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US announces crackdown on shady puppy imports

SEOUL, South Korea — Every year an untold number of dogs, raised in cramped and inhumane commercial breeding grounds known as “puppy mills,” make their way from South Korea and elsewhere into your local kennel for re-sale at premium prices, a GlobalPost investigation revealed in June.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Sep 2, 2014

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How China chokes its neighbors

FUKUOKA, Japan — When the Chinese smog arrives, the medical masks come in fashion. Every few months, this city of 1.5 million people in southern Japan, not far from mainland China, gets a dose of lung clogging courtesy of its neighbor.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

May 20, 2013

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Floating toilets to clean up Cambodia’s act

KAMPONG LUONG, Cambodia — Residents of this “floating village,” a spine of stilted shacks and huts crammed atop a tributary of the Mekong River, depend on the water below them for cooking, bathing and gathering fish for meals.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Apr 19, 2010

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