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/ 26 October 2004
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit South Africa in November, it was announced on Tuesday. The Dalai Lama will spend a week in South Africa from November 3-7, according to an official release issued by his office in Dharmshala in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh.
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/ 26 October 2004
Somalia’s newly elected president said on Monday his administration will not remain in exile, but will return to the war-ravaged country before security is completely restored. President Abdullahi Yusuf said once his Cabinet is selected it will return — although it will initially establish itself outside the capital, Mogadishu.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement was tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. It addressed several issues, including South Africa’s financial commitment to continental bodies such as the African Union, and the country’s current account deficit.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=124422">’No major surprises'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za//Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=124405">Rand stability is policy goal</a>
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/ 26 October 2004
British artists Damien Hirst and David Hockney are to make gifts of some of their paintings to the Tate Gallery in London, which can no longer afford such works, its director Nicholas Serota said on Monday. It is so broke that it is asking for gifts and legacies to maintain its internationally famous collection of works of modern and contemporary art.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Durban High Court heard on Tuesday how Schabir Shaik signed an agreement with Thomson CSF International Africa to facilitate payments to his Nkobi group under the guise of a ”service provider” agreement. This is the latest evidence from forensic auditor Johan van der Walt who has been in the witness box at Shaik’s fraud and corruption trial for four days.
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/ 26 October 2004
Yasser Arafat’s medics flatly denied on Tuesday that the 75-year-old Palestinian leader needs hospital treatment after Israel gave clearance for him to be treated outside his West Bank headquarters. Israel’s Defence Ministry said late on Monday that Arafat will be allowed to leave his headquarters to be examined in a Ramallah hospital.
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/ 26 October 2004
Investigators have found that allegations of matric examination papers leaked in Gauteng were ”baseless and unsubstantiated”, the provincial education department said on Tuesday. It was alleged on Monday that a business economics paper was leaked in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg.
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/ 26 October 2004
The South African government, in its Medium Term Budget Policy Statement on Tuesday, said that stability of the rand was its main foreign exchange policy goal. "For many firms it is not the level of the rand, but capacity to absorb risk and adapt market strategies, that is critical. Smaller businesses and the poor generally have limited capacity to hedge against economic risks," the Treasury said.
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/ 26 October 2004
They’ve fought with fists. They’ve thrown paper at each other. And on Tuesday, Taiwan’s rowdy lawmakers had an old-fashioned food fight. Legislators began chucking white cardboard takeout lunch boxes full of rice, meat, hard-boiled eggs and vegetables at each other during a heated debate over whether Taiwan should spend billions on weapons sold by the United States.
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/ 26 October 2004
An unemployed ex-gangster in Japan in love with a 15-year-old girl chopped off his little finger and mailed it to her father twice in an unsuccessful bid to prove his commitment, police said on Tuesday. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (36) was arrested on Monday after the teenager’s father told police the finger had been sent to him again.