China announced that security was tightened in Urumqi for Saturday's first anniversary of deadly ethnic riots in the northwestern capital.
Official reports said about 200 people died in the riots last July in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang-U…
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top automaker, introduced the 2011 model of its hybrid compact sedan, the Avante LPi, on Wednesday as the first of its new lineup to help bring up its domestic and overseas sales.
The 2011 Avante LPi Hy…
Workers of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in the Upper East Region have appealed to the government and service providers to be consistent in service delivery and utility billing.
The workers said at a meeting in Bolgatanga that the i…
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on Wednesday held a remembrance service in Accra to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the three High Court judges who were murdered for upholding the rule of law.
The three High Court judges murdered…
Korean women with college degrees are far less likely to get jobs than their counterparts in other developed countries, with nearly four out
of 10 staying unemployed, data suggested Wednesday.
According to data from the Organization …
Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, said the introduction of the Block-Farming (BF) concept had resulted in 10
percent increase in maize production in the country.
"This direct intervention led to a quantum leap in t…
Heads of prayer camps have been asked to encourage members who report sick of strange diseases to go to hospital for HIV/AIDS Voluntary Testing and Counselling.
The results will enable the camp leaders to know the type of interventio…
Some residents of the Tema Metropolis have lamented
the closure of some major roads due to ongoing construction works in the area.
Roads closed include the stretch linking Tema Community Three through Community Two to the defunct Merid…
An activist of the New Patriotic Party, Bashiru
Mohammed, alias "Red", is to appear before a Tamale court on Friday for possessing firearm without lawful authority and offensive conduct.
He is currently being held by the Northern Re…
Ghana is ready to host the Secretariat of the
Permanent Guinea Current Commission when the decision to transform it from its current interim status, Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology said on We…
An influential Republican lawmaker on Wednesday urged US President Barack Obama to reverse a recent decision of the EXIM Bank against financing
Reliance Power's ultra-mega power project in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh.
The E…
Militants opened fire on unsuspecting national and local police officers in Algeria near the border with Mali Wednesday, killing 11 of them, authorities said.
The ambush by an unidentified terrorist group occurred as the police convoy tra…
A 28-year-old man, Patrick Entsie, who stole a bunch of plantain valued at GH�5.00 at Gyewani-Nkwanta near Akim Ayirebi, in the Eastern Region, has been sentenced to a fine of GH�200.00 by
an at Akim Swedru circuit court.
Entsi…
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Thursday urged the government not to wait for factories and industries to shut down before taking action on the recent upward adjustment in electricity and
water tariffs by the Public Utility Regulatory…
Each year, about 8.8 million children below the age of five years die as a result of diseases that could be avoided with the use of safe essential medicines formulated appropriately for children.
These diseases include diarrhoea and …
Mr. Alban Bagbin, Minister of Water Sources, Works and Housing, on Thursday said government had decided to deal with STX, a Korea company, to provide affordable houses in Ghana because of its credible record.
He said that the huge ho…
Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister,
on Thursday called on people in the region to make suggestions on the management of revenue that would be generated from the oil discovery.
He noted that the people were not united o…
The Dormaa Municipal Officer of the Commission on Human Rights and Administration Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Freeman Ndor has advised pupils and teachers in the Municipality to avoid acts that would expose school girls to violence.
Mr Ndor …
The Northern Child Protection Network (NCPN), a network of organisations seeking the welfare of children, is to develop strategic measures to address challenges facing the growth and development of children.
The Network at its second…
Mr Kwasi Gyan, Nkoranza District School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinator, has urged teachers to encourage their students to wash their hands with soap in school and at home.
He challenged teachers to provide washing basi…
Seoul, the capital of South Korea with a population of around 10.5 million, is Asia's fifth most expensive city to live in, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The poll conducted by U.S.-based consulting company Mercer LLC. showe…
Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, President of 31st December Women's Movement, has stressed the need to encourage boys to go to school to bring a balance in the country's education.
She said "if women constitute 50 per cent of the popul…
Government has donated 50 bicycles and five computers and their accessories to the Eastern Regional Directorate of the Social Welfare Department to facilitate the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.
The bicycles …
The U.S. military in South Korea said Wednesday it will lift a nearly nine-year-old curfew on its service members from Friday.
The curfew has been imposed since days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, in line with curfews se…
South Korean and U.S. forces will be better ready to deter and defeat North Korea's provocations as they delayed Seoul's retaking of wartime operational control (OPCON) over its troops from
Washington, the top U.S. commander here said We…
Every year 2.5 million people world-wide die as a
result of alcohol intake, a resolution adopted recently at the 63rd World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, has declared.
