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...small Namibian city of Swakopmund - known as Swakop to the locals - has a discernible Germanic flavor and design, dating back to Namibia's colonial days as German Southwest Africa. Today, the trappings of a beach resort are mixed in with that Old World charm. Imagine Bavaria by the sea. There's even an Oktoberfest...
...even more sensitive case turned up in July. Namibian prosecutors are charging representatives connected to a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of security scanners with bribing local officials to win a $55 million contract in 2008. Until last year, the head of the company, Nuctech, was none other than Hu Haifeng, the son of China's President Hu Jintao. Although the younger Hu has not been publicly implicated in the case, Chinese censors quickly squelched news stories on the bust within China. (Separately, E.U. officials are also investigating whether Nuctech engaged in illegal activity in Europe...
...worst comes to worst, ask your tanned compadre to get lunch or coffee, and really sort out what Namibian toddlers know about the glass ceiling...
...generated national press when it became the first city in the nation to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the council has routinely passed resolutions condemning the war in Iraq. In 1989, the council passed a resolution prohibiting the city from financially supporting companies complicit in South African and Namibian racial segregation. Last month, in a move that activists said reflects the impact of the growing divestment movement on the Sudanese government, Sudanese Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed posted an open letter on the government’s website calling for the end of divestment because...
...tapes for the pilot last year, House executive producer Bryan Singer refused to see any more British actors due to their imperfect American accents. "Luckily Bryan had no idea who Hugh was," says the show's creator David Shore, who played Laurie's audition tape, sent from a sandy, Namibian film shoot, for Singer. "Bryan said, 'That's what we want, a terrific American actor.'" Laurie could hardly be more British, having attended the University of Cambridge alongside cinema heavyweight Emma Thompson and preferring for the time being to keep his wife and three school-age children in London...