Reports IOL: South Africans reeling after another expensive Christmas are set to feel the financial pinch, with more tough times on the way because of rising inflation and a further interest rate hike looming.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20071230080855501C774269
Teenagers are planning to defy the government's ban on under-16 kissing, touching and rubbing up against each other in public and are hatching a "kissing protest" on the Facebook website, reports IOL Technology.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20071228110459992C987178&set_id=1
The new chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Khanyisiwe Mkhonza, paid tribute to the outgoing board in a statement to the media on Sunday.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=328465&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
Japan's leading mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo, trying to fight off resurgent competitors, will tie up with United States search-engine giant Google to upgrade its services, the Mail&Guardian reported last week.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=328555&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
A French reporter kidnapped eight days ago in Somalia was released before Christmas, a journalists' group in the country said. CNN International reports.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/25/somalia.journalist/
