By MAYA NTANDA  and CHATULA KAMPO – FIVE people have appeared in a Kitwe magistrate’s court in connection with the robbery at Standard Chartered Bank involving K1 million. Freddie Kaonga, 35, an Automated Teller Machine...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has awarded its workers new conditions of service for the period ending 2016, starting with a 10 per cent salary hike for this year. For 2015, the...

By JULIUS PHIRI  – THE Ministry of Health has handed over a site for construction of Chipata District Hospital to China Jiangxi Corporation. Eastern Province medical officer Kennedy Malama said that the contractor was selected...

By JULIUS PHIRI and REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE Immigration Department in Chipata District in Eastern Province has rounded 10 Malawians for trading without valid documents. Six of the 10 immigrants who were nabbed on Monday...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – PRESIDENT Michael Sata has said the Patriotic Front (PF) has fulfilled its campaign promises to promote value addition to Zambia’s gemstones and other minerals. Mr Sata has also said the bold...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA GEMFIELDS, which owns 75 per cent of the Kagem Emerald Mine in partnership with the Zambian Government, has unveiled its second advertising campaign to promote Zambian emeralds. The campaign, called ‘Beauty by...

By CHUSA SICHONE  – ZAMBIA Railways Limited (ZRL) has yet again utilised part of the US$120 million it received from Government to engage a consortium of three companies for the installation of signalling and telecommunication...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – ZAMBIA Postal Services (Zampost) has started compensating victims and families of victims of the Postbus accident which happened a year ago. The accident claimed 51 lives and left 21 passengers injured....

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – GOVERNMENT and Vedanta Resources Plc, the owners of Konkola Copper Mine (KCM), have amicably resolved all differences surrounding the retention of workers at the mining giant. Labour and Social Security Minister...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – POLICE in Choma District have arrested an accountant and a fuel attendant of Arupee Service Station for alleged theft by servant and forgery of accounting receipts amounting to K22,000. Outgoing provincial...