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Reuters Oddly Enough

It pays to go in
a public toilet ​

 

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Mon Jul 7, 1:31 PM ET

 

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -

 

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(Reporting by Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Jerry Norton)

 

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(For the latest Reuters news on India see: http://in.reuters.com, for blogs see http://blogs.reuters.com/in/.)

 

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It pays to use a toilet in southern India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygiene and research in rural areas.

 

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Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu state, where authorities have succeeded in keeping street corners clean with the new scheme, The Times of India newspaper said on Sunday.

 

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"In fact, many of us started using toilets for urination only after the ecosan (ecological sanitation) toilets were constructed in the area," said S. Rajasekaran, a truck cleaner.

 

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The urine was also being collected and tested for its efficacy as a crop fertilizer, an official of the state's agricultural university added.

 

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People relieving themselves in the open is a common sight in India's rural towns and villages, as basic sanitation still eludes millions.

 

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Reuters: Oddly Enough

Police nab two
cannabis growers
in cemetery ​

 

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Mon Jul 7, 1:30 PM ET

 

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HANOI (Reuters) -

 

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(Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Jerry Norton)

 

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Reuters Photo: The sun shines though the distinctive leaves of a marijuana plant during a drug raid...

 

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Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday.

 

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Police took in Nguyen Manh Hung, 44, who heads the caretaker team at the cemetery in Hanoi's outer district of Hoang Mai, and Ho A Lau, 46, after the authorities found cannabis plants grown on a 25 square meter (82 square feet) patch, the Vietnam Labour Confederation-run Lao Dong newspaper said.

 

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Lau, a tribal man from the northern mountainous province of Son La bordering Laos, testified he obtained the seeds in Son La for cultivation from early 2008 and that the harvest would soon start.

 

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Vietnam has strict drug trafficking laws, including in some cases the death penalty, but it has long been used as a transit point for trade in heroin, hashish, opium, amphetamine pills and other illegal drugs.