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/ 13 September 2004
Thieves stole 10 rare monkeys after breaking into a zoo in southern England at the weekend, the second such heist in two months, zoo officials said on Monday. A four-week-old Goeldi’s monkey and its parents were among the primates stolen during the break-in on Saturday night at the Shaldon Wildlife Trust, near Teignmouth, Devon, the officials said.
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/ 13 September 2004
Nguyen Quoc Nam Anh from southern Vietnam has confounded English examiners by passing a university-level English proficiency test, at the age of eight. Anh scored 550 out of a maximum 660 points in the Test Of English as a Foreign Language, according to Nguyen Thai Binh Long, office manager at the Foreign Language Centre of Vietnam National University, where the girl took the test.
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/ 13 September 2004
The Kenyan tourism sector is back on a profitable path after setbacks spawned by negative publicity in the past five years, the state-run Kenya Tourism Board said on Monday. The sector is expecting its revenue to increase by three billion shillings (,5-million) this year, up from 25-billion (,5-million) it earned in 2003, said KTB spokesperson Rose Kwena.
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/ 13 September 2004
Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, said on Monday it had received a 98-milllion-euro order from Libya’s General Post and Telecommunications Company for a cellphone network. Nokia will deliver second-generation GSM and next-generation, or 3G, WCDMA equipment for a nationwide cellphone service covering Tripoli and the western parts of the country, the Finnish firm said.
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/ 13 September 2004
Exporters have been warned that failure to comply with the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) between the European Union and South Africa would have far-reaching implications. The TDCA will open up South Africa’s market to 86% of EU goods over a 12-year period, while opening up the 15 EU economies to 95% of South African goods over a 10-year period.
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/ 13 September 2004
Sudan’s foreign minister said on Monday he was optimistic about striking a peace deal within three months to end atrocities in Darfur and again rejected United States charges of genocide in the region. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said his government and rebel groups would ”very soon” resume the African Union-brokered peace talks.
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About one million school pupils will not write their end of year exams if the planned strike by teachers goes ahead, the Congress of SA Students (Cosas) warned on Monday. At a press briefing in Johannesburg, Cosas president-general Smanga Mpila said replacements used while regular teachers were on strike would only confuse pupils during this crucial period.
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/ 13 September 2004
South African media group Kagiso Media on Monday announced that its headline earnings per share (HEPS) had improved by 15,6% to 70,2 cents per share for the year ended June 2004 from 60,7 cents previously. The company reported a 19,6% improvement in net profit to R90,104-million from R75,316-million. It also announced its final dividend of 42 cents per share compared with 20 cents previously.
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Mark Thatcher’s lawyers are in the Cape High Court on Monday to challenge a subpoena compelling their client to appear in court to answer questions from Equatorial Guinea prosecutors. ”An urgent review application is being brought in the Cape High Court in order to challenge a range of aspects relating to the subpoena,” said a member of the defence team.
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/ 13 September 2004
For the second time in less than two years, US Airways Group announced on Sunday it had filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to resolve a dispute over wages and benefits with its key unions. ”Since we still lack the new labour agreements that are needed for the transformation plan to succeed, we must preserve the company’s cash resources that are required to implement the plan,” US Airways chief executive Bruce Lakefield said in a statement.