The Thai government plans to seek loans worth of 15 billion baht (422.89 million U.S. dollars) from foreign financial institution to boost the country's tourism industry, which has been hard hit by the recent political crisis, Kobsak Sabha…
Dr Kwabena Duffour, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has appealed to mining companies to support the economy by increasing the percentage of foreign exchange earnings retained in the country in the light of the global financial c…
The Speaker, Justice Joyce Bamford-Addo, on Monday said the Speaker wielded a lot of power under the Standing Orders of Parliament, but she would endeavour to discharge her duty and make rulings with a human touch.
She said both side…
Chile and Peru continue to have normal bilateral relations despite a lawsuit over a maritime border dispute filed by Peru at the Hague-based International Court of Justice, a Chilean government official said Sunday.
"We have always…
Israel will pause Monday night in memory of the six million Jews who perished from 1933 to 1945, as the Jewish state marks the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The annual state ceremony which ushers in the start of the 24- hour …
Japan will never possess nuclear weapons, said top government spokesman Monday, dismissing recent suggestion of going nuclear posed by former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa.
"There is no doubt that we will continue firmly mainta…
The people of Essam in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region have reiterated their call for the
Municipal Assembly and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to supply
the town with electricity.
Mr. Reginald Sackey…
There is wide jubilation at Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District over President John Evans Atta Mills' nomination of Mr Peter Light Koomson as District Chief Executive for the area.
The area had been in a state of ecstasy since Mr Koomson's …
The Catholic primary school, which serves eight cluster communities forming Dzogborve at South Tongu District in the Volta Region has been in a deplorable state for almost five years.
The building, which was constructed about 38 years…
Kofi Dadzie, a farmer and an epileptic patient, who accused and attacked another epileptic patient of being the cause of his (Dadzie) ailment, has been remanded by the Akim Swedru circuit court in the Eastern Region.
Dadzie, 29, plea…
The Apam District Head of the church of Pentecost, Pastor Williams Ofori-Attah, has appealed to Ghanaians to be moderate in their lifestyles so as to support government's effort towards reducing poverty.
In his sermon to climax a fou…
The Akim Swedru circuit court in the Birim South District, has remanded in prison custody, two friends for allegedly possessing a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Kofi Atta, a trader and Kwaku Asabre, a miner, wh…
The media should focus more on developmental issues rather than discussing what some personalities say or do, Mr Anthony Kweku Tackie-Otoo, Assembly Member for Akyemfo Electoral Area of Gomoa West District, has urged.
"Use air time a…
The Reverend Salomey Amoakoah Adiyiah, Head Pastor of the Church of Light Mission Ghana, has challenged Christians to maintain high moral standards in their endeavours.
This, she said, would strengthen them to be more committed and dedic…
Alhaji Yakubu Ayana, a Tamale-based philanthropist on Saturday organised a massive clean-up exercise in the metropolis.
He led the residents including Naa Mohammed Alhassan Dawuni, Chief of Tamale (Dakpema) for the six-hour exercise…
Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) has donated
chemicals and spraying machines worth over 10,000 Ghana cedis to the
Health Directorate of the Accra Metropolitan Authority.
The donation is in support of the directorate's malaria prevent…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has stated that it was committed to eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2015.
Mr Joseph Manteaw, Head of Human Resource Management and Development (HRMD) Unit of the …
At least 17 civilians were killed Monday morning in a suicide explosion launched by Tamil Tiger rebels in the no fire zone (NFZ) declared by the Sri Lankan government for war trapped civilians in the north, the military said.
The M…
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) is to put up a GH¢ 12,000.00 guest house to serve the hospitality needs of members and the public.
The 30-room guest house to be situated at Osu would have dinning halls, offices, conference roo…
The chiefs and elders of Sekyere-Kontonkyi in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ashanti Region have said it was a historical fact that the present day land which is being occupied by the people of Asante Mampong was given to them by the…
Mr Paul Adu-Gyamfi, Chairman of the National Media Commission, on Monday said the restructuring process of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) must be completed and brought to full closure by end of year.
He therefore charged th…
Dr George Sipa Yankey, Minister of Health, on Monday called for a focused approach towards the implementation of the policies
and programmes of the Ministry of Health (MOH).
He said Ghana was still lacking behind in its
effort t…
The Executive Committee of the Sustainable Tree Crops Programme (STCP) partnership begins a meeting in the Ivorian commercial capital, Abidjan, on Monday to assess its performance over the years and deliberate on issues facing the cocoa ec…
An unidentified animal has been found in Tamghas, some 205 km west of capital Katmandu, Nepali national news agency RSS reported on Monday.