It said out of the number, 320,000 are young peo…
Mr Kwesi Ofei Ofosu-Apea, Director of RIIS Memorial School, on Wednesday stressed the need for the elderly in society to help instil moral and social values in the youth.
He said the youth were at the threshold of a very challenging …
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Council of Labour on Wednesday directed members of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) in the Metropolis to wear red bands to work as the first sign to the
government that the union is serious about i…
Water supply has been restored to the Agona Swedru Government Hospital, Swedru Secondary School and other nearby communities following the disconnected, by the Ghana Water Company (GWCL).
The Company had to disconnect during the recen…
Vodafone Ghana, a telecommunications company, has
launched "Red Alert" Initiative to assist National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to ease the plight of the recent flood victims and deal with other flood related issues country…
Ghana and China are jointly organising celebration of the 50th anniversary of relations between them on Friday, July 2.
A joint statement issued in Accra on Wednesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and …
Ghana is ready to host the Secretariat of the Permanent Guinea Current Commission when the decision to transform it from its current interim status, Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, said on We…
The Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate on Wednesday announced an extension of the H1N1 vaccination for 2009 from Wednesday, June 30, to Friday, July 30.
The exercise began in the Metropolis from the first week of June.
M…
The National Bar Association of the US and Mount City Bar Association of Saint Luis Mission, USA, on Friday donated books valued at 10, 000 dollars to the Akuapem North District Library at Abiriw.
The donation, which was in partnership w…
The Most Reverend Thomas Kwaku Mensah, Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi, has urged Christians to live the Gospel without compromise to make the Church be seen as a citadel of hope
for moral upbringing and discipline.
…
Major Frank Kofi Adzazu of the Ghana Armed Forces has urged school cadet corps not to see themselves as military personnel deployed on campuses to bully other students.
They should rather become an important tool for promoting pea…
The Vice President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has
presented GHc1,000 to the Ancestral Ethnic Friends (AEF), a unity organisation towards its upcoming fun games in Accra.
Mr Rashid Pelpuo, Deputy Majority leader, who made the presentat…
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Council of Labour on Wednesday directed members of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) in the Metropolis to wear red bands to work as the first sign to the
Government that the Union was serious about …
President John Evans Atta Mills, on the occasion
of Ghana's Jubilee as Republic, has charged people in leadership positions to bequeath the youth a strong legacy and sense of belonging to empower them to commit themselves to the national…
Mr Kwesi Ofei Ofosu-Apea, Director of RIIS Memorial School, has stressed the need for the elderly in society to instil moral and social values into the youth.
He said the youth were at the threshold of a challenging future and effort…
Forbes magazine unveiled "The Celebrity 100" in 2010 on Monday. This list is the ranking of the richest and most powerful people in entertainment business all around the world this year.
Renowned talk show host Oprah Winfrey takes back h…
A grenade explosion on Monday night targeted a vehicle belonging to the National Electoral Commission at Ruziba, on the border between Bujumbura Municipality and the Province of Bujumbura Rural in Burundi.
Police sources told local radio …
The Nigerian government has said implementation of poverty alleviation programs aimed at enhancing socioeconomic conditions of families can help in combating child trafficking.
Minister of Women Affairs Josephine Anenih said this on Monda…
The world's anti-poverty gains achieved over the World anti-poverty gains under threat from multiple crises: UN report past years are being eroded by the presence of multiple crises, including an unprecedented economic and financial crisis…
The annual high-level segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) opened here Monday with speakers calling for women and girls to be placed at the centre of the
global struggle to achieve the social and economic ta…
SK Energy Co., South Korea's top refiner, said Wednesday it had agreed with U.S. engineering and construction company KBR Inc. to establish a joint venture to export its chemical processing
technologies.
The 50-50 joint venture, name…
The World Health Organization has called on
governments to ban tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, and to protect women and girls against sickness and suffering caused by tobacco.
It said that most tobacco advertising…
The Sekondi-Takoradi branch of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has said security should be strengthened for judges and their families.
Making the call at a lecture held on Thursday in Takoradi to commemorate the 28th anniversary of t…
The University of Ghana, Legon, on Wednesday sent out a statement informing the general public about recent developments regarding the decision by the University authorities to change the status Commonwealth Hall.
The statement, sign…
Water supply to about 35 communities in the Gomoa West and Gomoa East districts have cut off following the destruction of the main pipeline that carries water to them from the Agona Kwayanko Water Works by flooding that hit the area recent…