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You will now pay more for using popular video conferencing platform Zoom starting August as the company adds VAT on its pricing for services. Zoom now joins Facebook and YouTube that are already charging VAT on supplies to their customers in Kenya. “Zoom Video Communication Inc will begin charging Kenyan VAT on or shortly after August 1, 2021, on its services...

Kenyans have been given a week to identify and collect roughly 70 unclaimed bodies lying at three mortuaries in the city after which they will be interred by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services. In a public notice today, NMS Health Director Dr Fredrick Oluga said 57 bodies are at the City Mortuary, 11 at the Mama Lucy Funeral Home and two at Mbagathi Hospital Funeral...

Kenyan sprinter Mark Otieno is hoping to shine in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that officially kicked off today after Japan’s Emperor Naruhito declared the games open. Otieno, who is representing Kenya alongside Ferdinand Omanyala in the men’s 100m finals, is confident that he will make his motherland proud after his latest training session in Kurume city, Japan. “Since we arrived on...

Retail savers funneled Kes 7 billion for investments in the first three months this year, increasing the funds in Collective Investment Schemes to Kes 111 billion. The latest data from the Capital Markets Authority shows that the total assets under management by the CIS went up by 6.08 per cent from Kes 104.71 billion managed in the quarter ended December 31, 2020.

In Embu County a group of visually challenged secondary school students is making great strides in pursuit of their academic dreams. About 100 learners of ACK Mary Magdalene High School of the Deaf can now cover their academic syllabus in time as well as undertake online research. Until recently, however, their story was very different. "This being a school for the...

An uptick in local food prices, steady increase in global commodity prices coupled with relatively higher taxes adopted in the current budget are set to push up the cost of living in the next six months. During the second quarter last year, the government rolled out lower tax rates as it sought to cushion Kenyans during the onset of the pandemic.