play videoThe Beipanjiang bridge in China took three years to build The Beipanjiang bridge in southern China has opened to traffic following three years of construction. Built above the Beipangjiang...
I join the over 5 million Ghanaians who voted for you on December 7 to congratulate you on your historic victory. Your win margin has never been witnessed in our presidential history. It’s been a...
US chipmaker Qualcomm has been fined a record 1.03trn won ($854m, £698m) for allegedly breaching competition law in South Korea. The Korean Fair Trade Association said the firm had engaged in unfair...
The actions are expected to include expanded sanctions and diplomatic measures, the officials said, in what the administration deems a proportional response to a Russian operation that went beyond...
The Ghana police service on Wednesday observed a memorial service to honour officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The service which was held at the National Police Training school at...
President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will use a symbolic joint visit to Pearl Harbor to highlight the strength of the U. S.-Japan alliance on Tuesday, weeks before Republican...
The dollar inched higher against the yen and a handful of other major currencies on Tuesday in trade curtailed by holidays in financial centres in Europe and Asia. Going into the final week of 2017,...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday stopped at several memorials in Hawaii, one day before he will visit the site of the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor during a trip intended to show a strong...
The foreign ministers of China and Sao Tome and Principe signed a communique on Monday to resume diplomatic relations between the two countries after 20 years. “From this moment on, the two...
Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor (005380. KS) is trimming its cost fat; scaling back on business class flights and annual family home trips for overseas employees,...
China will encourage labor-intensive manufacturing industries located along the eastern coast to relocate inland, it said in a new 2016-2020 plan to develop the economy of its western regions. The...
China needs to keep financial market liquidity stable and regulate its "money gates" to prevent asset bubbles, but it also needs to ensure a lack of liquidity doesn't cause financial stress,...
Jose Mourinho has suggested that Zlatan Ibrahimovic will end his career at Manchester United. The United boss took Ibrahimovic to Old Trafford on a free transfer in the summer, one of his headline...
The year-end stocks rally on the heels of the election of Donald Trump as U. S. president was built on expectations of reduced regulations, big tax cuts and a large fiscal stimulus. Now signs are...
I have written quite a number of articles about the way galamsey is destroying Ghana’s major water bodies, as well as our farmlands. The farms being destroyed do not only consist of food– farms...
Nigeria's food safety agency has denied claims by the health minister that it has cleared the reported "plastic" rice. A senior official at the National Agency For Food and Drugs (Nafdac) said the...
In November, as millions of Indians were grappling with a cashflow crisis, a lavish wedding in the southern city of Bangalore sparked outrage. The BBC's Geeta Pandey profiles the man behind the...
Nigeria’s government has denied reports that “plastic rice” was being sold in the country, days after the customs service said 2.5 tonnes of the contraband had been confiscated. Health Minister...
By Philip Kobina Baidoo Jnr Ghanaians spoke on 7th of December with the power of a pneumatic sledgehammer. It was sharp and decisive. It appears the incumbent party never anticipated such an outcome...
Egypt postponed a U. N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel's prime minister and U.S....
