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Kenya
Business: Kenya Bureau of Standards goes digital with new website
The web store will give people an opportunity to obtain Kenya standards, adopted international standards and also the harmonised East African standards. This is unlike in the past when customers would troop to the bureau's offices in person to buy the standards.
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Kenya
Business: Credit squeeze slows private sector growth
The Markit Stanbic Bank Kenya Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) fell to 52.0 per cent in January from 54.1 per cent in December, remaining above the 50.0 per cent line that divides growth from contraction.
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Kenya
Business: Kenyan airspace certified safe by ICAO standards
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) Director General Gilbert Kibe made the announcement at a workshop attended 60 Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) delegates in Naivasha yesterday.
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Kenya
Business: Fly 540 sister firm taps into Northern Kenya market with daily flight to Lodwar
The airline's inaugural flight was flagged off by Nominated Senator Zipporah Kittony, who said it would open up market opportunities in the Northern region.
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Kenya
KNH to partner with private sector to build fertility clinic
Infertility in Kenya is not taken as an urgent condition requiring immediate funding.
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USA
Toshiba Looks for Ways to Withdraw from Nuclear Plant Construction Business
After incurring a sizeable amount of losses in overseas nuclear power plant construction businesses, Toshiba plans to reduce the scale of its nuclear plant business. There is forecast that Toshiba would not only sell its stake in its nuclear plant unit Westinghouse of the US but also withdraw from the ...
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USA Spagna
SK Innovation Acquires Dow Chemical’s EAA Unit for 420 Bil. Won
SK Innovation is set to take over Dow Chemical’s ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) business, emerging as the world’s largest EAA supplier. SK Innovation announced on February 2 that it decided to acquire Dow Chemical’s EAA production plants, manufacturing technology, intellectual property rights, and trademarks in Texas and Tarragona of Spain. The ...
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Regno Unito
Ban of ivory trade to save elephants intensifies
On February 6, the UK Parliament will debate a petition to close domestic ivory markets.
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USA Nigeria
US won’t change visa policy for Nigeria –Ambassador
TheUnited States has said that the recent executive order on immigration by President Donald Trump will not affect Nigerians, noting that visa applicants will continue to get two-year multiple entry visas as before. It assured apprehensive Nigerians that the order on “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the ...
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Nigeria Regno Unito
Arsenal partners MTN Nigeria
English Premier League side Arsenal have entered into a partnership with MTN, one of Nigeria’s mobile telecommunications network operators. Arsenal have a huge support in Nigeria, with the club’s largest website traffic outside the UK coming from the country. In addition to this, the club’s second highest number of digital ...