- World Cup 2010: Will £800m buy positive images of South Africa?
Concerns raised over ticket prices and crime – but organisers are confident Africa's first World Cup will be a successNations clamour to host the World Cup or Olympic Games principally because such prestige sporting events represent global adverts, broadcasting to the world a country's charms, competence and modernity. The stakes are always enormous, from Pretoria to London, to justify vast amounts of public spending on stadiums, transport and other infrastructure for tournaments that last just weeks.For the organisers of the first World Cup ever to be held in Africa, the pressure has been much higher than normal, with every aspect of the preparations, and South Africa's fitness to host the tournament, continually under scrutiny. The central question always legitimately asked of a country grappling to forge its post-apartheid future and deal with entrenched poverty, particularly in the black townships, is whether South Africa should really be spending £800m in public money hosting a football tournament.The government's response has been that the investment, and the money to be spent by the arriving army of fans, will boost the economy by five times that figure, and a successful World Cup will also beam to the world an optimistic, can-do attitude too seldom associated with Africa.That image-making burden has led the local organising committee at times to interpret natural concerns about practicalities – the preparedness of stadiums, ticket arrangements, security, transport and accommodation – as attacks on Africa itself by a patronising European media.Given the exacting scale of the task set by Fifa to host its landmark tournament, huge progress has been made to produce 10 venues of the required capacity finished on time, a massive road expansion programme, and rail lin 懸念は、チケットの価格は、犯罪を調達 - しかし、主催者は自信を持ってアフリカのW杯初successNationsの叫びなど威信スポーツイベントがglobal広告を表す主のためW杯や五輪の招致になるだろうに、世界に放送国の魅力、能力と現代
- US embassy cables: US diplomats try to stop Chinese shipment to Iran
Cable dated:2009-01-14T23:15:00S E C R E T STATE 003943E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/14/2032TAGS: PARM, PREL, MNUC, IR, CHSUBJECT: (S) NIAG 8233: TRANSFER OF MARAGING STEEL FROM CHINA TO IRANClassified By: ISN ACTING A/S PATRICIA A. MCNERNEY, REASONS 1.4 (B), (C), AND (D)SUMMARY--------1. (S//REL China) We have received information that XXXXXXXXXXXX associated with XXXXXXXXXXXX was making arrangements with Chinese entity XXXXXXXXXXXX to purchase maraging steel. The steel was to be partially machined in order to disguise it as mechanical parts in order to evade Chinese customs officials. Certain types of maraging steel are controlled by the Nuclear Suppliers, Group's Dual Use List, under item 2. C. 11.2. XXXXXXXXXXXXACTION REQUEST--------------3. (S//REL China) Post is instructed to inform appropriate-level Chinese officials of this transaction, and request that they investigate the entity and individuals involved. Post should also remind the PRC that XXXXXXXXXXXX could be sanctioned under U.S. law. Post may draw from Summary, Objectives, and Talking Points/Non-Paper below, as appropriate.OBJECTIVES----------4. (S//REL China) Post should pursue the following:-- Provide information regarding the transfer and encourage Chinese officials to thoroughly investigate the transfer and the entities involved.-- Encourage Chinese officials to share the results of their investigation with us.-- Emphasize that the Iranian entities involved are linked to Iran's DIO, a designated entity under UNSCR 1737.-- Note that, given Iran's continuing nuclear and missile related activities, now is not the time for business as usual with Iran.TALKING POINTS/NON-PAPER------------------------5. (S//REL China) Begin talking points/non-paper:-- We would like to share with you information regarding a transfer o ケーブルは:2009 - 01 - 14T23日付：15:00のS ECRETを状態003943E.O
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- Gunman kills three judges in Chinese court
Man apparently upset about divorce ruling wounded three other officials before killing himself in Hunan provinceA man firing a small automatic weapon burst into a court office in central China today, fatally shooting three judges and wounding three others before turning the gun on himself, an official said.The official Xinhua news agency identified the attacker as Zhu Jun, the 46-year-old head of security at the Lingling district post office in Yongzhou in Hunan province, He apparently told a co-worker he was taking the automatic weapon and two pistols for an inspection by city authorities, then headed to the district people's court.He fired the gun after breaking into the office on the fourth floor, killing the three judges and wounding three court staff, said a spokesman of the city's Communist party propaganda department who would give only his surname, Tang. He added that the judges were discussing an unrelated case.Xinhua said the assailant was exacting revenge over a ruling made in a property dispute three years ago during his divorce proceedings.Zhu, who lived with his parents after the divorce, felt the court's decision was unfair, it said. The judges Zhu attacked were not involved in his earlier case, the report said.Though private gun ownership is severely restricted in China, the country has seen a rise in violent crimes after recent free market reforms and a loosening of social controls.Although such mass violence is rare in China the country has witnessed a spate of stabbings and attacks on schoolchildren in recent months by attackers armed with knives and in one case, a hammer.The Harbin Daily reported today that a woman in her 40s attacked nine fellow passengers in sleeper compartments on an overnight train from north-eastern Harbin to central Hebei p 男は明らかに離婚の判決について動。湖南中央中国の裁判所の事務所に、今日の小さな自動小銃のバーストをprovinceAマニュアル発射自身を殺す前に、3つの他の職員が負傷、致命的な3人の裁判官を撮影し自分自身に銃を入れる前に3人が負傷した、と述べた
- Latin Americans pay a high price for Britain's love of cheap cocaine
While we regard the drug as socially acceptable, cocaine wreaks havoc in the countries that produce itBritons are snorting 30 tonnes of cocaine a year and consider the drug to be a socially acceptable part of a night out, a House of Commons report lamented last week. The Home Affairs Select Committee accused law enforcement agencies of intercepting too few shipments and of arresting too few people, allowing the price of the class A drug to fall to as little as £2 a line.But there is a part of the world which is not getting away with cocaine and is not inclined to consider it glamorous, socially acceptable or normal. It is called Latin America, where the coca leaf is grown, turned into paste and powder, and trafficked. And here is where narco-related violence and corruption is exacting a terrible price.Last week brought fresh horrors. In Mexico, authorities found the dismembered body of a journalist, Rodolfo Rincon Taracena, who disappeared in 2007. His articles on the drug trade had prompted his brutal murder. More than 16,000 people have died in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón declared war on drug cartels in December 2006.In Guatemala, the national police chief, Baltazar Gonzalez, and anti-drug czar, Nelly Bonilla, were detained in a case of stolen cocaine that led to the deaths of five police agents. In a tale too bloody for The Wire, it seems that the agents were killed while trying to steal a stash from members of the Zetas, a group of hit men linked to Mexico's powerful Gulf cartel.There was more grim news from the US International Narcotics Control strategy report, which said that traffickers were annually sending $8bn to $25bn from the United States, expanding production in Bolivia and finding new routes through Venezuela.Peru's Shining Path insurgency, 一方我々社会的に受け入れ、コカインwreaks混乱などの国では薬物については、生産itBritons年のコカイン30トンと自嘲され、薬物を考。夜、下院の社会的に容認一部を報告することは先週と嘆いた
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