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/ 3 September 2003
At least 23 people were killed and 109 injured after powerful Typhoon Dujuan struck southern China. Sixteen were migrant workers killed when buildings collapsed on a construction site.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19894">Earthquake jolts northwest China</a>
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/ 3 September 2003
The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions asked the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday to postpone the hearing of an urgent application by Deputy President Jacob Zuma to get access to a letter allegedly implicating him in trying to solicit a bribe.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19931">Mbeki must speak on Zuma, says UDM</a>
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/ 3 September 2003
Ford South Africa promised us that they’re going to be coming back in a big way to regain their reputation for making value and fun-filled cars that offered great performance. We think they’ve taken a good few steps in the right direction.
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/ 3 September 2003
Despite two recent parliamentary hearings on racism in advertising, new research confirms that "white" media continue to garner a disproportionate share of South Africa’s advertising revenue. The implication is that sustained inequality in spend prevents local media from painting a more realistic and inclusive picture of South African society.
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/ 3 September 2003
Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University has the 21st-century equivalent of the philosopher’s stone. He is working with something that sounds like an alchemist’s dream: a substance that could turn base metal into gold. It could transmit light without wasting energy as heat and make computers 10 000 times faster.
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/ 3 September 2003
Thirty years have passed since the publication of a slim volume of essays titled Small is Beautiful, which was a key text of the nascent environmental movement and helped shape modern environmentalism, development theory and the global justice movement.
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/ 3 September 2003
The affordable family saloon is replacing the tank and the rocket launcher in China’s new cultural revolution. Once considered a privilege only for senior government officials, now 60% of new cars are bought by individuals, observes Jonathan Watts in Beijing.
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/ 3 September 2003
Efforts to build a new World Trade Centre have to take into account the power of money and politics, which are inextricably linked in New York City, and meet demands for security-proof buildings and the emotions of families of victims.
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/ 3 September 2003
The South African Rugby Football Union has decided to approach ”an eminent person” to conduct an independent investigation into racism in the sport after allegations by Springbok media coordinator Mark Keohane, who resigned on Tuesday.
Bok media liaison quits
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/ 3 September 2003
England captain Nasser Hussain said before this series began that ”South Africa were there for the taking”, but when the fifth cricket Test gets under way at The Oval on Thursday it won’t be England who have an unbeatable 2-1 lead.