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16 Articles found on Thursday, 22 June 2006
Indian plan to dam rivers stirs critics
22-06-2006
GANGTOK - Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of India's remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region. The Indian government
readFNB localises credit card division
22-06-2006
IN an effort to localise its banking operations, First National Bank Namibia (FNB) has moved its card operations from its headquarters in South Africa to its local base. The newly-established credit
readWe're not home and dry yet, say shebeen demonstrators
22-06-2006
SHEBEEN operators today mark a week of demonstrating outside Parliament, despite requests from both the President and the Prime Minister that they return home while MPs get to grips with the problem.
readZambian man sentenced for child rape
22-06-2006
CRIMINAL charges that flowed from a stopover in a Caprivi Region village to make repairs to his bicycle left a Zambian visitor to Namibia with a conviction for child rape and a 13-and-a-half-year
readNamibians throw weight behind fight against polio
22-06-2006
FROM the teeming shacks of Okahandja Park to villas in upmarket Windhoek, from far-flung villages to urban centres, Namibians yesterday queued patiently in their thousands as the long-awaited mass
readEnviro projects receive funding
22-06-2006
POVERTY reduction is impossible unless efforts are made to use natural resources and the environment sustainably. Swedish Chargé d' Affaires to Namibia, Lena Johansson Blomstrand, made these
readFive deaths reported
22-06-2006
POLICE yesterday reported that three suicides and two murders took place on Monday. In Windhoek, the body of a baby boy was found wrapped in plastic next to the road between Windhoek and the Daan
readMinister Iyambo takes issue with paper over shebeen allegations
22-06-2006
AS the pressure mounts for Parliamentarians to play open cards about whether they own shebeens or not, Minister Abraham Iyambo was the first to step up to the plate, flatly denying that he owned
readKiituntilitheni kombinga yomukithi gwOpolio
22-06-2006
E TUNTILO kombinga yomukithi gwOpolio ngoka gwiiteyele moNamibia ombaadhilila Omwedhi gwa zi ko, olya tameke ongula yohela nota li tsikile sigo ongula mEtitano, na Gavena yOshitopolwa sha Shana
readCoca-Cola football Youth Cup nearing end
22-06-2006
WINDHOEK - Only the Karas and Hardap regions still have to play their regional championships before the overall winner of the Coca-Cola Soccer Youth Cup is decided in finals set to take place at the
readLandslides, floods kill over 100 in Indonesia
22-06-2006
SINJAI - Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 110 people in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province and left a further 100 missing, an official said yesterday. The
readDemocrats are wavering on Hillary Clinton for president
22-06-2006
STEPHANIE GRIFFITH WASHINGTON - Some Democrats are having second thoughts about Hillary Clinton as their 2008 presidential candidate, wracked by doubts about her cross-party appeal, and disappointed
readAngola cholera toll near 1 900
22-06-2006
JOHANNESBURG - The death toll in Angola's cholera epidemic has reached near the 1 900 mark, with the number of cases exceeding 46 000, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. From February 13
readGunmen abduct and kill Saddam lawyer
22-06-2006
BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped and killed one of Saddam Hussein's chief defence lawyers and dumped his body in a Baghdad street, police said yesterday. Khamis al-Obaidi is the third defence lawyer to be
readCharles Taylor in The Hague for trial
22-06-2006
THE HAGUE - Liberia's former president Charles Taylor, once one of Africa's most feared warlords, spent his first morning in detention in The Hague yesterday after being flown in to face war crimes
readNorth Korea offers US talks to defuse missile crisis
22-06-2006
PARK CHAN-KYONG SEOUL - North Korea offered the United States talks on its missile launch plans yesterday, indicating it might put off a flight test that has raised tension and drawn sharp
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