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53 Articles found on Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Angola oil well encouraging
09-06-2010
COPENHAGEN – Maersk Oil said yesterday its Chissonga-2 appraisal well in Block 16 offshore Angola yielded encouraging results and it expected to decide in early 2011 whether to start production.A test
readHungary unveils plan to cut deficit
09-06-2010
BUDAPEST – Hungary’s prime minister proposed a new fiscal plan yesterday, including an overhaul of the tax system and cuts to the public sector, to reassure jittery markets that it can handle its
readNamdeb looks to the future
09-06-2010
THE recently concluded inaugural mining expo provided NamDeb an opportunity to tell the mining sector and the public that the giant of Namibian mining is “very much alive”.The company went through a
readNCCI wants non-tariff barriers scrapped
09-06-2010
THE high cost of transport and lack of infrastructural development are some of the major factors inhibiting intra-Africa trade, the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (NCCI) chief executive
readWorld Cup ‘distraction’ will cost a fortune
09-06-2010
LONDON – The football World Cup could cost British businesses a fortune in lost production as employees take time off and waste time nattering about the tournament, a managers’ body said yesterday.The
readZim meets rights standards: diamond trade monitor
09-06-2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe has met minimum human rights standards in its diamond fields, an international monitor said in a report yesterday, bringing the country a step closer to resuming international trade
readChasing the dots ... Leadership, balls and Blatter
09-06-2010
WORLD Cup blues, roll on July 13. The final, North Korea ‘Torpedoes’ versus US of A ‘Oilers’ will have come to a shootout. Apart from the retributions, claims of success and constant reruns of the
readFitch warns Britain must act quicker
09-06-2010
LONDON – Britain needs to put its public finances in order much quicker as it faces a “formidable” fiscal challenge after an unprecedented shock to the economy, Fitch Ratings warned yesterday.Fitch
readSwiss MPs reject US tax info deal
09-06-2010
GENEVA – Nationalist and left-wing lawmakers in the Swiss parliament have blocked a treaty with the United States in which Switzerland would hand over files on thousands of suspected tax cheats to US
readSarkozy says no need for austerity plan
09-06-2010
PARIS – The French government minister in charge of stimulus efforts is warning against German-style austerity measures but is also playing down any talk of a rift between Paris and Berlin.Patrick
readJapan bank lending shows record fall
09-06-2010
TOKYO – Japanese bank lending marked its biggest annual fall in nearly five years in May, as companies remained reluctant to boost capital spending even as the economy recovers and the central bank
readIndia Bharti closes Zain Africa deal
09-06-2010
NEW DELHI – India’s Bharti Airtel has completed its US$9 billion acquisition of African operations from Kuwait’s Zain, in a deal that would make the Indian firm the world’s No 5 wireless carrier by
readGladiator graveyard discovered in northern England
09-06-2010
LONDON – Dozens of headless skeletons excavated from a northern English building site appear to be the remains of Roman gladiators, one of whom had bites from a lion, tiger, bear or other large
readDutchman confesses to Lima killing
09-06-2010
LIMA – Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a United States teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room last
readUK Anglicans cut off Episcopalians
09-06-2010
LONDON – The Anglican Communion has suspended US Episcopalians from serving on ecumenical bodies because of the election of a lesbian as a bishop in California.Rowan Williams, the archbishop of
read80 000 phones handed out in SA
09-06-2010
PRETORIA – In a bid to beef up health services and safety and security over the World Cup and beyond, the communications department yesterday handed 80 000 cellphones to the police and health
readDarfur rebel group ‘preparing to free 35 prisoners’
09-06-2010
KHARTOUM – Darfur’s main rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, is preparing to free 35 captured members of the Sudanese army, JEM officials said yesterday.“We have 35 prisoners of war who we
readZambia editor M’membe bailed in childbirth case
09-06-2010
