Articles by Kwame Mensah
SoftBank-Saudi High-Tech Vision Fund Raises $93bn
Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank said, with Saudi partners, it has raised nearly $100 billion in pledges to launch a...
Pakistan Census Source of Fear and Hope For Minorities
Marginalised, attacked and frequently hit by blasphemy charges, Pakistan's religious minorities are hoping the...
Brazil’s Temer Demands Suspension of Corruption Probe
Brazilian President Michel Temer on Saturday demanded the Supreme Court suspend a probe into his alleged obstruction of...
App Fights Food Waste and Offering Free Meals
American households throw food worth $165 billion in the trash each year. Now they can share it with their neighbours...
S. Korea’s Moon Names Top Ministers, Chief Security Advisor
South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Sunday announced his picks for finance and foreign ministers while appointing a...
Russia’s Economy Is On the Mend
Russia is heavily dependent on oil exports and was hit hard when crude prices started to crash The country is...
Majority Owner Stan Kroenke Has No Interest In Selling Arsenal
Arsenal's majority owner Stan Kroenke has no interest in selling Arsenal and remains determined to make the club a...
Mamma Mia Set To Return
Ten years after the release of Mamma Mia, studio executives are taking a chance on the sequel to the smash musical hit....
Myanmar Stunt Bikers Dazzle On Yangon’s Streets
Skidding and screeching across the concrete the young bikers perform a carefully choreographed dance of gravity-defying...
Trump Seeks To Win Over Muslim Leaders With Islam Speech
US President Donald Trump tells 50 Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia Sunday of his "hopes for a peaceful vision of Islam"...
Australia Declares Game-Up For ‘fake Refugees’
Australia Sunday gave 7,500 boatpeople until October to prove they are genuine refugees or be kicked out, declaring the...
No Money To Gamble At Zimbabwe’s Fading Racecourse
Once the preserve of the ruling white minority, horse racing in Zimbabwe adapted to survive independence in 1980 by...
Controversy Trailing Him, Trump Heads For Israeli-Palestinian Talks
US President Donald Trump heads for Israel and the Palestinian territories Monday as part of his first trip abroad...
‘Foreign Invaders’ Threaten Struggling Australian Media
Australia's role as a testing ground for global media giants such as the New York Times, Daily Mail and the Guardian...
Pacific Rim Nations Fight To Save TPP Trade Pact
Asia-Pacific trade ministers agreed Sunday to resuscitate a massive free trade pact thrown into doubt by a Donald...
Hasbro Movie Juggernaut Edging Out Barbie’s Mattel
Spiderman, Thor and Princess Leia are ganging up on Barbie in a battle for America's increasingly tech-focused toy...
US Carmakers Downshift On Trump Economic Plan
Steadily rising US auto sales helped fuel the economic recovery, but sales have shifted into lower gear even as...
China ‘crippled CIA By Killing US Sources’
Up to 20 CIA informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times...
Hassan Rouhani Says Voters Rejected Extremism
Mr Rouhani was re-elected with 57% of the vote Moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said his re-election shows...
Ready, Set, Go! Rematch of Man Vs Machine In Ancient Game
It's man vs machine this week as Google's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo faces the world's top-ranked Go...