The 55th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has opened in New York with a call on member states not to postpone action for the promotion of gender equality and women empowerment until better conditions prevailed.
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Decentralization of Ghana’s educational system takes-off fully this year with the inauguration of three major structures under the new Education Act (Act 778), Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Education Minister, said on Friday.
She said the …
U.N. economic sanctions on North Korea have created an unintended public health crisis in the impoverished communist state, a scientist said Thursday, urging the international community to revive humanitarian aid to the North.
"Economi…
In season seven of Who Do You Think You Are, nine celebrities trace their family trees to explore the lives of their ancestors and uncover major themes in British social history.
Who Do You Think You Are? tells the story of Britain throug…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday urged the international community to take advantage of the sound economic climate in Ghana to step up investment.
He was speaking at the Osu Castle when he played host to a delegation from the…
Professor William Otoo Ellis, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has invited entrepreneurs to forge stronger partnership with the University’s Business School to help address the demands of i…
An industrial and technology fair (INDUTECH) would be held in Kumasi from April 13- April 20 to showcase the industrial potential of the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions.
The fair is being organised by the Ghana Investment Promotion C…
A team from IBM, an international technology and consultancy company, will arrive in the country this weekend to work with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to modernize its computer systems to improve electricity supply.
The te…
The Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition (GTLC) on Friday launched a monitoring and evaluation system on agriculture at Nyariga, a farming community in the Bolgatanga Municipality, of the Upper East Region.
It would provide farmers a…
South Korea is closely monitoring oil price movements in a bid to better cope with any possible supply disruptions here amid deepening concerns that the unrest in the Middle East could send crude prices even higher, a senior finance minist…
South Korea's e-commerce sales jumped in the fourth quarter of last year as consumer sentiment improved amid rebounding economic conditions, a government report showed Friday.
Cyberspace sales amounted to 229.93 trillion won (US$203.6 …
South Korean and Japanese businessmen joined forces Friday to urge their countries' governments to begin talks for a free trade agreement and efforts to address the widening trade imbalance between the two.
The joint call came from the…
Indian economy is poised to grow by 9 per cent in 2011-12 despite risks of global events like volatility in commodity prices, exacerbated by political turmoil in the middle east, according to Economic Survey.
The Survey for 2010-11, t…
The Economic Survey Friday pegged India's agriculture sector growth at 5.4 per cent this fiscal, as against 0.4 per cent in the previous year.
The Survey also called for a "Second Green Revolution with technological breakthrough in …
India received USD 3.2 billion in private remittances from the United States in 2009, almost the same as China, a new Congressional report has said.
In 2009, 10 countries accounted for over USD 32 billion, or about 40 per cent, of n…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday inaugurated Mr Ken Kanda, immediate past Director of State Protocol, as Ghana's Ambassador
and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
He administered the Oath of Office, Oath of All…
Mr Isaac Adawele Atesige,Second Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in charge of Upper East Region, has announced his intention to contest the party’s primaries for the Chiana-Paga
Constituency.
In that case the 36-year-o…
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik said Friday that his government "never" has considered reunification with North Korea through absorption despite protracted military tensions between the two sides.
"The North Korea policy of t…
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang could visit South Korea this year as part of high-level exchange visits between the two countries, a diplomatic source said Friday.
Seoul has extended an invitation to Li, and China is positively conside…
South Korea and the United States on Friday conducted a joint air force drill to enhance their coordination in search and rescue for pilots stranded after an emergency bailout on enemy soil, officials said.
The drill, held in South Kor…
South Korean ambassadors to Cameroon, D.R. Congo and Nigeria said that the continent of Africa is "the last market" for South Korea to reach out to, thanks to its wealth of energy and natural resources.
In an interview with Yonhap News…
A South Korea-chartered flight left for Libya on Friday to evacuate hundreds of South Koreans from the turmoil-laden country, the foreign ministry said, after delays due to congestion in the Libyan airport and other problems.
The Egypt…
The United States said Thursday it will continue to raise North Korea's uranium enrichment program in the international arena to pressure the regime to take permanent steps toward denuclearization.
"Just because at one moment one step …
The Obama Administration Friday appeared to be moving ahead with proposals to impose sanctions on the authoritarian Gaddafi regime of Libya which
has been using lethal force against its own people resulting in hundreds of casualties.
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US President Barack Obama has welcomed the decision of the Algerian government to lift emergency after 19 years and termed it as a significant step towards listening the concerns of its people.
