RETAIL group, Red Star Holdings, has opened an operation in Zambia, which began trading over a month ago but is yet to start full-scale operations due to pending exchange control approvals.

THE Zimbabwe rugby team which was in Zambia last weekend for an international friendly test match, discovered first-hand how their country's standing has been severely battered even in regional countries that used to envy their crisis-ridden homeland few years back.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to release a $79.2 million loan to Zambia over the next three years in support of the country's economic policies aimed at reducing poverty and sustaining economic growth.

ZIMBABWE'S continuing smear campaigns alleging that President Mwanawasa's Government has been hired by Britain to press for a speedy regime change in Harare are unwarranted.

THE MMD has expressed shock at the Catholic Church's decision to question the reconciliation between President Mwanawasa and Patriotic Front (PF) president, Michael Sata.

IT is now time for our civic authorities to rise and take the challenge of spearheading the development process throughout the country as envisioned by the Government.

KANTOLOMBA is a place of many contrasts and contradictions. Like a rocking chair, it is a busy place. Men and women, boys and girls and children alike crowd every corner.

FORMER ministry of Health permanent secretary, Kashiwa Bulaya, has insisted that he followed tender procedures in having Elexir tested as a food supplement.

MORE than 50 pregnant women from Kitwe's Kawama Township yesterday morning protested over lack of security at Kawama Clinic which has forced nurses and health personnel to stop working at night.

FORMER Archbishop of Lusaka, Emmanuel Milingo has condemned the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC)'s boycott of the National Constitutional Conference (NCC).

THE shortage of sugar in retail outlets yesterday continued despite Zambia Sugar Plc assuring that it would off-load enough of the commodity on the local market to ease the crisis and bring down prices.

VICE-PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has thanked Egypt for donating towards flood victims in Zambia, saying the gesture would help minimise their suffering.

THE Government has said that the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill is vital in enhancing transparency and good governance but reiterated the need for journalists to be responsible in their reporting.

WE are perturbed by persistent reports of Zambians, especially in border towns, harbouring illegal immigrants in their homes.

WHEN award-winning playwright Cheela Chilala was being interviewed to take-up a full time appointment at the University of Zambia (UNZA) with a view to taking over the courses that Professor Mapopa Mtonga was running, he was asked whether he was capable of filling his shoes.

POLICE in Livingstone have apprehended a Zambian for harbouring more than 30 suspected illegal Zimbabwean immigrants at his home where he was charging them lodging fees.

Pangaea Development Holdings Limited held its second Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 20 May at the Gaborone Sun Hotel.   During the meeting, Mr. Barry Newton, Pangaea's Chairman, announced that house construction and sales were underway at its major housing estate developments in both Kenya and Zambia.

The Catholic Church here advised the faithful to ignore the excommunicated former Archbishop of Lusaka, Emmanuel Milingo, who is visiting the country.

A ZAMBIAN student was murdered in Windhoek on Friday after coming to the aid of a friend whose cellphone was snatched during a church function in Katutura.

Zambia's new commodities exchange is breaking new ground.