TNM Limited has announced that it will embark on yearly programmes to redress the Viphya Plantation, which is now bare.

Mobile phones services provider, Airtel Malawi, has announced that it will hike its calling and SMS rates by an average of 25 percent effective Monday next week.

The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) and the Instituto Nacional das Communicacoes de Mocambique (INCM) have signed an agreement for cross-border cooperation on addressing frequency interference between their countries.

Some stakeholders have differed on the handling of intermediate buyers of tobacco, with some calling for raids on their buying points while others believe tobacco marketing cannot do away with vendors.

Finance Minister Ken Lipenga says the significant jump in civil servants salaries will not bloat the budget as Capital Hill will induce budget cuts in some votes.

Malawi has told the African Forum of Former Heads of State who will mediate on its border dispute on Lake Malawi with Tanzania that it believes its neighbour is challenging the border because of prospects of oil on the lake.

The governments of Malawi and Mozambique will today hold bilateral trade talks in Tete, Mozambique where a Malawi delegation is on a visit to appreciate the recent economic boom in the neighbouring country's province.

The ongoing floatation of the kwacha will see consumers digging deeper in their pockets to buy some of the commodities every time and again or be forced to forgo the commodities.

Malawi is one of the five African countriesthat have been earmarked for a US$800,000 medical supplies grant initiative by Coca Cola International over the next three years.

This year's second tobacco assessment results are expected to be released any day this week, Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has said.

The organisational restructuring of the Ministry of Mines and Energy has delayed the signing of a development agreement between the Malawi government and Globe Metals, a company that wants to start mining niobium at Kanyika in Mzimba.

Finance Minister Ken Lipenga revealed on Wednesday that government and the World Bank have concluded grant negotiations and will be signing a financial agreement in the near future to activate the Financial Reporting and Oversight Improvement Project (FROIP) in the civil service.

Over-expenditure in government has been blamed for worsening the depreciation of the Malawi kwacha whose rollercoaster fall saw it slipping to a record K395 to one United States dollar yesterday in various banks in the country.

The Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) says this year's tobacco selling market season is expected to open on March 11, 2013.

Press Corporation Limited (PCL) on Friday hosted a cocktail reception in Blantyre to bid farewell to its outgoing chairman, Dean Lungu.

The Indigenous Business Association of Malawi (Ibam) has said Malawi can only get a return from the two salary hikes given to civil servants this year if the government workers improved their work ethics and become more productive.

Malawi will soon start exporting fresh and dry vegetables to Equatorial Guinea as one way of boosting its foreign exchange earning through trade, President Joyce Banda has said.

International Commercial Bank (ICB) employees this morning laid down tools in an attempt to force management to increase their salaries.

The World Bank has said its US$695 million Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) aid package for Malawi will be released based on various key factors such as the country's performance over the next four years.

The Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) has disclosed that it has advertised tenders for the acquisition of 369 million litres of fuel, which is enough to meet the country's demand for one year starting from May 1, 2013.