Fiat Auto South Africa has launched a new version of its Palio, offering much a higher specification level than the current Go!. For just R13 000 more than the entry-level three- and five-door Palio, buyers of the Vibe will receive the added benefits of aircon, power steering, an audio system with a radio/CD/MP3 player, door pockets and colour-coded exterior mirrors.
Thailand’s top private hospital, the Bumrungrad International Hospital, and a leading Asian travel agency said on Friday they had forged a tie-up to boost medical tourism in the kingdom. Bumrungrad, one of the most popular medical tourism destinations in Asia, attracts more than 400Â 000 foreign patients each year.
Every year more British skiers flood Bulgaria’s high-altitude mountain resorts, attracted by the well-managed slopes and low prices in the small Balkan country. A two-hour drive south from the capital Sofia gets you to the most popular Bansko ski resort, where numerous construction sites testify to tourism’s rapid development on the Pirin mountain slopes.
Mossel Bay, it is claimed, has the second-mildest climate in the world, after Hawaii, but that isn’t the reason Toyota South Africa chose the coastal town to launch its new Fortuner wagon. A vehicle as capable as this needs to have a decent stage on which to flaunt its assets, and the numerous mountain passes leading across the Outeniqua mountains to Oudtshoorn were tailor-made for the job.
The British now spend more time on the internet than watching television, according to a survey published on Wednesday by internet search engine Google. The report showed that British internet users spend an average of 164 minutes online daily compared with 148 minutes watching television.
The JSE was weaker in noon trade on Friday following a negative close on Wall Street overnight. Lower precious metals prices further weighed on the local bourse. By 11.58am, the all share index shed 0,24%. Resources retreated 1%, the gold mining index tumbled 2,44% and the platinum mining index lost 0,72%.
Liverpool’s lack of goals is becoming an old story, writes Daniel Taylor. A few weeks ago, at Liverpool’s annual general meeting, the first proposal from the floor was that the club should ”retire” the No 12 shirt in honour of the Kop and its reputation as ”the team’s 12th man”.
Real Madrid’s Florentino Pérez may be gone, but the dressing-room divisions and disharmony at the club remain. So, having been through four directors of football, six coaches and 20 players in just three years, Pérez finally sacked the man really responsible for Real Madrid’s crisis: himself.
Amid dark talk of foreign infiltration in Kandahar after a merciless run of suicide bombings, another, more benign, influence has already breached the city defences: the café latte. In a dusty square clogged with wheezing rickshaws and turbaned men, Kandahar’s first coffee shop has opened.
The United Nations launched an emergency response fund on Thursday for natural and man-made disasters to try to establish a permanent pool of -million that can be quickly channelled to emergencies as they happen. Britain has taken a lead in the initiative by providing -million.