Daily Archives: December 9, 2014

Boyhood and Birdman make AFI list

The American Film Institute (AFI) has picked its top films of 2014 including coming-of-age tale Boyhood, Birdman and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Foxcatcher, Jake Gyllenhaal thriller Nightcrawler and British code-breaking drama The Imitation Game also feature. For the first time the jury chose 11 films instead of 10, with many already gaining momentum this awards season. Whiplash, Into ...

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CIA lied over ‘brutal’ interrogations

The CIA carried out “brutal” interrogations of terror suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, a US Senate report has said. The summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report said the CIA misled Americans on the effectiveness of “enhanced interrogation”. The interrogation was poorly managed and unreliable, the report said. President Obama has previously said that ...

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MMD Northern province to stop RB from causing confusion

The opposition Movement for Multi party Democracy (MMD) in Northern Province has maintained that they will not allow former Republican President Rupiah Banda to cause confusion in the party. MMD Northern Province Publicity and Information Secretary Cephas Bwalya has told QFM News in a telephone interview that the country wide campaigns that Mr. Banda has embarked on will not hold ...

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Lungu will not serve his own personal vision once elected- Chanda

Ruling PF party member Sunday Chanda has expressed optimism that once elected the country’s President, Defence and Justice Minister Edgar Lungu will not serve his own personal vision. Mr. Chanda says he is certain that Mr. Lungu who is the PF president will go to State House to serve the ruling PF’s vision as captured under the 2011 election manifesto. ...

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Taiwanese businessman nabbed for Money Laundering

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit has arrested a Taiwanese businessman and a Zambian for illegal trading and unlawful possession of over 700 logs of the Mukula tree. Allan Lo Shih-Chun, 40, a Taiwanese businessman of Plot No. 737 off Sheki Sheki Road Emmasdale in Lusaka has been arrested and jointly charged with Lowell Nkonde, ...

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HH campaigns in Muchinga province

Opposition UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has bemoaned the poverty levels in border town of Nakonde despite the amount of revenue the town collects at the border point. And Mr. Hichilema has reiterated that agriculture production will be one of UPND’s key priorities as that was one sure of way alleviating poverty among the rural communities and lower the cost of ...

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ZTB launches Green Season Domestic Tourism campaign

The Zambia Tourism Board (ZTB) has officially launched a campaign dubbed Green season domestic tourism that is aimed at encouraging Zambians to go on holidays. Speaking during a media briefing in Lusaka this morning, ZTB Managing Director Felix Chaila said the Green season domestic tourism campaign is intended introduce a time for local tourists to start taking up the challenge ...

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