From Slick City To Hip Hong Kong
Soulless supermalls housing luxury labels, traditional suit tailors, and markets full of cheap designer knock-offs, Hong Kong's flaccid fashion scene has long struggled to compete with the sartorial...
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We Were Both Wiretapped Under Obama
President Donald Trump has stood by claims he was wiretapped under Barack Obama, telling visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "At least we have something in common, perhaps." US intelligence...
Amandi Orders 200MW Power Plant To Shore Up Ghana’s Energy Deficit
General Electric (GE), the world’s premier digital industrial company, has announced the order of a 200MW combined-cycle power plant to be operated by Amandi Energy Limited in Aboadze, Ghana. The...
S&P Cuts Troubled Toshiba’s Credit Rating
Standard & Poor's cut its credit rating on Toshiba again Friday, warning that the troubled company's finances were quickly deteriorating owing to huge losses at its US nuclear unit. The ratings...
A Defining Moment For US and Germany
The world’s most powerful man is about to meet one of its most influential women. A snowstorm forced the cancellation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s planned visit to Washington on Tuesday....
Defence Counsel Clashes With Akua Donkor
Akua Donkor, founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), on Thursday sent audience at an Accra Circuit Court laughing following her responses to questions admitted to her during cross examination in a...
Loss-Hit Toshiba Nosedives On Fears About Future
Toshiba shares plunged Wednesday afternoon as fears grow about the future of one of Japan's best-known firms, which is battling massive losses and accounting fraud allegations at its US nuclear unit....
India’s Richest Man Shakes Up Telecoms Market
Buyouts, mergers and quick exits -- as India's richest man shakes up the country's ultra-competitive mobile market, telecommunications companies are scrambling to either consolidate or cut their...
Sterling Slips As Brexit Talks Get Green Light, Stocks Advance Before Fed
Sterling dropped on Tuesday after Britain's parliament paved the way for Prime Minister Theresa May to launch divorce talks with the European Union, while stocks advanced ahead of an expected U. S....
Akua Donkor In Court Over Robbery
Akua Donkor, founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), yesterday testified in the case in which she is accusing four persons, including her driver, of robbery. The accused persons are Yakubu Yusif,...
Boeing, Aerospace Manufacturers Back U.S. Tax Overhaul
Boeing Co (BA. N) and about 90 other aerospace companies are urging Congress to overhaul the U.S. tax system, saying a set of changes Republicans proposed last year - including a big cut in the...
Troubled Toshiba Misses Deadline To Report Earnings. Again.
For the second time in as many months, Toshiba has missed its earnings report deadline, citing "difficult circumstances." The struggling Japanese conglomerate asked to extend the deadline to April...
Minister Vows To Deal With Motorists Who Fail To Pay Road Tolls
The Ministry of Roads and Highways and the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) have warned that drivers who fail to pay road tolls, but are not on the exemption list, will be made to face the law. A...
The Women Blazing the Trail In Ghana’s Telecom Sector
I want to celebrate the New faces of telecommunications’ players in Ghana – they are SMART, they are EXPERIENCED, and they are FIERCE. Above all THEY ARE WOMEN making waves in this traditionally...
Toshiba’s Westinghouse Brings In Bankruptcy Lawyers; Disclosure Deadlines Loom
U. S. nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric Co LLC has hired bankruptcy attorneys, in a sign that owner Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is more seriously weighing a Chapter 11 filing as an option to help it rein...
Celebrating Women In the Ghanaian Telecom and ICT Space [Article]
This International Women’s Day I want to celebrate the New faces of telecommunications’ players in Ghana – they are SMART, they are experiencing, and they are fierce. Above all, they are women...
Parties Give Varying Views On President’s State of Nation Address
Political parties have given varying views on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address. While some commended the President for the presentation, others said he was...
Good Times Over For Expats In Saudi
Seventeen years after first setting foot in Saudi Arabia, Dominic Steck shipped his two cats and returned to Germany with his wife and school-age children, who hardly know their homeland. As Saudi...
Bayer Says Monsanto Deal On Track, Eyes Record 2017
German pharmaceuticals and chemicals giant Bayer on Wednesday said it expected further growth this year after a record performance in 2016, as its mammoth takeover of US seedmaker Monsanto remains on...
Ukraine Tycoon Firtash Loses Vienna Appeal Against US Extradition
An Austrian appeals court on Tuesday authorised the extradition to the United States of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash on bribery charges, overturning an earlier ruling. Firtash, 51, one of...