Forest bus With moss-covered seats surrounded by vibrant flowers wrapped around poles, Taiwan’s ‘forest bus’ is now charming passengers with a lush green ride. Florist Alfie Lin has decorated an ordinary single-deck city bus with moss, orchids, ginger lilies and a variety of ferns, converting it into
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Floating school in ManipurAt Champu Khangpok, a village in Manipur, children and illiterate adults find it interesting to go to school, as it floats on the Loktak fresh water lake. This elementary school is an initiative of the All Loktak Lake Fisherman’s Union, supported by an NGO
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MJ: highest earning dead celebrityThe late King of Pop Michael Jackson tops the Forbes list of highest-paid deceased celebrities. His after-life fortune includes the sealing of a $750 million deal for his share of the Beatles’ music rights to Sony earlier this year
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NGO bags UNESCO literacy prizeJan Sikshan Sansthan (JSS), an NGO based in Malappuram, Kerala, bagged the UNESCO Confucius prize for Literacy for their focused skill-development programmes for citizens to improve their employability. Over 50,000 villagers have been trained so far, of which 40,000
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