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Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:43
BULAWAYO - A storm is brewing over mining activities in the Gwayi Valley Intensive Conservation Area as conservationists blame government ministers for misleading President Robert Mugabe into granting mining rights to the Chinese without due consideration. A Matabeleland North-based conservation group...Read More
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:36
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti says Chinese companies must trade fairly with Africa and invest in sectors that boost the continent’s economy. He said cheap imports from the world’s second largest economic power were affecting Africa’s industry. “The sad reality...Read More
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 11:27
BULAWAYO — China Africa Sunlight Energy (Case), a Chinese coal and coal bed-methane mining company which failed an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) last year, is poised to resume its multi-million dollar investments in Gwayi. In 2012, Case was ordered to stop...Read More
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:41
HARARE - A Harare man is lucky to be alive after his Chinese employer assaulted and fired gunshots at him as he tried to negotiate for terminal benefits following an unfair dismissal, the court heard. Xiaoming Li, 38, allegedly assaulted Lloyd...Read More
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Friday, 08 February 2013 15:58
HARARE - Ex-employees of a Chinese-owned construction company have sought the help of the Chinese Embassy to resolve a payment dispute with their former employer. The Daily News caught up with 12 of the workers at the Chinese economic and commercial...Read More
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Thursday, 07 February 2013 10:42
HARARE - A group of American students are in the country to help the City of Harare in town planning and settlement structuring in the wake of service delivery woes by residents. The 15 students studying Town Planning at the University...Read More
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Sunday, 20 January 2013 12:00
HARARE - A major Chinese mall and hotel project — built on a Harare wetland near the National Sports Stadium — is under military guard, in what could be a first for commercial assets in Zimbabwe, the Weekend Post can reveal....Read More
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Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:23
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has jailed a 24-year-old Chinese woman for three years for attempting to run over her worker with a vehicle following a labour dispute. Magistrate Esthere Chivasa sentenced Li Mengheng to four years in prison before suspending...Read More
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013 10:23
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has freed a Chinese national accused of converting a family friend’s company shares into his name before stealing $70 million. Magistrate Tendai Mahwe yesterday ruled that the state was not ready to put Liu Cheng Hsiao,...Read More
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Friday, 07 December 2012 10:31
HARARE - Incoming Chinese leader Xi Jinping has some lessons for Zanu PF officials who are preparing to outdo each other in fawning praises at President Robert Mugabe at the party conference opening today. Reports say Chinese Communist Party chief Xi...Read More
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Tuesday, 04 December 2012 10:18
HARARE - A Chinese national who attempted to smuggle $9 000 worth of diamonds has appeared before a Harare magistrate. Li Bo, 58, who is employed by Zimbabwe Shuangfeng, was nabbed on November 5, this year at the Harare International Airport...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Thursday, 15 November 2012 12:43
HARARE - While conducting research on the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua at the American Embassy Public Affairs library in 1999, I came across a very small book entitled Can Governments Learn? I said to myself, of course governments do learn,...Read More
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Monday, 12 November 2012 13:26
HARARE - Replacing gone dictator with another or one tyrannical regime with the other is far detached from embracing basic tenets of democracy that the right-minded paragons of egalitarianism desire. It is against this backdrop that the much media-hyped leadership change...Read More
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Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:15
HARARE - Sam Pa, a shadowy Chinese businessman, has denied bankrolling President Robert Mugabe’s feared secret police, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), claiming the money was for taxes and licence fees to the Zimbabwe government, Global Witness said in its latest...Read More
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Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:11
HARARE - HIV and Aids activists have blamed the ministry of Health for challenges perennially faced by people on life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. People on ARVs have repeatedly complained that shortages of drugs in public hospitals have constantly forced them to...Read More
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