PFE World-Wide-News 4-30-07

The following is an executive summary of news of Interest to the Paradigm Family of Enterprises Click on the topic or the country Headers for full reports

Builders & Environment

• Walmart settles with the EPA for Stormwater Violation in Puerto Rico
• The 25 April Federal Reserve Report came out last week. The Residential Construction industry seems to have bottomed out, and is showing modest improvement in most areas, Parts of the Midwest and parts of Texas are exceptions. Go here to find the details on your region.
• The EPA conducted a Pilot Study using Stormwater Credits. I noted it last week, but it now appears they want to expand the use of these Credits.
• Every EPA Region now has feeds. I set up a page that shows the last 5 postings from each region. Each posting should appear within 24 hours of release.

Business as Mission

• Zimbabwe cancels all foreign NGO registrations
• African tourism growing, despite wars.
• Justin Foreman's BAM Blog Features Kingdom Business Case Studies. I'm going to post one each week. This week: Go Africa Safaris is a kingdom business in East Africa that funds orphanages and specializes in disability tours.
• Here is a list of links most newspapers in Africa

Telecom & Technology

• Telkom offers Bundled ADSL with Phone Service.
• Is bundled Wirless, web, VoIP, Architecture beginning to be standardized? The new Project in South Africa by WiMAX provides details
• ZTE may be Over biding on Telecom Contracts to pay for local corruption
• ZTE bringing Chinese Imperialism to Africa?
• Orange gets a mobil telecom Contract in CAR

Emergency Services Communications News

• Some local government Emergency Services in the US are starting to spend money for digital standardization. You can read here and here for more. I don't know if it is a trend yet. I will be watching.

Egypt:

• Some business and telecom News, but no trends yet that make the executive summary.

Fiji:

• The UN sent a Fact finding team to Fiji to explore Human Rights violations by the Military.
• Though the Banking systems in Fiji is very resistant to Money Laundering, Fiji, seems to be the final destination for money that has been laundered elsewhere.
• I note that Fiji Live, the Newspaper most outspoken about the military Coup seems to again have its News Feed shut down. Hmmm...I hope it is only temporary.

Kenya

• The Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims (SupKem) continues to protest the holding of Muslim refugees from Somalia. The council seems to be taking this opportunity to unify the Madrassas of Northern Kenya.

Malawi

• The Constitutional Court in Malawi this week put restrictions on the death penalty
• Malawi Private Business partners with government to take on road safety.

Mexico

• Carlos Slim Helu, Mexican Telecom Magnet becomes the Worlds 2nd Richest man, thanks to a strong Mexican economy and a stock market that jumped 49 per cent in 2006.
• Mexican Telecom is moving to become more competitive as it converts to digital telecom systems.

Uganda

• A new audit report Came out on the Banks of Uganda. Net Profits are flat. Operating Expenses are up. However, More aggressive loaning policies have not resulted in more bad debts as a percentage of loans. The banks say they plan to loan more to those in lower social structures next year.

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