By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Kwacha remained weaker against the dollar on Monday extending its losses for a third straight day, the Zanaco Daily Newsletter has stated. From an opening of K5.57/5.58, the Kwacha slipped...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE bilateral relations between countries world over are swiftly shifting from mere relations based on political and donor based relations to that of trade and investment. Zambia is among the countries...

LAST week I wrote an article titled ‘Undercutting retards industry growth.’ I raised a number of issues which included the ability of the regulator to cub the same vice of undercutting insurance premiums. Further I...

LIKE I stated last week, annually, all fishery areas in Zambia are closed to fishing from about December 1, to the beginning of March the following year, except for Lake Kariba and Lake Tanganyika. The...

By JAMES KUNDA – GLOBAL mining conglomerate, Vedanta Resources, has disclosed that copper production at its Zambian subsidiary, Konkola Copper Mines, dropped by 19 per cent in the last quarter of 2013. Vedanta reported at...

By BUSINESS REPORTER – THE prices of oil on the international market slipped below $108 a barrel on Friday and were set for their first monthly drop in four with worries over faltering Chinese consumption...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) will this year intensify infrastructure development at the facility to attract further investors. And NRB Pharma Zambia Limited has started the construction of the...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Bank of Zambia (BoZ) says it has maintained a relatively tight monetary policy stance to moderate effects on inflationary pressures going forward. BoZ head of public relations Kanguya Mayondi said...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Government will maintain the ban on the export of scrap metal to promote value addition in the local steel industry, Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Emmanuel Chenda has said. Mr...

By JAMES KUNDA – ENGEN, the downstream petroleum products company with offices in fifteen African and Indian Ocean Island countries has introduced its Dieselube 500 Super 15W-40 lubricating oil onto the Zambia market. Engen Zambia...