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  • Financial history: How worthless ‘banana money’ issued after World War II troubled business in Asia

    Financial history: How worthless ‘banana money’ issued after World War II troubled business in Asia

    Kalyani Ramnath
    · Sep 18, 2025 · 01:30 pm
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    ‘The Book of Guilt’: What if Hitler were assassinated and World War II ended in compromise?

    Julian Novitz, The Conversation
    · May 31, 2025 · 08:30 pm
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    Tales of Chanan Singh Dhillon, an Indian soldier in World War Two who cheated death on land and sea

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    · Dec 05, 2023 · 09:46 am
  • Singapore’s plan to dig up a historic cemetery for a highway has angered citizens

    Singapore’s plan to dig up a historic cemetery for a highway has angered citizens

    Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
    · Jan 07, 2019 · 11:30 pm
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    Large collection of Nazi artefacts found in a secret room in Buenos Aires

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    · Jun 20, 2017 · 03:54 pm
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