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A visitor tries an iPhone at an Apple store in Beijing March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
By Team Folks On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
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Apple apologizes to Chinese consumers, revamps service

By Terril Yue Jones and Poornima Gupta BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Apr 1, 2013 10:03pm EDT (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook apologized to Chinese consumers on Monday and altered iPhone warranty More...

Argentinian author and illustrator Isol poses in this undated handout picture. REUTERS/Xavier Martin/Handout
By Team Folks On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
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Argentina’s Isol wins world’s biggest children’s book prize

STOCKHOLM | Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:27pm IST (Reuters) – Argentinian author and illustrator Isol won the world’s biggest prize for children’s literature on Tuesday with the jury for the Astrid Lindgren More...

A man stands guard at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power in Guhagar Village, about 600 km (373 miles) from [Mumbai] in this April 11, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Files
By Team Folks On Monday, April 1st, 2013
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Gail signs deal with Dominion for U.S. natural gas

A man stands guard at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power in Guhagar Village, about 600 km (373 miles) from [Mumbai] in this April 11, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Files NEW YORK | Mon Apr 1, 2013 10:08pm IST (Reuters) – More...

U.S. Senate Minority Leader McConnell speaks to reporters on his way to lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington
By Team Folks On Saturday, December 29th, 2012
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Senate leaders to make last-ditch “fiscal cliff” effort

Report by Roberta Rampton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:35pm EST (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders agreed on Friday to make a final effort to prevent the More...

Padma Prasad Hegde (L) and Rajiv Laoria (R) are now part of Folks Magazine's Editorial Board.
By Team Folks On Saturday, December 29th, 2012
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Rajiv Laroia & P. P. Hegde now FOLKS MAGAZINE’s Editorial Board Members

Padma Prasad Hegde (L) and Rajiv Laoria (R) are now part of Folks Magazine’s Editorial Board. Panaji (GOA) December 29, 2012 – U. Mahesh Prabhu, Founder and Editor-in-chief of Folks Magazine (www.folks.co.in) More...

Dr. Madhu Kishwar
By Team Folks On Friday, December 28th, 2012
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Modi phenomenon and the two Indias

Modi is seen as the leader by doers and achievers while he is hated by hangers on with colonial values who depend on patronage from the ruling family calling itself the Congress. They fear having to live in a world More...

Afghan dealers exchange currency at a money market in Kandahar
By Team Folks On Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
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Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets

Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...

People look over table of handguns for sale at a gun show in Kansas City
By Team Folks On Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
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Gun enthusiasts pack shows to buy assault weapons

Report by Dave Warner Kevin Murphy ALLENTOWN, Penn./KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:25pm EST (Reuters) – Gun enthusiasts thronged to shows around the country on Saturday to buy assault weapons More...

Thumbdrive design sketches are seen on a desk at the Trek office in Singapore
By Team Folks On Friday, December 21st, 2012
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Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors

Report by A. Ananthalakshmi, SINGAPORE | Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:11pm EST (Reuters) – Singapore’s decade-long push to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one. Thumbdrive design sketches More...

A worker welds iron rods at the construction site of a commercial complex in Ahmedabad
By Team Folks On Monday, December 17th, 2012
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India sees deficit challenge due to subsidies, stake sales

Report by Manoj Kumar and Arup Roychoudhury, NEW DELHI | Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:49pm IST (Reuters) – India said uncertainty over stake sales in state-run companies and soaring subsidies pose a challenge to reducing More...