By KASONDE KASONDE – A NDOLA high court has sentenced two men to 10 years imprisonment each with hard labour for vandalising solar street lights. High Court Judge Yvonne Chembe sent to jail Shadreck Bwalya...

From STANSLOUS NGOSA – in Beijing, China AFRICAN countries should be self motivated and map out strategies to find home grown solutions to the problems they are facing, China Network for International Exchange deputy secretary...

By NORMA SIAME – POLICE in Mansa have recovered property worth more than K29,000 suspected to have been stolen from Buntungwa Clinic and other places within Mansa. Luapula Province police chief Hudson Namachila said the...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – GOVERNMENT has prioritised establishment of annexes for mental illnesses in provincial centres, Health Minister Joseph Kasonde has said. Dr Kasonde said in Solwezi recently that Government has prioritised construction of annexes...

By CARISTO CHITAMFYA – in Medellin, Colombia ZAMBIA’S hosting of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly in 2013 has raised the profile of Zambia’s tourism sector, Tourism and Arts Minister Jean Kapata...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – A CHINESE contractor, Mango Tree, has been engaged to install a new water and sewerage network at a cost of K13 million in Kitwe’s Mukuba-Natwange area. The project being funded by...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Zambia State Insurance Corporation (ZSIC) has paid out more than K3 million in claims for farmers on the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) Lima Credit Scheme who suffered crop failure...

By CHARITY MOONGA – DANGOTE Cement Plc recorded a profit after tax of US$614 million in the six-month period ended June 30, 2015. This is a 21.65-per cent increase over the one announced for the...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) has registered about 17, 956 firms across the country this year. PACRA public relations officer Vaida Bunda-Njobvu said the agency had registered about 17,...

BY JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF) has commenced the production of mealie meal at one of the  first three solar-powered milling plants in North-Western Province. This follows installation of the machine in...