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LONDON. — British companies are now more confident about doing business in China, a survey report showed yesterday.The 2012 Business Climate survey for British business in China, jointly conducted by the China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) and the British Chamber of Commerce in China (BCCC), found that an overwhelming 80 percent of CBBC members expected
We can’t win media war with West: Assad
DAMASCUS. — The media war with the West was lost the day the Syrian uprising began, president Bashar al-Assad told a Russian broadcaster. The authorities appear ready to start another round by showing to the world the foreign mercenaries captured in Syria. A number of key questions have arisen since Assad gave his last interview over half a year ago. AssadUS-France relations sound, says Obama
WASHINGTON. — US President Barack Obama told French counterpart Francois Hollande during White House talks yesterday that their countries’ bilateral relationship is “deeply valued” by Americans. Just four days after being sworn in to replace pro-American president Nicolas Sarkozy, Hollande, a Socialist, held talks with Obama in the Oval Office focusing on the euro
SA presidency expresses shock at ‘offensive’ painting
JOHANNESBURG. — The South African presidency said yesterday it is “shocked and disgusted” at a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma “in an offensive manner.” “We are amazed at the crude and offensive manner in which this artist denigrates the person and the office of the President of the Republic of South Africa,” Zuma’s spokesperson Mac Maharaj said. He made the
Strange, but true stories of amazing coincidences
Timothy Sexton
Unsettling coincidences are something to which humans seem to be naturally averse. In an effort to make causal connections and create order out of the chaos that is our natural environment, all too often explanations are forwarded
Fake payslip triggers laughter
Court Reporter
A Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment employee stunned the court yesterday when he produced a pay slip showing that he earns US$0,54 in a bid to evade paying maintenance for his two children. Shine Tura sent the gallery
Govt distances self from fights in workers’ unions
Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT says it cannot intervene in internal fights among workers’ unions as this will be an infringement on their labour rights to belong to any union of their choice. Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara on Thursday told Senate that workers
Kereke claims US$2m from Gono
Senior Court Reporter
ROCKFOUNDATION Medical Centre is claiming over US$2 million in damages from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono for failing to pay taxes and loss of business due to cash constraints necessitated by the latter’s alleged fraudulent
President appointed UN tourism ambassador
Isdore Guvamombe in Victoria falls
PRESIDENT Mugabe and his Zambian counterpart Michael Sata have been appointed United Nations international tourism ambassadors in recognition of the promotion and development of tourism. In an interview yesterday on the sidelines of the
Zim capable of hosting 2013 UNWTO summit
Isdore Guvamombe in Victoria Falls
ZIMBABWE has the capacity to put in place the necessary infrastructure ahead of the 2013 United Nations World Tourism