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/ 23 September 2005
A 20-year-old Indonesian maid has been jailed for four years for injecting liquid soap into the feeding tube of a bedridden 85-year-old woman under her care. Dewi Supriyatin, who was sentenced on Thursday in a Singapore district court, committed the offence in February this year as she was unhappy and tired of looking after her employer’s mother-in-law.
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/ 23 September 2005
The South African Post Office made a R135-million profit from trading operations for the financial year ended March 2005 — an improvement of R108-million on last year. It was the Post Office’s second year of profitability. Cash generated from operations amounted to R371-million.
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/ 23 September 2005
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has been given priority in the government’s hospital revitalisation programme after Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said she would hesitate to seek treatment there. On a tour of the hospital on Thursday, Tshabalala-Msimang saw how patients at the Soweto hospital had no bed linen and were given ragged blankets.
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/ 23 September 2005
South Africa’s wine drinkers will soon have the choice of imbibing their favourite wines out of a can for the first time, as Australian group Barokes introduces its patented canned-wine technology to the country. The group is currently in negotiations with several major wineries and wine regions in South Africa.
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/ 23 September 2005
He was whisked away from his newsroom, bundled into a police van and detained for four years before being released without charge. Years later, Levison Lifikiro still isn’t sure of his crime. Instead he lives with the pain of losing his job and family as a constant reminder of those wasted years.
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/ 23 September 2005
Can’t seem to navigate China’s mammoth city of Shanghai? Check your map, it’s probably counterfeit. An increasing number of drivers in Shanghai are having trouble getting to their destinations when they rely on their car’s global positioning system because many electronic maps installed are fake.
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/ 23 September 2005
Troubled British supermodel Kate Moss got sympathetic words on Friday after she apologised following allegations of cocaine abuse that saw her high-profile catwalk career crumble around her. British cosmetics giant Rimmel, which has featured Moss in its advertising since 2001, welcomed her statement late Thursday, offering the 31-year-old some hope of at least holding on to her lucrative deal with them.
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/ 23 September 2005
While the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is under active police investigation, the subject of its exposés, Oilgate company Imvume Management, has suffered no similar misfortune. In late July and early August, the Freedom Front Plus and the Democratic Alliance tried to have criminal investigations initiated into Imvume.
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/ 23 September 2005
Demand for palm oil, which is widely used in processed foods, is driving the orang-utan towards extinction by speeding the destruction of their forest habitat, Friends of the Earth said on Friday. The campaigners said Asia’s only great ape could be wiped out within 12 years unless there was urgent intervention in the palm oil trade, which it said was also linked with human rights abuses.
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/ 23 September 2005
Nigerian separatist militants issued what they described as a final warning to international oil giants on Friday demanding they evacuate installations in the Niger Delta within two days or face armed attack. ”We will kill every iota of oil operations in the Niger Delta,” said the statement from the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force.