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52 Articles found on Monday, 16 October 2006
Some Airbus factories for sale
16-10-2006
PARIS - The European aerospace group EADS would consider selling some Airbus factories provided that new owners could reduce operating costs, EADS co-chairman Manfred Bischoff said on Friday.Bischoff,
readEU adds several airlines to blacklist
16-10-2006
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union added several airlines on Thursday to its blacklist of carriers that are not permitted to fly in the 25-nation bloc.The executive European Commission said it banned
readMichelin wants 40-hour week
16-10-2006
FRANKFURT - French tyre maker Michelin wants to increase the working week at its five German factories from 37,5 hours to 40 hours without a corresponding rise in pay, the daily Frankurter Allgemeine
readUS store Macy's partners with Rwandan widows
16-10-2006
NEW YORK - When Macy's decided to sell baskets made by Rwandan widows, the store was swayed in part by the prospect of contributing to a developing economy and in part by the women's tale of suffering
readRand steady after rate hike rally
16-10-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's rand was steady on Friday after firming sharply on the central bank's 50 basis point hike in interest rates on Thursday, and was likely to remain volatile in the short
readRennies joins Hogg Robinson Group Int
16-10-2006
FOLLOWING its decision to join the international corporate services company, Hogg Robinson Group Worldwide Network, Rennies Travel Namibia will be changing the trading name of its corporate travel
readIMF urges Lesotho to woo investors
16-10-2006
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged Lesotho to make itself more attractive to foreign investors as the tiny African kingdom tries to recover from losses to its textile
readNamfisa strives to be a better regulator
16-10-2006
THE Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) held a press conference in Windhoek on Friday to reveal its latest roadmap envisaged to make the organisation more effective at its
readN$83 000 a month 'modest' Says ex-Agribank CEO as labour case wraps up
16-10-2006
THE monthly salary of more than N$83 000 that Tjeripo Hijarunguru received when he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Agricultural Bank of Namibia was "moderate", Hijarunguru declared in the
readInternational plea goes out for rescue teams to help save dying seals
16-10-2006
SA has asked international anti-seal hunt organisations to immediately send seal rescue teams to Namibia to help save some of the thousands of seals dying at the coast."We want to prevent further
readRamatex workers sew up wage increase
16-10-2006
RAMATEX employees celebrated success on Saturday when a work stoppage resulted in a more favourable agreement with the Malaysian-run textile factory.After years of lobbying and almost two full days of
readGreen light for Harry Simon appeal
16-10-2006
THE High Court on Friday gave permission to the State to pursue an appeal to increase the two-year prison term that former world champion boxer Harry Simon received last year in connection with a car
readRoad accident claims one
16-10-2006
AN employee of Rosh Pinah Zinc died on Friday night after his car crashed into a truck on the road between Aus and Rosh Pinah.According to Police Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, the truck was used by
readBiker dies in crash with Police vehicle
16-10-2006
A MOTORCYCLE rider died after colliding with a Police vehicle on Saturday night.The accident occurred around 22h15 near the Van Eck power station on the northern outskirts of Windhoek. The Police car
readMissing mother arrested
16-10-2006
A 21-year old woman who allegedly left her baby in the arms of a stranger more than two months ago has been arrested.The Namibian reported in July that Police and medical staff at the Oshikuku clinic
readPohamba opens phase 2 of railway
16-10-2006
ONDANGWA - President Hifikepunye Pohamba officially opened the second phase of the Northern Railway Extension Project near Ondangwa in the Oshana Region on Saturday.Founding president Sam Nujoma,
readOshakati debtors pay up at last
16-10-2006
ONLY 37 Oshakati residents are still in danger of losing their homes if they don't pay their municipal debt by Friday.The Oshakati Town Council's property manager, Ores Shilunga, said that 60 of the
readTheft charge laid against the Police
