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/ 20 September 2005
China is a nation on the move. But should its economic growth be cause for alarm? Other nations have risen fast — Britain during the industrial revolution, the United States at the turn of the century, and Japan during and after the 1960s. However, it took Britain 100 years to rise; 60 for the US and 30 for Japan. It seems China will be transformed in just a couple of decades.
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/ 20 September 2005
Four years ago the dust was still settling on Lower Manhattan. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre had been reduced to rubble and the United States was in shock. Rightly, there were fears for the health not just of the US economy but also that of the rest of the world.
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/ 19 September 2005
There’s good and bad news from the social delivery interface, but mostly it is good. Personnel costs are down, capital expenditure is up, the provinces are growing their implementation capacity, social development expenditure has more than doubled since 2001/02 and nearly 5,6-million children are getting child support grants, up from 970Â 000 in 2001/02.
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/ 19 September 2005
Private Andries Nhlengethwa jumps from planes and lifts 45kg weights. He also happens to have HIV. The 31-year-old parachutist and bodybuilder is one of the few South African soldiers living openly with the deadly virus, presenting a new face of the pandemic on a continent where Aids drugs are rare and infection is often a death sentence.
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/ 19 September 2005
The United States will send four astronauts to the moon in 2018 in a return to its pioneering manned mission into space, Nasa administrator Michael Griffin announced on Monday. Nasa is to design a new rocket based on the technology from its ageing shuttles that are to be retired in 2010, Griffin said.
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/ 19 September 2005
Staff at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Monday accepted a 7% pay rise. The CCMA staff members went on strike last Wednesday, demanding a 6% salary increase (which rose by 1% after mediation) and equal pay for work of equal value.
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/ 19 September 2005
The inconclusive result of Germany’s election has deprived British Prime Minister Tony Blair of a much-sought ally in a crusade to reform Europe’s lacklustre economy, political analysts said on Monday. Officially, Downing Street declined to comment on the outcome of Sunday’s German vote that left Gerhard Schröder and conservative challenger Angela Merkel both claiming victory.
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/ 19 September 2005
Gauteng residents have rated local government an overall 5,1 out of 10 for service delivery and governance, according to a survey released on Monday by the department of local government. Participants in the survey were income-earning residents from 433 of the 439 municipal wards.
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/ 19 September 2005
High walls of water stirred up by tropical gales in the Bay of Bengal have submerged southern Bangladeshi coastal districts, forcing thousands to flee their homes and farms, officials said on Monday. At least 40 fishing trawlers with an estimated 300 fishermen aboard have gone missing.