LUSAKA – The editor of Zambia’s only private daily newspaper was granted bail of N$30 800 Monday, pending an appeal of his conviction in a case linked to a pornography trial over a photo of
readBiden pushes Kenya on reform, security
09-06-2010
NAIROBI – Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that American businesses, tourists and aid would flock to Kenya if the east African nation successfully pushed ahead with its sweeping reforms and
readCheadle goes green
09-06-2010
KIGALI, Rwanda – Actor Don Cheadle has become a spokesman for the United Nations environment programme.He was appointed on Saturday in Rwanda’s capital as a UN Environment Programme Goodwill
readMarvin of the Isley Brothers passes on
09-06-2010
NEW YORK – Marvin Isley, bass player for the Isley Brothers, died in Chicago on Sunday, aged 56. He reportedly succumbed to complications from diabetes, a disease that forced him to retire from
readFormer ‘World’s Ugliest Dog’ dies after 17 doggone years
09-06-2010
PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee – Miss Ellie, a small, bug-eyed Chinese Crested Hairless dog whose pimples and lolling tongue helped her win Animal Planet’s ‘World’s Ugliest Dog’ contest in 2009, has died at
readMusical double feature for World Cup celebrations
09-06-2010
JOHANNESBURG – The World Cup’s opening celebrations roll over two days this week, in a musical double feature that boasts top stars like Shakira tomorrow, with a still-secret performance ahead of the
readErastus Mvula Mnyaango a mona onkatu yUundohotola
09-06-2010
OMUNANGESHEFA a tseyika nawa gwomOshakati, tate Erastus Kakololo Mvula a tseyika nawa Mvula-Mnyaango, mOsoondaha ndjika ya zi ko okwa pewa Epapa lyUundohotola kOshitayingeleka sha Elim, omolu
readEtuntilo lyiimuna lya lelepekwa
09-06-2010
OSHIKONGA shetuntilo lyiimuna moshitopolwa sha Kavango opo kayi kwatwe komukithi gwepunga, osha lelepekwa noshiwike shimwe.Oshikonga shika shoomwedhi mbali osha li sha tameke petameko lya April
readKuku Loise Shikomba a fumvikwa pOlukonda kengathithi lyaalilasa
09-06-2010
OMULONGISIKOLA kwali a tseyika nawa kuku Loise Shikomba, a kala momukunda Onamungundo mOndonga mOshitopolwa sha Shikoto, ngoka a manene oondjenda dhe meti 1 Juni 2010 mOshipangelo sha Katutura
readOpaati ompe mu Botswana
09-06-2010
GABORONE – Aatotiveta yane mu Botswana oya thigi po ongundu tayi pangele moshilongo e taya toto po opaati ompe yedhina Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), ndjoka aatseyinawa miikwapoitika taya ti
readOonkundana pauifupi
09-06-2010
LUXEMBOURG – Ehangano lyUukumwe wAaEuropa olya kaleka omakwathelo galyo ku Madgascar molwashoka kamu na uudemokoli, konima sho sho Andry Rajoeilina a ye koshipundi shUupresidende koonkondo omumvo gwa
readAakalelipo ya Namibia pondje otaya ka lundululwa
09-06-2010
EGUMBO lyEpangelo nUuministeli wIikwapindje, kapu ngoka a gandja okomenda kombinga yomapopyo kutya ota pu ka ningwa omalunduluko maakalelipo ya Namibia kiilongo yopondje.Amushanga omukuluntu
readOnkoshi yimwe ya dhipagwa kOmangetti
09-06-2010
ONKUNDANA ye tu zilila koofalama dha Mangeti mUuzilo wOndonga mOshitopolwa sha Shikoto, otayi ti kutya yimwe yomoonkoshi ndhoka dhi li tadhi piyaganeke aanafaalama yaahoka, tadhi dhipaga nokulya po
readRooney must control his temper: referee
09-06-2010
ENGLAND striker Wayne Rooney has been warned by a referee to control his temper in order to avoid another World Cup red card. Rooney was booked in England’s final tune-up game for the World Cup, a 3-0
readIn-form SA, Mexico make Group A tough
09-06-2010
SOUTH Africa’s dramatic improvement over the last six months, Mexico’s new-found self belief and France’s erratic build-up will make Group A one of the closest fought in the opening stage of the World
readNani out of World Cup
09-06-2010
PORTUGUESE winger Nani became the latest big name to drop out of the injury-plagued World Cup yesterday.The Portuguese football federation said on its website the Manchester United player is unfit to
readPohamba to attend Fifa World Cup opening
09-06-2010
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba will leave for South Africa on Friday to join other world leaders at the opening of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.The Namibian Head of State is scheduled to return on Saturday,
readFar North boxing body elects new leaders
09-06-2010
MEMBERS of the Far North Amateur Boxing Federation (FNABF) gathered at Eenhana in the Ohangwena Region to elect new members for their executive committee on Saturday.The election of the exco at the
readSMSes for Wednesday 9 June 2010
09-06-2010
