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Panasonic Introduces World’s First1 3D Consumer Camcorder

Osaka, Japan
Panasonic Corporation, an industry leader in Full HD 3D and HD TV technology, unveiled today the world’s first 3D camcorder for consumers. The HDC-SDT750 camcorder allows anyone to create powerful, true-to-life 3D images by simply attaching a 3D conversion lens that comes with the camcorder. Even without the 3D conversion lens, this innovative [...]

The Beetle that saved Lake Victoria

By Brad Collis
Lake Victoria, legendary source of the Nile and cradle of early human evolution was finally losing its capacity to support human life.
In 1998 several multi-million dollar harvesting machines were sent to the lake as a European answer to the crisis. Various chemical companies also set up office in Kampala, Uganda, hoping to secure [...]

FIFA World Cup Pre-view: Nigeria Vs Argentina

Luvei Times News
Lionel Messi believes anything can happen at the finals of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. World Player of the Year Messi says Greece won Euro2004, so why can’t it happen at the World Cup? Speaking ahead of Argentina’s opening Group B match against Nigeria at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Barcelona [...]

Iconic Range Rover turns 40

Luvei Times News
The Range Rover celebrates its 40th birthday on 17 June, 2010. One of the most significant vehicles in the history of motoring, the Range Rover was the world’s first vehicle as good on-road as off-road. It was the first fully capable luxury 4×4 and was a milestone in the development of the [...]

FIFA World Cup 2010 preview Grup E : Cameroon Vs Japan

Luvei Times News
Shunsuke Nakamura says his team is physically small so they must deal with the others by being better organised. The former Celtic play-maker and his Japanese team have been drawn in Group E alongside Denmark, the Netherlands and Cameroon.
It’s the Africans they play first in the city of Bloemfontein on June 14th. [...]

FIFA 2010 World Cup preview Group D : Ghana Vs Serbia

Luvei Times News
Nikola Žigi? says he watched the African Cup of Nations tournament and Ghana, who reached the final, is a very dangerous rival. Serbia face Ghana in their opening match of the FIFA World Cup at Tshwane near Pretoria on June 13th.
Žigi? who plays his domestic football for Racing Santander in the Spanish [...]

One Kenya IDP’s ingenuity leads to an informal engineering school in Kayole slums

By Hudson Gumbihi | Nairobi, Kenya
AMIDST the sprawling Kayole estate, there is a dinky building that can easily be mistaken for a chan’gaa hovel for buzzers. But the iron-corrugated construction sandwiched between highrise apartments is a place of knowledge for the downtrodden youth eager to join a competitive professional world.
Unfortunately, the milieu at Menengai Institute [...]

FIFA 2010 World Cup preview Group C : Algeria Vs Slovenia

Karim Matmour says it would be wonderful just to get past the group stages of the FIFA World Cup next month. A comment that seems defeatist but the Monchengladbach player is anything but. “In football anything is possible,” he says. “It is just as likely that the favorites are the ones who’ll get knocked out [...]

Rural women making a difference in the face of glaring poverty

By Roselynn Lwenya PhD
As the world economies shrink and the effects of the climate change bite deeper into livelihoods, women in sub-Saharan Africa continue to bear the brunt of the conditions poverty imposes on them. More than midway to 2015 deadline for the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Kenya’s prospects for [...]

A native grass destroys Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria East Africa

By John W. Gichuki (PhD)
Water hyacinth locally known as “FORD” (the weed appeared in the lake at the same time as the dawn of multiparty democracy and also when Forum for the Restoration of Democracy was born in the early 1990s), is a perennial water herb and a native of tropical America. It has been [...]