Botswana benefits over P100 million in grants from Japan
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Botswana has received assistance worth over P100 million from Japanese government since 2019, making the latter of the largest donors to Botswana in recent years.
The assistance include relatively large-scale grant aid programmes such as the COVID-19 programme (to provide medical equipment; P34 million), the digital terrestrial television programme (to distribute receivers to the underprivileged, P17 million), the agriculture promotion programme (to provide agricultural machinery and equipment, P53million).
“As 2020 was a particularly difficult year, where COVID-19 hit Botswana’s economy and society hard, Japan felt the need to assist Botswana as our friend,” said Japan’s new Ambassador to Botswana, Hoshiyama Takashi.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
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Argus Recycling has been at the site next to Dandenong Creek since 1967. It sits just inside the border of Dandenong’s increasingly notorious industrial 2 zone.
But the open-air compost yard has apparently got on the nose of its neighbours.
Nearby manufacturers and a shopfitting company are backing the Environment Protection Authority Victoria, which recently issued a Pollution Abatement Notice.
Argus Recycling is seeking a review of the PAN at an upcoming VCAT hearing.
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