Sao Tome and Principe News

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement to implement spelling reforms in the Portuguese language.

Recent Treaty activity monitored by the IPKat : the World Intellectual Property Organization has been busily announcing accessions to and ratifications of some of its favourite treaties.

Q&A answers questions on a broad range of topics each Tuesday. Q: My brother took great pride in his Lionel train set each year as its track and plastic village were placed under the Christmas tree.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, has arrived in Africa at the start of a week-long visit.

Malaria killed nearly one million people worldwide in 2006, but better drugs and more mosquito nets in Africa are helping to thwart the tropical disease, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.

At least seven African countries or regions have cut the number of malaria deaths by half following an intensive drive to protect people from the disease, the World Health Organisation said today.

Computer material containing all of Sao Tome and Principe's electoral files has been stolen, jeopardizing upcoming elections, the justice ministry said Friday.

Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, arrived in Al giers on Saturday afternoon on the penultimate leg of a four-nation visit to the Maghreb region.

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Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni has told the Joseph Kabi la- led regime of Democratic Republic of Congo , to implement an agreement a imed at resolving conflict in the oil-rich Lake Albert region, a new ground ...

Wilson Bragan a [pt] talks about value crises, a subject that tends to repeat itself cyclically in all generations.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas and the USS Dallas, both sponsored by the Dallas, Texas, Navy League, were in port together more than 4,000 miles away in Gibraltar earlier this week.

In addition to the new store, Claudio Corallo Chocolate is sold in specialty stores in Europe and the U.S., including Caff Vita in Olympia, the new Chocopolis on Queen Anne and DeLaurenti Specialty Food & Wine ...

GENERAL of the Nigerian Stock Exchange , Prof. Ndidi Okereke-Onyiuke, was yesterday taken in for questioning by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over her alleged role in raising funds for Mr.

The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries two years from now, ...

N IGERIA's Industrial and General Insurance Company Plc has secured a licence from Uganda to operate a bank, a senior official of the insurance firm said on Monday in Sao Tome.

A N investment bill to encourage foreign investment in Sao Tome and Principe oil and gas has been forwarded to its parliament.

The government of Sao Tome & Principe has approved a plan of the Sao Tome Telecommunications Company to connect its network to the West African Festoon System submarine cable network, reports MacauHub.

A S countries around the world reach a mid-way point and begin an appraisal of their achievement towards the realisation of the promise of providing universal primary education for all boys and girls of school ...

SAfO TOMA<, 23 July 2008 - No one expected that the reaction to empty condom dispensers on SA o TomA© and PrA ncipe would be so angry.