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Emirates Unveils Lower Fares and Hotel Discounts

Kenyans are set to benefit from lower flight fares and new travel packages as Emirates rolls out even more offers for its East African passengers. The airliner will reduce flight fares for 17 destinations in some parts of India, North America and the Middle East in…
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What to Know About Doing A Land Search

This is part of a series of articles from The ABC of REAL ESTATE investment in Kenya. Buying land in Kenya involves a high risk of fraud nowadays. This has made it necessary to be thorough in the land buying process to ensure that…
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Finally, Compensation for GTV and Smart TV Subscribers

Star Times, the latest entrant in the pay TV service, is offering GTV and Smart TV subscribers some form of compensation for their losses following the exit of GTV and Smart TV from the Kenyan Market under unclear circumstances. Those with GTV or Smart TV decoders will…
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Stocks We Are Watching Today

The shares we will be closely watching in today's trading at the NSE
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47 Temporary Job Posts on Offer From IEBC

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEBC) has put on offer 47 competitive positions for County Returning Officers (CROs). The CROs will be on short-term employment contract for the actual days worked but for a period not more than 60 days. For each day worked, they’ll take home KES 3,000 with no…
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Extra KES 3 For Brookside Milk Farmers

Brookside has announced that it will pay its farmers KES 3 more for each kilogramme of milk delivered with effect from last Saturday 1st September 2012. According to John Gethi, Brookside General Manager, the increase in raw milk price is meant to cushion the farmers from…
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Current Account Vs Savings Account

Quite often, many people who want to save money open accounts with paying to the nature of accounts they open. Many people run current accounts as their savings vehicles. Much as this has no harm really, it would be more beneficial to have a dedicated savings account for savings as…
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Is Sex The Easiest Way To Earn A Shilling?

With the Campus Divas page making rounds on social media, and the sexual promiscuity of our youth once more hitting the headlines it's safe to say that sex sells. For how long though? At some point the bills will come in, and the kids, and life. What then?
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8 Things You Should Know This Morning

1. Top Kenya Airways executives’ pay goes up by 24 per cent KQ’s top managers, its CEO and Chief Financial Officer, will see an increase in their salaries, to a combined KES 6.83M from KES 5.5M. The increase comes in a year when…
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Kakuzi Earnings Drop on Subsidiary Sale

Exemption of the income from Siret Tea Company Limited was evident in a 66 percent drop in profit from discontinuing operations to 32.1 million shillings from 95.3 million last year
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The Five Cheapest Places To Shop For Clothes In Nairobi

I still get shocked at the prices that some of these people put on that really should be a fraction of what they believe the worth to be.
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Pirates in a Digital Sea

The recent cap in unlimited internet bundles has dealt a deadly blow to some of the country’s more notorious internet users. This band of vagabonds abuses all the freedom that the internet has to offer. While the common market is browsing, other subscribers are illegally downloading music, movies…
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Tax Break for Disabled Persons

Back in 2010, the Minister for Finance (and DPM) published The Persons With Disabilities (Income Tax Deductions and Exemptions) Order, 2010 whose aim is to exempt a part of the income earned by persons with disabilities from taxation. The first 150,000/= of ones income per month is exempt from tax but…
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