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33 Articles found on Thursday, 10 June 2004
Multimedia business conference opened
10-06-2004
A TWO-DAY International Multimedia Conference of Future Business and Administration in Africa, which has brought together some 200 decision makers from both the private and public sectors of over 200
readOil retreats to $37 ahead of US data
10-06-2004
LONDON - US oil prices retreated to US$37 a barrel yesterday ahead of US data expected to show rising oil inventories, easing worries of a summer supply crunch in the world's biggest energy
readBusiness council to stimulate growth
10-06-2004
LOCAL business leader, Pupkewitz Holding's Executive Chairman Harold Pupkewitz, is taking the lead in facilitating the formation of a business council, whose intention is to have the council meet
readNamibia faring well despite WEF ranking
10-06-2004
THE ranking of Namibia as number five on the World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa Competitiveness report does not indicate that Namibia has fallen behind in terms of its growth competitiveness index.This
readNamPort pays N$2,2 million dividends to Govt
10-06-2004
THE Namibia Ports Authority, NamPort, on Tuesday handed over dividends valued at N$2,2 million to the Ministry of Finance.NamPort, a commercialised entity, is a key player in the Walvis Bay Corridor,
readSouth African court rejects bid to return 'mercenaries'
10-06-2004
PRETORIA - A South African court yesterday denied a request to bring 70 men held by Zimbabwe as suspected mercenaries home to face trial, rejecting lawyers' arguments they will not get a fair hearing
readPolice trying to keep up with the Joneses
10-06-2004
SIBLING murder suspects Ian and Chris Jones managed to evade being recaptured by the Police for a second day yesterday.A team of Police officers searching for the brothers in southern Namibia remained
readPohamba provided with official escort, opposition outraged
10-06-2004
IN a move that has infuriated opposition parties, Government has beefed up security around Swapo presidential candidate Hifikepunye Pohamba by providing him with an official escort.Since yesterday,
readFarmers' clique defiant
10-06-2004
A GROUP of white commercial farmers, meeting under the banner of the Namibia Farmers Support Initiative (NFSI), have vowed to "fight" Government's plans to expropriate land.Around 30 farmers, most of
readPlea for disabled to be part of development strategies
10-06-2004
THE Secretary General of the National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia (NFPDN), Gerson Mutendere, has advised the Keetmanshoop Town Council to familiarise themselves with the
read'Baboon' murder case postponed
10-06-2004
THE Outjo Magistrate's Court has postponed a case in which two men are charged with the shooting and killing a man they allegedly mistook for a baboon.Court officials confirmed that Pieter Hendrik
readIllegal ivory can be easily bought in Britain: IFAW
10-06-2004
NAIROBI - Illegal ivory can be easily bought across Britain raising concerns about whether rich and poor countries can effectively police the ivory trade if it were to be reopened, says an official of
readForeign policy lauded in NA
10-06-2004
THE Deputy Minister of Justice on Tuesday urged Namibians to be vigilant and ensure that all nations benefit equally in the global village market.Alpheus !Naruseb was making his contribution on the
read11-year-old raped at refugee camp
10-06-2004
AN Angolan refugee has been arrested at the Osire camp near Otjiwarongo in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl.Gabriel Mwembo (38) allegedly raped the girl on June 5, the Police reported
readCold set to clear
10-06-2004
THE chilly weather that has gripped most of the country's central and southern areas since Sunday is slowly clearing.A frontal system emanating from the Western Cape had caused temperatures to drop,
readEquator Prize gives Torra Conservancy US$30 000 boost
10-06-2004
THE Torra Conservancy in the Kunene Region has received US$30 000 (about N$195 000) as prize money for winning the Equator Prize for establishing sustainable hunting and eco-tourism
readNew project to bolster National Parks system
10-06-2004
THE Global Environment Facility (GEF), through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has allocated US$350 000 (N$2,2 million) to strengthen national protected areas in Namibia.The
readCoD congratulates Hamutenya and Mbuende on foreign policy
10-06-2004
PRAISE by the Congress of Democrats for the former Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya and his former deputy Kaire Mbuende for coming up with the White Paper on Namibia's Foreign Policy was met
readOpposition MP demands probe into State House 'slush funds'
10-06-2004
THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) has pushed for Government to investigate claims by former presidential aide Isaac Kaulinge about State House funds that are unaccounted for.Failure to do so, CoD MP
readUsakos Council in place
10-06-2004
THE new Usakos Town Council was formally constituted yesterday morning, but not without resistance from Swapo.The ruling party's unwillingness to work with the coalition of the UDF and CoD, which
readAir Namibia GM drops case against staff
10-06-2004
A TOP manager at Air Namibia has withdrawn a N$250 000 defamation suit against junior staff who accused him of profiteering for his private airline through a deal with the national air carrier.But
readNPL affiliates to elect new chairperson
10-06-2004
THE Namibia Premier League affiliates are expected to elect a new Chairperson for their Board of Governors (BoG) at the forthcoming Extra Ordinary and Annual General Assembly in Walvis Bay this
readNRU announces rugby squad against Golden Lions
10-06-2004
THE national rugby side will take on South African 2004 Vodacom Cup champions the Golden Lions in an international friendly Saturday.It will be the Lions second visit to Namibia having played here
readItalian hostages arrive from Iraq
10-06-2004
ROME -Three hostages freed from their Iraqi kidnappers by US-led coalition forces returned to Italy yesterday after nearly two months in captivity in a boost for the government before this weekend's
readShift in terror tactics leaves trail of dead Westerners in Saudi Arabia
10-06-2004
DUBAI - Al-Qaeda militants are adopting new terror tactics in Saudi Arabia hunting down and killing individual westerners in line with published battleplans designed to drive out "infidels".The murder
readUS torture might come 'from the top'
10-06-2004
WASHINGTON - Democratic senators say Justice Department memos contending that a wartime president is not bound by anti-torture principles could have laid the legal groundwork for the prisoner abuses
readSharon still alright after losing majority
10-06-2004
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government is in no danger of being toppled despite losing his parliamentary majority with the resignation of two ministers, the head of his party's
readE.R. pulls plug on British actress Kingston
10-06-2004
LONDON - British actress Alex Kingston will hang up her scrubs, having been tossed off E.R., she says, to allow room for new blood.Kingston told her home country's Radio Times magazine that she has
readMore apes to be released
10-06-2004
JOHANNESBURG - Sanctuaries caring for orphaned African apes plan to release more of their charges back into the wild in a bid to save them from extinction, primate experts said yesterday."We are
readBritons about Charles-Camilla marriage: 'We don't care'
10-06-2004
LONDON - More Britons support Prince Charles marrying long-time lover Camilla Parker Bowles than oppose it, according to a poll released yesterday - but both groups are outnumbered by those who don't
readNon-lethal blowfish meals on the way
10-06-2004
TOKYO- Blowfish has long been a delicacy only for the adventurous: every year in Japan, a few people are poisoned to death eating it.Now scientists have put a school of pufferfish on a special diet
readCongo government takes Bukavu peacefully
10-06-2004
BUKAVU - Government forces recaptured this strategic city in eastern Congo yesterday, ending a one-week take over by renegade troops that triggered the biggest crisis yet to the peace
readRebels bomb Nepal school
10-06-2004
KATHMANDU - Maoist rebels stormed an empty school on the outskirts of the Nepali capital at dawn yesterday and set off two bombs, police said, in an attack apparently aimed at enforcing their call for
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