Standard: Retail investors should consider unit trust funds investments
07 Feb 2012 - In today's complex financial markets, you can select from an impressive array of investment vehicles. Each investment also carries some risks, making it important to choose wisely if you are selecting just one. Sometimes it's advisable for retail investors to consider putting their money on the various unit trust funds available rather than investing directly in the stock market.

Standard: EA 'bond market is a free lunch'
07 Feb 2012 - Bond investors in East Africa yearn for sales of longer-term government paper to secure high yields and benefit from capital gains spurred by rate cuts seen later this year.

Standard: Brighter days ahead as cost of living slumps
07 Feb 2012 - Bright times could be lying ahead for Kenyans with purchasing power of household incomes projected to improve due to a slowdown in inflation.

Standard: An economic interpretation of ICC pre-trial ruling
07 Feb 2012 - The charges were finally confirmed for four Kenyans. Despite all the preparations, there were no riots and Kenyans went on with their business as usual. There are many explanations to that. Kenyans probably learnt their lesson in 2008'violence does not pay. Kenyans might also be tired, battered by inflation, drought, strikes and war in Somali.

Standard: Alas, elections are not for the faint-hearted
07 Feb 2012 - Towards the August 27th deadline in which a number of Bills were supposed to have been passed, the media reported on the issue as if there will be no tomorrow. The reporting implied that there were no options back to pass the requisite legislations.

Standard: Mumias Sugar to double production capacity
07 Feb 2012 - Mumias Sugar Company (MSC) plans to more than double its production capacity in the next six months so as to ease the sugar shortage that saw the commodity's retail price hit a historic high of Sh200 per kilogramme in August last year.

Standard: Dar picks up steam as Mombasa Port drops the ball
07 Feb 2012 - Kenya is losing her competitive advantage as East Africa's economic hub as a result of inefficiencies and congestion at the port of Mombasa, as importers and exporters look for other options.

Standard: NSE sale back on track after court throws out challenge
07 Feb 2012 - The planned demutualisation of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) is set to resume after a five-month period of legal battles.

Standard: Legalising prostitution? Views from the City of Sin
07 Feb 2012 - City father George Aladwa predictably found himself under fire over his unfatherly ruminations on prostitution. No wonder he was forced to swallow his words in haste. But should we, or should we not legalise?

Standard: Tolerating self-declared rebels bad for parties
07 Feb 2012 - All signs are that most parties are not ready to pursue vigourously enough the matter of expelling members who flout the Political Parties Act and it is not hard to see why. Of the parties that have tried to discipline errant members, only a couple may have followed the due procedure required by law.

Standard: Leave out sideshows in probe of shilling
07 Feb 2012 - The past year has been a struggle for many people in Kenya. The cost of living went up, the shilling lost ground and there is still uncertainty about how it is likely to behave in future, including whether the current measures put in place by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will sustain its recovery.

Standard: I am not anyone's project, says Mudavadi
07 Feb 2012 - Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi continued with his countrywide campaigns for the ODM presidential ticket at the Coast where he declared he was not a project of the G7 alliance.

Standard: Favourites Ivorians and Ghana remain on course to play in decider
07 Feb 2012 - The prospects of a dream final for fans of African football remain a possibility after Ghana battled to eliminate Tunisia after extra-time. A final featuring Ivory Coast and Ghana is on everyone's lips here in Libreville, Gabon.

Standard: Shah wins first leg of KCB Golf Tour in Thika
07 Feb 2012 - Royal Nairobi Golf Club professional Anil Shah picked up from where he left last year to win the first leg of this year's KCB Golf Tour held at the par 72 Thika Sports Club at the weekend.

Standard: Gor Mahia coach spoilt for choice when naming squad
07 Feb 2012 - Twelve times Kenyan Premier League (KPL) champions Gor Mahia coach Annaba Awono has admitted that he already has a headache in picking his first team.

Standard: Giresse defends his tactics after Gabon win
07 Feb 2012 - Mali coach Alain Giresse has rubbished the notion that he beat Gabon because of his inside knowledge of the Panthers having been their coach of four years.

Standard: Chepngetich tops South Rift championships
07 Feb 2012 - World youth champion Faith Chepngetich was the toast of the moment when she stirred the South Rift Provincial Cross-Country Championships in Naivasha at the weekend.

Standard: Kisumu RFC humiliate Nondies to leap out of bottom position
07 Feb 2012 - Impala RFC went home humiliated after a demoralising 26-20 loss at to Mean Machine at the University of Nairobi in a Kenya Cup encounter on Saturday.

