Thursday, December 10, 2009

Zambia ideal for investment -Zuma

SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma yesterday said Zambia was an ideal country for investment and called on South African investors to seriously consider improving the lives of ordinary people in areas where they have invested.

Malaysians to set up youth training centre
A GROUP of Malaysian investors will set up a youth skills training centre in the school of technology at the Copperbelt University (CBU) with an initial investment of nearly K5 billion in the first quarter of 2010.
Zambia’s gross reserves up
ZAMBIA’s gross international reserves rose to about US$1.8 billion at the end of November 2009, Bank of Zambia (BoZ) Governor Caleb Fundanga has said.

Itezhi-tezhi benefits from health improvement fund
WHEN the time came for 16-year-old Jane Hang’andu (not real name) of Itezhi-Tezhi district to deliver her first-born child, she experienced prolonged labour period and at the end of it, a stillborn baby could only show one of its hands from the birth canal.


NGOs seeking amendments to new bill
WHEN President Rupiah Banda assented to the amended Non-govermental Organisations (NGO) Bill which was tabled during the tenth session of the National Assembly, it was clear that the civil society did not welcome the move as they had been objecting to it right from inception.