Sold! One daughter for one iPhone
This has got to beat everything... a Chinese couple is facing criminal charges after
selling their daughter for an iPhone.
Look, as just about every parent knows, you don't always necessarily like your kids (sometimes you wonder why you even bothered to have the ungrateful little buggers), but you always love them - and selling off your daughter and then using part of the proceeds to buy an iPhone is just plain wrong - in anyone's language, in anyone's culture.
It's that fracking subject again... two new proposed laws
have been published regarding the environmental regulation of fracking. This seems to indicate that fracking might start sooner rather than later.
It's time to hide that moustache trimmer and get with the
Movember flow... Movember 2013 has been launched and it's your chance to help 'Change the Face of Men's Health'.
On the ICT front,
Internet Solutions is celebrating 20 years, and is predicting exponential growth for the internet in South Africa and Africa, and it's time to
enter the Ericsson Application Awards 2014. Students and small- and medium-sized enterprises from anywhere in the world are invited to submit Android and iOS apps.
Rod Baker, Content Director
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 | The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) does not have the funds to appeal the Supreme Court of Appeal's dismissal of its challenge to e-tolls, chairman Wayne Duvenage said last week. Read more >>
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 | The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has rejected claims that it is encouraging Gauteng motorists to break the law and not pay their e-toll bills. Read more >>
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 | Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa's (FMCSA) three millionth unit rolled off the production line last week. Ford celebrated the production milestone at its Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria where Ford Motor Company's global president and CEO Alan Mulally was on-hand to celebrate the momentous occasion. Read more >>
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 | Evan Pickworth A number of initiatives to improve competitiveness and labour stability in a motor industry hammered by seven weeks of strikes were announced last week. Read more >>
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 | Alistair Anderson SA's automotive sector and its side industries will struggle to reach the heights of previous years because of specific stock shortages and other challenges caused by strike action and also weak consumer demand‚ Combined Motor Holdings' (CMH) chief executive Jebb McIntosh said on tuesday (15 October). Read more >>
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 | Viglietti Motors, importers of Ferrari vehicles into Southern Africa, aided in making music in the mountains of the Western Cape as the Southern Equatorial Ferrari Automobili Club (SEFAC) embarked on a Tunnel Run as part of their road trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Read more >>
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 | Motor trade sales‚ measured in nominal terms (current prices)‚ increased by 7.3% year-on-year in August according to data released by Statistics SA on Thursday (17 October). Read more >>
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 | Gumtree has launched a virtual showroom facility for automotive dealers, recruiting motor industry doyen, Jeff Osborne, credited with turning around the Retail Motor Industry Organisation. Read more >>
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 | The Johannesburg International Motor Show (JIMS) will run at Nasrec Expo Centre from 18-27 October 2013, reaffirming Gauteng's standing as home of business tourism, events and exhibitions. Read more >>
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 | The Volkswagen Group grew its worldwide deliveries in the first three quarters of 2013 by 4.8%, handing over a total of 7.08 (January - September 2012: 6.71)* million vehicles to its customers. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Shares in struggling French manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroen dropped 4.76% in early trading on Wednesday (16 October), after data showed that the company's sales in Europe had fallen again in September. Read more >>
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