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Jannique Mulder-Slater is a 16-year-old aspiring entomologist from Bocabec, N.B., who found three rare cecropia moths in her neighbourhood. After one of the moths laid eggs, Mulder-Slater decided ...

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India is set to overtake Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy, but must not become complacent, as the country remains far behind Japan in GDP per capita terms, WEF's former MD Claude ...

Japan loses status as world's top creditor Japan's net external assets as of the end of last year stood at 533.05 trillion yen ($3.7 trillion), up 12.9 percent from a year earlier, according to ...