16-10-2006
THE father of a young man who died in a car crash at Keetmanshoop has laid charges of theft against four Police officers.Basil Brown, a member of the Keetmanshoop Town Council, alleges that a gold
readUS restores military training in Namibia, 20 other nations
16-10-2006
WASHINGTON - Twenty-one countries that had been denied participation in US military training programmes are now eligible to take part again under a presidential waiver announced by the White House.All
readEducation sector needs N$2,4 billion
16-10-2006
THE education sector will need N$2,39 billion over the next five years to finance the first phase of its ambitious Education and Training Sector Improvement Programme (ETSIP).Experts discussed the
readPolitician in court over bar shindig
16-10-2006
THE Swapo district co-ordinator for the Berseba constituency, Willem Isaak (35), on Thursday made yet another appearance in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate's Court on a charge of malicious damage to
read'Ex-Koevoet, SWATF should also benefit from Veterans' Ministry'
16-10-2006
FORMER Namibian Police officers who served in the Koevoet paramilitary unit and the South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) unit under South African rule should also benefit from the newly
readAmerika ina ninga natango eindilo lya Kobi
16-10-2006
S IGO onene Epangelo lya Namibia olyab tegelela Amerika a ningi eindilo kutya omulumentu Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander, ngoka ta konga koshilongo hoka shi na sha nuulunga, na shunithwe kegumbo a ka
readCastle Bar KK ota kwashilipaleke uudhano wOondola/N$10,000 mu Novemba
16-10-2006
OMUNASHIPUNDI gwOsipana yEtanga lyokoompadhi yedhina King Kauluma Football Club, tate Frans Mbidi, okwa lombwela The Namibian oshiwike shika kutya Osipana yUudhano wEtanga lyokoompadhi ya tseyika nawa
readKapu na sha shi li meholama, Hausiku tati
16-10-2006
E DHILADHILO lyOmupresidende omukulu gwa Namibia Sam Nujoma kutya Namibia na tungile Osikola yimwe 'ookalasa' mu Lubango nokwoopaleka omawendo gamwe mondoolopa ndjika yAangola, kashi shi oshinima
readAalumentu yatatu ya tindilwa ombooloha
16-10-2006
A ALUMENTU yAaZimbabwe yatatu mboka ya li aniwa ya kwata po ombambyona omulumentu omunangeshefa Omukiina mOvenduka omasiku ga zi ko, oya tindilwa ombooloha sho ya holoka mOmpangu oshikando shotango
readOmugundjuka gumwa a holoka mOmpangu sho a lala iikombo
16-10-2006
O SHAKATI - Onkundana okuziulil kOshakati otayi ti kutya omugundjuka gumwe gwoomvula 22 gomomukunda Ohadiwa moshitopolwa sha Hangwena, okwa holoka mOmpangu ya Mengestrata mOshakati mEtitatu oshikando
readOkuyele natango okumangulula aalandwakwiita yAaSouth Afrika
16-10-2006
D AKAR - Onkundana okuzila ku Daker sha Senegal otayi ti kutya Omupresidende gwa Equatorial Guinea okwa popi kutya okuyele natango okusila ohenda aalandwakwiita yaakwiilongo mboka ya li ya hala
readOyendji ya kutha ombinga molutenda
16-10-2006
PONDANGWA O MWAALU omunene lela gwaakwashigwana ya za koombinga noombinga dhoshilongo unene tuu koNooli yasho, oya li ya kutha ombinga onene miilonga yolutenda pamwe nOmupresidende gwOshilongo
readOmupangi omukulu mOranjemund a hulitha
16-10-2006
O MUKALIMO gwomomukunda Ombuma mIihongo yaMvula mOndonga mOshitopolwa sha Shikoto tatekulu Petrus Shivute Sem Angula, a tseyika wo nawa nedhina Muambo gwa Sem okwa manena oondjenda dhe mOshipangelo
readMatch-fixing probe held up
16-10-2006
NEW DELHI - Indian police have made little headway in a probe into a 2000 match-fixing scam due a problem in translating taped conversations in Afrikaans, a report said yesterday.In 2000, police in
readCalzaghe retains title
16-10-2006
MANCHESTER - Joe Calzaghe remains boxing's longest reigning world champion but had to survive some nervous moments to hold on to his WBO super-middleweight title for the 19th time with a unanimous
readKiwis face stiff SA test
16-10-2006
MUMBAI - New Zealand return to competitive cricket after a six-month absence to take on formidable South Africa in their opening Champions Trophy match today.In an era of non-stop cricket and
readCech in hospital after injury
16-10-2006
LONDON - Chelsea had goalkeepers Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini taken to hospital after both were knocked unconscious in the champions' 1-0 win at Reading on Saturday.Cech was being kept in hospital
readBucs' dream bites the dust
16-10-2006
