Malawi| Last Updated 01/09/2010 19:20:00
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 | 34 US volunteers begin service In Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The US Peace Corps Programme, in Malawi since 1963, We
dnesday added another class of 34 health and education volunteers, according to
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he US Embassy in the capital, Lilongwe.
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| 3 dead, 2 injured In Malawi "macabre" religious mass suicide bid | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - In a macabre case of religious zealotry, three sibling
s of five children of the same parents have died while the other two were injure
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, one of them seriously, after they all jumped into a ball of fire in Malawi's c
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mmercial capital, Blantyre, police have confirmed.
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| Puffing more expensive in Malawi as taxman calls | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Cigarette smoking may be chic but from Wednesday (1Sep
t), smokers in the southern African country of
Malawi will have to dig deeper in their pockets to maintain that life-style, as
the tax authority has effected what it calls ''tax stamps''
on cigarette
In a statement published Wednesday, Lloyd Muhara, Commissioner General of the Ma
lawi Revenue Authority (MRA) - Malawi's official tax collectors -
said from 1 September, 2010 all manufacturers, importers and distributors of cig
arettes must obtain a licence from the tax body that will
indicate that they have paid duty or tax on their cigarettes.
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| Unexploded ordinance kills two Mozambicans in Malawi | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - An unexploded ordinance, believed to be a relic of
landmines from the 16-year Mozambican civil war, at the weekend killed two
Mozambican boys in Malawi's mountainous district of Ntcheu on the Malawi-
Mozambique border, eye witnesses said.
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| Church leader arrested at ex-minister's controversial funeral | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Police in the northern city of Mzuzu on Friday night arrested the Rev. Levi Nyondo, the outspoken General Secretary of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP), following scathing remarks against President Bingu wa Mutharika at the funeral ceremony of former Health Minister Prof. Moses Chirambo.
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| Politics dominates Malawi media | | Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The surprise sacking of four key ministers by President Bingu wa Mutharika and the battle for succession at the top job continued to dominate the Malawi media this week.
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| Brilliant Malawian girl spurns lucrative Chinese scholarship over religion | | By Raphael TENTHANI,
PANA Correspondent
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - An 18-year-old Malawian girl, who scored distinction i
n all the six subjects she sat for during the country's 2009 School Certificate
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f Education Examinations (MSCE), has turned down a lucrative five-year, all expe
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ses-paid scholarship from a university in China because she is a member of the C
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ristian sect Jehovah Witness, a private radio station who brokered the scholarsh
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ps has said.
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