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The lowly brick kiln
By Sabur Ghayur
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 More than a trillion baked-clay bricks are produced every year in 300,000 brick kilns around the world. China alone accounts for over three-fifths of their global production. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh account for a quarter of the global production. Demand for bricks is increasing in emerging and developing economies because of rising populations, urbanisation, increasing pace of development and modernisation.
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 The ubiquitous cell phone is a great innovation of the 20th century. It has revolutionised finance, brokerage, social networking, trade, commerce, agriculture, and education. It has also revolutionised romance. It has made romance easy, portable, at your fingertips. In the old days, a generation from which I hail, one had to post a letter and wait one month for a reply or rely on the PTCL landline and the black bakelite telephone.
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