Amazon is considering launching a new "Prime Day" to address declines in consumer spending, repeating a successful July 12-13 measure where Jeff Bezos' company managed to sell 300 million products that analysts estimate resulted in a...
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Elon Musk predicts "mild" 18-month US economic recession
Elon Musk predicts that the US economic recession should be "mild" and last 18 months. A prediction that the CEO defends based on the price of raw materials and components that his company buys months in advance to manufacture its electric cars. According to the Spanish newspaper "El...
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Hong Kong reduces quarantines for foreign arrivals to three days
Hong Kong will reduce from one week to three days the duration of mandatory quarantine in hotels for arrivals from abroad, the territory's head of government announced today. The southern Chinese city remains one of the few places in the world, along with Macau and mainland China, to require...
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Food situation in Mozambique improved between May and August
Mozambique reduced between May and August this year, from 9.8 to 7.2 million, the number of people living at high risk of hunger, according to data released by the World Food Program (WFP), an agency of the United Nations (UN). It means that 2.6 million Mozambicans are no longer threatened by food insecurity, a...
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President of the Republic opens the Youth Conference and swears in Amilton Alissone
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, directs today, in Maputo City, the opening of the VII National Youth Conference. The event takes place as part of International Youth Day which is celebrated on August 12, under the slogan "Intergenerational solidarity: Creating a world for all ages," says a note from the Presidency of the Republic.
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Virgin Galactic again postpones space tourism service
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has announced that the commercial space tourism service has had the start of operations delayed again. Previously scheduled for later this year, it looks like we'll now have to wait until the second quarter of 2023 to see more takeoffs from VSS Unity. According to Notícias ao Minuto, the company explained...
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Nampula government improves response and resilience to weather events
The Provincial Executive Council (CEP) of Nampula ensures that it is improving the response and resilience to weather events, with an eye on the next rainy season. Speaking a few days ago in a meeting with members of the Planning and Budget Commission of the Assembly of the Republic, Governor Manuel Rodrigues said, for example, that in the...
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Full-time operation of Machipanda border will bring gains to the region
Motorists, mostly long distance drivers, welcome the efforts of the governments of Mozambique and Zimbabwe working towards the opening of the Machipanda border crossing, in Manica province, for 24 hours a day. Although there is still no date yet, the opening of that land crossing point could happen within...
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Águas da Região Metropolitana de Maputo wants to upgrade commercial processes
The Chairman of the Board of Directors (PCA) of Águas da Região Metropolitana de Maputo (AdRMM), Castigo Álvaro Cossa, urged the commercial department to requalify and frame commercial processes in order to ensure continuous improvement of the quality of services provided. This orientation was expressed at the opening of the first commercial retreat of the institution,...
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Fire destroys equipment of the Chibuto heavy sands preject
A major fire broke out on Friday at the heavy sands processing plant in Chibuto, Gaza province, destroying equipment of the new aggregate filtering line. According to the head of Human Resources (HR) of the Chinese company Ding Sheng Minerais, SA, Apolinário Bila, the fire was caused by sparks during...