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- Tim Naveau is a criminal now and all that he did was buy some allergy medicine for himself and for his son. You see, everyday Tim takes one Claritin-D tablet which helps him with his allergies. His son also suffers from allergies as well, and since he can’t buy Claritin-D legally, his father [...] |
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- (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc.'s 2006 holiday season peaked with more than 4 million orders placed on Dec. 11, the Web retailer said Tuesday. |
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- (AP) -- Windows Vista, the new computer operating system that Microsoft Corp. is touting as its most secure ever, contains a programming flaw that might let hackers gain full control of vulnerable computers. |
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- Joe Lieberman, Hypocrite In Chief: It has become a holiday ritual: Joe Lieberman and family-research officials hold a well-attended press conference to decry the impact on children of excessive video game sex and violence. And, again in 2006, Lieberman indulged in another yearly ritual: taking campaign money from the entertainment industry. |
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- Cynthia Leibrock is an architect with a calling. The day after Christmas seems an appropriate time to profile the faith-inspired Universal Design work she undertakes including: REHABITAT, INC. provides training in universal design, friendship evangelism, resource development, and needs assessment.... |
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- Price: $46.00; Rating: 4. |
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- Price: $46.00; Rating: 4 |
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- Price: $48.00; Rating: 2. |
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- Polizei bittet um Mithilfe |
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- Straßenglätte sorgt für mehrere Unfälle |
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- - Vermisste Person - Unfälle auf eisglatter Fahrbahn - Sachbeschädigung - Gefährliche Körperverletzung - Besonders schwere Fä |
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- - Verdacht des Verstosses gegen das Betäubungsmittelgesetz - Verkehrsunfälle mit schwer verletzten Personen - Sachbeschädigung - Besonders schwerer Fall des Diebstahls |
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- Ausländerbeirat Halle lädt in den Volkspark ein |
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- Bevor die besinnliche Weihnachtszeit ihren Höhepunkt erreicht hatte, war der letzte Monat im Jahr geprägt vom Einkaufen, Backen, Kochen und Schlemmen. Bereits in den davor liegenden Monaten sorgte die Industrie für eine ausreichende Basis. |
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- PKW Fahrer verstirbt am Unfallort |
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- Ingrid Häußler schaut in der Südwache vorbei, Probleme mit Arbeitszeitgesetz drohen |
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- Böhmer bei Kraftwerkern, Heimkindern und Feuerwehrleuten |
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- Täter beschädigten Eingangstür und machten sich der versuchten Körperverletzung schuldig |
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- RISING prices and shortages of basic commodities have taken the cheer off Christmas, surveys by The Standard have shown. |
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- Two foreign firms have been selected by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to study Ethiopia's finance and telecom sectors, in order to help Ethiopian trade negotiators enter the accession process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), equipped with arguments that these sectors should remain sheltered from competition for at least eight years. |
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- Ethiopia's largest cement manufacturer, Mugher Cement Enterprise, has decided on Friday, December 22, 2006, to increase its wholesale price by 25pc, surging the a quintal of cement to 135 Br in its distribution centre in the capital and 125 Br from the factory, located 105Km north west of Addis Abeba. |
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- INTEREST rates shot up last week, signalling a temporary recovery from the jitters fuelled by the Christmas holiday fever. |
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- THE majority of Zimbabweans this time last year genuinely believed that they would by now be significantly better off than during the previous five years. The outcome of last week's Zanu PF annual conference held in Goromonzi promises more of the same hardships they have endured until 2010. |
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- VEHICULAR activities came to a standstill yesterday in Ibadan metropolis as fuel scarcity bits harder, forcing people to trek endlessly to their destinations. |
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- The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) and China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) International signed a 1.3 billion Br contract last week, after the Chinese company was selected to start the Finchaa-Amerti-Neshe (FAN) hydro-electric power dam, which is one of the five dam projects that had been shelved due to lack of finances. |
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- In one of the filling station close to the Transcorp Hilton, and another opposite the NNPC corporate head-quarters, Abuja, our reporter observed kilometres-long queue by motorists waiting to buy fuel. |
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- Free education will be extended to pre-school and secondary levels if new proposals on education reform are approved. |
