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...piracy for all kinds of digital wares. Just three days after last year's blockbuster Star Wars: Episode 1--The Phantom Menace opened in U.S. theaters, pirated versions were on sale in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. Local knock-offs have been spotted as far away as southern Africa, Europe and South America...
...World Health Organization and has established a research center in Singapore to develop treatments for Third World diseases like tuberculosis, whose sufferers can't pay much. (He is not alone in this. Merck has set up anti-AIDS programs in Botswana, and Aventis is helping tackle AIDS in South Africa.) Eight drug companies, including Novartis, have announced a drug-discount program in the U.S. that they say will save qualified patients 20% to 40% on their prescriptions. But Ron Pollack, director of Families USA, says such measures are just p.r. ploys. A discount on what price? he asks. Because...
...Independent News & Media, which has interests in newspapers in Ireland, England, India and Africa. Isn't print dead...
...location indifferent, we are language indifferent, and we are platform indifferent. It's markets that matter. We are going to be threatened by the advent of broadband. In South Africa, it will be five, 10 years before they have urban broadband, and so one of our really amazing growth products in South Africa is our Zulu paper, which had a 25,000 circulation last year, up to 105,000 this year...
...based there regularly strike ships heading to and from the Suez Canal, and attacks have rocketed this year. The conflict in Somalia - which pits Ethiopian and T.F.G. troops against Somali rebels, backed by Eritrea - also has the potential to ignite a larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa. Last week, Ban Ki-Moon expressed serious concern about the military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, while State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to pull back troops from key border areas and use "maximum restraint" to avert...