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Travel Where to Eat, Sleep and Drink in Kilifi Friday, June 7, 2019 13:16 By WENDY WATTA Kilifi may be more popular with budget travellers, but in south of Kilifi Creek there are high-end properties like Kamili House which is perfect for those looking for luxury, privacy and unmatched
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Food & Drinks Younger Drinkers with Growing Thirst for Cognac Friday, June 7, 2019 13:41 By DOREEN WAINAINAH At a party in a private villa in Nairobi, a group of attendees in their late 20s to early 30s is chatting up the mixologists as they whip up cocktails. These
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Music Buying a Music Instrument Friday, June 7, 2019 12:42 By IVY NYAYIEKA How do you know that a music instrument is fake? As demand for music instruments soars, thanks to a younger generation that is keen on learning how to play a guitar, cello or piano, some parents
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Health & Fitness lifting 20-kilo weights with one hand Friday, June 7, 2019 13:08 By EUNICE MURATHE Nothing stops Lena Gitonga from lifting weights to build muscle, even if she does it with one hand. She lost part of her hand in an accident and she started weightlifting to
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Patent and trademark applications in Kenya hit a record high of 7,788 last year, surpassing requests recorded in the country’s history and signalling increased awareness among innovators on the need to protect their intellectual property rights. However, the number of patents granted reduced to 245 despite 914 applications
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Profiles Taking BOC Bull By the Horns Friday, June 7, 2019 12:22 By JACKSON BIKO Marion Gathoga-Mwangi’s resume is designed like a map from the corporate hinterlands. It is a simple, condensed one-paged illustrated resume, with sliding timelines and roles, markers and logos, tables with colour coded areas.
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Design & Interiors Living in a Soundproof House Friday, June 7, 2019 12:36 By COLLINS OMULO In most Kenyan homes, you can easily hear the toilet upstairs flushing when you are downstairs, a child crying in a distant bedroom or laughter filtering through from the noisy neighbour's
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Companies KQ now extends aircraft lease on lower rental fee Thursday, June 6, 2019 20:01 By CHARLES MWANIKI Kenya Airways #ticker:KQ has extended the lease of three aircraft to Turkish Airlines for an additional three years, a move that will likely deepen sub-leasing losses on the planes that
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Companies NSE mulls policy forcing listing of private firms Thursday, June 6, 2019 20:02 By JAMES KARIUKI Stakeholders at the Nairobi bourse are lobbying for a policy that will seek to have the most successful and impactful local private companies cede part ownership to Kenyans by listing on the
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Companies NBK boss's pay rises to Sh50m as woes deepen Thursday, June 6, 2019 20:03 By SAM KIPLAGAT By BRIAN NGUGI National Bank of Kenya (NBK) #ticker:NBK chief executive Wilfred Musau earned a total of Sh50.25 million in the year ended December 2018, representing a
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Companies Express Kenya CEO gets approval to acquire company Thursday, June 6, 2019 20:03 By BRIAN NGUGI Express Kenya #ticker:XPRS chief executive Hector Diniz has received the green light to raise his ownership of the company to slightly over 70 percent after shareholders approved a plan to convert
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Companies Aga Khan Hospital is BOC Kenya’s biggest customer by sales Thursday, June 6, 2019 20:03 By VICTOR JUMA The Aga Khan Health Service is the single biggest customer of BOC Kenya Plc #ticker:BOC, the industrial gas manufacturer has disclosed. The hospital group is BOC’s number