Even late at night, residents can be kept awake by a nearby restaurant's loud pet goose, supermarket or restaurants' ventilation fans and freezers, temples or businesses setting off firecrackers to seek divine protection at ungodly but auspicious hours.

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It is an auspicious time for three emerging rivals to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly to seek to establish themselves.

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