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/ 21 January 2004
Fears over Asia’s bird flu crisis worsened on Wednesday as worst-hit Vietnam admitted that nearly 900Â 000 chickens possibly exposed to the deadly virus were sold to the public, and international health experts scrambled to find a vaccine. The avian influenza ravaging poultry farms in Asia has killed five people.
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/ 21 January 2004
Prominent South African Judge Seeraj Desai, who has been accused of raping an Aids activist during the World Social Forum in Mumbai, is a victim of blackmail, his lawyer said on Wednesday. The allegation came as the media in India and South Africa cast doubt on the case against the 53-year-old Desai.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=29925">Judge Desai ‘traumatised'</a>
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/ 21 January 2004
Standard Bank and the established education finance company Edu-Loan on Wednesday announced a far-reaching education investment that will give thousands more South African students access to affordable funding to further their tertiary studies.
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/ 21 January 2004
Cellular telephone services provider Vodacom, in which partially privatised telecommunications giant Telkom has a 50% stake, has surpassed the 10-million customer mark. At the end of 2003 it had 10,2-million customers on its networks operated in South Africa and other African countries.
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/ 21 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was weaker in noon trade on Wednesday, with a robust rand taking its toll on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. A weaker Dow overnight added to the negative sentiment and decliners outnumbered advancers on the all-share index by amount two to one.
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/ 21 January 2004
South African Minister of Labour on Wednesday called on the parties involved in the baggage handler strike at Johannesburg International airport to settle their dispute using the framework created by labour legislation.
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/ 21 January 2004
Children’s voices reciting the Qur’an echo down the narrow alleyways in one of Mogadishu’s residential neighborhoods where three or four generations of Somalis share small, concrete block homes behind high white walls and dark wooden doors.
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/ 21 January 2004
The Johannesburg Regional Court heard on Tuesday that Andrew Phillips, owner of the Sandton brothel The Ranch was ”turned on” by prostitutes working at the venue. According to witness Ovidio Muresan, the prostitute named Anna, whom he thought of as his girlfriend, was the most beautiful girl at The Ranch, and she made the most money.
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/ 21 January 2004
Salome Isaacs, the woman who laid a charge of rape against prominent South African Judge Siraj Desai, secretly escaped the media waiting at Johannesburg International airport for her return from Mumbai, India, on Wednesday morning.
Desai could face life in prison