Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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| • | Stanbic Deposits Sh200 Million to Jump Hurdle On Merger: Mr Harmel Singh Sagoo was on Thursday a happy man, cautious but with a reason to smile, standing outside Nairobi's Milimani Commercial Courts.
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| • | Farmers Abandon Tea As Harsh Times Fall On the Sector: When Wahome Wanderi inherited 3,000 tea trees from his father in the 1980s, the crop was a high income earner.
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| • | Analysts See No Quick Fix for Rising Prices of Basic Commodities: Rising prices of basic commodities and demand for higher wages will continue until the end of the year.
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| • | Rising Costs Undermine Kenol's Regional Gains: The formalisation of a come- we- stay marriage by Kenol and Kobil last year has gone down well for investors with the company's performance at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) sustaining a bullish run since then.
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| • | Safaricom IPO Local Refund Hits Sh119 Billion: Sorry, the shares you applied for are not available.
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| • | Nairobi River Set for Sh4 Billion Clean Up: The Nairobi River is set for rehabilitation at a cost of four billion shillings after years of pollution.
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| • | Ministry Sets New Date for Enforcement of Contested Labour Laws: A key point over the controversial labour laws has been resolved with the announcement of a new implementation date for three of the five statutes.
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| • | Intercon Boss Targets Right Talent for Best Meals: The first quarter of the year was a difficult time for the Kenyan economy. Political chaos frustrated major activities, delayed plans and had managers grappling with the worst.
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| • | Water Service Boards to Boost Supply By Building Dams: Failure to keep strategic water reserves is hampering the effectiveness of private water suppliers.
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| • | EPZ Trip Uncovers Woes of Investors And Workers: By around one o'clock when Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey finished a tour of the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) at Athi River, thousands of job seekers - some previously laid off - had gathered at the entrance with various grievances.
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| • | Government Should Level the Playing Field in Sugar Sector: Complaints by local sugar millers that their warehouses are overflowing with stocks whose movement has been slowed down by an imports induced market glut point to a big problem in the supply chain.
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| • | Tea Production Bounces Back After Post-Poll Downturn: Tea production has bounced back from the downward spiral recorded earlier in the first quarter associated with the January- March post election turmoil.
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| • | Kibaki Urges Japan to Try Kenya Tourism At Symposium: President Mwai Kibaki aggressively campaigned for Kenya's tourism sector and called for action to enable the national airlines of Kenya and Japan to begin flights between the two countries.
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| • | Top Kenyan Actors Who Rule Local Theatres: How many theatre enthusiasts watched Dario FO's satire Can't Pay Won't Pay when it recently played at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi last month? So many, I can say.
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| • | 'But They Never Killed My Spirit': On Sep. 7 last year, as she walked to her home, parliamentary candidate Flora Igoki Terah was attacked and tortured by a gang of five men. Terah's case is one of several case studies highlighted in Amnesty International's 2008 report on the state of...
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| • | Security Council Urged to Protect Civilians: As diplomats prepare to leave for Africa where the U.N. Security Council is due to meet next week, calls from activists are growing for strong international action to address the worsening human rights situation in many parts of the continent.
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| • | Reflections On 16 Days of Activism: Emma Njoki Wamai reflects on the 2007 I6 Days of Activism Campaign and notes the positive impact on Sauti Ya Wanawake (The Voice of Women) such as strengthening the organization's relationship with the provincial administration. This has led to police...
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| • | EPZs Decry High Production Costs: Investors at the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) in Athi River have decried the high costs of production making them operate at half capacity.
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| • | Eviction of Ex-Railway Staff Halted: The eviction of about 300 tenants in Kenya Railway houses in Mombasa has been stopped by the High Court.
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| • | To Show Or Not to Show in the Media a Man Dying: EVERY BIG NEWS, ESPECIALLY bad news, almost always produces an iconic photograph that powerfully captures the tragedy.
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