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- Another difficult year is coming to a close. Like you, I wonder whether next year will start to improve, and I agree that it may not, for all the reasons we know. But strangely, the bad times help us to appreciate all the blessings we do have, and life seems all the richer for it. |
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- RIVER Ranch Limited says it will start exporting diamonds following the conclusion of discussions with the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), executive director George Kantsouris said this week. |
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- ANNUS Horribilis! Executives will be heaving a sigh of relief when the chapter on the tumultuous year closes on Sunday next week. |
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- The economy is the mother of all things. Fix ye the economy and other things shall be added. |
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- Retired president Moi's guard was injured, the driver of a Defence PS and two gangsters were shot dead, and 10 people died in road accidents around the country as the countdown to Christmas started. |
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- When Ms Terry Muthoni, an office administrator in a local publishing firm, was introduced to one of the many revolving funds, popularly known as pyramid schemes, she quickly bought the idea. From Sh500 as deposit and an additional Sh100 for registration, she would earn double or triple her investment in a week without breaking a sweat. |
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- Banks, starved of new expansion frontiers, are jumping onto any new or old concept with previously unknown alacrity. Latest to make a debut in the fad portfolio are loosely regulated products targeting Muslims. |
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- Every once in a while, an opportunity comes along promising high profits in a short time from very little initial investment by the investor. |
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- Year 2006 closes as, by far, the best ever for the stock market, breaking all the previous records as retailers emerged as a force to reckon with. |
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- When earlier in the year World Bank representative Colin Bruce found himself in a roadside argument with traffic police, it was one of those increasingly rare reminders of Bretton Woods' local existence. |
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- The Government has published in the Kenya Gazette the intention to compulsorily acquire land for the proposed Ramisi Sugar Factory project in Coast province. |
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- Nuns and convents typically trigger in us all forms of pure and godly thoughts. For obvious reasons. Why in God's name would one think of tractors and booze instead? The notion of a boozed up, freaked out, tractor-driving nun seems odd even if, as we say, when one lives long enough, they live to see everything. Yet, it is not myth! |
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- Plans for the second national telephone operator may run into trouble following serious disagreements within the consortium that won the licence with a record-breaking $170 million (Sh12 billion) bid. |
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- The first insurance company in the country, Royal Exchange Assurance Nigeria Plc (REAN) has arranged a group accident insurance cover for journalists covering insurance beat in the country as part of its social responsibilities. |
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- As the immediate past president of the Nigeria Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) Prince Feyisayo Soweyo has come to represent the better side of Insurance broking. The success of his firm-Prestige Insurance Brokers testifies to this. Prince Soweyo told journalists at the 12th Reisurance Forum which held in Tunis, Tunisia that the time has come for the Nigerian Insurance broker to stand up to be counted Excerpts: |
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- WHAT a year for the insurance industry in Nigeria? If given the chance, most of the insurance managers would have wished that year 2006 had never been incidented in the industry's event diary. |
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- The Tax Review Committee, under the Federal Inland Revenues Authority (FIRA), has concluded the evaluation of 12 of the 80 flour mills appeals, which claimed the value added tax (VAT) payments they were asked to service had been inflated beyond justification. |
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- Bethlehem Pharmaceuticals Plc, a privately owned drug manufacturer, has requested close to nine million Br in loans from the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE), after it survived a foreclosure move in September 2006 by the same Bank. |
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- The Ethiopian Sugar Development Agency has cancelled its molasses transport agreement with both the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Enterprise as well as Tana Fuel Tanker Owner's Association. The Agency has also sold 10,000m tonnes of molasses stored at one of the terminals Port of Djibouti, to a British company, Talo and Lyle. |
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- Sex is mankind's oldest medium of exchange and Africa is said to be the birthplace of mankind. Therefore addressing the subject of the sex trade pragmatically should be not misinterpreted as "importation of decadent western ideal!" Prostitution was, is and will, always be part of our human society and no amount of moral dictatorship can eliminate it! |
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