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/ 17 October 2007
The struggling global trade negotiations are looming large over a South Africa-India-Brazil summit this week, after the United States said the developing countries were putting the talks in peril by refusing to open up their manufacturing markets. The three countries came together around 2000 to strengthen ties between developing countries.
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/ 17 October 2007
Toxicity results from the United States have raised concerns over last month’s explosion in the Durban Bluff area, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. The containers in the Island View Storage facility possibly contained paraffin, alcohol, solvents and cresol.
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/ 17 October 2007
President Vladimir Putin made clear to Washington on Tuesday that Russia would not accept military action against Iran and he invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Moscow for talks. Putin made the invitation to Ahmadinejad, shunned by the West which fears his nuclear programme is a cover for building atomic weapons, after meeting him and leaders of other Caspian Sea states.
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/ 17 October 2007
A Jamaican chambermaid said on Tuesday she found a bloodied bed, an overturned chair and a smell like alcohol and vomit when she stumbled on former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer’s body in his Kingston hotel room earlier this year, while a United Kingdom pathologist said the coach could have had company.
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/ 17 October 2007
Burma’s ruling junta blamed Buddhist monks Wednesday for last month’s violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, as it admitted nearly 3 000 people had been detained over the rallies. Troops and police quelled the protests in late September, leaving at least 13 dead and drawing international condemnation.
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/ 17 October 2007
Parents and children are not equipped to be internet-safe. So says a study conducted among MBA students and lecturers at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on "whether parents are aware of online dangers and if they are doing enough to protect their children online".
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/ 17 October 2007
The Bologna Declaration of 1999 triggered wide-scale reform across the continent and, in the past few years, not only has the introduction of new degree structures taken centre stage, but a range of other European and national higher education and research issues have found synergies with the Bologna reforms to create a potent change process.
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/ 17 October 2007
The University of Limpopo is crumbling under poor management and governance practices, a ministerial report has disclosed. Drafted by ministerial appointee Professor Bennie Khoapa, the report recommends that he and his task team help the university fix wide-ranging problems in the next eight to 12 months. These exist in areas such as financial administration, human resource management, academic planning, governance and management.
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/ 17 October 2007
Too many universities in developing countries sustain an image of themselves as elitist institutions, cut off from the needs of the society that surrounds them. Ironically, this model is still being pursued at a time when it is being abandoned in the developed world that created it.
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/ 17 October 2007
Ventspils University College (VUC) is in the port city of Ventspils, Latvia, off the coast of the Baltic Sea. Latvia has been a member of the European Union since 2004. Ventspils is 200km west of the capital of Latvia, Riga, and 360km south-east of Stockholm, Sweden.