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/ 19 October 2004
The United States on Monday called on the European Union and other democracies to consider imposing a full import ban on Myanmar to pressure the country’s military junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The call came as the political leadership in Myanmar was riven with tensions amid rumours Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt may have been removed or arrested.
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/ 19 October 2004
Seven men on trial for alleged sex attacks on tiny Pitcairn island — home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers — might have to wait until next year to learn if convictions would result in prison time. Britain’s High Commission in Wellington, New Zeland, is responsible for governing the territory, a tiny speck of rock midway between New Zealand and South America.
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/ 19 October 2004
Japanese people are increasingly too fat or too thin, eat fewer vegetables and skip breakfast, as modern living takes its toll on the nation’s health, official data showed. The statistics, released nearly halfway through a 10-year government plan aimed at improving health by 2010, showed that in key areas Japan was heading in the other direction.
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/ 19 October 2004
Africa is keenly awaiting the outcome of the United States elections and wondering how it will affect the fight against HIV/Aids on the world’s poorest continent, which is also the hardest hit by the deadly viral disease. Some slam US President George Bush’s conservative policies but others wonder whether his rival, Democrat John Kerry can deliver on extravagant promises to double aid funds to fight the pandemic,
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/ 19 October 2004
If George Bush believes that the evangelists who did not vote in 2000 could win him this year’s election, for John Kerry the Sex and the City women could carry him into the White House. About 22-million single women, whose group title comes from the title of the successful television show, did not vote in the 2000 election.
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/ 19 October 2004
No one could have accused the British Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to install pre-paid meters in Birmingham, the people who couldn’t afford to flush their toilets started defecating into pots, which they then emptied out of the windows of their tower blocks. It made one quite nostalgic.
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/ 19 October 2004
A year after the Cabinet approved an Aids treatment plan progress is patchy, with seven of the nine provinces lagging behind in meeting patient targets. Provinces also underspent their conditional Aids budgets in the first quarter of this financial year. This month the Department of Health said about 12 000 patients are on anti-retroviral treatment. The M&G‘s calculations show the figure is closer to 14 000.
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/ 19 October 2004
When both the owner and caretaker gave up on Everest, an 11-storey flat block in Johannesburg’s notorious Hillbrow, the job of building manager did not look attractive. In 1999 the building, at the corner of Goldreich and Edith Cavell streets, was well on its way to becoming a slum. But for grandmother Maureen Singh, Everest was an opportunity.
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/ 19 October 2004
Harmony’s planned buy-out of Gold Fields would not benefit miners or South Africa, according to trade union Solidarity and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday. NUM is concerned about the way in which the hostile bid is being handled.
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