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/ 5 November 2007
The United States and Britain are on Monday expected to demand that Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf, honour pledges to hold elections in the next two months and step down as the army chief, or face a cut in Western support. The diplomatic showdown will come in the form of a meeting in Islamabad between the Pakistani leader and a group of ambassadors.
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/ 5 November 2007
Pakistan police baton-charged lawyers protesting against President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency rule on Monday, as police continued to detain his opponents in the face of United States pressure to hold elections in January. Declaring an emergency on Saturday, General Musharraf cited spiralling militancy and hostile judges to justify his action.
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/ 5 November 2007
Koni Media Holdings on Sunday denied government involvement in its bid to take over media and entertainment company Johncom. ”Koni Media strongly denies any involvement of the Presidency or any other government structures in its bid for a 100% stake in Johncom,” said group CEO Groovin Nchabeleng.
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/ 5 November 2007
He has locked horns with Gotham City’s darkest criminals, including the Joker, the Riddler, Catwoman and Penguin. But now Batman has crumbled in the face of an even deadlier foe: the polluted water of Hong Kong. <i>The Dark Knight</i>, is filming in Hong Kong in and around Victoria Harbour.
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/ 5 November 2007
A group of French charity workers arrested in Chad on child kidnapping charges went to extraordinary lengths to keep their adoption operation under wraps, it emerged. A total of 17 Europeans have been charged in connection with a bid to smuggle more than 100 children out of eastern Chad to France, where they were to have been adopted by host families.
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/ 5 November 2007
The listed property sector has rebounded strongly and is now at the levels prior to the sell-off on the back of the interest rate hike in October. Despite higher interest rates the listed property sector is up 38% on last year, confounding analysts who expected softer capital returns in the present environment, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 5 November 2007
Ford is expected to draw up a shortlist of preferred bidders for Jaguar and Land Rover this month, with half a dozen companies still in the race to buy two of Britain’s most prestigious car marques. The car-maker said it hoped to reach a conclusion either by the end of the year or by early 2008.
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/ 5 November 2007
Priceless human capital has left South Africa. The Homecoming Revolution and skills-hungry employers are trying to get it back. Global South Africans (GSA), a complementary initiative by the International Marketing Council, is harnessing the capital where it now resides. The GSA project is being piloted in the United States.
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/ 5 November 2007
‘It’s no use — the women are in eruption. And those who have until now been simmering quietly in the backseats of the sedans are now steaming furiously …" Though DH Lawrence surely wouldn’t mind adding that bit of a modern twist to his lines, the phalanx of muftis, <i>shayks</i> and religious personages of Mayfair and Fordsburg surely would.
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/ 5 November 2007
This is a side of life the Burmese military junta might prefer you did not see: girls who appear to be 13 and 14 years old paraded in front of customers at a nightclub where a beauty contest thinly veils child prostitution. Tottering in stiletto heels and miniskirts, young teenage girls criss-crossed the dance-floor as part of a nightly "modelling" show at the Asia Entertainment City nightclub on a recent evening in Rangoon.