The wild beast weighing three km and measuring 108 cm in length from head to tail was found…
Mrs Christina Omane-Acheamfuor, wife of a retired Methodist Bishop, has suggested psychological assessment of commercial drivers who apply for driving license and those found to have low value for human lives refused the license.
Sh…
Mr Charles Oduro Acheampong, Assembly Member for Kaasi Electoral Area in the Kumasi metropolis, has entreated organizations and corporate bodies especially timber firms operating in the area, to fulfil their social responsibilities to the …
The Right-Reverend Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has admonished the government in power to account for its stewardship every year.
He explained that this was necess…
Three people were wounded in a home-made bomb explosion inside a passenger bus in south Philippines on Monday, a local official said.
The Rural Transit Incorporated bus, with license plate number KVS700, was leaving a depot in Kaba…
An officer of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was slightly injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on him in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, local media reported.
The firing took place near Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier P…
One of two British hostages, Mr. Robin Barry, held by the Nigerian Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the most prominent militant group in the country, had been freed on Sunday in the country's oil region, MEND said i…
Two improvised bombs exploded near a town bridge in southern Philippine city of Iligan early Monday morning, the military said.
Maj Randolph Cabangbang, spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Eastern Mindanao Command, tol…
A Hamas spokesman on Monday denied accusations by an international rights group that its movement has killed tens of political rivals and collaborators with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
In a new report issued Monday, the New York-base…
Government is to set up a fertilizer manufacturing firm as part of a re-engineering of the agriculture sector, with the long-term goal of saving one billion cedis expended annually on importing six food items, Vice President John Dramani M…
President John Evans Atta Mills, has called on Ghanaians to assist government in eradicating child slavery and trafficking in the country.
He said a lot of work had been done to promote children's rights by human rights agencies and orga…
New Zealand has agreed to a proposal by the United States for limits on tourism in Antarctica, according to media reports on Sunday.
Measures to protect the ecosystem of the continent were tabled by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary …
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit the sea area off the Pacific island nation of Fiji on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake occurred at 05:49 a.m. Fiji local time (1749 GMT on Saturday)…
One of the biggest winners at the ongoing fifth Summit of the Americas turned out to be a decades-old book about Latin America's colonial past.
The "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Urug…
The Egyptian Health Ministry said Sunday that a baby girl aged one year and a half has contracted bird flu virus, bringing the human cases of the fatal avian influenza to 66 in the populous country.
The girl, Ibrahim al-Manar who c…
In a bid to bring down child mortality rate, the Ministry of Health (MoH) is planning to vaccinate all children under five years of age against pneumonia and meningitis from June/July in Nepal.
According to Monday's The Katmandu Po…
India's all-weather defense surveillance satellite - radar imaging satellite (RISAT-2) - and the micro education satellite Anusat were successfully placed in orbit by an Indian rocket that flew from spaceport of Sriharikota in South India'…
Adwoa Nyarkoa, 50, a farmer charged with three counts of assault, torture and degrading treatment, has been admitted to a GH¢300 bail by the Akim Swedru Circuit court in the Birim South District of the Eastern Region.
She pleaded not…
Several identifiable groups in the Cape Coast Metropolis including members of Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), personnel of Ghana National Fire Service, market associations and Zoomlion on Saturday undertook a five- hour clean-u…
Some 13,121 final year candidates from 274 public and private junior high schools in the Tema Metropolis and Ashaiman Municipality on Monday started writing the 2009 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The five-day examinat…
The Minister for Transport, Mr Mike Hammah on Monday visited two examination centres, consisting of 19 schools with 1,203 candidates, taking part in the BECE at the Winneba Senior High School.
Mr Hammah who is also the Member of Parli…
Two teenage nursing mothers and two pregnant pupils were among candidates taking the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Ho Municipality.
One of the two nursing mothers, who is 13 years old from Dededo, told the Gha…
Out of 9,126 Junior High School students, who registered for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Upper West Region this year, 9,056 of them turned up for the examination, which began in 33 centres in the region this m…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday promised that Government would make every effort to complete the new Faculty of Law Building at the University of Ghana, Legon, started 10 years ago, and equip it with cutting-edge gadgets.
…
A researcher of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Yeboah Woode, has invented a new kiln machine to burn cocoa pod husks into ash for potassium carbonate manufacture.
Potassium carbonate is a chemical wh…
A five-day training Programme for physicists and engineers in the health sector was opened on Monday with a call on participants to adopt both preventive and maintenance habits to avoid rampant breakdown of hospital equipment.
The w…
Ghana and Japan on Monday signed a 13.3 million Ghana cedi Grant as part of Japan's support for Food Aid in the three Northern regions hit by flood in 2007.
The aid is to be delivered in the form of rice supply before the end of 2009.…
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