VIENTIANE — Hillary Clinton confronted a painful legacy of the Vietnam War on Wednesday when she met a man who lost his eyesight and both hands to a cluster bomb as she made the first visit to Laos by a US secretary of state in nearly six decades.
Reports this week that Foreign Direct Investment into our country doubled last year to US$387 million brings good news at a time the economy is thirsting for capital injection.
CAPE TOWN — South Africa’s leading Olympic and Paralympic sportsmen and women have been given a lucrative financial incentive to make the podium at the London Games later this year.
NEW YORK — The United States will send 530 athletes to the London Olympics as part of a massive team that will feature, for the first time, more women competitors than men, officials announced on Tuesday.
LONDON — A cablecar has been strung over the Thames, an athletes’ terminal built at Heathrow Airport, and Olympic traffic lanes set up — yet Londoners still fear the Games will bring their city to a standstill.
BEIJING — China has announced a far smaller team for the London Olympics than the one that topped the gold medal table at home four years ago, but expectations are high of another dominant performance.
LONDON. — Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas believes the painful lessons of his dismal spell in charge at English Premiership soccer giants Chelsea will help him succeed at White Hart Lane.
LONDON. — Arsene Wenger has told Arsenal officials he wants a quick resolution to the Robin van Persie saga — even if it means he has to sell his talismanic soccer striker.
BEIJING. — Nigerian soccer striker Ayegbeni Yakubu insisted yesterday his move to China was made out of a fierce desire to help his ambitious new club, rather than the huge money on offer.
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