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It's AcademicThe dominant political culture on Australian university campuses brings to mind a scene from the classic movie Casablanca. A naïve young woman approaches the nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to enquire about the character of the thoroughly dissolute French police captain played by Claude Raines. "HeÂ’s like any other man, only more so," quips the jaded Bogart in response. . read more. Canny thieves make a mint out of scrap metalAt about 4.30 every morning, the residents of one west London street are woken by a man raiding the skip outside a renovation site. He is searching for any scrap metal he can find - from the copper in old wiring to lead piping. Salvaging metal from building sites has become a competitive business. Everyday Nick, whose job is to lay lead on roofs, picks up about £15 worth in lead scrap, which he takes to a local merchant. There, he and fellow workers turn in any metal they find - in one case an old copper pan - just for the scrap value. . read more. Bahrain blaze survivors to sue firmDubai: The survivors of Sunday's labour-camp fire in Bahrain, in which 17 Indian workers lost their lives and nine were injured, have decided to file a class action civil suit against their employer, the Royal Tower Construction Company. The survivors have refused to go back to work unless the company improves their living conditions, according to a report in the Gulf Daily News newspaper.The case would be in addition to criminal charges that are expected to be pressed against the company, the report quoted India's Ambassador to Bahrain Balkrishna Shetty as saying.The workers' case could lead to payout of hundreds of thousands of Bahraini dinars by the company to the workers, he said."Investigations are now under way by the public prosecutor to ascertain whether there was criminal intent and charges are expected to be filed in a few days," Shetty told a press conference. read more. Home boys fly the flag as Redoute's Choice races away with first premiershipTHE 2005-06 season, which ended on Monday, proved what a great line-up of colonially bred stallions Australasia has to offer, with seven home-breds among the top 10 sires and magnificent results for several exciting freshman sires. Redoute's Choice has been the benchmark stallion, winning his first champion sire of Australasia title, with a $1.8 million margin, as well as being the leading sire of two-year-olds for the season. He led for most of the past four months and never looked like being headed, with Encosta De Lago filling the quinella. Encosta De Lago supplied more winners than any other stallion with 128 individual winners of 227 races. New Zealand-based Zabeel finished third in the overall stallions' lists ahead of Makybe Diva's sire Desert King, which no longer shuttles overseas. read more. He has promises to keep,And Miles To Go Before He Can SleepMahmoud Mohieldin is one of those people you either love or hate there's no gray zone, no safe middle ground. As the brashest and most outspoken of the Nazif Cabinet's Economic Team, where he joins Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid and veteran Minister of Finance and Insurance Youssef Boutros-Ghali, Mohieldin has been working overtime since July 2004 to kick-start the nation's ailing economy. Two years into the job, he is routinely lauded in international circles for both his vision and the bluntness with which he implements it. It's gotten to the point where he seems almost invariably described in the foreign press as "Egypt's tough-minded investment minister." Those same attributes have won him little other than attacks here at home, particularly in the local press, and he knows it: Mohieldin has no illusions about his popularity with the majority of Egyptians who are staunchly opposed to his fast-track privatization program, but he says he's determined to remain focused on "ensuring the Egyptian people their right to a better future." Two years on, the statistics are promising and the programs are working, but the Economic Team still lacks credibility on the street. read more. Going green: Zero emission across different industriesConcern for environmental damage caused by industries' pollution has reached fever pitch globally. Proactive waste management systems practiced today are still in the "end-of-the-pipe" phase. They need to move beyond recycling to work at minimizing waste generation. This can be done by revisiting the entire production processes of different industries. Worldwide, companies are waking up to the fact that the only sustainable path to the future is the observance of the zero emissions doctrine. As a new paradigm, zero waste has to be embraced with a near religious zeal that goes beyond recycling waste. At the basic level, it would mean that the manufacturer takes back some part of the product for reuse. The significant barriers to zero-waste drive are evident. If there was resistance to setting up effluent treatment plants in the early 1990s, radical shifts in today's production process are bound to face stronger resistance. read more. TCS, Wipro keen to acquire land at Infopark: Kerala CMKochi, Aug 5. (PTI): IT majors Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro have evinced interest in acquiring land for setting up campuses at Infopark at nearby Kakkanad, Chief Minister V S Achutanandan said on Friday. The Chief Minister, who visited the Infopark on Friday morning and spent about 20 minutes talking to officials, later told reporters that about 25,000 people would get employment by 2008 when the development of the park would be more or less completed. Infopark would not be a subject of discussion during the talks being held on Friday and Saturday at Thiruvananthapuram with the officials of Dubai Internet City (DIC) in connection with the setting up of the Kochi Smart city project, he said. The Chief Minister said land acquisition proceedings with regard to 136 acres of land for developing Infopark would be speeded up. read more. ALUMCO wins landmark deal worth Dhs 86.4 millionALUMCO LLC, a specialized aluminium faade contractor and UAE's largest manufacturer, has won a landmark contract to supply a total of 75,500 square meters, worth Dhs 86.4 million, of its high quality aluminum facades to the prestigious 63-storey Burj Dubai Lake Hotel. . read more.If top quality Import Export Jobs Dubai facts is what you are enthusiastic about, Ask Jeeves can detect it for you.
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