Japanese electronics giant Sony on Monday unveiled a plan to invest ,7-billion in the next three years to boost semiconductor production for its next-generation computer games.
The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.
South African telecommunications parastatal Telkom (TKG) CEO Sizwe Nxasana has announced the resignation of Victor Moche as Telkom group executive for regulatory and public policy, effective at the end of April, in order to take up the position of CEO of government-owned defence group Denel.
The central committee of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday resolved that the federation and its affiliates should embark on a systematic organisational review process.
Nearly R900-million was earmarked in donor funds from a variety of sources to fight Aids in South Africa during the next five years, says Health Minister Manto Tshalabala-Msimang.
At the recent launch of the ”Racing Against Malaria” Campaign, South Africa’s health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang called on countries in the region to use the much vilified insecticide DDT to combat malaria.
Swaziland’s Information Minister Abednego Ntshangase says his government was stung by recent criticism from South African President Thabo Mbeki and others about the Swazi government’s censoring of the state media.
Less than two weeks after the collapse of the regime, thousands of members of the Arab Ba’ath Socialist party, the all too willing instrument of Saddam, are resuming their roles as the men and women who run Iraq.
The Chinese government sacked its health minister and another senior official yesterday in an attempt to establish credibility for its handling of the Sars health crisis as the death toll continued to mount.