Continuing turmoil in the global financial markets has eaten into the income of Swiss Re, a reinsurance company which has strong business relations with the listed Kenya Re.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loan Centre, Mr. Lawrence Prempeh, has revealed that his outfit has so far disbursed GH¢18.3 million to 30,000 beneficiaries across the country.
A news item in the print media drew my attention last week - "Faulu Kenya's profits hit Sh103 million". Faulu is a microfinance institution and one of the big three unregulated microfinance companies in Kenya. It made a pre-tax profit
Associated Press - May 8, 2008 5:45 PM ET TYLER, Texas (AP) - A jury in Tyler took four minutes today to convict an organizer of an East Texas swinger's club -- involving children.
Associated Press - May 8, 2008 5:25 PM ET DALLAS (AP) - An animal considered to be the world's oldest living gorilla in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday today at the Dallas Zoo -- with a...
Associated Press - May 8, 2008 5:05 PM ET SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) - A jury in San Marcos today decided a man should serve 14 life prison terms for biting, whipping and starving his three...
Associated Press - May 8, 2008 6:05 PM ET TYLER, Texas (AP) - A jury in Tyler today convicted an organizer of an East Texas swinger's club -- involving children.
NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, May 15, at 2 p.m. EDT, to provide an overview of progress made in the last few months and work ahead for NASA's Constellation Program.
As part of NASA's 50th anniversary celebration, the Digital Learning Network will host a series of live webcasts with students across the country May 13-21.
NASA's Kennedy Space Center has awarded a contract to Hensel Phelps of Orlando, Fla., for the construction of the Ares I mobile launcher for the Constellation Program.
NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will announce a significant new education initiative at a NASA Future Forum on May 14 at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif.
For the most part, these accusations are a political ploy — actually an attempt to shut down political debate. Any practical concern about the content of government sex-education curricula is labeled "anti-science." Any ethical question about the destruction of human
New York City officials plan within months to dispatch the nation's first ambulance equipped to preserve bodies of the newly dead so that families have time to consider organ donation.The controversial twist: Crews would swoop in and perform procedures on
California has awarded $271 million in grants to build 12 stem cell research centers in the state, even as one of the political rationales for the building program might soon disappear. (New York Times)
Addressing students in a classroom at Stanford Law School, Dr. Pellegrino made a forceful claim for the inescapability of dignity - the lived experience of being human — for anyone making ethical choices in research, in the clinic and in
The question is: As new, direct-to-consumer genetic testing sites begin delivering this fresh and sometimes incomplete DNA news to customers online, how will Big Medicine and government regulators react? And how will they shape what DNA testing sites look like?
Why is assisted suicide always treated as if life were lived in a vacuum? Case in point: The suicide statistics in Washington are, according to a newspaper report "terrifying," and yet, many newspapers editorially support legalizing assisted suicide-which at the
