Thursday, September 9th, 2010
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| • | Former Glass Cleaner Clinches Fairmont Hotels' Coveted Award: When John King'ori joined Fairmont Hotels and Resorts 10 years ago, he started off with cleaning glasses at the bar.
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| • | Country Starts Talks With Dar to Stop Serengeti Road Project: Kenya has started negotiations with Tanzania to stop plans to build a highway through the Serengeti National Park, a project that would disrupt the annual wildebeest migration.
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| • | Brewer Sees New Demand in Growing Population: East African Breweries is betting that its regional expansion strategy will grow sales by doubling its customers.
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| • | Bond Market Exerts Pressure on Interest Rates: Buyers of Treasury bonds at the secondary market are getting a bargain as prices come down due to increased supply that rides on the back of a rally lasting nearly a year.
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| • | institute Challenges Govt Committment After Bashir Visit [press release]: The Institute for Democracy & Leadership in East Africa (IDEA) is challenging the commitment of Kenya as a Member of the United Nations International Criminal Court (ICC).
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| • | KCB Posts Rwf69 Million Operating Loss: Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Rwanda has reported a net operating loss of Rwf 69 million for the first half of this year for the period ending June 30.
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| • | Judicial Body to Be Set Up in October: An eleven-member Judicial Service Commission is set to be established by the end of next month.
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| • | Jailed for Falling Ill and Evading Drugs: In different small dingy prison cells, two brothers remain isolated from the rest of the world. The two have been imprisoned for eight months.
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| • | Drug Shortage Stirs Pain of Cancer Patients: An acute shortage of morphine has thrown health professionals caring for terminally ill patients into a spin.
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| • | Golfers Seek to Quench Thirst at Dasani Tourney: The country-wide Dasani Golf Gala now heads to the slopes of Mt Kenya for the 12th event at Nyeri Golf Club this weekend.
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| • | New Coffee Crop to Earn Farmers More Cash: A new coffee variety that could cut the cost of production by 30 per cent, hence increasing farmers' earnings has launched.
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| • | UN Environment Agency Backs Action to Regulate E-Waste: Kenya is set to become the first East African nation to regulate the management of electronic waste, also known as "e-waste", following a conference run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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| • | Stronger Will Needed From Governments to Save Poorest Children: "Herding goats is tough with the thirst, sun, loneliness and hunger each day. And it can last forever. You herd as a girl, then as a wife, as a pregnant woman, as a mother and even as a grandmother," says Rukia Ibrahim whose 13-year-old younger sister...
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