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- Angola and Zambia are the only countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) that will record a satisfactory growth in terms of harvest in the 2004 season. |
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- ...And its daunting task of trying to reduce HIV/AIDS, TB transmission |
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- THE banking sector will experience further reductions in commercial bank interest rates if the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) speeds up the implementation of the Credit Rating Bureau, an analyst has said. |
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- A PRACTICAL programme targeted at intensifying the export business for selected Zambian products in the Free Trade Area (FTA) of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been launched by the Export Board of Zambia (EBZ) in association with the Commonwealth Secretariat (COMSEC). |
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- SMALL-scale gemstone miners have complained over the stiff conditions set by local banks in accessing 30 million Euros released by the European Union (EU) to improve the industry. |
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- THE United States government has said that while Zambia continues to show modest rates of growth, it has potential to contribute to the overall economic growth of Africa. |
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- THE Government has given all traders and market operators country-wide a two-week ultimatum to clean up the markets or face closure. |
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- FINANCE Minister Ng'andu Magande has explained how most Zambian workers will pay less tax under the new Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system effective in April. |
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- THE Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is today scheduled to announce its decision over Government's proposals to increase Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and a wage freeze for public service workers in this year's Budget. |
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- LOCAL government and housing minister Sylvia Masebo yesterday directed all local authorities in the country to clean up markets within two weeks failure to which they would be closed. |
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- PARLIAMENT yesterday unanimously resolved to amend the Local Government Act so that local government elections are no longer held every after three years but together with presidential and parliamentary elections every after five years. |
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- THE reaction of finance and national planning minister Ng'andu Magande to his own budget and to the outcry and concerns of the public is understandable but it is an extremely poor national management procedure. |
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- The Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE) recorded trading in seven listed stocks in last week's trading session. |
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- THE Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry (MCTI) has challenged local manufacturing industries to fully utilise the tax incentives given to them by the government. |
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- The announcements in the 2004 budget are likely to trigger activities in the money market as market players and large corporates make adjustments to tax provisions and other new financial regulatory changes, a Finance Bank treasury market report states. |
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- THE Computer Society of Zambia (CSZ) has welcomed the reduction of customs duty on computers, as announced by finance minister Ng'andu Magande during the budget presentation. |
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- THE Insurance Brokers Association of Zambia (IBA) has applauded government's decision to exempt its members from Value Added Tax (VAT) saying the measures taken would help induce growth into the sector. |
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- KABUSHI MP Neddy Nzowa and his Petauke Central counterpart Ronald Banda (HP) yesterday told the Electoral Reform Technical Committee (ERTC) that funding political parties would be a sheer waste of money. |
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- SUSPENDED National AIDS Council (NAC) Director-General Dr Golden Bola yesterday complained in a Lusaka magistrate's court of delays in hearing his case. |
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- MORE than 36,000 of the estimated 135,000 pupils who sat for Grade 9 examinations last year have been selected to Grade 10 in Government schools. |
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- IN just under a fortnight, two businessmen have been shot dead in similar circumstances. Late last month, gunmen broke into a house in Chamba valley, Lusaka and killed a businessman there. |
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- Instantly play any song in your iTunes library. |
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- Well, now it's finally official: the Treo 600 really is available direct from T-Mobile, so no more pre-orders (we hope!). Read... |
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- Well, now it's finally official: the Treo 600 really is available direct from T-Mobile, so no more pre-orders (we hope!). Read... |
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- Last week, at the IMAGINA Festival in Monaco (France), games publisher Ubisoft won six of eleven awards in video game development. The awards are listed... |
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- I've created a new category on the blog for India (this is the first entry). Australia is a whole year so for that I might do a new banner for the site...or something. I went to the Indian Embassy today... |
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- The Angus Blog: "The Angus Blog" has just had a new look added to it - soon to be ruled out to its sister blogs of Dundee and Perth. The links directory has now reached 300+. |
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- conventional wisdom has it that ireland finally grew up and took her place among the nations of the world when the celtic tiger came along. out with the days of backs to the future and mumbling about the past, new ireland was hip happening and cool. in truth of course, new ireland predates the celtic tiger by quite a few ears, and the watershed event that really marks ireland growing up was when we stopped complaining about the quiet man and really began to appreciate john ford's piece of oirish whimsy. the quiet man has spawned a whole industry over the last fifty years. cong has become a virtual |
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- I'm killing the two hours before my bus leaves for Cochabamba by catching up on the blogosphere. I tend to get most of my news & analysis from blogs these days, rather than from old media. It's not just that blogs are gaining a reputation for greater accuracy and timeliness... |
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- No coupons here... just a set of great links! Online Coupon Codes Internet Filtering Software Tupperware Free Stuff Contests & Sweepstakes Make Money Blog Mrs. Blog ebooks Auctions Shopping Deals Daily Coupons Cheap Domain Registration Domain Name Appraisal Deleted Domains... |
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- It might not be hardware news, but if its true it'll turn the entire industry on its head. I don't think I would put too much stock in the rumors at this point, but stranger things have happened. I first noticed this over at Slashdot |
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Drug Bust (Feb 12 2004 23:15 GMT) - Federal agents arrested ten people and confiscated about $92 million worth of cocaine. |
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- A National Guardsman who served in Iraq is now fighting for his job as a police officer in Rockton, Illinois. |
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- The price tag for expansion at O'Hare Airport may be doubling. And some say there may be an even higher price involved--the price of safety. |
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- Just like J.Lo and Ben, the romance is over for Barbie and Ken. |
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Temporary (Feb 12 2004 23:15 GMT) - Temporary graphics change. I'm having some issues with the template so I needed to set it back to the original MT settings.... |
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