Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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| • | Security Stepped Up After GSU Man Shot: Surveillance against snipers has been intensified on the Somalia-Kenya border following the shooting of a GSU officer on Tuesday.
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| • | Tutors and Ministry Team Discuss Hiring: Talks begin on Thursday between the government and teachers over the staff recruitment impasse.
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| • | Workers Union Opposes Health Tax: A battle looms between the national health insurer and the umbrella workers' union over increased deductions.
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| • | Half of School Funds Out in January: The government intends to change the format of releasing free learning funds to schools following complaints that the current arrangement drives schools into massive debts.
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| • | Map Would Be Different Without Kenyatta Letter: If Kenyatta hadn't played real politics, the coastal strip would have been lost. And the map of Kenya would be different from today.
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| • | How Islamic Courts Crept Into Constitution: It took the swiftness and political deftness of Kenya's independence leaders to create a country with access to the Indian ocean, according to confidential records that have since been made public.
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| • | Consumers the Main Winners in Digital Technology Revolution: Consumers are the biggest winners in the ongoing digital technology revolution that is redefining the pricing and access to media and entertainment products.
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| • | Just Click and You're a Photographer: Save for particular fields, tastes, and quality, film photography is being pushed out of view.
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| • | 'Techpreneurs' Find Niche in Development of Phone Software: With his neat haircut, simple T-shirt and heavy back-pack, Amos Gichamba looks like any other university student.
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| • | Investor Plans Rescue of Abandoned Orbiting Satellites: At this moment, over 6,000 satellites are orbiting the earth.
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| • | Lawyers Awarded for Service: Two top lawyers from Kenya have been named winners of the 2010 Client Choice Awards alongside 199 others worldwide by the International Law Office (ILO).
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| • | Market Recovery Puts Brokers Back on Path to Profits: Increased activity at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is changing the fortunes of stockbrokers and investment bankers as intermediaries recover from losses incurred due to a subdued market last year.
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| • | TPS Serena Sets Date for Trading of Issued Rights: TPS Serena rights issue is set to start trading on August 12 as an increasing number of fundraising plans by local companies offer investors new opportunities.
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| • | Kibaki Set to Collect His Prize: The referendum on Kenya's proposed constitution is only a few days away. There have been a lot of stories about the draft, and angry and emotional arguments over it. Also that for President Mwai Kibaki, the passage of a new constitution would give him...
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| • | 24 Athletes for Nairobi Tourney: Twenty-four athletes will depart for Nairobi on Sunday ahead of the African Senior Championship slated for July 28.
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| • | Right to Affordable Drugs in Hands of Court: Kenya's Constitutional Court is due to set a date on Jul 22 for a hearing on the application against the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008, of which clauses pertaining to medicines have been suspended pending the court's decision on whether the law...
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| • | Nyirabarame Targets Nairobi Meet: RWANDA's top female athlete Epiphanie Nyirabarame has promised to fly the country's flag high at the 17th Africa Athletics Championship set for July 28 to August 1 at Nyayo Stadium, Nairobi, Kenya.
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| • | Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to University Students: Hello, my name is Joe Biden. I work for Barack Obama. (Laughter and applause.)
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| • | Kenyan Bomb Victim Buried: A KENYAN, who was among the 82 people killed in the recent Kampala bomb blasts has been buried at his ancestral home near Webuye in western Kenya.
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| • | 50 Missing as Ferry Capsizes: More than 50 people are feared to have drowned in Lake Victoria when a passenger boat capsized on Wednesday.
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