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/ 22 September 2005
With surveys showing Hong Kong men prefer work to sex, the city’s women are seeking help with their love life from a pharmacy chain that has begun stocking sex toys alongside soap and shampoo. Vibrators were a surprise hit at Watson’s chain of pharmacies and sex education officials were delighted, saying it could help the sexually repressed city come out of its shell.
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/ 22 September 2005
The JSE was in the red in noon trade on Thursday knocked by Wednesday’s weakness on United States markets. Resources — particularly gold — shares were stronger, however, due to higher commodity prices. By 11.58am, the all-share index slipped 0,3%. Industrials and financials fell 0,87% and 1,05%, however, and the banks index lost 1,41%.
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/ 22 September 2005
Randgold and Exploration, which has been suspended from the JSE pending the publication of its audited results, has now been thrown off the Nasdaq stock exchange. Randgold said that the publication of its audited results, originally targeted for September 30, 2005, would be further delayed.
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/ 22 September 2005
Sony boss Howard Stringer, under pressure to reverse a slump at the electronics icon, announced 10 000 job cuts on Thursday but renewed his vision of the group as an electronics-to-entertainment colossus. Sony also issued its second profit warning this year, forecasting a net loss of 10-billion yen (-million).
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/ 22 September 2005
British troops in Basra, Iraq, greatly reduced their presence in the streets on Thursday, apparently responding to a call from the provincial governor to severe cooperation until London apologises for storming a police station to free two of its soldiers. In New York, Iraq’s minister of foreign affairs said insurgents are likely to step up attacks.
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/ 22 September 2005
A private air search for the missing Durban yacht Moquini, which disappeared while taking part in the Mauritius-to-Durban yacht race last week, will start on Thursday. The search by a C130 Hercules air-force aircraft that had been looking for the yacht since last week was suspended on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2005
Apartheid’s legacy remains tenacious and despite a huge public investment in housing in the 10 years of democracy, the number of informal settlements has grown substantially, South Africa’s national Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Thursday.
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/ 22 September 2005
An Indian newspaper advertisement that suggested parents would be blamed if they failed to buy pepper spray to deter rape attacks on their daughters was withdrawn on Thursday after a women’s group protest. The advertisement in several daily newspapers for Knockout pepper spray asked readers: "Tomorrow if your daughter gets raped who is to be blamed? The rapist or you?" and recommended the spray as a deterrent.
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/ 22 September 2005
Kaizer Chiefs, not content with concessions made in an appeal to the South African Football Association against the penalties imposed on the club by the Premier Soccer League for the violence and vandalism of their supporters, have informed South African soccer’s controlling body they are taking the controversial issue to arbitration.
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/ 22 September 2005
Hurricane Alpha? Tropical Storm Epsilon? Before this year’s frantic Atlantic hurricane season is out, television forecasters and coastal residents may have to break out their Greek dictionaries. There are only four names left for tropical storms and hurricanes this year: Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma.