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Costa swaps Olympic volunteer role for pole vault berth

Brazilian pole vaulter Joana Costa has revealed she planned to participate at the Rio Olympics as a volunteer before securing a late berth as an athlete.

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Brazilian police break up Olympic ticket touts network

Brazil's police broke up on Thursday a gang of ticket touts reselling admissions to the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro.

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Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York

Free service DoNotPay helps appeal over $4m in parking fines in just 21 months, but is just the tip of the legal AI iceberg for its 19-year-old creator

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Scalpers selling Shanghai Disney resort tickets for as much as $600

Scalpers are cashing in on the huge demand for admission on the opening day of the Shanghai Disneyland park on June 16 by asking several thousand yuan for a ticket.

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Brazil gov't seeks urgent solutions to sell Olympic tickets

The Brazilian government is highly concerned with low ticket sales ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with only five months to go before the opening of the largest sporting event in the world, the country's interim Minister of Sports, Ricardo Leyser, admitted on Sunday.

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Rio 2016 Paralympic tickets go on sale

The first batch of tickets for next year's Paralympic Games has gone on sale to Brazilian residents, organizers said on Monday.

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Brazil residents request 5.2 million Olympic tickets

​Brazilian residents applied for 5.2 million tickets during the first sales phase, organizers said on Thursday.

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Chinese police nab five for making, selling fake train tickets

Chinese police have busted a major group making and selling counterfeit railway tickets and detained five suspects on criminal charges, according to a Sunday statement from the Ministry of Public Security.

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Rio launches Olympic ticket program

The first batch of tickets for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be made available to Brazilian residents in March, organizers said on Thursday.

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Love and travel in the air on Valentine's Day

Train tickets for Valentine's Day – Feb 14 – are predicted to be the hardest-to-get based on statistics, according to Beijing-based Internet technology company Qihu 360.

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Crime thriller "No Good Deed" commands first place in North American box office

Sony's low-budget horror film "No Good Deed," starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, secured the top place in the North American box office, with an estimated tickets earning of 24.5 million U.S. dollars over the weekend.

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Xinjiang orders real-name bus ticket purchases

Police and transport authorities in China's far western Xinjiang region have ordered bus ticket purchases under real names starting next month.

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An easier journey home for students

While postgraduate student Chen Junjie looks forward to the approaching winter vacation, he worries how he will get his hands on a train ticket home.

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Travel rush train ticket sales break record

The China Railway Corporation said on Monday that 154.62 million train tickets to be used during the 40-day travel period around Spring Festival have been sold so far since Dec. 23.

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Travel rush train ticket sales surge

The China Railway Corporation said on Sunday that an average of 7.43 million train tickets have been sold a day since fares went on sale for the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush, with this figure up 20.3 percent year on year.