by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | news
PRESIDENT John Magufuli has blasted officials of the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) for arbitrarily raising electricity tariff by an average of 8.5 per cent. He has at the same time also revoked the appointment of TANESCO’s Managing...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | sports
Pep Guardiola does not believe his first season as Manchester City manager should be classed as a failure if he cannot guide the team to Premier League glory. Guardiola won the league in his first seasons at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but his City side lie 10 points...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | sports
British number one Johanna Konta powered through her first match of the new season, beating Turkey’s Cagla Buyukakcay 6-2 6-0 in the first round of the Shenzhen Open. Konta, the world number 10, conceded just nine points on her first serve in her 56-minute...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | BUSINESS NEWS
A Shanghai court ordered two Chinese firms to pay Walt Disney Co and Pixar more than 1.35 million yuan ($194,440) compensation for copying parts of their hit movies “Cars” and “Cars 2”, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | BUSINESS NEWS
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) will announce this month the results of an investigation into what caused some of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to catch fire, the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported on Monday citing unnamed sources. The South Korean firm said in...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | sports
Chelsea striker Diego Costa has said he wanted to leave the club in the summer. Costa joined the Blues for £32m in 2014, and was understood to be close to a return to former club Atletico Madrid after a difficult 2015-16 campaign. The Spain international has since...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | BUSINESS NEWS, news
Local insurance companies will be among the biggest winners this year as the government moves to implement the mandatory local underwriting for all imports. The new law, which came into effect yesterday (January 1 ), requires imports to be covered locally. Treasury...
by Hope Media | Jan 2, 2017 | news
The gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub fired up to 180 bullets, Turkish media report. More details are emerging of the attack at the upmarket Reina nightclub where hundreds of revellers were celebrating the new year early on Sunday. The unidentified...
by Hope Media | Jan 1, 2017 | sports
World number one Andy Murray insisted Sunday that Novak Djokovic will remain his biggest threat in 2017, as the pair prepare for a potential first clash of the season in Doha this week. Newly-knighted Murray, speaking ahead of the first round of the Qatar Open which...
by Hope Media | Jan 1, 2017 | news
The Queen is feeling “better” despite missing a New Year’s Day church service at Sandringham, her daughter Princess Anne has said. Princess Anne spoke to well-wishers outside the church after attending the service with her father Prince Philip,...
