South Africa: ACP Summit – The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Luwellyn Landers, is in Brussels for the all-important 100th session of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group ministerial council meeting. [Read more…]
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Bond Yields Fall to a 500-Year Low
Jeffrey Gundlach, the American fund manager who correctly forecast the surge in bond prices this year, contrary to the overwhelming majority of the experts who got it wrong, remains fundamentally pessimistic about economic growth in the US. He predicts that quantitative easing, the easy-money policy that the Fed is now running down, could well be […]
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Planning Your Portfolio
Planning Your Portfolio – All successful investors use heuristics to shape their strategic decisions, but it’s wrong to assume they are always correct. Wikipedia defines heuristics as “experienced-based techniques for problem solving.” However, it rightly warns that the solution they provide “is not guaranteed to be optimal,” merely “good enough for a given set of […]
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Job opportunities to be created
Keiskamashoek – President Jacob Zuma today announced that more than six million job opportunities will be created over the next five years through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). President Zuma launched the third phase of the EPWP in Keiskamashoek, just outside King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape. He said great emphasis will be […]
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Event Management Student Awarded
Kay O’Mahony from Monkstown, Cork has been awarded the Irish Academy of Public Relations’ Event Management Student of the Year 2014. Kay achieved the highest mark in the country after completing the course at UCC. Kay O’Mahony is already an accomplished Event Manager. She has extensive experience in event organisation including the Diplomat Dinner, Women […]
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Indonesia: Caution Called For
Although the election of Joko Widodo as president of Indonesia is good news, because of the obstructive power of various forces, it would be wise for investors to assume he will only be able to make limited progress in addressing major problems hampering economic growth. [Read more…]
Gold Starts to Recover Its Traditional Role
Gold is making a comeback as money, despite a century of near-universal negativism about its future as a key element in global finance. Recently “its popularity as a medium of exchange for international transactions has been soaring,” reports the FT’s John Dizard, with large volumes of both “reported and unreported” trading in the physical metal. […]
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Airbus A350XWB lands in SA
The Airbus A350XWB – which is on a world tour — landed in South Africa at the weekend, where it carried out crucial high airfield performance and auto-landing trials at OR Tambo International Airport. The A350XWB, which carries 369 passengers, is the latest generation and newest long-haul jetliner by the European aircraft manufacturer to enter […]
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Dublin Marathon set for October 27th
Dublin Marathon – Monday October 27, 2014 is a public holiday in Ireland and Dublin, once again, will play host to one of the great European city marathons. This will be the 35th year of this great event which is run through the capital’s historic Georgian streets and its magnificent Phoenix Park. Thousands of boisterous […]
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Five faces of genocide revealed
To mark UN Indigenous Day on August 9, Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, reveals five tribal peoples who have been victims of genocide during the 20th century – and warns of a potential genocide in the 21st. Tribal peoples subjected to genocidal violence include*: – The Aché, Paraguay: in a landmark […]
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