The Asuogyaman District Assembly has started processing large quantities of maize, harvested from its 115 acres of maize farm, planted during the major raining season, under the Youth in Agriculture Programme.
However, the Eastern…
Cocoa farmers in the Eastern Region have appealed to the government to open the cocoa season early enough to enable them to sell their produce to reduce the economic hardship facing them.
The farmers observed that almost one week to the …
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday commended the Korean government for their prompt action to open a Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Ghana.
This would not only foster better relations between Ghana and Ko…
The Most Rev Charles Palmer-Buckle, on Thursday urged the Board and Management of the Catholic Standard Newspaper and Magazines (SNAM) to hold high the standards of the Catholic Church in its reportage and not follow the dictates of the wo…
Mr. Jee Hyung Hak, Korean Ambassador to Ghana on Thursday commended the Government of Ghana for its decision to engage Korean companies in the provision of 2,000 Housing Units Ghana under the STX housing Project.
The Project, he said, …
Takoradi polytechnic has announced that the polytechnic would introduce new special and non-tertiary programmes for the oil and gas industry next academic years.
The special programmes include welding (City and Guild), America weldi…
The government had been urged to, as a matter of urgency, conduct a full scale investigation into alleged rice smuggling at the country's borders and institute appropriate measures to promote competitive business activities and create a co…
Mr Nabil Moukarzel, President of Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG), on Thursday, called for a closer collaboration between government and his outfit, in rice and beverage issues, to ensure food security in the country.
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Mr Emmanuel George Osei, Ashanti Regional Statistician, has said that the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has recruited 10,250 Enumerators and Supervisors for training in the Region, for the impending Population and Housing Census in the c…
A two-day business seminar, to build the capacity of some selected media houses in the country opened in Kumasi on Thursday.
The Ghana Media Standards Improvement Project (GMSIP) is organizing the event in collaboration with the Ghana Jo…
MTN Ghana's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Brett Goschen, has confirmed that the company's Chief Marketing Officer, Mr George Andah, has resigned to pursue a new professional opportunity outside Ghana.
Mr Goschen said "George is an o…
South Korea will soon open a formal anti-dumping investigation into stainless steel plates imported from Japan as a preliminary probe suggested the prices of the Japanese products have been unfairly cut, the Korea Trade Commission said Thu…
President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday his country should not be complacent about its future despite U.S. President Barack Obama's repeated praise for South Korea's accomplishments in various fields.
"The neighboring country, Japan, sa…
The growth of the South Korean economy is expected to slow down to 3.8 percent next year as exports will likely shrink amid the flagging global economy, calling for careful exit from stimulus measures, a local think tank said Wednesday.
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South Korea will increase financial support to African countries and share past development experiences to help stimulate their growth, the government said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance said its new "RISING initiative…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main market indicator, bounced back during Thursday's trading on the Accra bourse, gaining 100.64 points, to close at 6,780.82 points up from 6,680.18 points.
The Change Year to dat…
President Barack Obama has made it clear that his administration is against tax breaks to the US companies shipping jobs abroad and said incentives will be given to those firms which create employment in the country, a move that may have r…
India on Friday hoped that Laos would soon implement the India-ASEAN free trade pact, giving a boost to the bilateral commerce of USD 36.98 million.
It also offered to be Laos' partner in its socio-economic strategy for economic pro…
Giving a further boost to its relations with ASEAN countries, India on Friday announced a line of credit worth USD 72.55 million to Laos for
undertaking hyrdo-electric projects, pushing its total investments in this country to USD 162 mi…
The Indian High Commission in Ghana is to woo private Indian investors to invest in tourism, aqua-culture, salt and agriculture ventures in the Keta Municipality.
Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam, Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, who disclosed…
Cocoa Production in the Central Region declined from 62,000 metric tones in 2007/2008 to 56,000 metric tones in 2008/2009.
Mr Ebenezer Opoku-Agyeman, Regional Manager of the Quality Control Company Limited, who made this known when h…
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation,
Ghana (CITG), has called for effective and timely monitoring and evaluation of tax incentive schemes to create leverage for both foreign and local investors.
