The secretary-general of the Taoist Association says he has information that she has bought up vast tracts of land in Cambodia.

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Recently vast tracts of productive land has been out of commission as floods hit farmland Australia, which exports its wheat and sugar cane around the world.

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True enough, the land in this vast savannah has become more economically valuable due largely to soyabean plantations.

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Already the largest producer in the world of soy and beef, it has the capacity to adapt more crops to its tropical soils and develop its vast land frontier.

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Shared between Chile and Argentina, southern Patagonia is chiefly a land of vast, desolate steppes, though the Chilean section also has areas of conifer and beech forest.

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Four times the area of France, and source of a fifth of the world's nickel and two-fifths of its platinum, Russia's entire Krasnoyarsk krai, or region, has only about as many inhabitants as Boston and despite their land's vast natural wealth, they are as poor as church mice.

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This at a time when permitting of offshore drilling has been slowed to a near halt, oil rigs are being displaced to foreign locations by government regulators, and vast land and ocean oil and gas reservoirs, including oil shale deposits, have been put off-limits altogether.

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