By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – PANOS Institute Southern Africa (PSAF) has implored mobile phone service providers to increase mobile phone services to rural areas in order for social media to make significant impact. PSAf executive director...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – CHARGE D’ AFFAIRES at the Zambian Embassy in Paris, Philomena Kachesa has challenged French investors to increase their presence in Zambia. Speaking at a Zambian Business Seminar in Paris at the...

By HELEN ZULU – PROFLIGHT Zambia will next year start flights to the Kafue National Park so as to open up the area to tourism. Proflight director of Government and Industry affairs Philip Lemba said...

By HELEN ZULU – TIMES Printpak marketing and sales manager Mark Nyasulu has urged business owners to use emails as a marketing tool to promote their businesses. Mr Nyasulu said business owners should start using...

By JAMES KUNDA – GOVERNMENT is yet to find a suitable equity partner to acquire the 49 per cent shares in Indeni Petroleum Refinery in Ndola, Mines, Energy and Water Development permanent secretary Charity Mwansa...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has applied to the Government to consider scrapping off or reducing tax on jet fuel in Zambia. Mines, Energy and Water Development Permanent Secretary, Charity Mwansa...

By HELEN ZULU – SABMiller group of companies is scaling up its globally recognised sustainable development programmes with a set of ambitious targets to achieve by 2020. Zambian Breweries PLC (ZB) corporate affairs director Luke...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – LAWRENCE Sikutwa and Associates (LSA) Limited says it requires about US$4 million to set up an insurance company in Tanzania. Group chairperson Lawrence Sikutwa told journalists in Lusaka that the expansion...

By MARTIN MUSUNKA – THE newly established domestic airline, Mahogany Air, has embarked on an ambitious transformation programme aimed at improving the quality of air travel. Director of administration Cynthia Belemu has assured passengers that...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Government has launched the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) for 2014 to 2018. The NSDS is a strategic plan for developing the National Statistical System (NSS) which...