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38 Articles found on Wednesday, 15 October 2008
SMSes Of The Day : Wednesday
15-10-2008
n THE veterans' kids are homeless, they have no money and food. The poor pensioners' houses are sold because they can't afford (to pay). There is no money to pay school fees for the needy ones to
readFinnish trade minister to visit Namibia
15-10-2008
Paavo Vaeyrynen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development of Finland, will visit Namibia tomorrow and Saturday. The main focus of the visit is development co-operation, but promotion of Finland's
readBoeing strike costs approach US$4 billion
15-10-2008
SEATTLE - Boeing says renewed negotiations with its striking machinists broke down over an issue crucial to the company's "long-term competitiveness". A labour leader says the union was being asked
readTurkey will order 105 planes from Boeing, Airbus
15-10-2008
ISTANBUL - Turkish Airlines (THY) said yesterday that it plans to order up to 105 planes from manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, as one of Europe's fastest growing carriers seeks to strengthen its
readLabour wants to change course of globalisation
15-10-2008
Brussels - An unprecedented tripartite consultation between European and Asian social partners and Ministries of Labour (Asem) took place on Monday in Bali, Indonesia as part of the Asem Trade Union
readBrazilian giant hopes to export Mozambican coal by 2011
15-10-2008
Maputo - The Brazilian mining giant, the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), expects to start exporting coal from its concession at Moatize, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, in late 2010 or
readOzzie firm to start new drilling at Tsumkwe diamond exploration
15-10-2008
Perth-based Mount Burgess Mining says it plans to shortly drill a new exploration campaign on its Tsumkwe diamond exploration project in Namibia.Addressing the second day in Perth of the 2008 Paydirt
readMoz women get US$4m to develop skills Maputo
15-10-2008
The African Development Bank is financing, to the tune of US$4 million, a project to develop women's business skills in the central Mozambican provinces of Manica and Sofala. According to the
readBarclays snubs bail-out offer from UK government
15-10-2008
London - Barclays, one of Britain's leading banks, said it planned to raise more than £6,5 billion (about N$102 billion) from investors, turning down the offer of government help."Given the strength
readGlobal financial weeds are invading Russian agriculture
15-10-2008
T he financial meltdown that started on Wall Street is now hurting farmers in Siberia, threatening a Russian agricultural revival that the UN said was needed to help avert an international food
readUnder-17s in money fix
15-10-2008
FINANCIAL woes are haunting the Namibian under-17 football side's preparations for the CAF African Youth Championships finals set for Algeria next year, The Namibian Sport learnt yesterday.The side
readBrown denies plot allegations
15-10-2008
COUNCILLOR Basil Brown of the Keetmanshoop Town Council has come out with guns blazing against allegations that he refused to vacate a plot that had been allocated to another resident.A local law firm
readFarmers worried about 'agenda' behind Meatco reconstruction
15-10-2008
MEAT producers are sceptical about Government's plans to restructure Meatco, with tempers flaring at the last of several information meetings in Windhoek yesterday. Lawyer Dirk Conradie, whose law
readACC probes Witvlei graft claims
15-10-2008
THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is investigating allegations of misappropriation of funds at the Witvlei Village Council. ACC Director Paulus Noa told The Namibian yesterday that several
readSwapo in flat spin: Kaura
15-10-2008
NEXT year's national elections will change the political landscape in Namibia, as the overwhelming majority of the ruling Swapo party will be broken and a coalition government will then be a
readWWF teaches Namibia to fish smarter
15-10-2008
ABOUT 30 men and women involved in different levels of the local fishing industry completed an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management course in Walvis Bay last week.The two-day course was
readConjoined twins 'holding their own'
15-10-2008
PRELIMINARY evaluations have shown that the conjoined twin girls born at Swakopmund on Monday do not share any organs, regional health director Christencia Thataone told The Namibian yesterday.She
readMPs discuss witchdoctors and magic creams
15-10-2008
WITCHDOCTORS and dubious traditional healers promising to heal all diseases and making poor people rich captured the minds of Members in the National Assembly yesterday and one MP related how a
readGoabab suspended from Parliament job
15-10-2008
