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/ 22 January 2007
Monaco, Europe’s tiny gambling paradise, is seeking to tap the Chinese’s huge appetite for games of chance in a new promotional drive — but one that targets the highest of the high-rollers. The Societe des Bains de Mer, the principality’s gaming monopoly, has launched a hunt for China’s wealthiest punters.
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/ 22 January 2007
There is a famous case about an elderly woman needing medical help who phoned not the ambulance service, nor the local hospital, nor her doctor. She phoned her car company, Volvo. When I have catastrophes associated with my car, I reach for my AA card. The recent downpour brought more than a deluge of water. It brought car thieves who used the cover of rain to try and steal my car, writes Kevin Davie.
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/ 22 January 2007
Like a second-hand car salesperson, international currency markets can play bait and switch with sound investments. A few years ago, when the dollar cost R10, an investor would have paid R1Â 000 for a $100 share in the United States. The same share would only be worth about R750 today, assuming the share did not rise.
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/ 22 January 2007
The market in forex options is experiencing tremendous growth that could continue in the years ahead. In the relatively short space of five years, the South African forex-option market has made the kind of progress that took overseas financial markets a lot longer to achieve.
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/ 22 January 2007
When Micho Sredojevic’s contract with Orlando Pirates was mutually terminated last week, the Serbian described how he "felt like Mandela being released from prison". It is sad that the "grand old lady" of South African soccer has been turned into something of a circus with problems on and off the pitch.
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/ 22 January 2007
When Condoleezza Rice left the Middle East recently sizing up the chances of relaunching an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, her first port of call was not Downing Street. And it certainly was not Paris. Rather, the United States secretary of state headed for the gleaming palace of steel, glass and concrete that is the German chancellery at the heart of the new Berlin to swap notes with Angela Merkel.
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/ 22 January 2007
Six months after thousands of tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the Mediterranean when Israel bombed a Lebanese power plant, the waters are still spitting out black poison despite efforts to clean up the mess. "The rain and the low tide have created new pollution zones," Ahmed Kojok of the Sea of Lebanon association told the media.
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/ 22 January 2007
David Macfarlane is one of the better education journalists in the land. He has been a long time in the business and has a nose for a good story. He regularly peppers the education bureaucracies with emailed questions, from which he draws his own conclusions. He probably pays closer attention to the minister’s speeches than most others. But, in his critique of the role of the minister of education we have seen a blind spot, writes Duncan Hindle, director general of education.
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/ 22 January 2007
Is it perhaps time to say "<i>yebo baba</i>" to a bleached sphincter? Yes, you. Is your sphincter too brown? An open-ended question, if ever there was one. You can now have a sparkling brown eye by having it bleached. Some beauticians are billing it as the new Brazilian wax.
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/ 22 January 2007
"While you sleep!" is a catchphrase on hundreds of internet sites selling products that are supposed to help you, for example, "overcome fear of clowns" and "master the bagpipes". "Sleep learning" comes out of the "self-empowerment" movement, dating back to the 1930s. Instructions on how to do all manner of things while having a snooze used to be contained in cassettes kept in the section of the bookshop next to macrobiotic cookery books.