"I remember when only a handful of people came, " says Tran Hong Chi, a guide for the somewhat grisly tours into the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ, a heavily bombed and severely poisoned territory that served as the boundary between north and south Vietnam.

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The plan talks of taking slightly less land to the north of the current airport boundary than had previously been mentioned.

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When he opened up his eponymous Boundary Road gallery in north London he started a process that would lead to the UK becoming one of the most exciting, innovative and open places in the world for an artist to live and work.

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Mr Bashir let the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the main southern group, reshuffle its ministers, but it refused to rejoin the government unless the north implemented its side of the agreement on issues such as troop withdrawal and boundary demarcations.

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