Akufo-Addo To Ministry of Finance
President Akufo Addo has directed the Ministry of Finance to pay all outstanding arrears owed civilian employees at the Ministry of Defense. The President said the outstanding arrears follow their...
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Pay Military Civilians’ Arrears – Akufo-Addo To Fair Wages Commission
President Akufo Addo has directed the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to pay all outstanding arrears owed civilian employees at the Ministry of Defense. The President said the outstanding arrears...
President Akufo-Addo Cuts Sod For Start Of Barracks Regeneration Project
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 30th June, 2017, cut the sod for the commencement of the National Barracks Regeneration Project, in fulfilment of the pledge...
President Akufo-Addo Applauds Professionalism And Discpline Of Ghana Armed Forces
“I must, perforce, commend you highly on your professionalism and discipline that shone through during the recent traumatic event of the murder of Major Mahama, and the national revulsion and...
Thailand Backtracks On Labour Law After Migrant Workers Flee
Thailand's military government said it will delay enforcing new labour regulations after thousands of migrant workers fled home to neighbouring countries this week fearing arrest and heavy fines...
Akufo-Addo Cuts Sod For Start of Barracks Regeneration Project
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, June 30 cut the sod for the commencement of the National Barracks Regeneration Project, in fulfilment of the pledge made in the 2016 manifesto of the...
Provocateur Ai Weiwei Taunts US With Activist Piece
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is blunt. When he wanted to make a political statement about crackdowns on dissent, he brought portraits of 176 political prisoners to one of America's most infamous...
Myanmar Govt Defends Detention of Journalists
Myanmar's civilian government on Wednesday defended the detention of three journalists who were reporting on an armed ethnic group, an incident that has fuelled alarm at the erosion of press freedom....
Fears For Three Myanmar Journalists Taken By Military
Fears were mounting on Tuesday for three Myanmar journalists who are being interrogated by the military after they were detained under a restrictive junta-era law for reporting on an ethnic armed...
Myanmar and Thailand Torch $1 Billion of Seized Drugs
Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as law enforcement struggles to stem the rising flow of drugs in the region. The...
Myanmar Releases Nearly 70 More Child Soldiers
Myanmar's military released 67 child soldiers on Friday, its first discharge this year as part of a slow process to end decades of forced recruitment of underage fighters that began under the former...
Myanmar’s Muslims Mark Ramadan Out In the Cold
Huddled under umbrellas to escape a thundering monsoon downpour, dozens of Muslims stood in line at a Yangon mosque for a small portion of rice and curry to break their Ramadan fast. Many would have...
Myanmar Forces Kill 3 In Raid On ‘terrorist Training Camps’
Myanmar security forces have killed three people in raids on "terrorist" training camps run by Rohingya Muslim militants in the north of Rakhine state, state media reported on Thursday. Guns,...
Sri Lanka’s Fugitive Monk Surrenders
A radical Buddhist monk wanted in connection with a string of hate attacks in Sri Lanka surrendered Wednesday after four weeks on the run, police said. Galagodaatte Gnanasara gave himself up before a...
Desperate Rohingya Seek New Escape Routes From Bangladesh
In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in neighbouring Myanmar dream of a better life abroad -- and rely on increasingly high-tech...
Minister Under Fire For Attack On Sri Lankan Rights Lawyer
Sri Lanka's justice minister faced calls for his resignation Tuesday after accusing a human rights lawyer of misleading the public about a spate of crimes against Christian places of worship....
China Freezes Bank Accounts of Over 100 Myanmar Traders
Chinese banks have frozen the accounts of more than 100 commodities traders in northeast Myanmar in a bid to clamp down on smuggling and illegal gambling, state media reported Tuesday. Myanmar's...
Myanmar Sentences ‘exorcist’ To Death For Child Murders
A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death by a Yangon court on Tuesday for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he believed would banish evil spirits that possessed them. Black magic...
India Trade To See Boost By Transit System
India has become the 71st country to ratify the United Nations TIR Convention . Managed and developed by IRU, the world road transport organisation, TIR is the global standard for goods customs...
How It Went Down At Sober Wake of the Fallen Hero [Photos]
Late Mahama’s vigil… A mournful atmosphere surrounded Burma Camp on Thursday, June 8, 2017, during the all-night vigil held in honour of late captain Mahama who was lynched at Obuasi. The vigil...