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101 cremations: the rise of Bangkok's Buddhist pet funerals

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What America Celebrates on Thanksgiving

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A pint or a prayer? Monks in Japan put Buddhism on the menu

The hum of conversation and the clinking of spoons and coffee cups fills the wood-panelled cafe in a fashionable Tokyo neighborhood as more than a dozen customers sip drinks and nibble desserts.

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Sri Lankan southern town tense after communal riots leave 3 dead

Hundreds of army, police and police special forces deployed in the southern Sri Lankan town of Aluthgama dispersed a large Buddhist mob on Monday as communal riot that killed three and wounded about 80 continued despite an indefinite curfew.