Tourists normally avoid authoritarian nations such as Myanmar, but industry officials say their ideas — and their money – could be key to bringing down repressive regimes.
While consumers fret about where the next batch of poisoned foodstuffs will be found on supermarket shelves, conservationists are debating the introduction of a lethal poison to counter ”problem” wildlife.
On the eve of the progressive governance conference in London, German leader Gerhard Schröder argues that globalisation is a reality and Social Democrats must accept this and alter their policies.
South Africa’s Bureau for Economic Research has revised downward its forecast for real economic growth for the country in 2003 to 2,2% y/y from 2,6% previously, due to the stronger-than-expected slowdown experienced over the first half of the year.
The military in the tiny west African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe launched a coup early on Wednesday in the former Portuguese colony, taking advantage of the president’s absence on a foreign trip.
A tiny species of toad whose only known habitat is the misty banks of Tanzania’s Kihanzi river has been saved from extinction at the hands of the safari ant and thirsty hyro-power, a conservationist reported on Tuesday.
Twenty-four years after a local boy called Saddam Hussein came to power, later dragging Iraq into three ruinous wars, Tikrit residents still have time for the man they say at least knew how to keep order.
Port Elizabeth will be the focus of international companies, foreign trade delegations and venture capitalists later this year when the city hosts the Small Business Overdrive exhibition.
African, Indian and coloured employees are moving increasingly into senior management positions in South Africa, a recent employment equity survey has revealed.
The level of volatility of the rand has been contained substantially, Standard Bank group economist Iraj Abedian said on Tuesday.