A teenage American boy says he is traveling to North Korea this week with a letter urging leader Kim Jong-il to allow the creation of a peace forest that would grow over the heavily armed border between the Koreas.
"You may be wonderin…
The DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival will be held in a border town next month, screening 74 documentaries from around the world with the themes of peace, family and the environment, organizers said Tuesday.
The nascent fes…
No South Koreans have been reported injured in an earthquake that struck the South Pacific island of Vanuatu Tuesday, the foreign ministry said.
A 7.5 magnitude quake occurred in waters some 46 kilometers off Vanuatu's capital of Port …
A number of ancient burial monuments including a dozen of cist graves, have been recovered at a rubber plantation in Vadakkencherry in south Indian state Kerala.
The remains are found buried in the undulating landscape of the planta…
Monder Ram, an Indian-origin professor of Small Business at the De Montfort University in Leicester, has been appointed to the new government advisory group to shape best practice for equality and diversity.
The Department for Busines…
Indian-American Noshir S Gowadia, a former B-52 stealth bomber engineer, faces life imprisonment after a US federal jury convicted him of selling sensitive cruise missile technology and other classified informations to China.
Th…
A Briton, who killed two Indian-origin businessmen in London in 2003 and figures in the most wanted list of Scotland Yard, has been arrested in Dhaka and efforts are being made to seek his extradition to Britain.
Ayab Khan (27), is co…
In the wake of growing elephant-human conflicts reported in the forest borders, the Kerala Wildlife Department has decided to erect solar fencing to protect people from elephant menace.
The fencing work is planned to be completed wi…
A US district court has issued a 'default order' against Indian Transport Minister Kamal Nath for his failure to respond to summons in connection with a civil suit filed here concerning his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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Zain Ghana has thrown its weight behind yet another laudable educational initiative as it drives to improve the general standard of education in the country particularly in the area of information technology.
The latest project, a brain c…
Zimbabwe’s Munya and Angola’s Tatiana are up for eviction this week after Monday night’s (9 August) nominations on M-Net’s Big Brother All Stars.
Munya finds himself up for eviction for the second week in a row after Sheila saved …
From Monday, 16 to Friday, 20 August, the Late Show with David Letterman will give viewers a second chance to see some of Dave?€?s most entertaining recent interviews, including Sandra Bullock, Adam Sandler, Joan Rivers, Jay-Z, Eminem an…
Ghana on Tuesday signed a cooperative agreement with International Organisation for Migration (IOM), to create a platform for IOM to address migration challenges in the country.
Under the agreement, IOM would efficiently and effectiv…
Mr. Kwadwo Agyei-Dwomor, Nkoranza North District Chief Executive, has said the government would continue to place high premium on education since it is the bedrock of every nation's development.
Mr. Agyei-Dwomor said this when he pr…
The Bishop of the Akyem Oda Diocese of the Methodist Church-Ghana, Right Reverend Colonel Paul Brewu (Retired), has advised national office holders not to yield to excessive demands from relatives, friends and party supporters among others…
Mr Gideon Fianya, Central Regional Coordinator of the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education, on Tuesday appealed to the government to make more funds available to enable the sector to expand its activities natio…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday said he had no regrets for repeal of the Criminal Libel Law under his administration, but stressed that the freedom given to the media must be reciprocated with great responsibility.
He…
The Interior Minister, Mr Martin Amidu, has on the advice of the Upper East Regional Security Council, and by Executive Instrument, reviewed the curfew imposed on the Bawku Municipality and its environs.
A statement signed by the Min…
A United Nations foundation and South Korea on Tuesday donated 5,000 assorted books and furniture to the Nima Cluster of Schools Library to facilitate teaching and learning.
Ms Dho Young-Shim, Ambassador of the United Nations World …
Turn-out at exhibition centres for the voters register at polling stations on the third day has not been encouraging.
A tour by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to some centres revealed that most of the eligible voters were not aware of …
The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (RSC) on Tuesday directed that Homowo should be celebrated by all the people in the Ga State except in areas where there are disputes.
A statement issued by the Greater Accra Regional Coord…
Government has directed all Chief Executive Officers in the Public Sector to set up functional internal audit units by March 2011 despite budgetary constraints.
In addition, the sector is to ensure all outstanding internal and extern…
African and international headlines have been dominated with the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor and his alleged gift of blood diamonds to supermodel Naomi Campbell.
In the 1990s, the African countries of Sierra Leone, …
Tuesday is task day on M-Net’s Big Brother All Stars (DStv Channel 198) and this week, Big Brother has challenged the housemates to audition for a science fiction movie called “Supermodels from Marsâ€.
The housemates will be required…
The Principal of Saint Monica�s College of Education in Asante-Mampong, Mrs Christiana Sobotie, has appealed to the government to do more to promote science and technology education.
