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Trade unions locked in a dispute with state-owned Transnet over restructuring have postponed their strike in the Eastern Cape until Friday to give the labour structures in the province enough time to finalise logistics and other outstanding issues, it emerged on Monday.
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/ 13 February 2006
Deep in northern Scotland’s remote Shetland Islands, innovative technology is being harnessed to farm cod and combat the effects of traditional intensive fishing. Johnson Seafarms, based in the Scottish town of Vidlin, is a farming company that specialises in breeding fish inside massive circular cages in the sea, as opposed to standard fishing methods with trawlers and nets.
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/ 13 February 2006
Police raided a major Japanese manufacturer on Monday for allegedly exporting advanced machines that can be used to build nuclear weapons after one of the firm’s devices was found in Libya. Officers searched the headquarters and plants of precision equipment maker Mitutoyo after it exported the machines to China and Thailand, police said.
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/ 13 February 2006
Ancient paintings which allegedly prove that the Chinese invented the game of golf up to 1Â 000 years ago are to go on display in Hong Kong in February, a news report said on Monday. The pictures from the 13th and 14th centuries show Chinese noblemen hitting balls into holes with clubs that look remarkably similar to modern golf clubs.
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/ 13 February 2006
Anglo Platinum has announced a significant improvement in headline earnings for the year ended 31 December 2005. Headline earnings per share, attributable to ordinary shareholders, rose by 63,1% to R18,28 a share, it said on Monday. Contributing factors included higher United States dollar prices of metals sold, increased sales volumes, and gains on the repatriation of US dollar revenue.
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Lawyers for Jacob Zuma have asked Transvaal Provincial Division Judge President Bernard Ngoepe to recuse himself from the former deputy president’s rape trial. Advocate Kemp Kemp said the reason for the recusal was because of past events, a reference to Ngoepe issuing the Scorpions a search warrant for several Zuma premises as well as those of his lawyers and associates.
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It was 1894, and the chief physician at the Battle Creek Sanatorium and his younger brother were experimenting in the hospital’s kitchen, trying to create a better-tasting replacement for the nutritious but bland bread served to patients. Instead, Dr John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg ended up accidentally inventing flaked cereal.
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/ 13 February 2006
Bored with the same old candlelit dinner, red roses and chocolate truffles on Valentine’s Day? Newly rich Chinese are looking to something decidedly more edgy — matching plastic surgery for him and her. In Shanghai’s increasingly competitive plastic surgery market, clinics are offering Valentine’s Day discounts.
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/ 13 February 2006
University of KwaZulu-Natal vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba’s reasons for barring renowned academic Ashwin Desai from seeking employment at the university are cast into serious doubt by a document in the Mail & Guardian’s possession. This is the 1998 settlement agreement between Desai and the former University of Durban-Westville.
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/ 13 February 2006
It was 1988, and the height of the presidential election campaign between George Bush Sr and Michael Dukakis. The Bush campaign had an image problem: Mr and Mrs Bush just didn’t seem to click on camera. So the candidate sent his wife a memo.