* MR Paulinus Shilamba of NamPower is rightly concerned about the steep, steep increases in prices of power in the future. The Namibian consumers are rightly concerned about the lavish,lavish
readWitvlei settlement: A chance to heal
09-06-2010
SEVEN years ago, when she was in her teens, Livey van Wyk became pregnant and simultaneously discovered that she was HIV positive. Today, after a difficult emotional battle, she heads the Positive
readLong-time residents still without IDs
09-06-2010
SOME people who came to Namibia many years ago are still without Namibian national documents, a Swapo MP in the National Council said yesterday.Frieda Siwobe said these people fled Angola during that
readLAC wants water regulations improved
09-06-2010
INCREASING mining activities, a growing population and the effects of climate change will have an impact on Namibian water resources, which require careful monitoring and more transparency on
readTeen mom’s case postponed
09-06-2010
THE Rehoboth teenager who was arrested over the weekend after a baby’s body was found at the town on Friday, will plead to charges of murder and concealment of birth next month.Magistrate Gibson
readDetails emerge on Shaduka’s defence
09-06-2010
THE fatal shooting of Selma Shaimemanya was an accident that happened when she fell against her husband, businessman Lazarus Shaduka, while he had a loaded pistol in his hands, it was claimed in
readSA shebeens spruce up for Cup revellers
09-06-2010
DURBAN – South Africa’s shebeens, once underground bars hidden in black townships, have spruced up for the World Cup in hopes foreign fans will join locals in some of the country’s most distinctive
readPacon critics want board to step down
09-06-2010
THE inactiveness of the Pan-African Centre of Namibia (Pacon) has caused a cyber war between Pacon chairman Victor Tonchi and an aide to Swapo secretary general Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana. The dispute
readFIS gets back some seized documents
09-06-2010
THE Namibian Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) on Wednesday last week handed back some of the documents and items it had seized from Financial Investments Services (FIS). The
readJail term over fatal car crash
09-06-2010
A DEADLY head-on collision on the perilous road between Otjiwarongo and Otavi near the end of 2008 left an Angolan national with an effective jail term of 18 months on Friday.Four people died in the
readBoundaries redefined in rugby-loving Pretoria
09-06-2010
PRETORIA – For the capital of a country that has worked itself into a frenzy over the World Cup, Pretoria has never been much of a football town.The staid seat of executive power has traditionally
readNational football First Division drama rolls on
09-06-2010
THE cash-strapped NPL Northern Stream First Division finally resumed with its programme this past weekend while the Southern Stream is yet to be concluded.Following weeks of inactivity attributed to a
readGovernment’s lukewarm recession response grilled
09-06-2010
GOVERNMENT’S response to the economic crisis last year was “average”, and although it sought the advice of the private sector, “little if any concrete action seems to have been taken”, Old Mutual
readSanctions against Iran agreed upon
09-06-2010
MOSCOW/ISTANBUL – United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme have been “completely agreed upon”, a Russian source close to Security Council talks told reporters yesterday. Iran
read1 heist suspect charged, ‘kingpin’ still at large
09-06-2010
THE alleged kingpin in the largest cash-in-transit-heist in Namibian history, Simson Matias, has in all likelihood fled to Angola.His colleague, who claimed to have been handcuffed by an armed Matias,
readStaple food prices on the rise as winter hits
09-06-2010
LEAN times will continue through the winter with food price analysts expecting more expensive meat, maize meal, fruit and vegetables.Releasing the latest First Capital Food Price Index, economist
readTrustco sues rugby union
09-06-2010
THE dispute between Trustco Group International (TGI) and the Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) is headed to court. The latest development is said to make it very unlikely that an international sevens rugby
readNotable Quotes
09-06-2010
Far too many appointees do not even try to learn what it takes to become capable. – One of the respondents said following a survey in which local executives rated the perfomances of state-oned
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