THE highest-ranking civil servant in the National Assembly was suspended by the Public Service Commission on Thursday. The Namibian learnt that Nama Goabab was suspended from his position to allow
readEtosha consumes Swapo
15-10-2008
Minister accused of flouting party rulesTHE controversial Millennium Challenge Account continues to cause discontent within Swapo, with the latest development being that Works Minister Helmut Angula
readKrugman wins Nobel for work on trade trends
15-10-2008
PRINCETON, New Jersey - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the US$700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics for his work
readOmathigathano gOombasikela mo Angola
15-10-2008
O MUWILIKI gwEhangano lyOombasikela moNamibia lyedhina Tuyeni Cycling Club, Man of Action, okwa tseyitha kutya Ehangano lye otali longekidha po omathigathano gOombasikela, ngoka taga ka ningilwa
readEindilo lyaagandji yootundi mOokolindji ota li kundathanwa
15-10-2008
E HANGANO lyAalongsikola lyopashigwana nenge tutye Namibia National Teachers Union (Nantu) olya tindi okugandja oshizemo shoonkundathana ndhoka tali ningi nOmbelewa yOmuprimaminsta kombinga yeindilo
readOomeme yaali yomOshakati ya hulitha miiponga yiihauto
15-10-2008
O OMEME aagundjuka yaali yomOshakati mOshitopolwa sha Shana nomulongisikola pOseko ya Eengendjo pOmungwelume mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena oya si omaso gombaadhilila sho iihauto moka ya li aafaalelwa ya
readFootball development workshops at Rundu
15-10-2008
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) in conjunction with the Namibia Schools' Sports Union (NSSU) will conduct the first ever youth development workshop in Rundu this coming weekend.The two-day
readNo new faces for Warriors
15-10-2008
NO new faces will be included in the current Brave Warriors side which beat Zimbabwe 4-2 in a 2010 World/African Nations Cup qualifier in Windhoek last weekend, says head coach Tom Saintfiet.He said
readWomen's league set for March 2009
15-10-2008
THE Namibian women's football leagues will only kick off next March, it was announced yesterday.Namibia Football Association (NFA) executive member Jacky Gertze said all women's football leagues in
readTaste of death brings hope for better life
15-10-2008
NAKHON NAYOK, Thailand - Namfon Mamuenwai says she died for the man she loves - if only for a moment.The 39-year-old Bangkok resident climbed into a coffin in a Buddhist temple, experienced a
readKenya's elephants send text messages to rangers
15-10-2008
OL PEJETA, Kenya - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighbouring farms.The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding
readMissouri grandmother squashes scam
15-10-2008
CARTHAGE - Delpha Speak has 13 grandchildren and she didn't think it was completely implausible that one of her grandsons-in-law would call her to say he was in trouble. The 72-year-old retiree could
readSomali forces free Panama ship from pirates
15-10-2008
BOSASSO - Somali security forces freed a Panamanian ship from pirates yesterday, officials said, two days after they killed one of the hijackers in a gun battle.The Wail was seized by heavily armed
readSyria establishes ties with Lebanon
15-10-2008
DAMASCUS - Syria recognised Lebanon's sovereignty for the first time yesterday, with President Bashar Assad issuing a decree establishing diplomatic relations and plans for an embassy in Beirut.The
readZambia allows old voter roll
15-10-2008
LUSAKA - A Zambian court yesterday ruled that electoral authorities can use a two-year-old voter roll in this month's presidential election, saying it was impossible to update it before the
readWHO warns of current healthcare inequalities
15-10-2008
GENEVA - The World Health Organisation said yesterday that current healthcare systems were inadequate to meet the challenges of the modern world and urged countries instead to go back to the basics
readLekota faces 'radical action', says ANC
15-10-2008
JOHANNESBURG - The ANC intends taking "radical action" against suspended long-time comrade Mosiuoa Lekota, ruling party president Jacob Zuma said yesterday.On Monday night the ANC announced that
readMany cooks spoil broth
15-10-2008
BEIJING - Some 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in north China when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed added flavour,
readTalks to break Zim deadlock
15-10-2008
HARARE - Negotiators gathered for talks yesterday to break the deadlock in Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement as lawmakers prepared for the first business session of the new opposition-dominated
readCape Town's Zille named world's best mayor
15-10-2008
CAPE TOWN - Cape Town mayor Helen Zille was yesterday named the world's best mayor by a global urban issues think-tank, which praised her efforts to fight crime and to prepare for the 2010 football
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