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yesterday was...

Tuesday 31 October 1995 00:02 GMT
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A good day for:

The Chinese, with the installation of more than 200 mobile toilets in Peking to ease the chronic shortage in downtown areas. Until now, there had been only three public lavatories in a mile stretch of the capital's busiest thoroughfare.

A bad day for:

Mohsen, a 31-year-old Iranian male who took a bus ride dressed as a woman to win a pounds 20 bet with his father. He was beaten up by women on the bus and has also been sentenced to 20 lashes for "an ugly and improper act".

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