"This is a positive sign that the Govern…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would travel to Geneva next week to address a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council and mobilize the international community against the Gaddafi regime of Libya which has been using lethal force again…
Stating that arrested American national Raymond Davis is a diplomat of the US Embassy, the White House Friday asked Pakistan to release him in accordance with the Vienna Convention which provides him the diplomatic immunity.
"Davis wa…
Africans Remember Major Quashigah Today, As Continent Marks Another Anniversary Of Africa Healthy Lifestyle Day.
Ghana has always set the pace in Africa’s Advancement. Many Ghanaians have helped in making this dream a reality. The Likes o…
Half way through the Airtel Freedom to Dream promotion, one of the ultimate winners, Mr. Abbas Mohammad, an engineer, has picked the first of the GHC 25,000 cash prizes, making him the highest winner so far.
Mr. Abbas, a Pakistani current…
Set to boost the connectivity to the Middle East, Africa and Europe by offering enhanced capacity, redundancy and network resilience
• Lands in Bharti airtel’s landing station in India (Mumbai)
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The Chairman and entire staff of Happy FM, The Number one sports station heartily congratulates Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi on his election unto the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). As the No. 1 Sports Station in…
The Lands Court, a Division of the High Court, on Thursday dismissed an application filed by the Lands Commission (LC) against F.K.A. Company in connection with 95.2 acres of land situated at new Weija.
The court also dismissed an in…
The Accra Fast Track High Court hearing the Ya-Na murder case on Thursday had to adjourn sitting because the defence had not been served with the prosecution’s response to the defence “application for no case”.
The defence at an earl…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday announced that government would renegotiate with the Cuban government for the posting of the
country’s medical brigade to Ghana.
He said the programme which was truncated a few years ago …
Dr Akwasi Osei, Chief Psychiatrist, on Thursday called for the immediate passage of the Mental Health Bill into law to help ensure adequate funding for mental health care delivery.
According to him the three psychiatric hospitals cur…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday called on Gonja chiefs and traditional elders to desist from settling their scores in the law
courts, which he said was alien to the traditional practices of Gonjaland.
He said althoug…
Dr Iyabo Olusanmi, Country Representative of UNICEF, has called on health workers to ensure that they reached out to the vulnerable and deprived population in the poorest areas.
She urged them to design thorough research communicatio…
Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO scientists have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which could be used as
a lunar base by astronauts for inter-planetary missions.
Scientists at the Space Applications Centr…
North Korea has reported to a global animal health agency that it had suffered a total of 48 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) since Christmas last year.
The impoverished socialist state made the report to the Paris-based World…
Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik said Thursday that the government was to blame for the uncontrolled spread of foot-and-mouth disease across the country, citing poor quarantine measures in the early stages.
"As a result, the government sho…
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy left for Washington on Thursday for talks on the North Korean nuclear standoff after China blocked the U.N. Security Council from adopting a report denouncing Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.
Wi…
A South Korea-chartered flight will bring hundreds of the country's nationals out of Libya on Thursday, an official said, as a growing number of people seek to flee escalating anti-government unrest in the African nation.
The Egypt Air…
Government Thursday decided to immediately commence evacuation of Indians from Libya by sea
and air in view of the "sharp and unprecedented deterioration" in the situation in the African nation which is witnessing anti-government protests…
A 114-year-old woman in Guri, currently the oldest living person in South Korea, has asked the national recordkeeping agency to help her seek the world's oldest living person title in the Guinness Book of World Records, a local government …
Rescuers on Thursday discovered the body of a female officer as well as the wreckage of a Coast Guard helicopter that went missing with five crew members on board Wednesday night near waters off the southern resort island of Jeju, official…
The culture ministry said Thursday that the government is planning to designate 2012 as the "National Year of Reading" in a bid to further promote the culture of reading among the public.
Unveiling its 2011 plans on the publishing indu…
Rescuers have discovered objects believed to be the wreckage of a Coast Guard helicopter that went missing with five crew members on board Wednesday night near waters off the southern resort island of Jeju, officials said Thursday.
The…
Four in 10 South Koreans think that Japan's claim to the easternmost South Korean islets of Dokdo is the most serious historical problem facing South Korea, a poll showed Thursday.
In the survey of 637 adults nationwide by job portal S…
The Bahraini government on Wednesday announced the release of 308 prisoners following the orders by the leadership.
Among those released are 23 terrorist suspects, who were charged to be a part of a cell aimed to jeopardize state security…
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (PSC-AU) on Wednesday strongly deplored the unfortunate tragic loss of life in Libya.
The statement was made at a press briefing after the PSC meeting held on Libya at the AUC headquarte…
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