World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions are indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charged in a report Friday. By investing in...
By: Obed Attah Yeboah The Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) was formed to ensure the efficient management of commercial road transport in the country. As part of its core mandate, it is...
The Ghana Armed Forces says it intends to reopen its 2017 recruitment exercise to enable additional candidates apply for enlistment. Advertisements to the effect will be out in April 2017. The...
Myanmar should close bleak camps where tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims have been trapped for nearly five years, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said Thursday. More than...
Raging battles on Myanmar's border with China have claimed dozens more lives, military and official sources said Wednesday, as the mounting death toll landed a fresh blow to the government's...
The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of whisky, part of an age old ritual to honour Myanmar's spirit guardian of drunkards and gamblers. Every year...
Myanmar may be seeking to "expel" all ethnic Rohingya from its territory, a UN rights expert said Monday, pushing for a high-level inquiry into abuses against the Muslim minority community. The...
There appears to be a powerful clique operating inside the three months old government of Nana Akufo-Addo, which is announcing appointments, forging appointment letters and dispatching people to...
The family of Myanmar's last king hit out on Sunday at a Thai soap opera inspired by the palace intrigue of their ancestors, accusing Thailand of double standards in how it treats another country's...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was at his humble best when he served food to soldiers at the end-of-year get-together of the Ghana Armed Forces at the Burma Camp in Accra on Friday. The...
A Myanmar monk infamous for his bilious anti-Muslim tirades has been banned from giving sermons for a year by the country's top Buddhist body, an unprecedented slapdown to a man whose hate speech has...
In fulfillment of one of the several promises he made during the 2016 electioneering campaign, President Akufo-Addo has increased the peacekeeping allowance from $31 to $35. He announced the decision...
President Nana Akufo Addo has assured Ghanaians that he’ll fulfill all his campaign promises before he exits power. According to him, he did not make the many promises to hoodwink the electorate...
From spells to win back an errant lover to help communing with the spirits, Myanmar's mediums, soothsayers and wizards dabbling in the occult, are in high demand. Most people here believe in a brand...
Tensions have remained high in the more than 60 years since North and South Korea fought a fierce war from 1950-53. Here is a timeline of relations between the two Koreas, who remain technically at...
Thousands of Rohingya who took refuge in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar have returned home because of a Bangladeshi plan to house them on an uninhabited flood-prone island, community...
Civilians abandoned a battle-scared town along Myanmar's border with China on Wednesday, saying they feared an imminent army crackdown in retaliation for a deadly raid by ethnic rebels. At least 36...
Thousands were fleeing a Myanmar town bordering China on Tuesday after at least 30 people were killed in fighting between the army and ethnic rebels as Beijing called for an immediate ceasefire...
More than a quarter of people living in Asia had to pay a bribe while trying to access a public service in the past year, a watchdog said Tuesday, calling on governments to root out endemic graft in...
At least six police officers were killed Monday in a surprise pre-dawn raid by ethnic minority rebels on a town in a restive region of Myanmar bordering China, an army source said. Artillery and...
