A dinner date Romeo who took lonely Hong Kong women for expensive meals and fled before the bills arrived was on Tuesday beginning a two month jail sentence. Chow Wai-yip took the women for lavish dinners, then asked to use their cellphones to make a business call and fled shortly before the bill was due to arrive.
After numerous technical hitches and embarassing delays, the first of three pieces of the famed Axum obelisk is finally due to arrive home from Italy on Tuesday, Italian officials said. A plane carrying one-third of the huge, 160-tonne monument plundered by fascist Italy nearly 70 years ago is expected to land at the Axum airport at dawn on Tuesday.
The JSE Securities Exchange was higher in noon trade on Tuesday, bouncing in line with world markets. However, buying was not aggressive and volumes remained light. At 11.58am, the all share index was up 0,36%. Industrials and financials firmed 0,16% and 0,31% respectively.
Despite publicity to the contrary, Zimbabwe was a stable and peaceful environment for business, that country’s envoy to South Africa said on Monday. ”Those who have been in Zimbabwe lately, including during the recent parliamentary elections, can testify to the peace and tranquillity … in my country,” said ambassador Simon Moyo.
When the murder trial of two men accused of throwing a fellow worker to lions resumes in the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Tuesday, the speaker of the Limpopo legislature will attend. Limpopo speaker Tshenuani Farisani and his office manager, Dick Ralushayi, will take their seats immediately behind the dock.
United States Olympic gold-medal-winning cyclist Tyler Hamilton has been banned for two years for blood doping, the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) announced on Monday. Hamilton’s ban stems from a positive test for blood doping at the Tour of Spain on September 11 2004.
Sixth seed Sebastien Grosjean and number seven Jurgen Melzer advanced to the second round of the United States Clay-Court Championships in Houston on Monday, while second-seeded Andre Agassi warmed up for singles action with a rare doubles appearance.
The touring France hockey side suffered a close 3-2 loss to a pumped-up South Africa Under-21 side at Xerox Park in East London on Monday. But don’t read too much into the result of the match — the first of three warm-up games for the tourists before playing the senior South African team in two Tests at the weekend.
”The Western Force” has received mixed reviews from the local community after it was revealed on Tuesday as the name of the new Western Australian Super 14 rugby team. The name, which supposedly ”best represents a strong, energetic and inclusive rugby team that has a solid connection to the state’s ideals”, has polarised Perth’s sporting fans.
Don’t judge the tour by the results — it was more successful than the results imply. That was the plea from the former captain of the Spar South African women’s hockey team on Tuesday, when the team arrived home from a four-Test series against Argentina in Buenos Aires. ”It was actually a very successful tour,” said Carlisle.