The Eastern Regional Police Command has denied media reports that the Effiduase Police near Koforidua subjected a 96 year old woman to severe interrogation and beating resulting in her death.
This was contained in a press release by…
The Eastern Regional Police Command on Tuesday arrested five young men suspected to be armed robbers.
The five include Blaise Andoh, 39, a caterpillar operator with Vision Quarries of Sunyani, Abdu Jafaru, 23, unemployed and Michael …
Worlanyo Andrews, 17, a Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidate of the Akpafu-Adokor E. P. Junior High School and his father, Mr Seth Kugbeadzor, 65, died when their motorbike collided with a bus on Sunday at Lolobi-Kumasi…
The West Africa Network for Peace-building is
joining its partners in the Africa Alliance for Peace-building (AfAP) to observe Wednesday's elections in South Africa, a statement from WANEP
released in Accra on Monday said.
AfAP w…
Madam Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, on Monday visited some of examination centres in Gomoa East, West and Mfantseman West Districts, and Cape Coast Metropolis to encourage candidates writing this year's Basic Education Certif…
A Kumasi circuit Court on Monday remanded the proprietor and headmaster of Christ the King International Junior High School in custody for failing to register 106 final students of the school for this year's Basic Education Certificate Exa…
Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has urged candidates writing this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) not to panic but approach the examination with the same determination when they write their end of y…
Dr. Kwesi Bowi Darkwa, president of Ghana Veterinary Medical Association (GVMA) on Tuesday called on government to establish a separate institution under the Ministry of Agriculture to enable the veterinary service to perform its core func…
The West Africa Network for Peace-building is
joining its partners in the Africa Alliance for Peace-building (AfAP) to observe Wednesday's elections in South Africa, a statement from WANEP
released in Accra on Monday said.
AfAP w…
Madam Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, on Monday visited some of examination centres in Gomoa East, West and Mfantseman West Districts, and Cape Coast Metropolis to encourage candidates writing this year's Basic Education Certif…
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…
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…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Monday night for the United States and Germany where he will attend separate high-level meetings on reform of the World Bank and improvement in land administration in Africa.
A stateme…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has expressed worry about the delays in the completion of projects and the shoddy work done by some contractors for public basic schools in the region.
Mr Francis Boateng, Regional …
An Islamic teacher said the perception by some Muslims that people of other religions are enemies of Islam is a misconception and contrary to the teachings of the Koran.
Brother Baba Adam, also founder of Islamic Centre for Computeri…
This year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) started smoothly at the various centres in the Kumasi Metropolis.
Candidates were busily writing the English Paper when the Ghana News Agency visited most of the centres amid…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Mr Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, in collaboration with ZoomLion and some opinion leaders, have undertaken a clean-up exercise at Abbosey Okai as part of activitie…
The West African Centre for the Advancement of African Peer Review Mechanism (WACAA) was on Monday formed as a sub-regional body to enhance policies, standards and norms to promote regional co-operation and integration.
The Centre, t…
Mr Eric Opoku, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister at the weekend appealed to religious bodies to partner the new government to facilitate the pace of national development.
He noted that even though religious institutions did not en…
Eight female candidates writing the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE), at Yefri Junior High School centre in Nkoranza District in the Brong Ahafo are pregnant.
This came to light when the Nkoranza District Director of …
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has expressed worry about the delays in the completion of projects and the shoddy work done by some contractors for public basic schools in the region.
Mr Francis Boateng, Regional …
Some 106 stranded students of the Christ the King Junior High School at Ayigya in Kumasi, whose registration fees in respect of this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) were misappropriated by the school authorities, on M…
Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, South Korea's top carmaker, is recalling 48,636 vehicles of its 10 models as problems with their brake lights were detected, South Korea's Korea Times reported Monday.
Vehicles subject to the recall in…
Vietnam Food Association said that Vietnam has so far this year exported 1.82 million tons of rice, bringing in export turnover of 736.66 million U.S. dollars, up 70 percent in volume and 80 percent in value against the same period last ye…
The world's largest industrial fair opened here on Sunday evening, showcasing latest industrial technologies, materials and product ideas.
The Hanover Fair was jointly declared opened on Sunday evening by German President Horst Koe…
Ghana is joining the world to celebrate the 90th anniversary, this year, of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), beginning with a series of activities from Tuesday.
The anniversary is being observed in Ghana by the ILO's proje…
Indonesian telecommunication company, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), dominates the international call market in the country, a Telkom official said here Monday.
Telkom's Marketing Communication and Public Affairs VP Eddy Kur…
Indonesian capital market retains its position as the third most optimistic market in Asia Pacific region in the first quarter this year, but investors still take cautious stance to invest in the country, a survey revealed here.
T…
South Korea is expected to show the fastest recovery pace among the world's major economies as output and foreign liquidity expand, a report showed Monday.
According to the report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De…
The International Monetary Fund ( IMF) is expected to sharply cut its 2010 growth outlook for South Korea to 1.5 percent amid a protracted global recession, local media said Monday.
According to local daily Munwha Ilbo, the growth…
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has regained the top of the Fortune 500 list of the biggest U.S. publicly traded companies, despite the sharp fall in oil prices.
The list, which was released Sunday, pegs Exxon Mobil's 2008 revenue at a…
JP Morgan Chase & Co., one of the biggest U.S. banking groups, has survived the current financial crisis largely unscathed as the company announced better-than-expected first quarter results.
In a recent interview with Xinhua, Fan…
South Korean listed firms' debts soared 39 percent in 2008 from a year earlier amid cash squeeze triggered by an economic slump, the Korea Exchange (KRX) said Monday.
The total debts of 552 listed firms amounted to 118.36 trillion …
Expansion of Cambodia's rubber cultivation will lose momentum by an estimated 61 percent in 2009 year-on-year, said government figures released here on Monday.
An additional 10,000 hectares of rubber trees would be planted in 2009 …
Tokyo stocks rose slightly Monday on bargain hunting.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 17.17 points, or 0.19 percent, from Friday to 8,924.75.
The broader Topic index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Ex…
The U.S. dollar traded at the lower 99 yen level early Monday in Tokyo, higher than its levels in New York late last Friday.
At 9 a.m., the dollar changed hands at 99.32-37 yen against 99. 08-18 yen in New York and 99.39-41 yen in …
The Ugandan government has suspended seminars by the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Karamoja to allow local leaders to concentrate on food production.
"We have suspended all seminars in Karamoja till July to allow leaders…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will make a 72 million U.S. dollar loan to central Thanh Hoa province of Vietnam to help develop and upgrade key urban infrastructure and services, the Vietnam News reported Monday.
The loan will be…
The global economic meltdown has an adverse impact on major labor destinations of Nepali workers, but the Nepali foreign employment sector has seen only nominal effects so far, official statistics indicates.
The data compiled recen…
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…
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