WELLINGTON – New Zealand police said yesterday they have recovered 29 methamphetamine tablets disguised as pineapple sweets that were mistakenly handed out to the public in charity packs. Police are racing to track down more of the brightly-wrapped drugs, which were anonymously donated to anti-poverty charity Auckland City Mission and unwittingly redistributed.In tests, one of...
KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday Ukrainian troops had “advanced well” in Russia’s Kursk region, as Kyiv’s biggest cross-border attack stretched into a second week. The Ukrainian army entered the Kursk region on 6 August, capturing dozens of settlements in the biggest offensive by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War II....
UNITED NATIONS – Dai Bing, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, on Wednesday urged the international community to earnestly respect South Sudan’s sovereignty and ownership in its political transition, and refrain from interventionist pressurising or imposing external standards. South Sudan has been making great efforts to promote political transition and maintain national stability,...
DAKAR – Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Wednesday called for “appropriate recovery measures” for the national press, following sweeping strikes by the media industry over perceived economic pressures and threats to press freedom. Faye demanded a “renewed dialogue with the national press,” which “deserves the particular attention of the government and appropriate recovery measures”,...
Xtrazz, in collaboration with Sunny Boy, Exit and Bok-D, released aremix for a song called ‘Ostory yoye’, loosely translated as ‘your story.’ The songtalks about choices people make in theirlives. Xtrazz is a Namibian multi-cultural, Afrobeat, Afropop, house, kwait, anddancehall music group. The trio consists of Abel Liswani Nfwile ‘Cyrus’, HeroldMbajanda Hiiko ‘Bux’, and Padja-Ongudi...
Lack of opportunities, limited resources and cultural norms are some of the challenges stifling the pageantry in the Zambezi region. Despite these challenges, young pageant models are navigating through these to pursue their passion. Janine Simataa, the reigning Miss Zambezi Bream Festival and Cultural Expo, told VIBEZ! that there is a scarcity of pageant events...
When we talk about the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, your ordinary media scholar rarely thinks of radio. It is always related to journalism in its traditional sense. That is most likely because the newspaper industry has done an incredible job at taking the lead in creating awareness and fighting to...
The National Arts Council of Namibia (NACN) has concluded its nationwide consultative tour to review the National Arts Fund, Act and draft supporting regulations. The tour, which covered the country’s 14 regions, began in July and was part of NACN’s efforts to improve arts funding in the country. The initiative was supported by the UNESCO-Aschberg...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Hot on the heels of his American trip, renowned musician Venaune Ben Kandukira, famously known as Big Ben, is set to perform in Gloucester, United Kingdom this weekend. Big Ben, who was initially booked to perform at a private wedding ceremony in Thames River on 3 August, got an unexpected invitation to also...
BEIJING – Chinese retail sales rebounded in July while industrial production growth slowed, official data showed yesterday, highlighting an uneven recovery in the world’s second-largest economy. More than a year and a half after the lifting of stringent Covid-19 measures, the much-anticipated post-pandemic recovery has been brief and less robust than expected, while a property...