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 HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) - Nearly 90 Chinese refugees fled the troubled Solomon Islands on a Beijing chartered aircraft Saturday — the second group to quit the Pacific archipelago after a series of riots razed their homes and businesses.
Arsonists, looters and rioters inflicted tens of millions of dollars in damage on the capital Honiara's Chinatown district this week, sparked by rumors that either China or Taiwan had paid lawmakers to elect an unpopular new prime minister, Snyder Rini.
Rini served in a previous administration accused of corruption.
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