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Work at Romanian zoo takes one step forward, two backEditor's note: John Wright, general curator for Hattiesburg Zoo, is using his two-week summer vacation to travel to Buhusi, Romania, as part of "The Lions Roar" project, started by American storyteller Laura Simms, which is lending aid and technical support to the Buhusi Zoo. He also spent time in Buhusi last year. . read more. South Africa: Bags Full of Possibilities for Job CreationJOB creation is often seen as requiring big projects, massive capital outlay or state intervention. Business and government overlook opportunities in the so-called second economy. Instead of pouring money into job creation, why not support and expand existing markets created by the entrepreneurial instincts of poor people? An excellent example of this is the Johannesburg cross-border retail trade sector, where more than half a million people are coming into the city each year to shop, bringing in between R15bn and R20bn a year. Figures from South African Tourism indicate that one third, or R15,7bn, of the total spend by domestic and international tourists in SA in 2004 was in Johannesburg. Of this, R5,7bn, or more than one-third, was from regional shoppers travelling overland to SA. read more. Location mattersSpa and leisure facilities at Fujairahs first five-star beach resort, Le Meridien Al Aqah, are preparing for expansion, following three successful years of operation, according to Talar Hagopian, spa manager at the resort. The resort, which first opened in 2003, has set the benchmark for hotel operations in the emirate, and is soon to be joined by Rotana and Japanese hotel group JAL Hotels, which is set to open the Nikko Fujairah in December, as the Fujairah coastline becomes a favourite weekend and day destination for those living in the UAE. As local weekend and day visitor numbers continue to grow year on year, Hagopian is preparing to extend her spa facilities with the opening of more treatment rooms and is now busy promoting the resorts day spa offering. My new challenge is to market our day spa, or what we refer to now as Al Aqah Journeys, to the residents of Dubai and neighbouring emirates. read more. Dravid, Kumble unchanged in ICC Test rankingsDubai: Indian captain Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble maintained their second and eighth positions in the latest rankings for Test batsman and bowlers announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) here Thursday. While Dravid (882 rating points) trailed his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting (931), leg-spinner Kumble (736) shared the eighth position with Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar, who slipped one place, the ICC said in a statement. Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan leads the bowlers' table with 906 points.Sri Lanka's Mahela Jaywardene and Kumar Sangakkara have reaped the reward for their 624-run third-wicket world-record partnership in the first Test against South Africa as they move up in rankings for Test batsmen.While captain Jaywardene, whose 374 is the highest-ever score by a Sri Lanka in Tests, has jumped nine places to be 10th, wicket-keeper Sangakkara, who scored 287, has climbed three places to be eighth with 795 points. read more. Sobha John, aides in judicial custodyThe Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court remanded the trio arrested in connection with the extortion and manhandling of Sabarimala tanthri Kadararu Mohanaru till August 17. Sobha John (38), the main alleged conspirator in the case who is also a known name in several sex racket cases and Vigil (32) and Anil Kumar (36), Sobha's driver and helper respectively were produced before the court at 11.00 am and after a brief hearing, the magistrate remanded them in judicial custody. They were then taken to the Ernakulam sub-jail. Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate P D Sharanghdharan posted an application for the police custody of the accused for hearing till Friday. The three were arrested by the police yesterday in connection with the July 23 attack on the Sabarimala tantri in Sobha's flat here. read more. SAAG RR Infra bags Rs 3.18 cr order from DegremontMumbai: Construction company SAAG RR Infra Ltd has bagged an order worth Rs 3.18 crore from water treatment company Degremont Ltd for undertaking construction work at a water treatment plant in Karnataka.The order entails carrying out civil construction works for a 100 MLD (million litres per day) water treatment plant, which is on the premises of an existing 270 MLD plant at T K Halli, Karnataka.The company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it would commence work from August 3 and complete it within four months.Shares of the company were up 7.25 per cent, trading at Rs 33.30 on the BSE. . read more. When every coin countsThe phones may have stopped ringing for the 'Towards Healing Lebanon's Wounds' telethon, but the money keeps coming in, as the crisis in Lebanon elicits a massive response from the UAE. Dh54 million was raised for the cause in just ten hours. Throughout the UAE, the public continues to be outraged by the rising death toll and acts of brutality, such as the Qana massacre. An estimated 900,000 people or one fifth of Lebanon's population have been displaced, translating into a wide-scale humanitarian crisis. While some wring their hands in despair over a situation that continues to deteriorate, vast numbers of UAE residents are opting instead to actually do something. With the crisis so close to home, the UAE's contribution to the humanitarian appeal has been described as "phenomenal". read more.We are working hard to collect the most serious resources on the net to you in a primary well-organized web site. Quit blowing resources striving to educate yourself. One thing to remember while you review the great amount of Jobs Career Dubai intelligence at hand is that the information and information you find won't be all true.
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