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40 Articles found on Wednesday, 4 October 2006
Concerns over PlayStation 3
04-10-2006
TOKYO - Fresh concerns about the upcoming release of Sony's much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video-game console and reports of erratic performance dragged Sony shares down 2,75 per cent
readSteel industry worries over growing output
04-10-2006
BUENOS AIRES - Steel companies must act to ensure prices do not suffer because of overproduction, particularly by Chinese producers, industry leaders said at a meeting on Monday.China's steel output
read25 missing after attack in oil-rich Niger Delta
04-10-2006
LAGOS - Twenty-five people working as contractors for the oil giant Shell were missing following an attack by heavily-armed assailants in which 14 Nigerian soldiers were killed, local newspapers
readMTN ups stake in Nigerian unit
04-10-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South African cellphone operator MTN will increase its stake in MTN Nigeria to 81 per cent by buying a seven per cent stake in the business for US$348,93 million, the group said
readWorld Bank offers rand uridashi bonds
04-10-2006
TOKYO - The World Bank is offering a A$100 million four-year uridashi bond, SMBC Friend Securities said yesterday.Uridashis are foreign bonds sold to Japanese retail investors. The bond, to be issued
readNBL results positive
04-10-2006
NAMIBIAN Breweries Limited (NBL) last week announced its annual results which showed that the Group's operating profit for the year ended June 30 2006 had increased by a 194 per cent.The company said
readUS fugitive pays record N$10m bail
04-10-2006
A SIX-DAY stint in the Windhoek Central Prison ended for Israeli-born high-tech industry millionaire Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander yesterday.Alexander, who was arrested at his house in Windhoek at the
readOutcome of GIPF probe expected soon
04-10-2006
A FORENSIC investigation into the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) Development Capital Portfolio is "at a highly sensitive stage" and any public comment could jeopardise the outcome of the
readStrike looms at Ramatex factory
04-10-2006
THE cancellation of a meeting between Ramatex and the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) yesterday may have set the scene for industrial action at the Windhoek factory within the next few
readReport puts top TransNamib parastatal officials on spot
04-10-2006
TRANSNAMIB Chief Executive Officer John Shaetonhodi threatened a staff member when tipped off about huge over-payments made by Human Resources General Manager Jason Hamunyela, to a company in which
readRehoboth man lays charges of rape
04-10-2006
A 30-year-old man from Rehoboth has laid charges of rape after he was apparently forced into a sexual act with an unknown man on Friday night.According to what he told the Police, he had been grabbed
readLawyers position themselves on Northland development
04-10-2006
THE Director of the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) says they are still preparing documents for a court application opposing the proposed construction of the Northland City shopping complex at Helao
readPreserve fish resources, sea life, urges Prime Minister
04-10-2006
SOUTH EAST Atlantic Ocean countries are lagging behind on measures to protect fish resources and sea life as well as on a number of key deadlines, Prime Minister Nahas Angula said on Monday.Opening
readLukewarm attendance at Windhoek Show
04-10-2006
THE unexpected cold weather this week has apparently had a negative effect on the number of visitors to the Windhoek Industrial and Agricultural Show.Only 39 046 visitors were recorded on the first
readTwo found not guilty in beach murder trial
04-10-2006
THE main suspect accused of killing a Swakopmund resident during an early-morning robbery on a beach two years ago is set to be alone in the dock when the High Court gives its verdict in his trial.On
readMan nabbed for transporting hoodia
04-10-2006
POLICE at Keetmanshoop yesterday arrested a man for allegedly harvesting and transporting the protected hoodia plant without a valid permit.Acting Regional Police Commander Nicky Nampala said
read30 NGOs sacked
04-10-2006
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's national anti-Aids coordinating agency, the National Aids Secretariat (NAS), has terminated the contracts of 30 local non-governmental organisations for poor management of
readKobi okwa eta oomiliyuna mu Namibia
04-10-2006
O MULUMENTU omunangeshefa OmwAamerika Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander - ngoka oye omutotipo nokwa li Omukuluntuwiliki gwOkampani onene yokuAmerika Comverses Technology Inc, okwa eta aniwa oshimaliwa shOondola
readAmerika ota ka gwedhela omakwatho ge gopashimaliwa mu Namibia
04-10-2006
E PANGELO lya Amerika olya uvaneke okugwedhela ekwatho lyopashimalwa ku Namibia shi vulithe poomiliyuna omathele gatano kombanda yomakwatho ngoka Namibia ha mono shito okupitila mosikema yedhina
readOmbelewa yOmupresidende pOkaiti ya kengelelwa
04-10-2006
