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/ 22 November 2004
A mouse that stowed away on a Chinese passenger jet in Singapore ended up costing the airline 000, a news report said on Monday. The mouse sneaked on board the China Eastern Airlines jet while it was preparing to fly from Singapore to Shanghai, according to the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily.
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/ 22 November 2004
A Taiwan jewellery shop robber turned himself into police after hiding for a month in an apartment building attic, saying he could no longer stand the smell of his own body odour, a news report said on Monday. Authorities told Taiwan’s United Daily News that Wang Wen-long (28) was unemployed and addicted to playing video games.
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/ 22 November 2004
Peering into the crater of Mount Nyiragongo, 25-year-old park ranger Safari Kimanuka confirms with the naked eye what scientists are already warning. ”That’s high, a lot higher than last week.” The lava lake of the volcano, which overlooks the Congolese city of Goma, has risen sharply, prompting fears of a devastating eruption and causing unease among those who survived the last disaster.
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/ 22 November 2004
Palestinian leaders will tell Colin Powell, the United States Secretary of State, who is visiting the occupied territories on Monday, that they want the Bush administration to commit itself to the creation of a Palestinian state by the end of next year. Powell arrived in Israel on Sunday night, launching a week of diplomatic activity aimed at reviving the peace process after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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/ 22 November 2004
South African Breweries, the South African arm of global brewing giant SABMiller (SAB), has confirmed that it will invest R5-billion in its South African operation over the next five years to expand capacity and to improve its ability to meet changing consumer needs locally, underpinning the company’s strong growth prospects.
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/ 22 November 2004
The Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday it had embarked on a process to introduce new power generation capacity to meet the country’s growing demand for electricity. According to the national integrated resource plan recently published by the national electricity regulator, there is a need for over 2Â 500 megawatts (MW) of new peaking capacity between 2006 and 2010.
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/ 22 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader took his campaign against President Robert Mugabe to Britain on Sunday, rallying expatriates and declaring their destitute southern African country ready for ”regime change”. ”We want regime change in Zimbabwe. But we want regime change by through the ballot, not the bullet,” said Morgan Tsvangirai, the head of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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/ 22 November 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki held a second day of talks on Sunday with Côte d’Ivoire rebel leader Guillaume Soro and Prime Minister Seydou Diarra to broker peace in the war-wracked West African nation. Rebel leader Soro hailed Mbeki’s insight into the Ivorian crisis but said no lasting solution could be found as long as President Laurent Gbagbo remained in power.
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/ 22 November 2004
More than 60 countries agreed to ban the killing of sharks for their fins in the Atlantic Ocean, a move that conservationists hope will increase protection of threatened species around the world. The agreement bans the practice known as shark finning in which fishermen slice off a shark’s fin and throw the carcass overboard, leaving room for more fins.
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/ 22 November 2004
South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin on Monday launched the country’s first initial public offering (IPO) reference manual, which contains detailed information on the steps required to execute a successful IPO. The manual outlines challenges involved in IPO processes.