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…
A new global data from the World Health Organization (WHO) released on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day, revealed that people under the age of 25 years contribute an estimated 38
per cent of reported voluntary blood donations.
…
Park Yong-ha, a Korean actor and singer whose co-starring role in "Winter Sonata" catapulted him to Asia-wide fame, was found dead at his home
in Seoul on Wednesday in what appeared to be a suicide.
Police said the 33-year-old's body…
The mentally challenged man who struck Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the face was acquitted of aggravated assault charges.
Judge Luisa Savoia sentenced Massimo Tartaglia, 42, to one year's probation and ordered that he
rema…
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Oaxaca state shook parts of southern Mexico early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The 6-mile-deep earthquake was about 25 miles northeast of Pinotepa Nacional, 48 miles east-
southeast of Ome…
U.S. President Obama will renew his push for immigration reform this year after the November election, using a speech Thursday to plead his case, aides said.
Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Tuesday to discuss a…
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Atwima-Mponua, Mrs Theresa Adomako Tawiah, has said there was the need for a united campaign to help bring down child labour particularly in the
farming areas.
All stakeholders, she said, m…
Vetiver plants can absorb large quantities of heavy metals from industrial waste and in the process protect ground water from getting contaminated, a duo of researchers at Kerala University have claimed in a recent study.
In a paper…
The Police at Nsawam Police have arrested a gang of three men for allegedly kidnapping, detaining, and raping a 17-year-old Junior High School girl at Noka near Nsawam.
Nsawam District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Polic…
Mrs Beatrice Tetteh, dealer in shoes at Tema Station in Accra, on Tuesday said prices of goods had not been increased in anticipation of the implementation of the Single Spine Salary (SSSS) on Thursday, July 1.
She said that prices o…
Dr Samuel Donkor, President of the All Nations University (ANU), said the level of work ethics at institutions of higher learning needed to be raised if the country was to see an improvement in productivity.
He said the development o…
The Leadership of Christ Embassy Ghana would on Republic Day, Thursday July 1, distribute more than one million copies of the daily devotional and Bible study-guide: Rhapsody of Realities, throughout the country.
A statement made ava…
The First Lady, Ernestina Naadu Mills on Tuesday called for intensified efforts to improve the health needs of women who sacrificed a lot during their lifetime and contribute to the country's economy.
"The least we can do to apprecia…
A 20-year old ex-convict has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for stealing items valued at GH�2,395.90, belonging to a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology …
A circuit court in Cape Coast, on Tuesday sentenced Kojo Mensah, a 24-year old unemployed man, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a 9-year-old primary two girl.
Mensah pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement.
…
Workers in Ho the Volta Regional Capital, on Tuesday resolved to support the planned demonstration of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in opposition to the recent hikes in utility tariffs.
At the close of an emergency meeting of the …
A 20-year-old unemployed man from Afumkrom near
Nsawam, was on Monday jailed six months with hard labour for stealing a goat valued at GH�100.
Yaw Apeletey pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing.
Inspector Anthony Oppong …
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Tuesday acquitted and discharged a 22-year-old auto electrician apprentice for an alleged defilement.
Ruling on his appeal, the court noted that Seth Miller pleaded guilty to a non-existent offence.
…
President Barack Obama unveiled a new national space policy designed to strengthen US' leadership in space and putting emphasis on greater cooperation with India.
Shortly after the policy was announced Monday, White House officials …
Naxal violence has claimed the lives of over 10,000 civilian and security personnel in the last five years with significant rise in the number of killings in Left-wing extremism-hit States.
Out of a total of 10,268 casualties betwee…
The leadership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), has directed workers to start wearing red arm bands between now and the July 13th deadline labour has given to Government to ensure downward review of utility tariffs.
This is to send a …