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/ 23 September 2004
A pair of elderly lovers leapt to their deaths hand in hand in southern China after their children refused to let them marry, a news report said on Thursday. The couple, both aged 61, jumped holding hands from the seventh floor home they shared in Guangzhou in China’s Guangdong province, according to the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily.
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/ 23 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was very slightly lower on Thursday, with the market getting good support from the financial sector, especially banking group Absa and Sanlam. By 12h23, the all share and all share industrial indices were down 0,01% and 0,17% respectively.
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/ 23 September 2004
The Swazi government and the United Nations Children’s Fund are canvassing the country’s 55 rural districts in a novel initiative to collect ideas for developmental programmes aimed at orphans and vulnerable children. Out of a national population of 970 000, Swaziland has an estimated 50 000 orphans.
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/ 23 September 2004
They may live in the land of the rising sun, but that doesn’t mean they know anything about it. According to a survey by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 42% of Japanese children believe that the Sun rotates around the Earth and 30% of children aged 11-14 do not not know that it sets in the west.
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/ 23 September 2004
Elton John warmed up his vocal chords for a concert on Thursday in Taiwan by telling photographers they’re a bunch of ”rude, vile pigs”. The media ambushed the rock star after he arrived by private plane on Thursday shortly after midnight at Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek International airport.
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/ 23 September 2004
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has encouraged young women to take part in the virginity-testing programme of the OR Tambo district municipality. Speaking at the AmaMpondomise heritage celebrations held at Emdibanisweni Great Place near Umtata in the Eastern Cape, Zuma said the ancient practice of virginity testing is a viable solution to curbing the spread of HIV/Aids and teenage pregnancy.
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/ 23 September 2004
Rock pioneers REM will be heading to South Africa for a nationwide tour in March next year, it was announced on Wednesday. The tour will kick off in Cape Town on March 3. The band will then play in Durban on March 8 and in Johannesburg on March 10.
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/ 23 September 2004
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, long a thorn in the side of the United States and Britain, drew applause at the United Nations on Wednesday for a scathing speech that tore into the Iraq war allies. Mugabe blasted the two nations for holding up reform of the UN Security Council in ”calculated” attempts at trying to preserve their influence at the UN.
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/ 23 September 2004
South African brewing giant SABMiller on Thursday reported that group financial performance in the five-month period to August 31 this year was strong, and earnings growth was recorded in all of its businesses. In a trading update ahead of interim results in November, SABMiller said for the same period, the group’s organic lager volume growth was more than 4%.
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/ 23 September 2004
Food and pharmaceuticals group Tiger Brands on Thursday announced that it will unbundle and separately list retail group Spar on the JSE Securities Exchange with effect from October 18. Detailing the unbundling scheme, Tiger Brands said it plans to distribute a total of 168,76-million Spar shares to Tiger Brands shareholders.