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/ 24 January 2006
Myanmar’s illegal timber trade with China has picked up in recent days, after an unexplained halt of several months, a forestry watchdog said on Tuesday. Global Witness said logging trucks had been crossing to China’s southwestern Yunnan province from northern Myanmar every seven minutes when the London-based group released its previous report in October.
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/ 24 January 2006
Ford Motor Company has announced further massive retrenchments plans of thousands of workers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said on Tuesday. The trade union attributed the potential retrenchments to the relocation of Volvo and Land Rover production operations in Pretoria’s Ford assembly plant to Europe.
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/ 24 January 2006
Cape Town-based Linux solutions provider Redlinx has built a high-end digital video-recording appliance based on open-source software. The solution runs on Suse Enterprise Linux and MySQL for a highly scalable and customisable solution to all security woes.
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/ 24 January 2006
Canada’s next prime minister, Stephen Harper, promised on Tuesday to deliver change after voters swept his Conservatives to power, ending 12 years of Liberal rule. ”Tonight, friends, our great country has voted for change,” he told a cheering crowd in Calgary after his party emerged as the single largest grouping in the new Parliament.
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/ 24 January 2006
Bombs killed six people and wounded several others in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, Iranian state television reported. Fire engines and ambulances rushed to the site of the explosions, a state environmental agency building and a bank in Ahvaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province.
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/ 24 January 2006
The men’s and women’s fourth seeds, David Nalbandian and Maria Sharapova, justified their standings to become the first players into the Australian Open semifinals on Tuesday. Nalbandian, of Argentina, destroyed unseeded French veteran Fabrice Santoro 7-5, 6-0, 6-0.
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/ 24 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has not covered the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in nine days, says its official spokesperson Douglas Gibson. "The DA has now held five election events in a row and SABC TV has refused to provide coverage for any of them on SABC 3," he said.
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/ 24 January 2006
Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan surpassed 400 wickets in one-day internationals as an unbeaten century by Boeta Dippenaar lifted South Africa to 263 for five in the first innings of a tri-series cricket match on Tuesday. Muralitharan took two wickets within two balls in his opening over.
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/ 24 January 2006
In a case of life imitating fiction, a 13-month-old cattle dog named Lassie helped rescue its injured master after he fell from a horse in eastern Australia, the man’s son said on Tuesday. George Crowther, a 90-year-old farmer from Queensland state, broke his hip and pelvis when he was pitched from a bucking horse.
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/ 24 January 2006
Police were on Tuesday continuing a search for the IT executive allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail saga. Durban-based Muziwendoda Kunene has not been seen since his wife dropped him off at a BP garage to board a taxi to Sandton City to attend to his business.