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IN THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Buying Property Abroad
2. Business: China on the Rise
3. Business: Demand for Gold Increasing
4. Business: Drought Grips Many
Parts of South Africa
5. Business: Indian Exports to Africa
are Climbing
6. Business: Is America About to
Introduce VAT (Value Added Tax)?
7. Business: Portuguese Government
to Aid Africa
8. Business: Stable South African
Currency
9. Business: Theft in Your Business
or Company
10. Business: Tourism is Helping
Africa
11. Education: Jews in pre-war Germany
12. Education: Useful Website about
Bird Flu
13. Education & Environment:
Japan Begins Whaling Again
14. Immigration: Fraud charges against
former New Zealand Immigration Minister
15. Immigration: Millions of Lost
Passports
16. Marketing: Does a Web Site Really
Create More Business?
17. Travel: Alcatraz Island in San
Francisco Bay
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1. Business: Buying Property
Abroad
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As from April next year (2006),
British taxpayers looking to buy
second homes abroad will be able
to purchase these through Self-Invested
Pension Plans (SIPPs) and have 40%
of the cost paid by the taxman.
To read the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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2. Business: China on the
Rise
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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives
in London on Tuesday at the start
of a visit to the UK, Germany and
Spain, as part of an initiative
by China to try to establish itself
as a diplomatic as well as an economic
player on the world stage. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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3. Business: Demand for Gold
Increasing
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Identifiable
investment in gold was 56% higher
in the third quarter - at 118 tons
- compared with the same period
a year ago, the World Gold Council
(WGC) says. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: At the time
of editing this Newsletter, gold
hit $500 per oz. Visit our page
on Investing in Gold, visit
this link.
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4. Business: Drought Grips
Many Parts of South Africa
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South
Africans should use water sparingly
due to the drought in many parts
of the country, Minister of Water
Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica
said on Tuesday. The high temperatures,
probable low rainfall and very dry
soils mean dam levels are unlikely
to rise significantly during the
summer season. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Business: Indian Exports
to Africa are Climbing
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NEW
DELHI: India seems to be catching
up with China on the African trade
trail. Though China remains the
world's leading exporter to Africa,
India's exports to Africa grew 63%
in the first quarter of '05-06 while
China's tally was just 48%. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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to Introduce VAT (Value Added Tax)?
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Four
general disadvantages have been
associated with VAT. One - VAT is
regressive. Its burden falls disproportionately
on the poor since the poor are likely
to spend more of their income than
the relatively rich person. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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7. Business: Portuguese Government
to Aid Africa
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Portugal
was a major colonial power in Africa
for more than 500 years until the
end of its colonial period in the
mid-1970s. Now the country wants
to return to the continent to assist
with its development. Read this
exciting report. Visit our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Visit our
web page on business and trade with
Portugal. Go
to this page.
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8. Business: Stable South
African Currency
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South
Africa can expect to have a stable
currency in the future, SA Reserve
Bank (SARB) Governor Tito Mboweni
said on Monday. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Many of our
readers are holding the Rand (South
African Currency) as part of their
investments and will find this report
reassuring.
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9. Business: Theft in Your
Business or Company
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Who is stealing the most from your
business-shoplifters or employees?
According to a national study, employee
theft accounts for 47 percent of
retail inventory shrinkage, while
shoplifting accounts for 34 percent.
The remaining shrinkage is due to
administrative error and vendor
fraud. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: We invite
you to read this page of our web
site listed under Business Problem
No.2, go
to this link.
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10. Business: Tourism is Helping
Africa
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Tourism
is the world's largest industry
and every year it pumps billions
of dollars into some of the poorest
countries on Earth. It creates jobs,
reduces poverty, build new roads,
airports, hotels and hospitals.
"Of
the 49 least developed countries,
46 of them now have tourism as the
largest foreign exchange earner,"
said Louis D'Amore, president and
founder of the Vermont-based International
Institute for Peace Through Tourism.
To read the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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11. Education: Jews in pre-war
Germany
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Germany's
thriving pre-war Jewish community
as captured on black and white photographs
went on display in Berlin's Jewish
Museum on Friday. To read the full
report and see an example of the
Jewish Community in pre-war Germany,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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12. Education: Useful Website
about Bird Flu
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The
US Government is very concerned
about this world-wide problem, so
you may find reading about the latest
information of some value. Visit
this web site. In addition you
will find this news release from
our reporter at the BBC informative.
Click
on this BBC link.
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13. Education & Environment:
Japan Begins Whaling Again
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Japan's
whaling fleet has set sail for Antarctic
waters where it will make its biggest
catch in 20 years. The hunting is
condemned by most conservation groups
on the grounds that it is inhumane,
unnecessary and may harm fragile
wildlife populations. To read the
full report and to also lodge your
protests, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: Visit our web page on
environmental issues, click
here.
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14. Immigration: Fraud charges
against former New Zealand Immigration
Minister
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Former
Immigration Minister Tuariki John
Delamere was only interested in
money transfers and not real immigration
issues, a court was told today.
Delamere's former Chinese business
partner, whose name is suppressed,
was giving evidence at a depositions
hearing of ten fraud and forgery
charges against the former MP. To
read the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note:
Disclaimer: We received
an enquiry from an official this
week, plus many of our clients have
enquired if Delamere Immigration
Services (part of the international
Delamere Group) are connected to
this Former Immigration Minister
Tuariki John Delamere and his firm
which is still in operation, Delamere
& Associates Immigration Consultants,
in New Zealand.
Note that our business Delamere
Immigration Services is owned
and controlled entirely by the international
Delamere Group and its management,
and is in no way connected to this
person or Delamere & Associates
Immigration Consultants, in New
Zealand.
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15. Immigration: Millions
of Lost Passports
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MORE than 3 million passports issued
by APEC nations including Australia
and the US have been lost or stolen,
prompting alarmed leaders and officials
to intensify detection and surveillance
efforts. In just seven weeks, 60
lost or stolen passports from Australia
and 22 from the US were uncovered
as they were presented at immigration
desks in the two nations. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: We invite you to visit
our web page on Immigration Services,
go
to this link
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16. Marketing: Does a Web
Site Really Create More Business?
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Internet
marketing strategy and action plans
used to create and to develop your
company online is essential. Such
websites must have high searchability
(SEO), usability, credibility and
sales generating capabilities. To
read more about this strategy, go
to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: The Delamere Group use
the services of www.VirtuosityDesign.com
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17. Travel: Alcatraz Island
in San Francisco Bay
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The
Rock, the oft-used vernacular phrase
used to describe Alcatraz is perhaps
one of the Bay Area's most dramatic
landscapes, and certainly its best
known island. Over the past several
hundred years, it has served at
times as a place for protest by
Native Americans and a place of
incarceration for some of America's
most hardened (and colorful) criminals.
The
National Park Service recently created
this rather well-done online exhibit
that allows users to view objects
from Alcatraz's past (such as escape
materials and historic photographs)
and also to allow them to take a
virtual tour of the prison and its
grounds. Visitors can also listen
to a number of compelling sound
clips that discuss the infamous
Battle of Alcatraz and the cell
house rules. The site also features
a number of thematic slide shows,
including one that addresses the
occupation of the island by members
of the American Indian Movement
from 1969 to 1971. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet
Scout Project 1994-2005
Editor's
Note: Visit our travel page
on tours of the USA, go
to this link.
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This month's quote
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"He
who focuses on only his own needs
often doesn't end up with very much."
~ Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Lord Delamere
(1811-1887)
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