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/ 16 November 2006
Australia recently launched a major drive to woo British travellers down under, saying that a flood of more than 40Â 000 cricket fans heading to the Ashes provided an untapped tourism treasure chest. The government and cricket chiefs announced a study to asses the impact of the ”Barmy Army’s” invasion on Australia’s economy.
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/ 16 November 2006
The new African-Chinese economic and diplomatic partnership, manifested in the pact signed by China and 48 African countries in Beijing this month, is unsettling European leaders and analysts, who continue to see Africa as Europe’s backyard. Analysts have been calling attention to China’s growing presence in Africa for many months.
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/ 16 November 2006
With efforts to protect the world’s fish populations largely failing to boost their dwindling numbers, a new study says that initiatives by seafood buyers, such as individual consumers, supermarket chains and restaurants, could prove more effective. Most seafood, from tuna and salmon to bay scallops, is on the verge of extinction.
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/ 16 November 2006
Significant progress has been made implementing an anti-Aids drug programme in the Free State, the provincial health department said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Geralda Winkler said officials in the programme had been undergoing extensive training by the department’s skills development unit.
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/ 16 November 2006
BP’s tie-up with its United States rival Amoco was supposed to create an ethical champion at the top of the global oil industry. Negotiated by Lord Browne over a bottle of Puligny-Montrachet in a London restaurant, it was one of the biggest mergers in history. But eight years on, BP’s US arm is becoming the US’s most accident-prone business.
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/ 16 November 2006
Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey was sentenced on Wednesday to five-and-a-half years in prison for approving the bogus bookkeeping that led to the company’s 2001 collapse. Causey (46) the last of the top-tier Enron executives to be sentenced, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in December 2005.
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/ 16 November 2006
Small tsunami waves hit Japan’s northernmost island late on Wednesday after a major quake in the north Pacific triggered a full-scale tsunami warning for areas of northern Japan and Russia’s sparsely populated Kurile islands. An initial tsunami of 40cm came ashore near Nemuro on the Pacific coast of Hokkaido island, just before 10pm (1pm GMT).
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/ 16 November 2006
One of his friends may have died in front of his eyes but 19-year-old Leepile is in no mood to listen to pleas to stop ”train surfing” through South Africa’s sprawling Soweto township. ”We feel like we are in another world when doing it, in heaven or something. It’s like we are floating, and don’t fear anything,” says the teenager.
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/ 16 November 2006
The government will give Cape Town R1,9-billion to build a 68 000-seater stadium in Green Point for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the city said on Wednesday. The funds from the National Treasury stem from R8,4-billion earmarked for 2010 stadiums, said Ian Neilson, Cape Town mayoral committee member for finance.
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/ 16 November 2006
United States President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make ”a last big push” to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase US forces by up to 20 000 soldiers, according to sources familiar with the administration’s internal deliberations.