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To match feature HEALTHFOOD-ASIA/
08 Jul 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A man inspects organic bananas from central Taiwan which are five times more expensive than regular bananas at an organic food chain store in Taipei June 30, 2009. Affluence and sedentary lifestyles have brought health problems such as obesity and diabetes to Asia, prompting locals to fill up their shopping carts with products such as oats, yoghurt and vitamins. Picture taken June 30, 2009. To match feature HEALTHFOOD-ASIA/ REUTERS/Pichi Chuang (TAIWAN SOCIETY HEALTH)
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Wu'er Kaixi, an exiled Uighur and a former student leader who escaped to Taiwan after China's 1989, June 4 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, gestures while talking to the journalists during a ...


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