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IN THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Aid for Africa to be strictly supervised
2. Business: Doing Business in Africa?
3. Business: Gabon & China Trade Link Up
4. Business: Delamere Gold Report
5. Business: What does one do with our accumulated
wealth?
6. Education: ICT (Information & Communication
Technology) in Africa
7. Education: NASA's Latest Projects
8. Education & Environment: Housing in South
Africa
9. Immigration: Why do most Mexicans want to live
in the USA, even if illegally?
10. Real Estate: Illegal property deals in China
11. Travel: New Ambassador Hotel for Ghana
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1. Business: Aid for Africa to be strictly
supervised
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Kofi
Annan, Bob Geldof and Nigeria's President Obasanjo
are to sit on a panel set up to track aid promises
made to Africa, Tony Blair is to announce. The UN
secretary general will chair the panel, being set
up a year after G8 pledges and a popular campaign
pushed Africa up the international agenda. Backed
by Bill Gates, the body will monitor issues such
as debt and trade. To read the full report, go to
our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: If you would like to read
Tony Blair's speech in full, go
to this link.
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2. Business: Doing Business in Africa?
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The
Delamere Group undertakes many projects for clients
who are considering doing business in Africa and
we produce private and confidential marketing and
research reports for our individual clients. However
in order to read some of the opinions of our colleagues,
especially Luyton Driman, we refer our readers to
the latest BBC reports. Is there something you would
like to know about doing business in Africa? Or
maybe you would appreciate some advice over a business
dilemma you are experiencing? To read this full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: The Delamere Group has researched
an excellent book Doing
trade in Africa
Or
visit the Delamere
International Bookshop.
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3. Business: Gabon & China Trade Link
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Libreville
- Gabon has granted China sole rights to exploit
huge untapped iron ore reserves and build costly
rail links needed to reach them in the tropical
forest, a government statement announced. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: Delamere Gold Report
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BEIJING, -- Gold prices may challenge record
highs in the next three years as higher inflation
prompts investors to buy the precious metal as a
hedge, according to Citigroup Inc, the world's biggest
financial services company. "We have been positive
on gold for three years and expect it to ratchet
much, much higher over time," Citigroup analyst
John Hill said in a report. "We would not
be surprised to see a test of the old highs of US$850
an ounce." To read the full report, go
to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Business: What does one do with our accumulated
wealth?
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Warren
Buffett's grand gesture of turning over the bulk
of his celebrated estate to philanthropy, his magnificent
giveaway of Berkshire Hathaway shares with a value
today of $37 billion, mostly to the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, drew plaudits from many Americans.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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6. Education: ICT (Information & Communication
Technology) in Africa
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India on Thursday offered to empower Africa by promoting
tele-education in the continent through a landmark
fiber-optic network that seeks to bridge the digital
divide between 53 countries of the African Union.
India will fully support and help in the promotion
of e-learning in Africa. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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7. Education: NASA's Latest Projects
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Over
the past few years, NASA has been working on a number
of creative and important projects, particularly
in the area of new spacecraft construction and design.
This website was created to serve as a place the
public can learn about Project Constellation, which
is the long-term project that will once again take
humans back to the moon for a variety of scientific
endeavors.
From
the homepage, visitors can view several Flash-enabled
features that demonstrate some of the newly proposed
spaceships and also how such vessels will return
from the moon. Along with these related multimedia
features, visitors can view information on what
each of NASA ten field centers is doing as part
of this ambitious effort. Those seeking additional
information should also browse around the Related
Links area, which includes full resolution images,
a Q&A section, as well as a basic fact sheet.
Visit
this site.
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8. Education & Environment: Housing in
South Africa
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As
part of a series on housing in South Africa, Justin
Pearce looks at a scheme to reduce overcrowding
in Cape Town's poorest township. The senior staff
of the Delamere
Group, which has an office and agency in Cape
Town, confirms the accuracy of these photos. To
see the photos recently taken by the BBC, go to
our NEWS
DESK link.
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9. Immigration: Why do most Mexicans want
to live in the USA, even if illegally?
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To
inform our readers we researched this latest report
regarding this serious issue. The Center for Immigration
Studies laments that "Mexican authorities seldom
if ever talk about their failure to uplift the poor
who constitute approximately half of Mexico's 107.5
million people, particularly when their nation is
contiguous to the world's largest market and abounds
in oil, natural gas, gold, silver, beaches, seafood,
water, historic treasures, museums, industrial centers,
and wonderful people." To read this full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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10. Real Estate: Illegal property deals in
China
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Beijing
- China intends to use a crackdown on illegal property
deals to cool excessive investment in the booming
economy and calm rage over land grabs and soaring
property prices, the government has indicated.
The
Ministry of Land and Resources has ordered all provincial
governments to immediately begin investigations
into at least three major illegal land schemes in
their provinces. To read the full report, go to
our NEWS
DESK link.
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11. Travel: New Ambassador Hotel for Ghana
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President John Agyekum Kufuor on yesterday laid
the foundation stone for construction works to begin
on the multi-million dollar ultra-modern five-star
New Ambassador Hotel in Accra. Saudi Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud, is investing about
US$ 100 million in the project.
It is scheduled to be completed by August 2008,
and would be managed by Movenpick Hotel Resort,
an international hotel management chain. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: For our special prices for
clients of the Delamere Group, visit our Hotel
Site.
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This month's quote
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"Wealth
and rank are what people desire, but unless they
be obtained in the right way, they may not be possessed."
~ Confucius
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