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Heavy storms hit parts of Indonesia’s Java and Bali islands, killing at least four people and severely damaging hundreds of houses, news report said on Thursday. The severe storms triggered landslides when rivers in the crowded East and Central Java provinces overflowed their banks.
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A virile South African rand on Wednesday shrugged off the news that the government had repaid almost R5-billion in January as it repaid $750-million six months ahead of its scheduled redemption on July 30 2004. This followed the July 2003 redemption of $750-million, which had been the first early redemption of a foreign loan.
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Johannesburg International airport’s new, R44-million transfer corridor will be operational in early April, the Airports Company South Africa said on Thursday. The airport expects an increase of three million commuters within the near future from the current 13-million passengers a year.
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Strive Masiyiwa, the founder of one of Africa’s top communications operators, Econet, on Tuesday survived a bizarre attack by President Robert Mugabe’s government to try to shut down his profitable Zimbabwean operation on the grounds that it was ”subversive”.
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The proposed protest march to the opening of Parliament on Friday by disgruntled doctors would be ”counterproductive” and could result in dismissals, the Ministry of Health said. A ministry spokesperson said that while dismissal could not be ruled out, the no-work-no-pay principle would probably be followed.
UDM hits out at govt threat
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The star witness in the Martha Stewart trial continued his searing testimony on Wednesday, recounting the businesswoman’s sale of shares in the drug company ImClone and the panic that followed as she and her broker tried to hide that she had been tipped off improperly.
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The Supreme Court of Massachusetts on Wednesday raised the ante in the United States’s culture wars, ruling that gays and lesbians are entitled to full, equal marriage rights and that less politically explosive alternatives — such as civil unions — are unconstitutional.
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Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sold soft drinks containing pesticides harmful to human health and misled India’s one billion people over claims that their products were safe for human consumption, Indian MPs concluded on Wednesday. Their report recommended stringent new regulations for fizzy drinks.
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The contentious topic of abortion in Kenya was revisited on Wednesday during events to mark African Women’s Health and Rights Day. At present, the procedure is banned in the East African country. However, women’s groups are urging the government to open a debate on this policy.
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As the opportunity to comment on the Convergence Bill — aimed at updating old legislation and promoting competition and growth in the South African communications sector — drew to a close this week, claims have been made that the law, if promulgated, will enable the government to regulate the content of websites.
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