Designing Websites to Maximize Press Relations
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THIS ISSUE
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Business: Africa needs urgent food aid
2. Business: Do you want a job in Kenya?
3. Business: Gold still a sound investment
4. Business: Kenya in Trouble
5. Business: Manpower & Skills Shortage in South Africa
6. Business: Now you know why Kenya is in such a poor state!
7. Business: The world awash with too much wine?
8. Business: Trade to increase between France and Thailand
9. Business: Women in Business
10. Education: Listen to Nature
11. Education: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
12. Immigration: More Brits Moving to New Zealand
13. Travel: Africa Tourism on the Increase
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1. Business: Africa needs urgent food aid
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Tens of millions of people across more than half the states in
sub-Saharan Africa need urgent food aid, but the causes are often
complex and varied. Food crises were once primarily triggered
by natural disasters like droughts.
But according to research by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization,
man-made causes are increasingly to blame. These include conflict
and poor governance, as well as HIV/Aids. To read the full report
and see the chart of countries worst affected, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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2. Business: Do you want a job in Kenya?
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NAIROBI
(AFP) -- No longer content to be known solely for wildlife
safaris and savory coffee, Kenyan officials have begun marketing
the east African nation as a destination for companies looking
to outsource labor.
Following India's lead, Kenya, where two-thirds of the 32 million
population live below the poverty line, is pinning its hopes for
economic recovery on international companies looking for affordable,
efficient employees. The country's Ministry of Information and
Technology has launched an ambitious initiative to create 30,000
new jobs. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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3. Business: Gold Still a Sound Investment
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Increased investor demand for gold last year, and the prospect
it will continue to rise have persuaded the European arm of U.S.
investment dealer Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to bump up its price
forecasts for the yellow metal by 28 per cent this year (2006)
and 44 per cent for next year. To read the full report, go to
our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: We recently received this very interesting article about
the future of Gold with this quote. "Gold is a global
thermometer that reflects monetary, political and economic stability
as well as marketplace demand for the metal itself as jewelry,
investors' (including central bankers') desire to hold it for
any reason or as a hedge against the uncertain value of fiat money,
which is just paper currency from a government printing press
that can be produced in any amount."
To
read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. The Delamere Group is now advising, yet again,
that all our clients buy gold bullion, gold shares, or gold coins,
especially Kruger Rands.
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4. Business: Kenya in Trouble
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Kenya's
president has reshuffled his cabinet after three ministers resigned,
following corruption allegations. Pressure continues on other
officials to resign, including Vice-President Moody Awori, who
kept his job. All have stated their innocence. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: Visit our web page on Kenya
and view
Current Business Opportunities.
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5. Business: Manpower & Skills Shortage in South Africa
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
said Monday that a shortage of engineering, management, finance,
information technology and other key skills was hurting government
efforts to boost infrastructure and investment.
The lack of skilled manpower is so crippling that Mlambo-Ngcuka
said at a press briefing that the government was considering drafting
retirees back into the work force, luring South Africans emigrants
home and drawing in new immigrants even though unemployment is
at least 27 percent.
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6. Business: Now you know why Kenya is in such a poor state!
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Kenya's former president Daniel arap Moi and several top aides
have been implicated in Kenya's biggest-ever corruption scandal,
a source familiar with an inquiry into the case said.
The source, a member of the inquiry panel that presented its report
to President Mwai Kibaki on Friday, said Moi and six officials
were key players in the so-called "Goldenberg Affair,"
a fictitious export scheme that cost Kenya between hundreds of
millions and three billion dollars in the 1990s. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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7. Business: The world awash with too much wine?
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On
the heels of a record 2005 California wine grape harvest, an Australian
wine glut, high inventories of unsold French wine and big harvests
in Chile and Argentina, the nail-biting has just begun, writes
our reporter from Sacramento where he's covering the Unified Wine
and Grape Symposium.
While all speakers painted a picture of too much wine swirling
about the globe in search of too few consumers - and cautioned
against planting more grapes, our reporter feels that the wine
industry is still a sound investment. To read the full report,
visit our web site Delamere
Vineyard.
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8. Business: Trade to increase between France and Thailand
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Bangkok
- France and Thailand agreed Saturday to try and boost annual
trade to five billion dollars as French President Jacques Chirac
lobbied hard on behalf of French companies seeking a share of
the kingdom's $44 billion public works mega-project. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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9. Business: Women in Business
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The U.S. Small Business Administration today announced the launch
of MY BIZ for Women, a new online tool designed to provide comprehensive
business information and assistance to women entrepreneurs.
MY BIZ for Women is designed to be the first step for all women
business owners, providing one-stop access to information for
women entrepreneurs highlighting the best resources the government
has to offer. The Web portal provides information on starting
and growing a small business, gaining access to capital and contracting
opportunities and links to other government agencies and SBA resource
partners offering business counseling, a state-by-state listing
of SBA's Women's Business Centers and other resource information.
The MY BIZ for Women Web site can be found at this
link.
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10. Education: Listen to Nature
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The
British Library's new Listen to Nature web site features 400 recordings
selected from the more than 150,000 animal sounds held by the
Library.
Listen
to Nature can be browsed by location, animal type, or habitat.
Maps are provided with red dots plotting the locations of recordings;
clicking any dot launches a player and the sound file. Alphabetical
lists of animal sounds also accompany maps from the region.
Visitors
are invited to search the Catalogue, in this case the combined
catalogue of the British Library Sound Archive, which includes
all types of recorded sound. It is best to use the advanced search,
limit searches to Wildlife sounds, and look for the "Electronic
access" link. On a recent visit we heard loons, wolves, and
a whip-poor-will recorded in Canada, enjoying the ability to hear
sounds originally captured in North America sent back to us from
the UK via the Internet. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006.
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11. Education: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Created
in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance
of 26 different countries from both sides of the Atlantic. With
a mutual agenda, these countries have worked together on a wide
array of ventures, including peacekeeping missions and monitoring
terrorist activities.
On
their website, visitors can learn about their more recent work,
as well as previous activities, such as their interventions in
Bosnia and Pakistan. The site is well-organized, and provides
easy access to NATO speeches, and a quick summary of their policy
initiatives. Policy makers and academics will enjoy learning that
the website contains archived issues of NATO Review, which is
their in-house magazine, published four times a year.
For
those seeking a wide array of media coverage, the multimedia section
of the site contains photo essays, audio archives of speeches,
and video briefings. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006.
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12. Immigration: More Brits Moving to New Zealand
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It's
been a while since the English began colonising New Zealand's
shores. But the immigration department has reported a mini-resurgence
in British immigrants in the past year. For the first time in
many years, people from Britain were the largest group to move
to New Zealand, overtaking immigrants from China, India or South
Africa. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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13. Travel: Africa Tourism on the Increase
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Madrid
- In a healthy year for tourism Africa led the way in 2005
with a ten percent rise in arrivals, the continent attracting
36,7 million visitors, the World Tourist Organisation said on
Tuesday.
"Africa
was the only region in the world to have performed much better
in 2005 than in 2004," the WTO noted in its just-released
bulletin of tourist trends. To read the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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This month's quote
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"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it
is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will
come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency
make them give it up as unattainable." ~ Lord Chesterfield
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