Watts and Bruce Douglas visit five key sections of the city to assess the event’s likely legacy, and hear tales of corruption, hope and claims of thousands of families displaced Via Andy Dorn
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Johnny Miller used a drone to take aerial photographs of the gulf in living conditions for the poor and the wealthy in South Africa Via Andy Dorn
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Latest news, politics, business and sport from Thailand and Asean, plus features, opinion and multimedia from across Southeast Asia. Via Andy Dorn
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Thailand is bracing itself for an even worse 2016 with experts warning the number of infections may be on par with the 1987 mega-outbreak. Via Andy Dorn
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Johnny Miller has caused quite a stir with his aerial images of South Africa’s divided communities. He explains the origins of the Unequal Scenes project Via Andy Dorn
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New research indicates the benefits of eating omega-3 fatty acids, but also that pollution particles can penetrate the lungs into many organs, including testicles Via Andy Dorn
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When thick smog recently hit, Londoners were advised to avoid exercise, while Parisians got free public transport. Which is the best solution? Via Andy Dorn, Alexandra Piggott
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Kenya, the largest economy in East Africa, has some of the starkest inequality in the region. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Nairobi, where the wealthy and middle class live and work next to slums housing some of the country's poorest. American photographer Johnny Miller, supported by Code for Africa and the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Slumscapes project, ha Via Andy Dorn
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Latest news, politics, business and sport from Thailand and Asean, plus features, opinion and multimedia from across Southeast Asia. Via Andy Dorn
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Researchers in Melbourne have used new eye-tracking technology to demonstrate that our brains prefer lush greenery in urban environments. But here they warn that collection of such data could prove a double-edged sword Via Andy Dorn
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Although street food has long been synonymous with Bangkok, the city is steadily sweeping the sidewalks clean of its vendors. Via Andy Dorn
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Toxic fumes may be the primary cause of skin ageing in polluted cities such as London, New York and Beijing, scientists say Via Andy Dorn
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Latest news, politics, business and sport from Thailand and Asean, plus features, opinion and multimedia from across Southeast Asia. Via Andy Dorn
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The Evolution Of South Africa's Skyscraper Slum http://testu.be/1LDJ60n Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml According to the UN, almost a billion peopl Via Andy Dorn
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The number of annual deaths caused by pollution around the world is now greater than malaria and HIV combined, according to a recent study, with scientists warning that fatalities could reach 6 million a year by 2050 Via Andy Dorn
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