By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – SHOPRITE Holdings Group will construct a second shopping mall that will house Shoprite supermarket, Hungry Lion Take Away and O.K Furniture store in Solwezi as part of its expansion programme. The...

By JAMES KUNDA – JAPANESE companies have shown interest of investing in Zambia’s mineral resources, Japanese parliamentary Vice Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Yashihiko Isozaki has said. He said Japan was willing to explore...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has urged Government to restructure operations of State Owned Enterprise (SOEs) to make them economically viable. In a recent policy analysis statement, PMRC called...

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...