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DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Katanga Province and Lafarge Cement yesterday signed a K5 trillion (US$1 billion) agreement for the supply of cement to the DRC region that is undertaking massive construction works.
And Katanga Governor Moses Katumbi has denied that he is in the process of buying Kasaba Bay, a tourist resort in Northern Province.
Mr [...]

The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) has welcomed the move by government to scrap 170 business licenses of the total 517.
Government has announced that it will in the next 8 months scrap the licenses following the recent cabinet approval of recommendations made by the business licensing reform committee in its report.
Speaking to Qfm in an [...]

The Drug Enforcement Commission
(DEC) has arrested a Senegalese national and his Zambian wife for being in possession of over twenty thousand counterfeit US dollars.
Sixty eight- year old Paul Wakazika and his wife, Trinida Njobvu of Lusaka?s Mandevu compound were arrested last night after a search of their house by officers from DEC.
Dec spokesperson John Nyawali, [...]

Government has suspended operations at the Chinese brick manufacturing firm known as Hauchang Red Brick, for alleged failure to uphold safety regulations.
Since the story was aired on MUVI TV News on Tuesday inspectors from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Safety Department have visited the company to assess safety conditions.
A check by MUVI News [...]

Only about a quarter of Standard Chartered bank employees will benefit from the recently announced salary increments, it has emerged.
Standard Chartered Bank last Monday announced that it has increased salaries of its unionised workers by K700 000, but the news has annoyed some workers who have accused the bank of hypocrisy and seeking fake publicity.
The [...]

Workers of Standard chartered Bank Zambia have been awarded 17 per cent salary increment across the board.
Standard Chartered Managing director Mizinga Melu and Zambia Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers of Zambia (ZUFIAW) secretary general Joyce Nonde Simukoko announced Monday during the signing ceremony.
Both ladies announced that the increment translates into K700, 000 for [...]

Choma, May 21/09 ZANIS – CHOMA Milling Company has reduced the price of all its brands of mealie meal with immediate effect. Company managing director, John Mackatos, told ZANIS in Choma today that breakfast mealie meal has been reduced to K 54,080 for a 25 kilogramme bag from K59,000 while roller meal has been pegged [...]

Eight people including a one year-old baby all members of the same family have drowned when the canoe they were using to cross the Lamba stream in chief Chitambo’s area in Serenje district capsized. The eight had gone across to visit relatives and met their fate on their way back when the boat capsized drowning [...]