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IN
THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: China is Expanding Further in Africa, What Next?
2. Business: Entrepreneurs
in Africa
3. Business: Fight Against Corruption in Africa
4. Business: Future
of South Africa in 2011
5. Business & Immigration Ireland in Big Trouble
6.
Business & Education: Media Institute
7. Business: Microsoft Moving to
Russia
8. Business: More Good News for African Mining
9. Business: Namibia
Mining Report
10. Business: Zimbabwe Problems Solved?
11. Education: Future
of Chinese in the USA
12. Education: International Dunhuang Project
13.
Education & Environment: Rare Spider Re-Discovered
14. Immigration: White
Britons to become minority in the near future
15. Immigration: Families from
the Yorkshire Dales now Living in the USA & Canada
16. Travel & Environment:
World's Best City?
17. Travel: Tourism to South Africa Improving
18. Travel:
Visiting Cambridge in England
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1. Business:
China is Expanding Further in Africa, What Next?
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The
construction of transportation and power infrastructure across Africa could provide
the next big opportunity for Chinese firms aiming to invest in the continent,
a senior executive with South Africa's Standard Bank told Reuters. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. (Engineering News, ZA)
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2. Business: Entrepreneurs in Africa
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International
entrepreneurs will this week share their knowledge and experience with local Cape
Town entrepreneurs as part of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation annual conference,
which will be hosted for the first time on the African continent. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. (CBN)
Editor's
Note: We recommend that our visitors read our web pages on being an Entrepreneur.
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3. Business: Fight Against
Corruption in Africa
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Anti-corruption
campaigners have called on Western governments to follow France's lead in allowing
an investigation into the assets of three African leaders accused of looting their
countries to fund lavish purchases in the rich world. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: Future of South
Africa in 2011
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South
Africa ranks 34th out of 183 countries in the World Bank's 'Doing Business 2011'
report, which was released on Thursday, placing the country just below Taiwan
and above Mexico. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. (Creamer Media - Engineering News)
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5. Business & Immigration
Ireland in Big Trouble
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The
current economic crash will probably drive at least 100,000 out of Ireland, most
of these will move to the usual places, USA, Australia or Canada. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: Visit our page on Immigration.
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6. Business & Education:
Media Institute
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Created
in 1979, The Media Institute exists to foster three goals: "freedom of speech,
a competitive media and communications industry, and excellence in journalism."
As part of their work, they publish books and monographs, convene conferences,
and also prepare regulatory filings and court briefs. On their homepage, visitors
can read their blog, and also look over their "Perspectives" series
and "Speaking Freely" opinion papers.
Some of the more recent
pieces here include "Collapsing Copyright Categories", "Defining
Away the First Amendment", and "A Taboo Topic: Government Subsidies
for the Media". Also, visitors can view their "Press Releases"
area for up-to-the minute news on the Institute's activities and their upcoming
conferences and luncheons in Washington, D.C. The site is rounded out by a set
of external links to organizations like the Media Coalition and the Society of
Professional Journalists. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010
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7. Business: Microsoft Moving
to Russia
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USA
software giant Microsoft said on Monday it had signed a draft accord to open a
technology centre in a Moscow suburb where Russian authorities hope to establish
a Russian Silicon Valley. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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8. Business: More Good
News for African Mining
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Africa
is the region in which number-two gold producer Newmont Mining sees the most growth
potential at the moment, CEO Richard O'Brien said on Tuesday. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. (Creamer Media - Mining Weekly)
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9. Business: Namibia Mining Report
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ASX-listed
Minemakers on Thursday reported that the start-up cost for its Namibian marine
phosphate project would likely amount to $144-million to produce three-million
tons a year of saleable rock phosphate, over a 25-year mine life. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link (Mining News)
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10. Business: Zimbabwe Problems
Solved?
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Lord
Renton of England suggests the best way to help economic recovery of Zimbabwe
is to give the country's president a comfortable and well looked after home in
Britain. We would like to endorse this suggestion as the Country of Zimbabwe would
move forward in a dramatic way. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link
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11. Education: Future of
Chinese in the USA
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While
China's students have long filled American graduate schools, its undergraduates
now represent the fastest-growing group of international students.
In
2008-9, more than 26,000 were studying in the United States, up from about 8,000
eight years earlier, according to the Institute of International Education. To
read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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12. Education: International
Dunhuang Project
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The
International Dunhuang Project is an enormous online undertaking, with collaboration
between more than a dozen institutions committed to making important artifacts
and documents about the heritage of the Silk Road available to all. For those
visitors unfamiliar with the exact location of the Silk Road, a map can be found
in the right hand corner of the "About IDP" link.
The vast quantities
of material from the Silk Road are located in collections and are scattered around
the world due to archeological expeditions from different countries, beginning
in the 19th century. The "Collections" link consists of British, Chinese,
French, German, Japanese, and Russian collections, as well as other smaller collections,
such as in Sweden and Finland, under "Other Collections".
Visitors
interested in teaching about the Silk Road will find that the "Education"
link has a "Teach" section that offers lots of wonderful exercises for
those who "wish to explore the culture, languages, religions and creativity
of the Silk Road." Some of the lessons include "Cultural Dialogue on
the Silk Road: A Mini Gallery" and "Medicine on the Silk Road".
Visit this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010
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13. Education
& Environment: Rare Spider Re-Discovered
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A
rare spider which was feared extinct in the UK has been caught on camera for the
first time after a new colony of the species was found in Cambridgeshire, England.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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14. Immigration:
White Britons to become minority in the near future
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The
white British-born community (defined as English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish-born
citizens) will fall to less than half of the overall population in just over
50 years. This warning came from Professor David Coleman, from Oxford University.
To read the report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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15. Immigration:
Families from the Yorkshire Dales now Living in the USA & Canada
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The
flight from the Dales in the 19th century halved the population; a visit to a
particular graveyard in the American West will reveal the same names and families
chiseled on the gravestones as on those in Swaledale, Yorkshire. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. (Yorkshire Post)
Editor's
Note: Visit our web page that has some interesting resources for Genealogy.
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16. Travel & Environment:
World's Best City?
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London
has failed to make the top 50 "most live-able" cities, according to
worldwide analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Canada's Vancouver scooped
the top spot having met an impressive 98% of the criteria set by the surveyors,
including the quality of healthcare, culture, environment and infrastructure.
Melbourne, Australia was number 3, and Cape Town came in at number 4. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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17. Travel: Tourism to
South Africa Improving
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Sentiment
emerging from the World Travel Market in London is that the 2010 World
Cup has changed the perceptions of South Africa as a global destination of choice,
given the improvement of arrival figures from Europe and the USA. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link (CBN)
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18. Travel: Visiting Cambridge
in England
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Cambridge
with its narrow medieval passageways and 801-year-old university is more than
just a college town. The famous antiquities museum is proudly displaying contemporary
works of art, and lively new restaurants and watering holes are rising to the
standards of those down the road in London. To read the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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This month's quote
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"The
tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not
having any goals to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream." ~ Dr. Benjamin Mays
