Over the last few decades, African governments have removed restrictions on and privatised their mining industries, attracting significant foreign direct investment...
Ben Radley & Sara Geenen 13 Apr 2021
White Square international advertising festival announced the jury for the 2021 festival...
"Data" is likely to be right up there with the buzzwords of the next decade. But more than mere buzzwords, data is not only here to stay, but will also transform the way in which we all do business...
Shaune Jordaan 18 Nov 2020
The New York Festivals AME Awards has released the 2020 AME Report...
Leading customer engagement agency says programmatic marketing and talent crunch are key factors in business growth...
Issued by Engagement Factory 13 Sep 2019
Antibiotics are routinely added to animal feed in poor nations, fuelling superbugs. But new solutions are emerging, writes Aisling Irwin.
Aisling Irwin 11 Jul 2019
The New York Festivals AME Awards has released the 2019 AME Report, a ranking of the world's most successful agencies, and advertisers according to their achievements in the AME Awards...
Authorities in the Comoros should immediately release journalists Abdallah Abdou Hassane and Oubeidillah Mchangama held in detention...
While the advertising industry is cluttered with award shows, the Midas Awards that recognise the world's best financial advertising are ones to watch as this form of brand messaging is aimed at gaining the rarest kind of consumer trust imaginable. Here's how SA's own Cullinan agency recently proved its weight in gold...
Leigh Andrews 13 Feb 2018
Emirates and Turkish Airlines has won exemption from a US ban on passengers taking laptops and tablet computers on flights from their Dubai and Istanbul hubs, the latest carriers after Abu Dhabi's Etihad to win a reprieve...
Qatar is giving residents of Seychelles visas on arrival as a result of negotiations with the Seychelles Foreign Affairs Department...
The number of people in need of food aid in Ethiopia's drought-hit regions has surged to 7.7 million...
Toyota lost its crown as the world's top-selling automaker in 2016, company figures showed Monday, with the Japanese giant overtaken by Volkswagen...
The Midas Awards for the World's Best Financial Advertising have been announced, with FP7/DXB (part of McCann Worldgroup) and MediaVest Spark earning the Midas Award for Innovation for ‘The AC Vests' for client Emirates NBD...
Worldwide passenger air traffic grew again last year, albeit, at a slightly slower pace, led by the dynamic growth of low-cost air carriers...
Marcusbrewster is set to further disrupt business as you know it with its new on-demand PR offering. MD Andre Fourie explains how to use this to your strategic advantage...
Leigh Andrews 16 Sep 2016
A downgrade to junk status is highly probable if Pravin Gordhan suffers a similar fate to his predecessor...
The Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) has partnered with Spanish based SCOPEN Africa to provide in-depth and comprehensive research amongst South African marketers into client-agency relationships...
GENEVA: Some 60 million people across sub-Saharan Africa are already going hungry and the situation could deteriorate dramatically as climate phenomena hike the risk of drought...
ISTANBUL TURKEY: A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, threatening to shut down the social media network indefinitely...
WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum condemn yesterday's attack against French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo that has left 12 dead and at least four seriously wounded (Video)...
Former special forces operative Mike Peega's dossier claiming that SARS ran a rogue unit targeting politicians and businessmen close to Zuma in 2007 was easily discredited at the time.
Mzilikazi Wa Africa, Piet Rampedi 13 Oct 2014
The "Breaking News" puller seems to be the one thing most online and social media reporters have taken to in the scrimmage for the highly sought after reader...
Thamsanqa Malinga 16 Sep 2014
MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russian bloggers took revenge on Friday for a controversial new law imposing tough rules on online expression by inundating Moscow's communications watchdog with phony registration requests.
SHANGHAI, CHINA: China is investigating Microsoft for allegedly operating a monopoly in its market, the government said, as it took aim at the US software company's over business practices.
TEHRAN, IRAN: An Iranian judge has summoned Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations that his Facebook has breached people's privacy.
TOKYO: Japan's health ministry plans to file a criminal complaint against the local arm of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis over alleged exaggerated advertising for a popular blood-pressure drug, an official said Wednesday, 8 January 2014.
BEIJING: Another Chinese city has capped the total number of car licence plates it will issue annually, state media said late last month, following moves by Beijing and other metropolises to curb pollution and congestion.
PARIS, FRANCE: The European Space Agency (ESA) launched an advanced telescope designed to detect a billion stars and provide the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way.
In Africa, while piracy in Somalia's Gulf of Aden is currently on the decline, it has spread to West Africa.
BEIJING, CHINA: China has issued licences for "fourth generation", or 4G, mobile phone services in a move to boost economic growth and job creation.
Two journalists working for an independent newspaper are to stand trial for "defaming" judges in an article published in 2012, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported on Monday.
Hidden in the Times Media Group's recent financial statements was a decision to withdraw from the South Africa Press Association (Sapa).
Anton Harber 15 Oct 2013
MUMBAI, INDIA: India's top vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors says it plans to reposition the Nano as a "smart city car" after its marketing pitch as the world's cheapest vehicle resulted in disappointing sales.
A recent UN agency report reveals that global youth unemployment has risen to near its crisis peak and predicts that it will keep on rising over the next five years.
MUSCAT, OMAN: British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Oman on Friday (21 December) as Britain's defence giant BAE Systems announced a £2.5bn deal to supply fighter planes and trainer jets to the sultanate.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: A legion of Swiss pastry chefs on Sunday baked their way into the Guinness Book of World Records with a 1,221.6m chocolate Napoleon, the ATS news agency reported.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border with North Korea, which had threatened to respond with a "merciless" military strike.
India's cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines cancelled several flights on Monday due to staff unrest, it said, fuelling doubts about the private carrier's future and sending its shares plunging.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has confirmed that eight South Africans were among those killed this morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital Kabul.
NEWSWATCH: According to Reuters, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran is only a few months from having virtually all it needs to build a nuclear device; in a separate report, the agency reports that China has upped the ante over its territorial dispute with Japan.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: The South Korean and US military on Monday began an annual major joint exercise to test defences against North Korea, a drill denounced by Pyongyang which vowed to strengthen its nuclear deterrent.
NewsFlash News Agency reports that it now reaches a combined radio audience of 3.1 million radio listeners. The agency supplies radio news bulletins with sound bytes (interviews) to 42 radio stations.
South African mining operators prefer to send their mineral exports to the port of Maputo by road because of the prohibitive fees charged by the South African authorities for use of the rail system, Mozambique's AIM news agency reported.
WASHINGTON: Workplace abuses were uncovered in an audit that equated to "a full body scan" of three Chinese factories pumping out coveted Apple gadgets, independent investigators reported on Thursday (29 March 2012).
Wal-Mart will learn at the end of next week if its bid to gain a foothold in Africa by buying 51% of South African retailer Massmart has been rejected on appeal, a report said on Wednesday, 29 February 2012.
Conduit has been hard at work on a variety of great creative briefs.
NEW YORK: The Bahraini government continued its attempts at muzzling critical media with the Ministry of Information ordering the country's premier independent daily temporarily shut down on Sunday (3 April 2011). The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Bahraini government's strong-arm tactics, which effectively forced a change in a prominent paper's editorial management.