Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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| • | Planners And Architects Lined Up for State Jobs: Fifty seven town planners will be employed this year as the Local Government ministry moves to enhance its technical capacity.
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| • | Crowded Shares Market Fails to Spur Business: Two weeks have elapsed since Kenya's largest IPO debuted at the Nairobi Stock Exchange. And for many investors holding slices of the mobile telephony company Safaricom's shares, the hesitant rise in the firm's share price still holds a promise to...
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| • | Sl 350 Delivers the Goods: It's no good. I can't sit here any more pretending that there's nothing wrong. Because there is.
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| • | Consumers to Pay More for Electricity: Kenyans will pay more for electricity starting next week after KPLC approved new charges in a move expected to fuel the run away inflation.
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| • | NSE Waives Rule to Let Safaricom Join Index: The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) has broken with tradition to enlist Safaricom into the prime index used to gauge activity at the mart hardly three weeks after it started trading.
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| • | Fertilizer Imports Bring Relief to Tea, Maize Farms: Bulk fertilizer imports aimed at making inputs affordable to cereal farmers are set to arrive in the country today ahead of the weeding season in the grain basket region of North Rift.
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| • | Nema Clarifies On Mumias Project in Tana: Only a fraction of the Sh24 billion sugar project along Tana River that has attracted opposition from the community has been given the go ahead.
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| • | Home Grown Audio Book Set to Be Launched: Talk about life becoming increasingly technology-dependent and you have a new addition on your list.
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| • | M Regional Expansion: The star that once shone over City Trust Ltd at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in 2007 seems to have dimmed, put out by low volumes of tradable shares that have led to stagnation of its share price at the local bourse.
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| • | High Costs Force Call Centres to Close Shop: High operational costs and limited access to international contracts are forcing Kenya's few call centre operators to close shop, industry players said.
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| • | The High Graft Charge in Your Water Bill: Corruption in the water sector is costing Nairobi residents more than their counterparts in New York, London and Rome in utility bills.
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| • | Malaria Rises to Highland Areas: The end of June marks the start of the malaria season in East Africa. After the long rains, conditions in lowland swamps and coastal regions are more conducive for mosquito breeding. But in recent years malaria has also appeared in the highland areas...
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| • | Displaced Return Home in Uncertainty: ’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are finally returning home.
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| • | Solar Energy the Way to Go - Report: African electricity companies need to develop solar energy to meet growing demand for power, according to a report by audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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| • | Human Error Might Have Caused Plane Crash: The verdict over the plane crash in which Roads minister Kipkalya Kones and assistant minister Lorna Laboso died was delivered in Parliament on Wednesday.
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| • | Civil Servants Flee From Rural Areas Amid Crisis: Civil servants working in Zimbabwe's rural Mashonaland Provinces have fled from their work places following reports of shooting to death of several teachers at various schools and battering of other professionals as fear grips villagers amid the...
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| • | Man Hauled Out of Kriegler Session: A witness was thrown out as differences between PNU and ODM over the validity of last year's presidential elections played out at the Kriegler commission of inquiry on Wednesday.
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| • | Electronic Refunds for Diaspora Investors: Diaspora investors in Safaricom Limited are likely to have their refund proceeds credited through Electronic Funds Transfer and foreign currency cheques.
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| • | Probe Into Dar Killings Launched: The Government has launched an investigation into claims that three Kenyans were lynched and buried in shallow graves in Tanzania two weeks ago.
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| • | Headteachers Should Abandon Blackmail: It is unfortunate that the demand by heads of public secondary schools for a 100 per cent pay rise has to be put as a condition for their signing performance contracts.
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