She said everything should be done to create…
Members of Alliance for Accountable Governance
(AFAG), a political pressure group, on Wednesday expressed concern about the inability of Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to review
downwards the tariffs.
Mr Abu Ramadan, …
GNA
Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, Okyehene, on
Wednesday called for the re-location of Ministries of Forestry, Land and Natural Resources; Food and Agriculture; and Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) to the hinterland …
The Ashanti Regional Education Director, Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, has urged teachers to stick to professional ethics and work hard to raise academic performance in the schools.
He said they needed to put in more efforts to prepa…
Stakeholders in tomato trade have been asked
to collaborate with researchers to produce varieties of tomato seeds to suit climatic conditions in the Northern part of Ghana so that it could be cultivated all year round.
Mr Mark Woyon…
South Korea will establish a comprehensive
greenhouse gas reduction plan by March so it can take positive steps to help stem global warming, the government said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy said it will create a special …
GS Engineering & Construction Co., South
Korea's fourth-largest builder, said Tuesday it has resumed its stalled project to build an oil refinery facility in Egypt as a group of
international banks decided to provide funding for the proj…
The Indian government has summoned foreign experts to tackle the alarming situation on the Mumbai coast following the oil slick and has asked for a status report from the shipping ministry.
According to PMO sources, Prime Minister M…
Fears that ocean currents were spreading oil from the spill off Mumbai coast when two cargo
ships collided flared Monday after tar balls turned up in some coastal areas towards Raigarh, about 100 km from here.
Scientists at Bombay …
Foreign experts have been called in to limit the damage of the oil spill triggered by Saturday's collision between two cargo ships off Mumbai
harbour as the leakage spread to new areas posing a major ecological threat to the city coastlin…
Notwithstanding Japan's decision to cooperate with India in the civil nuclear sector, Prime
Minister Naoto Kan Monday said his government would step up efforts to rope in New Delhi to sign the NPT.
Speaking to the media in Nagasaki…
A satellite-based navigation system to aid air traffic from Southeast Asia to Africa,including over the high seas in the vast region, would be
launched on Tuesday, placing India into a select group of nations which possess such a sophisti…
In commemoration of the annual World Tuberculosis (TB) Day which falls on August 11, six sub metros within the Accra Metropolis collectively organised a free TB and HIV Sensitisation and testing for traders at the Kaneshie Market Complex.
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The Acting Director General of the Ghana Education
Service (GES), Benedicta Naana Biney, on Wednesday, urged second cycle institutions to constitute a Food Safety Committees, to be responsible for matters regarding food safety in schools.…
Sissala Literacy and Development Programme (SILDEP), a local non-governmental organisation, has assisted more than 1,000 women in the Sissala East District of with micro credit facilities to expand their businesses.
The NGO also pro…
The Indian Navy and the Coast Guard carried out anti-pollution operations for the third consecutive day Monday to check and neutralise the oil spill due to a collision between two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast here in western part of th…
Prof Sitsofe E. Anku, President of Ghana Mathematics Society, has called on students to take the study of mathematics serious to ensure efficiency in their daily activities.
"Studying mathematics is not only geared towards examinatio…
An Accra High Court has ordered management of Magnum Force Security Company Limited, an Accra-based security company, to pay GH�1,000 to the management of Ghana News Agency (GNA) following consent judgment given in its favour.
It a…
The Good Women Fellowship of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) International has ended its annual convention with a call on Christian women to bring about changes that would make an impact in their communities.
Apostle Dr Stephen …
Mr Stephen S.B Seidu, the Nkoranza South District Coordinator of the National Service Scheme, has advised personnel of the scheme to lead decent lives to command respect in the communities.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on…
Afrikids Ghana, an NGO working for the welfare of children, has taken custody of 155 children out of 658, who were engaged in mining in the Talensi Nabdam District and sent them to school.
One hundred and twenty five of the children …
The Bishop of the Cape Coast Methodist Diocese, Right Reverend Nicholas K. Asane, on Saturday advised the youth to be patient and not to rush, in their quest to make it in life, because this could jeopardize their future.
He exhorted…
A five-member Audit Report Implementation Committee, set up by the Nkoranza South District Assembly to ensure that government's policies and programmes are efficiently and effectively carried out in the district, has been inaugurated at Nk…
Childreach International and Ibis, both non
governmental organisations, are sponsoring 250 volunteer teachers through the Untrained Teachers� Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE) to augment the pupil-teacher ratio in three districts of th…
A research conducted by Adam Research Centre, an Accra-based Consultancy firm, has indicated that about 25 percent of break ups in love relationships in Ghana were caused by suspicious phone calls and text messages.
It said 33 percen…
Governments in Africa and Asia must embrace and plan for rapid urbanization or risk harming the future prospects of hundreds of millions of their citizens with knock-on effects worldwide, a study warns.
A research published by the In…