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Proof: China’s ‘marriage squeeze’ pushes men to find wives in Africa, amid scam warning

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3f559ad7b539c81129c119f6a6ebb70c556683f69240dc6810b08c328b6ff06d

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-3f559ad7b539.json prints 3f559ad7b539c81129c119f6a6ebb70c556683f69240dc6810b08c328b6ff06d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. There is no OpenTimestamps receipt for this record yet.
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

This headline has not been sealed. Headlines are sealed automatically within minutes of first being seen; older ones are sealed on request, and are then marked as a backfill.