The Ministry of Labour has released names of 336 Malawian young men and women who will go to South Korea under the labour export programme.

Malawi has failed to develop nearly 50 years after independence partly because institutions operate in fear of each other, a Chancellor College professor Wiseman Chijere- Chirwa has said.

President Joyce Banda's speech during the opening of the 2013/2014 Budget meeting of Parliament on Friday, 17th May, 2013

As Parliament opens for the budget meeting in Lilongwe, people have demanded the MPs to discuss issues that will bring solutions to challenges currently rocking the economy.

Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) on Wednesday launched what it is calling the Jubilee Movement.

Democratic Progressive Party president Peter Mutharika and three other former senior government officials, will not take plea on perjury charges in the magistrate's court until the High Court offers direction and interpretation on which court is appropriate for commencing a matter that has been discontinued.

Opposition political parties represented in Parliament say the implementation of the national budget which is expected to come to an end next month was unsatisfactory.

Blantyre City Council (BCC) junior staff who downed their tools on Wednesday in demand of salary increments told their management in the face that they were heartless for failing to hike their perks.

Former president Bakili Muluzi, who is facing graft charges in the High Court in Blantyre, on Wednesday, challenged the eligibility of one of the lawyers in the prosecution team, David Nyamilandu, saying the court disqualified him from practising law in the country.

Former president Bakili Muluzi has denied meeting one of the front-runners for the 2014 presidential candidature for the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP).

President Joyce Banda says Malawians should not lose sight of the fact that self rule and democracy currently being enjoyed in the country came about because some brave and selfless citizens, such as Malawi's first president Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, sacrificed their lives in the first place.

Poor performance by Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) is suffocating delivery of preventive health services in Ntcheu, district health officials have said.

Cabinet on Monday finally approved amendments to electoral laws to enable the country hold tripartite elections next year.

The High Court in Blantyre has given bail to five police officers arrested in connection with the shootings which led to deaths during the July 20, 2011 anti-government protests in Blantyre city.

Government has held talks with private lawyers prosecuting the high profile treason case over legal bills, authorities have confirmed.

Presidential aspirant Thoko Banda, son of former cabinet minister Aleke Banda said the level of corruption in Malawi is at alarming levels for a country that is democratic.

The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) has advised online publications and those with interactive platforms to exercise care and responsibility that the comments being posted are palatable and could run in newspapers or radio.

The High Court in Blantyre is this Wednesday expected to resume trial involving former President Bakili Muluzi and his accomplice Lyness Whisky.

Three family members have dragged late president Bingu wa Mutharika's Bineth Trust to court over ownership of an estate the trust acquired in Kasungu in 2005.

Divisions have emerged at Chancellor College (Chanco) between Students Union (Succ) and the students' body on the latter's decision to resume classes as they see no progress in their sit-in and vigil.