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/ 26 February 2006
BP has been given the green light to make the largest investment by an overseas company in China. The Observer has learnt that in recent days Beijing has agreed to allow BP to enter into a joint venture with Sinopec, the foreign-listed arm of China Petroleum Chemical Corporation, which is China’s biggest oil producer and refiner.
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/ 26 February 2006
”We are sorry to hear about your mother’s ordeal in the Mail & Guardian (‘What are you doing to protect us, Mr Nqakula?’, February 10). Although we agree with your statement that ”crime is everywhere and affecting everyone” we restate our commitment to creating conditions of safety and security in Khayelitsha, and everywhere else,” writes Trevor Bloem.
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/ 26 February 2006
The activists who were insulted and threatened outside the court where Zuma appeared on on rape charges last week have already received permission to protest when the case resumes. The Mail & Guardian‘s Ferial Haffajee spoke to one of the organisers.
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/ 25 February 2006
Russian poet Gennady Aigi, who was often considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 71, news agencies reported on Friday. His poems, written in the indigenous language of the Chuvashia region, were translated into scores of other languages.
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/ 25 February 2006
Flossie Page, one of the oldest Americans on record, is dead at the age of 112. Page, who lived on a farm in Kansas since 1950, died on Wednesday of pneumonia at a local hospital. The Gerontology Research Group said she was the sixth-oldest person in the United States and 11th-oldest in the world.
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/ 25 February 2006
Sheryl Crow underwent surgery for breast cancer earlier this week and the prognosis for a full recovery is excellent, the singer’s publicist reported. Crow had the surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday and is recovering without complications, Dave Tomberlin, her publicist, said on Friday.
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/ 25 February 2006
Uganda’s private Monitor Group media company complained on Saturday that its website and radio station are being jammed to prevent the independent release of partial results from this week’s elections. The firm said it was warned by Ugandan authorities to stop compiling and issuing returns from the country’s multiparty polls.
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/ 25 February 2006
All Blacks flyhalf Daniel Carter kicked a long-range dropped goal with eight minutes remaining on Saturday to give the Canterbury Crusaders a 22-20 win over South Africa’s Sharks in rugby’s Super 14. Carter’s shot from 50m — the second dropped goal of his first-class career — gave Canterbury the lead for the first time in the match.
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/ 25 February 2006
The ACT Brumbies recovered from 15-3 down in the second half to draw 15-15 in their Super 14 match against the Stormers at Newlands on Friday evening. Kobus van der Merwe’s Stormers, however, will again reflect on the match as a missed opportunity as they played a good first half to lead 9-3 at the break.
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/ 25 February 2006
The Pumas continued their good form in the Vodacom Cup and beat the Lions 35-29 in a tight match played in Witbank on Friday night. The Blue Bulls had to come back from an eight-point deficit at half-time to secure a 39-21 victory against the Bulldogs in East London, and the Falcons condemned the Cheetahs to another loss.