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/ 6 December 2004
New Zealand’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs has issued a warning about what it calls the latest ”Nigerian letter scam” — an e-mail offering millions of dollars linked to the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, it was reported on Monday.
The e-mail claims to be from his widow, Suha Arafat.
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/ 6 December 2004
New Zealanders are rushing to try to stop smoking ahead of a new law that will make it illegal to light up in bars, cafés, restaurants and workplaces, which comes into effect on Friday, a newspaper reported on Monday. Up to 700 people a week are telephoning the state-sponsored Quitline.
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/ 6 December 2004
China has banned a Nike television commercial showing United States basketball star LeBron James in a battle with a cartoon kung fu master, saying the ad insults Chinese national dignity. The commercial was broadcast on local Chinese stations and on state television’s national sports channel before being pulled last month.
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/ 6 December 2004
South Africa’s investigation into the arms deal and its putting into place of mechanisms to deal with unbecoming behaviour by both politicians and government officials are illustrations of the government "setting a good example", says Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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/ 6 December 2004
South African unlisted firm Hymax Telecoms looks set to reduce telecommunications costs by up to 40% from 2005 on the back of the imminent deregulation, Hymax chief operating officer John van den Munckhof said on Monday. The firm provides telecoms solutions and services to South African companies.
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/ 6 December 2004
Relief agencies battled bad weather to deliver supplies to storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines on Monday as the toll of dead and missing from two storms in one week exceeded 1 400, officials said. Three towns were hit by flash floods, mud, rocks and thousands of fallen logs that cascaded down the mountains.
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/ 6 December 2004
The Scorpions are under ”immense pressure” in the parliamentary travel scam case, a prosecutor with the unit, Jannie van Vuuren, said on Monday. He was speaking in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, where the cases of six travel agency accused were postponed to February 18 for further investigation, and a seventh, Soraya Beukes, to Friday for a fresh bail application.
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/ 6 December 2004
Gunmen suspected of links to al-Qaeda stormed the United States consulate in the Saudi port of Jeddah on Monday, triggering a three-hour siege and a shootout that left three attackers and four guardsmen dead, police and officials said. The brazen attack was the first of its kind on a diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia.
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/ 6 December 2004
They used to say that the Dutch Reformed Church was the apartheid-wielding Nationalist Party at prayer. The NP in those days used to respond by characterising the non-racial South African Council of Churches (then headed by Desmond Tutu) as the African National Congress and its communist allies at prayer. Now we have a most undignified spat between the Presidency itself and our revered Tutu.
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/ 6 December 2004
Parliament is hoping to complete its plan to relocate the parliamentary media to new offices in Cape Town’s old South African Revenue Service building at 90 Plein Street before the start of next year’s session, Secretary to Parliament Zingile Dingani said on Monday.