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/ 19 September 2006
Chinese authorities have shut down an online survey that found most respondents would prefer a different nationality if they were born again. According to the South China Morning Post, two editors of the host website, NetEase, have also been fired in the past few days, prompting speculation that they have been punished for organising the poll.
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/ 19 September 2006
South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis set up an impressive record in the second limited-overs international played against Zimbabwe at Buffalo Park on Monday. When he opened his account by pushing Piet Rinke to mid-on for a single he scored his 8 000th run in limited-overs cricket,
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/ 19 September 2006
A British tourist in South Africa was forced to take antiretrovirals after a robber bit his finger to steal his wedding ring. A media report said two British couples celebrating 30 and 35 years of marriage were attacked in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth and robbed of their wedding rings, cellphones and cameras.
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/ 19 September 2006
Czech consumption of non-alcoholic beer has surged since stricter rules for drivers were introduced at the start of July, Czech daily <i>Lidove Noviny</i> reported on Tuesday. "Just in July and August we saw sales of non-alcoholic beer in grocery stores rise by 81%," manager of the Staropramen brewery, Martin Novak, told the paper.
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/ 19 September 2006
International media and communications group Independent News & Media on Tuesday announced its interim results, stating that strong underlying trading performances across the group, especially South Africa, "delivered a 4,9% improvement in operating profit before exceptionals".
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/ 19 September 2006
Aids activists will on Tuesday set up hundreds of chairs outside Parliament, hoping to lure MPs to engage with civil society on challenges the country faces in fighting the pandemic. ”In front of Parliament we will have 450 chairs, one for each member of Parliament, to come meet with the public on the issue of HIV. We hope MPs will take up our offer,” the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said in a statement.
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/ 19 September 2006
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels hacked 10 Muslim labourers to death and badly wounded another in eastern Sri Lanka at the weekend, the army said on Monday, the latest in a string of mass killings and abuses. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam blamed the killings, near the island’s Yala National Park, on the military.
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/ 19 September 2006
A substantial percentage of men who have homosexual sex still consider themselves ”straight,” a survey of New York City men suggests. The findings imply that doctors should not rely on a man’s self-described sexual orientation in assessing his risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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/ 19 September 2006
An air of unreality, if not cant, surrounds the latest upsurge of calls for United Nations troops to go into Sudan’s western region of Darfur. The actor George Clooney takes to the stage at the UN Security Council, pleading for action. British Prime Minister Tony Blair seizes on the issue to write letters to fellow European Union leaders.
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/ 19 September 2006
Ayatollah Ali Khomenei on Monday accused the pope of committing the world’s biggest Christian church to what he claimed was a ”crusade” launched by United States President George Bush against Islam. The Iranian leader’s words represented a setback to more than 25 years of Vatican diplomacy aimed at distancing Roman Catholicism from the West many Muslims regard as hostile and decadent.