Standard: What next for Nairobi Securities Exchange?
07 Feb 2012 - The below-par performance of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has generated huge discomfort within the investing fraternity with pundits remaining indecisive on time-lines surrounding its recovery.

Standard: Retirees stare at old age poverty
07 Feb 2012 - It is tragic that a large majority of Kenyans presently engaged in gainful employment and other income generating activities could sink into poverty when they retire.

Standard: Row brews between Orion and Agriculture ministry over pesticide
07 Feb 2012 - A row is brewing between Orion East Africa Ltd and the ministry of Agriculture over the use of its pesticide.

Standard: Who bled our shilling?
07 Feb 2012 - Fresh details have emerged over foreign currency transactions by banks when the shilling lost much of its value against hard currencies.

Standard: Aromatic therapy for depression
07 Feb 2012 - Contrary to what many people think, depression is an illness and if not contained, life can become unbearable.

Standard: Challenges abound for HIV-positive children
07 Feb 2012 - Young Peter throws his ball along the narrow dark alley that separates one row of houses from the other, every now and then he runs back to the house to take a gulp of cold water. "He is an active child and he takes a lot of water. If only food was sufficient then I wouldn't have to worry too much," explains Kacheri Muthiora, his grandmother.

Standard: Majority support ICC suspects' resignation from public office - survey
07 Feb 2012 - A new survey by pollster Ipsos-Synovate has found that 80 percent of Kenyans support the decision by Uhuru Kenyatta and Francis Muthaura to "step aside" following confirmation of their post-election violence charges by the International Criminal Court.

Standard: She gets her hands dirty in a 'man's world'
07 Feb 2012 - When you drive into a car wash station, you expect young men to come to you like bees offering to clean your car and make it as good as new.

Standard: State to use Sh3.2b to revive post-poll cases
07 Feb 2012 - The government is set to spend over Sh3.2 billion to restart 5,000 post-election violence cases, lying dormant at the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for the last four years.

Standard: Markets regulator forms interim board to run CMC
07 Feb 2012 - The ongoing boardroom wrangles at listed auto dealer, Cooper Motors Corporation (CMC) Holdings Limited, could be coming to an end. The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to clean house at the firm by appointing an interim board to run the firm's affairs.

Standard: Saitoti warns politicians against dragging Kibaki name into ICC trials
07 Feb 2012 - Internal Security minister George Saitoti has warned politicians against dragging President Kibaki's name in the ongoing International Criminal Court (ICC) debate.

Standard: Mudavadi: I'm not Uhuru, Ruto project
07 Feb 2012 - Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi will not abandon the Orange Democratic Party even if he fails to become its presidential candidate.

Standard: Ocampo takes on Uhuru, Muthaura
07 Feb 2012 - The Hague Prosecutor has put up a spirited fight against points raised by Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Francis Muthaura in seeking clearance to appeal against commitment to full trial.

Standard: Cleric's bid to stop politicking at funeral flops
07 Feb 2012 - A burial ceremony in Teso North District was brought to a standstill after a bishop tried to lock out politicians from addressing mourners.

Standard: URP launches recruitment drive to beat parties Act's deadline
07 Feb 2012 - The newly formed United Republican Party associated with MPs allied to presidential hopeful William Ruto has embarked on aggressive recruitment drive.

Standard: Wiper to enlist help of electoral body during party polls
07 Feb 2012 - Wiper Democratic Party may use the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to preside over party nominations.

Standard: Mutula to send 'mutilated' graft law back to House for change
07 Feb 2012 - Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo took a swipe at MPs for frustrating the fight against corruption.

Standard: Two killed over mobile phone theft
07 Feb 2012 - Two people were killed in Mombasa County over a stolen mobile phone.

Standard: NGO worker charged with defrauding public Sh10.2m
07 Feb 2012 - A worker of a Non-Governmental Organisation has been arraigned in a Kisumu court charged with obtaining money fraudulently.

Standard: Court bars police from arresting MP
07 Feb 2012 - Moyale legislator Mohamud Mohamed Ali has obtained temporary orders restraining police from arresting him.

Standard: High Court blocks inspection of private labs
07 Feb 2012 - Owners of private hospitals got a reprieve on Monday when the High Court ordered the Kenya Medical Laboratory, Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB) to stop inspecting their facilities.

Standard: Naivasha pastor defends move to take another wife
07 Feb 2012 - A pastor, who was involved in the weekend wedding drama in Naivasha, defended his move, saying he had separated with the woman who tried to disrupt the ceremony.