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- We haven't actually seen one here at CES, but with their new 80-inch plasma TV, Samsung has edged out arch-rival LG once again in... |
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- My head hangs in shame. |
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- Dope have been forced to find a last-minute replacement for bassist Sloane ‘Mosey’ Jentry, as they prepare to head out for a two-month American tour. Jentry has decided to quit the band to lead a more ‘normal’ life. Dope have brought in Powerman 5000... |
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- Scotsman.com Sport - Latest News - Di Stefano's Dundee Future Uncertain: "Controversial lawyer Giovanni di Stefano has been asked to consider his position on the board at Dundee. The Anglo-Italian, who has represented serial killer Harold Shipman and had |
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- Stockholmsbörsen steg något i den inledande handeln på fredagen. I övriga Europa var utvecklingen blandad. Under eftermiddagen förstärktes uppgången något, men kurserna föll tillbaka rejält sedan amerikansk arbetsmarknadsstatistik publicerats. |
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- Arbetslösheten i USA var 5,7 procent i december, jämfört med 5,9 procent i november, enligt det amerikanska arbetsmarknadsdepartementet. |
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- Buy one of Ink4art's Epson 740-compatible inkjet cartridge 6-packs (three black, three color) for $18.99 and get another, free, via coupon code...(more) |
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- Buy one of Ink4art's Epson 740-compatible inkjet cartridge 6-packs (three black, three color) for $18.99 and get another, free, via coupon code...(more) |
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- ASTRALWELT :Live: coming soon :)DJs: coming soon : |
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- "Honestly, I think the worst of both sides have won out: Liberals have convinced everybody that the government is supposed to take care of them but conservatives have convinced them... |
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- mit dem hier dankenswerter Weise von etc.pp. aufgeführten Programm habe ich (Modem, 56k) nur knapp drei Stunden gebraucht, um ein BackUp meiner Seite zu erstellen (gesammelte Werke aus 32 Monaten Online-Aktivität). |
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- France urges normalising EU ties with Libya after Tripoli agrees a $170m payout for a plane bombing. |
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- The Golden Globes, The Oscars... pah! The only awards that... |
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- The BBC on LW rudely cut short the interview to go to Westminster where upstanding and Honourable Members were giggling over some new sex gadget. So I missed what Sir David King had to say about that buffoon in the White House who'll pretend there's insufficient evidence of global warming until his arse catches fire. Still, you can always catch up with the UK government's chief scientific advisor at Today's Listen Again (RealAudio clip 3'58"). "Global warming is 'the biggest challenge to governments for this century (...) the degree of warming that we've had to date, of course, is very small compared to that which is predicted over the coming century, so this is a problem of massive proportions (... |
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- A SENIOR Zimbabwean minister has admitted that the seizure of thousands of white-owned farms has failed to benefit large numbers of poor black farmers, many of whom have failed to take up the land that was grabbed. |
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- The Daily News, Zimbabwe's banned privately-owned newspaper, on Friday won a legal order compelling the police to vacate the newspaper's premises and stop interfering with its operations. |
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- Almost two years after Zimbabwe's government declared a state of emergency over HIV/AIDS to allow the importation and manufacture of generic anti-AIDS drugs, accessing antiretrovirals (ARVs) remains a pipe dream for almost a million people living with HIV/AIDS in the country. |
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- Zimbabwe's already strained health sector will come under even greater pressure after one of the country's biggest nursing schools failed to open. |
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- Tight regulation may be unexpected benefit |
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- GLOBAL Credit Ratings Company (GCR), an international rating agency, has placed all of its Zimbabwean bank ratings on rating watch in a new twist to the saga bedevilling money-spinning in the financial services sector. |
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- SOUTH African churchmen have blasted Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders for failing to condemn President Robert Mugabe's abuse of power through violation of human rights as well as democratic principles. |
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- NEARLY four years after President Mugabe's government began to expropriate commercial farmland in the name of correcting a social injustice, confusion and policy contradictions have continued to haunt the programme. |
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- IN a desperate bid to avert the total collapse of the country's health delivery system the government has agreed to an accommodation with doctors on pay, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt. |
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- ZIMBABWE'S troubled banking sector has assets worth over $4 trillion that are at risk due to the current crisis rocking the once high-flying section of a rapidly shrinking economy. |
