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  • Kenya is a hot destination

    /enpproperty--> Famous for its annual migration of animals such as zebras and wildebeests, Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya attracts numerous tourists in July and August, including many Chinese. According to tuniu.com, a Chinese tourism website, travelers are expressing an interest in traveling to Kenya earlier than last year. In March and April, the number of those who booked the tour ...

  • National Bank of Kenyas Q1 pretax profit edges up 3 pct

    shillings , thanks to a fall in loan loss provisions. The lender, which is 70 percent owned by the government and Kenya's state pension fund, will raise funds from the market next year to finance a five-year expansion plan. The bank's total interest income fell to 1.85 billion shillings in the first three months of 2013 from 2.27 billion shillings in the same period a year earlier, ...

  • Prosecutors Oppose November Start for Kenya Case

    Deputy president wants trial date postponed, and asks to be excused from attending in person. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, ICC, have opposed an attempt by Kenya's new deputy president William Ruto to get the start of his trial delayed until November. The prosecution and the representative of victims in the case also argued against a motion from Ruto's lawyers ...

  • Sports Beckham to be worth Sh38b after retiring

    Beckham announced he was hanging up his boots for good and giving that famous right foot a well-deserved rest because he wanted to 'go out on the ...

  • Kenyan shilling steady boost seen from overseas investments

    Kenyan shilling was steady on Monday and traders said they expected it to gain ground early in the week, lifted by offshore investor flows into stocks ...

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Godzilla

More than forty years and some two-dozen movies after he first raised his huge reptilian head in the 1954 Japanese monster flick "Gojira," Godzilla is back, courtesy of the director / producer team of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the sci-fi twosome that last blew theater speakers out with massive alien destruction in "Independence Day" (1996). Leaner, meaner, faster, and sleeker, this late 90' ... ...

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  • New Lands Act Set for August - Says Swazuri

    KENYANS will have to wait up to August before their land problems will begin to be effectively tackled, the National Land Commission chairman has said. Mohamed Swazuri yesterday said the Lands Act will be fully functional only after it is passed by the national assembly. Swazuri said they are still collecting views from the public that will be used in forming a credible Lands Act. Speaking to ...

  • Sex-Offence Swede May Lose Bond

    THE office of the Director of Public Prosecution yesterday called for the cancellation of a Sh1 million bond for a Swedish facing charges of benefitting from prostitution. Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Alloy Kemo said Christopher Reider was a prohibited immigrant and a flight risk. Kemo was responding to Clement's application for a bond reduction through his lawyer Lumatete ...

  • Kenya Police Kill Two Terror Suspects

    Nairobi - Two terror suspects were on Sunday morning shot and killed in Nairobi's Githurai Kimbo estate. The man and his wife were killed in a police raid that saw six police officers also injured during the operation when the suspects hurled four grenades at the police officers. According Kasarani OCPD Augustine Nthumbi the suspects were planning to launch attacks in Nairobi. The police ...

  • Its Time to Crack Down On Criminal Groups

    Bungoma and Busia counties are some of the most cosmopolitan in this country. However, the past weeks have seen these regions make news headlines for the wrong reasons. In the recent past, this country has witnessed a sporadic proliferation of organised criminal grouping that have gained traction within a relatively short time. This is despite the fact that this country has an Act of Parliament ...

  • Herders Find Bomb At Park

    Herders stumbled on a colonial bomb at the Hellsgate National park in Naivasha. Peter ole Sinkai said they found a metallic object while grazing their animals and they informed KWS officers who were patrolling the area. Naivasha deputy police boss said military personnel at the nearby Gilgil barracks detonated the bomb. "This is a colonial bomb and we suspect it was dropped during the ...

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