O MUKULUNTU gwOmbelewa yOmupresidende pOkaiti (Keetmanshoop), Maria Konjore okwa ningi aniwa oshipotha shekengelelo nuufuthi kOpolisi, onzo yimwe osho ya kuthile ko The Namibian ngaaka.Pamambo
readOmupolisi a yaha aantu iipundjamenye
04-10-2006
O MUPOLISI gumwe a li a geya noonkondo okwa tameke okuumba e ta yaha omuntu okusa nokweehameka omukwawo nonkondo.Aantu yalwe yatatu oya kutha iikwana kumwe opo ya hupithe oomwenyo dhawo,
readOsikola ya Muulukila ya pewa Otivii nOvideo
04-10-2006
O SIKOLA ya Muulukila mOmbalantu mOshitopolwa sha Musati oya ningi yimwe yomOosikola oonelago, sho oshiwike sha zi ko ya pewa omagano gOtivii ompeempeka nosho wo Ovideo ompeempeka kEhangano
readYa tameka nomapulapulo mOshana
04-10-2006
O mapulapulo mOshitopolwa sha Shana ogeli metifa ookutalala kutya oshigwana oshi uvitile ngiini omayakulo gOpapangelo ngoka taya pewa kAakalelipo yawo yEpangelo, ngashi kOogavena, kOokansela nosho wo
readAanona mboka taya nana nondatu otaya kwathelwa kEpangelo
04-10-2006
A ANONA mboka taya nana nondatu kombinga yuuhupilo ye li 51 790 oya mona omakwathelo gopashimaliwa moshiketha shEpangelo sha nuninwa okukwathela aanona mbaka.Epangelo olya landela wo aanona mbaka
readWallabies recall experienced trio
04-10-2006
SYDNEY - The Wallabies have called on experienced trio Brendan Cannon, David Lyons and Morgan Turinui to bolster their 37-man squad named yesterday for next month's four-test rugby tour to
readLet me catch ball tamperers: Nawaz
04-10-2006
ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz yesterday said he was able to detect ball-tampering from 1 000 metres away and offered cricket chiefs his services to stop the practice.Nawaz,
readDanielsen takes chess tourney
04-10-2006
THE Namibian Chess Federation in conjunction with the Unam Chess Club held a rapid chess tournament last weekend, where Grandmaster Henrik Danielsen won the tournament with a perfect score of 7/7.Omar
readEngland expect Flintoff heroics
04-10-2006
NEW DELHI - Andrew Flintoff is expected to bat, bowl, field, lead and win matches for England whose key players have been in and out of hospital doors since winning the Ashes last year.No all-rounder
readBoxers to showcase talent
04-10-2006
WINDHOEK - Local boxers are to trade blows at the much talked-about Nedbank National Senior Boxing Championships slated for the Oshakati Independence Stadium this weekend.The Namibia Boxing Federation
readInline hockey development tournament at the coast
04-10-2006
THE Coastal Pirates Inline Hockey Club invites everyone to enjoy a fun-orientated version of inline hockey at the Bay Air Youth Development tournament this weekend.The tournament starts at the SFC
readBrave Warriors aim to win
04-10-2006
THE Brave Warriors are hungry for success and determined to beat Ethiopia in an African Cup of Nations qualifier in Windhoek on Saturday.National coach Ben Bamfuchile told Namibia Sport yesterday that
readChance for Warriors to impress
04-10-2006
A BIG chance awaits the Brave Warriors to prove their hordes of Namibian supporters wrong at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Saturday, when they meet Ethiopia in an African Nations Cup qualifier.This year,
readSilence is golden for US laureates
04-10-2006
STOCKHOLM - Two young United States scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which could lead
readUS Republican Party tries to save face
04-10-2006
WASHINGTON - Republicans are scrambling to contain the damage of two separate political headaches that share a common theme - accusations that the party is hiding the truth.At the White House,
readTyphoon Xangsane death toll nears 230
04-10-2006
MANILA - The death toll from typhoon Xangsane in the Philippines neared 200 yesterday, as rescue workers reached remote areas where last week's massive storm sparked flash floods and landslides. The
readEU sends extra $40m to Darfur
04-10-2006
BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Monday said it was sending an additional $51m in aid to help people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.The commission said some 26 million euros in new funds would
readAl Qaeda 'unhappy with Zarqawi'
04-10-2006
CAIRO - Six months before the head of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed by a US air strike, Abu Musab al Zarqawi received a letter said to be sent by a top al Qaeda official who was not happy with him and
readTutu to get Gandhi Peace Award
04-10-2006
JOHANNESBURG - The Gandhi Peace Award has been made to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced in Johannesburg on Monday.It was in recognition of his
readGunman kills five girls at Amish school
04-10-2006
NICKEL MINES - Survivors clung to life yesterday as police tried to puzzle out why a local man carried out an "execution style" shooting in an Amish schoolhouse, killing four girls before shooting
readZambian president re-elected
04-10-2006
LUSAKA - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was to be sworn in again yesterday after the opposition Patriotic Front charged that his re-election was the result of massive vote-rigging.Mwanawasa, who
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