Cashew Earns $196m For Ghana In 2016
Cashew has over the years become the leading non-traditional export earner in Ghana’s agriculture sub-sector, contributing $196.7 million in 2016, according to the Ghana Export Promotion Authority...
Day: June 8, 2017
Chinese Apple Staff Suspected of Selling Private Data
Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation run by Apple employees selling computer and phone users' personal data. Twenty-two people have been detained on suspicion...
Debris and Bodies Found After Search
The Burmese army says debris and bodies have been found after a military plane went missing with 122 people on board. Dispersed wreckage was found in the Andaman Sea, the military said in a statement...
Olympics Chief Fred Pappoe Explains Decision To Leave GFA EXCO Position
Former Ghana Football Association vice President Fred Pappoe has explained his decision to relinquish his position as an Executive Committee member. The Football Administrator left his post as the...
Wallabies Drop Skipper Moore For Fiji Test
Skipper Stephen Moore was dropped Thursday for the Wallabies clash against Fiji with veteran hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau preferred in a team featuring two players on their debut including code-hopper...
Durant’s Late Heroics Power Warriors Over Cavaliers
Kevin Durant scored 31 points, seven of them in the closing minutes, and the Golden State Warriors beat Cleveland 118-113 Wednesday, seizing command of the NBA Finals and extending their undefeated...
Hanoi Train Factory Fades From Glory
Built by the French to fix trains for their fast-developing Vietnamese colony, the Gia Lam factory later churned out weapons to fuel the country's independence fight, and then survived the onslaught...
Use the Ramadan To Pray For Peace For Ghana
Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, has appealed to the Muslim community to use the holy month of Ramadan to pray for the peace for the nation. He said peace,...
Blind Malaysian Muslims Study Quran Using Braille
A small community of blind students in Malaysia is attempting to learn the entire Quran, a formidable task that requires them to read each page of the holy text up to 40 times. It may be the fasting...
Leo DiCaprio and Mexican President Vow To Save Porpoise
Leonardo DiCaprio and Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto have vowed to try to save the vaquita marina porpoise, which could be extinct as soon as next year. The pair had clashed briefly last month...
Myanmar Joins Grim List of Global Military Air Disasters
Myanmar's navy on Thursday found bodies and plane debris in the Andaman Sea from an aircraft that was carrying more than 120 passengers, the latest in a grim history of military aviation disasters...
ERCC Orders COA To Stop Advertising Cure For HIV/AIDS
The Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) and the Regional AIDS Committee have ordered the Centre for Awareness (COA), a food supplement marketing firm to stop all adverts on a cure for...
Netflix May Fix Japan Movie-Financing Dilemma
Japan's Cannes prodigy Naomi Kawase believes Netflix can help unleash the creativity of her country's film industry, despite the eruption of a row over the American streaming giant that marred the...
Ghanaians Obsessed With Money
Mone...in the West, one maybe hears the word money four or five times a day. On the streets of Ghana, it can be heard up to 100 times a day. Over time, a separation in peoples' minds has been created...
Myanmar Child Servants Abused As Legal Protections Prove Elusive
Playing with a tiny kitten is the only thing that stops 13-year-old Myat Noe crying as she lies in a Yangon hospital, flesh peeling from where she says her employers burned her with irons and boiling...
Is ECOWAS Validating Gnassingbe Dynasty?
Many African political pessimists had retreats of thought, when Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) assisted in ending the iron-fisted rule of Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh of...
Jared Kushner Is Becoming More Well-Known and More Disliked
The number of people who say they don’t know who Jared Kushner is has decreased, and the number of people who dislike him has increased since April, according to a new poll. Kushner, the husband of...
Concussed Coles Could Miss Lions Tests
All Blacks coach Steven Hansen said star hooker Dane Coles could miss the British and Irish Lions series with concussion as he included a number of injured players in a 33-man squad on Thursday....
North Korea Fires Anti-Ship Missiles, Says South Korea
North Korea has fired several anti-ship cruise missiles off its east coast, South Korea's military says. Authorities said they appear to be short-range "surface-to-ship" missiles, launched on...
Top S. Korean Cinema Chain Threatens Netflix Film Boycott
A top South Korean cinema chain said Thursday it would not screen a Netflix-backed blockbuster if the US streaming giant insists on releasing the film online simultaneously. The movie, "Okja,"...