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/ 16 February 2006
The Nintendo DS handheld video-game machine will work as a portable TV with a data reception card that shows digital broadcast set to start in Japan in April, the company president said on Wednesday. An internet browser feature is also in the works for the machine, which has two screens, including one touch panel.
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/ 16 February 2006
Zimbabwe has had to revise down this season’s tobacco production target to just 70-million kilograms, one of its lowest harvests to date, the state-controlled Herald reported on Thursday. The low yields are being blamed on ”late disbursements of funds and shortage of inputs,” the paper said.
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/ 16 February 2006
Brake failure was a major factor in the recent spate of bus accidents, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. ”Buses involved in these accidents are clearly old and not roadworthy.” He said operators whose buses were involved in accidents due to negligence would be held responsible.
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/ 16 February 2006
In Africa, everything is bigger. Since the second intifada began in 2000, approximately 4 480 Palestinians and Israelis have died — but that is equivalent to a long weekend in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where, the United Nations says, 1 200 people are dying every day from war-related causes.
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/ 16 February 2006
Rockers the Kaiser Chiefs — named after South Africa’s champion soccer side — had a riot at the annual Brit Awards on Wednesday night, picking up a hat-trick of prizes at the biggest and most prestigious night of the country’s music calendar. James Blunt beat off competition from Robbie Williams to bag best British male solo artist.
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/ 16 February 2006
Fresh from presenting his 10th Budget, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel on Thursday dismissed any suggestion that he is tired of his job. Replying to a question at a Cape Town post-Budget breakfast on whether he is considering retirement, he said he cannot ask for anything more challenging in his life.
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/ 16 February 2006
Microsoft opened a new front on Wednesday in its six-year war with the European Commission by insisting that it has fully complied with the 2004 anti-monopoly ruling imposed by Brussels and accusing it of ignoring evidence and denying due process. The defiant response brings closer the threat of daily fines of up to â,¬2-million.
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/ 16 February 2006
The French businessman flying in China wants his airplane seat mate to be a woman who will escort him during his ”lonely after-work evening”. An American woman wouldn’t mind meeting her ”soul mate” on her plane trip. Thanks to the internet, these travellers might get to choose their ideal travel partners in their next voyage.
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/ 16 February 2006
First it was Wyoming, with Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and now gay cowboy fever has spread to Texas. ”There’s many a strange impulse out on the plains of west Texas,” sings country legend Willie Nelson in a song released on Valentine’s Day on the internet music store iTunes.
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/ 16 February 2006
The South African women’s hockey team booked their place in Saturday’s final of the four-nation Spar Cup after beating Scotland 2-1 in Durban on Wednesday night. The home side didn’t have an easy time of it, though, and had to come back from a 1-0 deficit.