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- AS President Robert Mugabe desperately casts around for solutions to his chaotic land reform programme, he has appointed a five-member national committee known as the Presidential Land Resettlement Committee which is expected to beef up another team led by Special Affairs minister John Nkomo in clean-up efforts. It has a three-month mandate. |
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- THE battle to control the multi-billion dollar Kondozi farm in Odzi turned ugly this week when Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda) workers supported by Zanu PF youths violently clashed with farm workers. |
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- South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki begins his political year alienated from his most powerful ally in Africa, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, because of South Africa's obstinate support for Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth Heads of Government (Chogm) meeting last month. |
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- On December 15 2003, Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora, a lawyer and human rights activist based in the city of Masvingo - 293 km south of the capital Harare - was arrested by the police for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe. |
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- ONLY the starry-eyed, incurable sycophants of Zanu PF could look forward to 2004 with unmitigated optimism. |
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- THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has intensified investigations into operations of several banks countrywide as efforts to uproot rampant shady dealings in the sector gather momentum. |
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- LAWLESSNESS appears to have gripped the financial services sector, what with the unfolding disaster in recent weeks? |
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- FROM Australia to Antigua, from Singapore to Guatemala and from London to Cape Town, there is a little football story that has captured the imagination of the sports journalism world - the fake El Salvador national team that toured Zimbabwe. |
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- PONA Distributors, a new online drugs company, has been set up to provide easy access to medication for those who have relatives and friends who suffer from HIV/Aids, diabetes, arthritis and high blood pressure. |
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- SOON after the monetary policy was announced, there seemed to be an increase in the level of volatility in almost all the financial markets. |
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- A SHOWDOWN looms over control of First National Building Society (FNBS) amid revelations that one of the institutional investors, Zimnat Life Assurance Company Ltd, is eyeing a controlling stake in the society. |
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- The newly introduced Value Added Tax (Vat) could be headed for the rocks with revelations this week that the bulk of companies have not registered, a situation likely to compromise government's revenue base. |
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- HEAR the Word Ministries in Borrowdale last month gave President Mugabe a $30 million gift raised through a collection at the church. |
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- THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) plans to establish a Land Commission to audit the ongoing chaos surrounding President Robert Mugabe's agrarian reform as soon as it gets into power. |
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- A MOVEMENT for Democratic Change supporter died on Sunday in a midnight attack by suspected Zanu PF hoodlums who have launched a campaign to push out opposition supporters in Shamva, the Zimbabwe Independent has heard. |
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- ZANU PF MPs Olivia Muchena and Shuvai Mahofa of Mutoko South and Gutu South respectively have threatened to stop donors from distributing food relief in their constituencies, as villagers no longer attend party meetings and rallies. |
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- A TOTAL of 29 bank accounts in the United Kingdom worth 513 000 belonging to Zanu PF and government officials have been frozen since the European Union (EU) imposed targeted sanctions on President Mugabe and his cronies two years ago. |
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- THE station manager of Radio Dialogue FM, a community radio station, Father Nigel Johnson, was arrested last week in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb while filming footage for a music video. |
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- ZANU PF MP for Chinhoyi, Philip Chiyangwa, yesterday left a Harare court in stitches with his agitated responses during cross-examination on his links with the troubled ENG Capital Asset Management. |
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- Carrie, a gorgeous redhead ... just a small part of this opendir, thx Bionic... |
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- ECHO's website has been re-designed in order to improve navigation, to provide better presentation of the Company's products and services, to maximize the site’s appeal to visitors of diverse interests and needs, and to enhance the Investor Relations section of the website. |
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P.O.D. (Jan 09 2004 17:55 GMT) - sleeping awake |
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- A free rag on the subway to work this morning carried the news in a few grafs: Ingrid Thulin, who so memorably played... |
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