Vietnam is attempting to further tighten control on the internet with a new government decree that comes into effect at the end of July, state-run media reported on Friday. Control measures introduced last year have been widely ignored, and government ministries are attempting to implement new rules governing access to the internet.
Picketing and toyi-toying Pick ‘n Pay workers at the retailer’s high-profile store at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront, as well as at its main Claremont headquarters, are disrupting shopping at the venues, reports said on Friday. South Africa’s largest food retailer confirmed earlier that the strike is affecting 150 stores countrywide.
Two United States filmmakers wounded by robbers in Muldersdrift earlier this week were ”stable and recovering” in Milpark Hospital on Friday. Hospital spokesperson Monique Lanz said the men had asked that no other details about them or the nature of their injuries be released.
Imagine an Americanised version of sushi: cooked pork or chicken surrounded by a 100% vegetable-based wrapping similar to nori, the seaweed strip traditionally used for sushi. This is but one of the uses that scientist Tara McHugh envisions for the edible food wrappings.
”Australian rugby people can’t understand why South Africa ever plays home Test matches away from Ellis Park. The Wallabies have built a castle in the rarefied Highveld air at the venue where they have not won a Test match since the Ken Catchpole-inspired Wallabies of 1963,” writes Andy Capostagno.
Ethiopia will rerun parliamentary elections in at least 20 of the 524 seats contested during fiercely disputed polls, the chairperson of the National Election Board said on Friday. Kemal Bedri said a new vote would be held in August. He said investigators have found evidence of irregularities at more than 100 polling stations.
It was too early to tell how widely supported a strike by Pick ‘n Pay employees was or how many stores were affected, the retailer said on Friday morning. ”It will be about lunchtime when we get a clearer idea,” Pick ‘n Pay chief executive Sean Summers said.
Eleven years ago Shane Warne had the record book in his sights. The leg-
spinner had taken only 141 Test wickets when he said he intended to beat Kapil Dev’s record of 434. One commentator wrote: ”Experts are projecting an eventual tally of 500 wickets, even 600, which is surely fanciful.”
The new attacks in London bore similarities to the July 7 blasts in that they were also implemented by suicide bombers, but in the fresh attacks, the terrorists ran away when the explosives failed to ignite, reported local media on Friday.
Democracy is a Âlascivious cad. An incorrigible dandy, he struts through the poorer neighbourhoods of the world, Âtwirling his moustache and hopping deftly over cowpats, all the while sizing up the blushing, naïve Âdaughters of dictators and tyrants, until he spies one who watches too long, smiles too widely. Come with me, he whispers up to her window, and I will give you the world.