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/ 20 February 2008
Young girls and their mothers huddle under shawls in the central reservation of one of Patna’s main streets, picking through trash for grimy metal scraps that might earn them 20 rupees (sh,50) a day. Buses and auto-rickshaws belt out black fumes beside them on the congested, muddy street and dogs pick through huge piles of garbage by the roadside as men urinate at their side.
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/ 20 February 2008
Climate change has become an important political consideration, as highlighted at the climate change summit in Bali and the ANC Polokwane conference. Both events emphasised the role the business community has to play in protecting and enhancing the environment.
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/ 20 February 2008
Miner Anglo American posted a 6% rise in full-year profit on Wednesday, in line with forecasts, and said a global credit crisis would delay the disposal of its road surface business Tarmac. Anglo, the world’s fourth-biggest diversified mining group by market capitalisation, said underlying profit rose to ,8-billion from ,47-billion in 2006.
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/ 20 February 2008
At the recent world climate change conference in Bali one of the topics on the table was high energy demand and how it is affecting global warming. As a British businessman said: ”Businesses would be foolish to ignore the signs of what climate change will do to your business. You have to adapt now.”
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/ 19 February 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has wished Fidel Castro a long and happy retirement following the Cuban leader’s decision not to return to office as president. ”Comrade Fidel holds a special place in South African hearts because of his decision to deploy thousands of soldiers to help our African liberation struggles,” sais the trade union.
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/ 19 February 2008
Wallabies winger Lote Tuqiri has labelled as ”short-sighted” remarks by Springbok flyer Bryan Habana that the new laws on trial in the Super 14 are making rugby union become more like rugby league. Tuqiri also applauded the way the new game requires players to be better all-round athletes.
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/ 19 February 2008
Nearly a third of New Zealanders are suffering from rugby fatigue, Research New Zealand polling shows. Research NZ director Emanuel Kalafatelis Wednesday said the poll found 29% of New Zealanders reported they would be taking less interest in the Super 14 this season, reports the NZ Herald.
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/ 19 February 2008
Outrage mounted on Tuesday over an attack on a young woman at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg for wearing a miniskirt. Nwabisa Ngcukana (25) was humiliated when taxi drivers and hawkers at the rank tore off her clothes and said she was being taught a lesson for wearing a miniskirt.
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/ 19 February 2008
United Nations peacekeepers resupplied their food but were running low on fuel on Tuesday after being forced to withdraw all personnel to the Eritrean capital, unable to get permission to cross into Ethiopia. Eritrean authorities ordered the peacekeeping mission patrolling the border to ”regroup” at Asmara.