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/ 7 September 2005
She appeared from nowhere on a rain-tossed morning, sitting naked on a Hong Kong shoreline, unable to speak. Now she sits in a hospital bed, staring into space, mute and expressionless, her charts naming her simply as "Unknown". The mysterious appearance of the Western woman has put Hong Kong authorities in a bind.
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/ 7 September 2005
In Buddhist teachings, making money is an unlikely path to nirvana, but in increasingly iconoclastic China it just may well be a leap of faith. Taking a page from their Communist Party brethren, 18 monks in Shanghai have signed up for master of business administration classes in hopes of better managing their temple.
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/ 7 September 2005
Political parties were on Wednesday challenged to field more female candidates as councillors for the upcoming municipal elections by chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula. ”We had about 60% of all voter registrations this weekend being women,” Tlakula said at a briefing on the outcome of the registration drive.
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/ 7 September 2005
Angola’s government has given the green light for a chartered plane to bring home more than 700 refugees from Zambia who have been awaiting return for the past three weeks, a UN official said Wednesday. About 724 Angolan refugees were being kept at a makeshift camp in Mongu, about 700km west of the Zambian capital Lusaka, as UN officials awaited clearance from Luanda for the airlift.
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/ 7 September 2005
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has expressed concern over the death of at least 75 Somali and Ethiopian would-be immigrants who drowned last week as they were being smuggled to Yemen on boats from Somalia. The UNHCR quoted survivors as saying that they were forced to jump into the sea and swim to shore.
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/ 7 September 2005
South Africa’s junior athletes proved that they are ready to take over from their senior counterparts in future when they excelled at the African Junior Championships in Tunis, Tunisia. The South African team returned home on Wednesday with 25 medals and the honour of topping the medals table.
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/ 7 September 2005
Absa customers may soon be able to negotiate new overdrafts, finance cars and make cash deposits at their branches on Sundays, if a trial run at two Gauteng branches is anything to go by. In a move unique in banking circles in South Africa, Absa opened two of its biggest and busiest branches last Sunday to test the waters.
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/ 7 September 2005
South African automobile parts group Tiger Wheels on Wednesday reported a 9,4% decrease in headline earnings per share to 214,1 cents for the year ended June 30 2005, from 236,3 cents a year ago. The group is to distribute to shareholders a portion of the share premium account in lieu of a dividend.
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/ 7 September 2005
International tourists travelling in South Africa used their Visa cards to pay for approximately $1,5-billion-worth (R9,51-billion-worth) of purchases at merchants in the 18 months to June 30 this year, with those from the European Union (including the United Kingdom) accounting for $997-million (65%) of the overall spend.
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/ 7 September 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing in the raid on a former attorney of Jacob Zuma. The NPA told the Johannesburg High Court that it had strictly adhered to its ruling Act in obtaining a search warrant for and executing the warrant at the office and home of Julekha Mahomed.