ORLANDO Pirates will wake up from their 'Impossible Dream' after a futile night in Tunisia in the second-leg African Champions League semi-final against CS Sfaxien on Saturday to face the nightmarish
readElias wins in Portugal
16-10-2006
ESTORIL - Spanish rider Toni Elias won the Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix here on Sunday to mark his first-ever MotoGP podium finish in style.The Honda rider edged out Italian Valentino Rossi on the
readVan Wyk is new NPL chair
16-10-2006
PIETER van Wyk was elected as chairperson of the Namibia Premier League (NPL) Board of Governors on Saturday.The election took place after the nullification of the previous ballot held a fortnight
readHonours shared in Currie Cup sizzler
16-10-2006
BLOEMFONTEIN - The defending champions, the Cheetahs, and the Blue Bulls shared South Africa's Currie Cup trophy after a pulsating 100 minutes here on Saturday.The teams were forced into 20 minutes of
readCelliers wins Cycle Classic
16-10-2006
THE sixth edition of The Namibian Model Pick & Pay Cycle Classic concluded on a successful note yesterday, with Jacques Celliers walking away with the title in the main race for men, while Johanita de
readWeekend Sports Briefs
16-10-2006
Romania qualify for World Cup MADRID - Romania clinched a place in next year's Rugby World Cup after beating Spain 43-20 in a playoff match in Madrid yesterday.The Romanians had problems dealing with
readBriefs
16-10-2006
KIDNAPPED - Italy's foreign ministry said yesterday it believed Italian photojournalist Gabriele Torsello, who has disappeared in southern Afghanistan, had been kidnapped.*NO TALKS - Prime Minister
readBlack Panthers reunite 40 years later
16-10-2006
BERKELEY - The Black Panther Party officially existed for just 16 years, but its reach has endured far longer.Co-founder Bobby Seale never expected to be around to see that reach 40 years later. "A
readPamuk wins the award for literature
16-10-2006
NEW YORK - Novelist Orhan Pamuk, an international symbol of literary and social conscience, whose poetic, melancholy journeys into the soul of his native Turkey have brought him the many blessings and
readPeace Prize confounds predictions
16-10-2006
OSLO - Perhaps only once in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize has a secret been as well kept as Friday's 2006 award to Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank for lending to the poor.In a
readSA white farmers to lose land
16-10-2006
EAST LONDON - The South African government has issued new orders to seize land from a small number of white farmers who were not willing to settle apartheid-era land disputes with dispossessed blacks,
readMuslim veil fracas in Britain
16-10-2006
LONDON - A government minister joined an increasingly bitter debate over the rights of Muslim women to wear face veils in Britain, telling a Sunday newspaper that a teaching assistant should be fired
readCampaigning starts for DRC poll
16-10-2006
KINSHASA - Giant billboards and megaphone announcements greeted potential voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday as campaigning got off to a peaceful but tense start for the second
readSanctions on North Korea
16-10-2006
SEOUL - South Korea pledged yesterday to enforce new United Nations sanctions on North Korea for its "unpardonable and provocative" nuclear test as senior officials from Seoul and Moscow discussed
readItaly rescues 300 migrants at sea
16-10-2006
Coastguards in Italy have rescued 300 suspected illegal immigrants caught in stormy weather off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.Lampedusa, one of Italy's southernmost islands, is used as
readPope proclaims four new saints
16-10-2006
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI gave the Catholic Church new saints Sunday, bestowing the Church's highest honour in a ceremony in St Peter's Square on four faithful from past centuries whose lives
readR500 000 for Zuma
16-10-2006
Johannesburg - A fund-raising dinner in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, has raised more than R500 000 for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma, the SABC reported on Sunday.Among those attending were the provincial
readSudan snubs US ambassador
16-10-2006
Khartoum - Sudan snubbed newly appointed United States presidential diplomat Andrew Natsios on his arrival in Khartoum on Friday for his first visit since taking up his post, said security
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