Time to turn tobacco into cigarettes: TIMB boss

Agriculture Reporter Government has been urged to create a fund for emerging business people that want to venture into value addition of tobacco. Speaking at the official closing of the…

BP spill settlement objectors seek to overturn approval

DETROIT. — Opponents of BP Plc’s US$9,2 billion partial settlement of private-party claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are set to ask a US  appeals court to…

Strip tease comes to Harare

Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment Reporter THERE is no need to take a long trip down to South Africa to watch strippers do their thing as Private Lounge, a new venue in…

A manifesto for the truth

Edward Snowden IN a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccountable secret agencies and about sometimes illegal surveillance programs. Sometimes the agencies even deliberately try to hide…

After all, Mugabe was right: US behaviour shameful

At the United Nations World Summit in September, outspoken Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe shamed the Americans three times and many who side with Uncle Sam, thought the veteran leader was…

HSBC profit rises on cost cuts

LONDON. — HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, said third-quarter pretax profit rose 30 percent as the lender cut costs and focused on its most lucrative markets. Pretax profit climbed…

Two years since the end of US-Nato war in Libya

Bill Van Auken October 31, 2013, marked two years since the official end of the US-Nato war for regime change in Libya. It is highly unlikely that this second anniversary…

President Mugabe arrives in SA

Pretoria November 4, 2013 (New Ziana) -President Robert Mugabe arrived in Pretoria on Monday to attend the joint SADC and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) summit…

Shock of bank ATMs giving out ‘fake’ notes

NAIROBI – Fake currency has found its way in banks, raising concern from Kenyans who now want the matter investigated and the culprits prosecuted.A cross-section of people interviewed by the…

Xi Jinping promises deep reforms

BEIJING – China will firmly continue to push ahead with the drive of reform and opening-up, though the modernisation process will still take a long time, Chinese President Xi Jinping…

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