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/ 19 October 2004
Schabir Shaik’s comments about the Heath Investigating Unit to arms-company head Alain Thetard were in the context of a general discussion about other contractors and their suspicions about these contractors, his advocate told the Durban High Court on Tuesday.
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/ 19 October 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange opened marginally firmer on Tuesday, against the backdrop of strong world markets. Advancers outnumbered decliners, but for the most part gains were relatively modest. By 9.20am, the all share index ticked up 0,14%. The financial and banks indices firmed 0,21% and 0,13% respectively.
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/ 19 October 2004
A Japanese man looking to finance his wedding tried to convince his fiancée that he had been kidnapped and that she should seek millions of yen in ransom from his boss, police said on Tuesday. Kiyokazu Konishi (32) was found safe in a car on Monday in Osaka and admitted faking the abduction by sending e-mails on his mobile phone to his fiancée pretending to be a kidnapper.
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/ 19 October 2004
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry boasts of flying an Israeli jet and calls out in Hebrew during Florida campaign stops, trying to keep the state’s large Jewish population from straying to United States President George Bush. In 2000, Jews voted 4-to-1 for Democrats Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish candidate on a major party’s presidential ticket.
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/ 19 October 2004
The United States on Monday called on the European Union and other democracies to consider imposing a full import ban on Myanmar to pressure the country’s military junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The call came as the political leadership in Myanmar was riven with tensions amid rumours Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt may have been removed or arrested.
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/ 19 October 2004
Seven men on trial for alleged sex attacks on tiny Pitcairn island — home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers — might have to wait until next year to learn if convictions would result in prison time. Britain’s High Commission in Wellington, New Zeland, is responsible for governing the territory, a tiny speck of rock midway between New Zealand and South America.
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/ 19 October 2004
Japanese people are increasingly too fat or too thin, eat fewer vegetables and skip breakfast, as modern living takes its toll on the nation’s health, official data showed. The statistics, released nearly halfway through a 10-year government plan aimed at improving health by 2010, showed that in key areas Japan was heading in the other direction.
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/ 19 October 2004
Africa is keenly awaiting the outcome of the United States elections and wondering how it will affect the fight against HIV/Aids on the world’s poorest continent, which is also the hardest hit by the deadly viral disease. Some slam US President George Bush’s conservative policies but others wonder whether his rival, Democrat John Kerry can deliver on extravagant promises to double aid funds to fight the pandemic,
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/ 19 October 2004
If George Bush believes that the evangelists who did not vote in 2000 could win him this year’s election, for John Kerry the Sex and the City women could carry him into the White House. About 22-million single women, whose group title comes from the title of the successful television show, did not vote in the 2000 election.
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/ 19 October 2004
No one could have accused the British Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to install pre-paid meters in Birmingham, the people who couldn’t afford to flush their toilets started defecating into pots, which they then emptied out of the windows of their tower blocks. It made one quite nostalgic.