Mr Abdallah Ali-Nakyea, w…
The HFC Bank Ghana has presented anti-malaria drugs to the Agona Swedru flood victims.
Speaking at the function Mr Charles A. Martinson, General Manager Banking Operations of the bank, said many institutions, corporate bodies and indiv…
Mr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Managing Director (MD) of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), was at the weekend, adjudged winner of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIMG) 2009 Marketing Man of the Year Award in Accra.
Mr…
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of
Equatorial Guinea, on Thursday appealed to Ghana to assist his country to promote its agriculture, particularly in mass cocoa production.
He said although the crop was brought to…
The global economy still faces various uncertainties that require vigilant monitoring by the government, South Korea's finance minister said Thursday.
In a weekly meeting of economic policymakers, Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said …
The Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund will launch the second phase of its Private Sector Development (SPSD) project on Wednesday in Accra.
A statement signed by Ms Laurencia Tettey, Acting Fund Manager, on Thursday said…
Togbega Kofi Ayisa V, Paramount Chief of Holuta, has said a national security operation with community collaboration was the only means to combat cocoa smuggling to neighbouring countries.
He indicated that this measure was essential…
South Korea plans to spend up to 1.7 trillion won (US$1.45 billion) in the next five years to help the country's chipmakers find a way into the fast-growing non-memory chip market, the government said Thursday.
The move comes as the co…
South Korea's central bank left the key interest rate unchanged for the second straight month on Thursday after a surprise rate hike in July due to concerns about the faltering global recovery.
Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo a…
South Korean exporters may face serious setbacks in the second half of the year as spreading concerns of a double-dip recession in the United States and Japan are discouraging buyers from expanding their business there, a report said Thurs…
South Korean banks suspended Thursday money transactions with the blacklisted Iranian entities a day after the government released sweeping sanctions over Teheran's nuclear activities, a bank association said.
The Korea Federation of …
South Korea's global competitiveness ranking fell three notches this year mainly due to administrative shortcomings and problems in the financial market, a report showed Thursday.
According to the report compiled by the World Economic…
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Trade
and Investment, has announced that this year�s �Invest in Ghana Seminar� would take place from 14th to 15th of this month (September).
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Nestle Ghana, a leading nutrition and foods
company, has commissioned a GH�47.8 million-plant for the production of Cerelac, an infant food, for export to countries in West and Central Africa.
The state-of-the-art plant, built with …
The visiting president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, vowed Friday to provide full support for South Korean companies investing in his Latin American country through various tax incentives and administrative support that will ensure the safety…
China's trade surplus dropped sharply in August from a month earlier as exports declined while imports slightly increased, the country's customs authorities said Friday.
The nation's trade surplus stood at US$20.3 billion in August, d…
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., South Korea's third largest shipbuilder, said Friday that it has won orders worth a combined US$630 million for five oil tankers and an offshore platform.
Under the deal with a Norwegian customer, Samsung …
The tax agency chief said Friday his office would investigate and levy taxes on a family whose daughter on a cable TV program showed off her exorbitantly expensive luxury goods that she
claimed she bought with untaxed "gift" money from he…
Resources-rich Ecuador and technology-powerhouse South Korea are excellent business partners, and the Latin American nation is ready to work with Korean companies in massive development projects and learn from the country's miraculous econ…
India and Russia have signed an agreement for setting up a Rs 2,900-crore joint venture to co-develop and co-produce a military multi-role transport aircraft (MTA) for their armed forces.
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) …
The US today sought to downplay the ban on outsourcing clamped by the government of its Ohio
state, saying similar actions in the past have not affected Indo-US ties which have grown to a far greater level.
US ambassador to India T…
Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) have been urged to institute credit management programmes so as to expand their loans and advances portfolio and remain competitive.
Mr Eric Osei-Bonsu, Managing Director of ARB Apex Bank who made the…
Gomoa West District Assembly has invited investors to invest in the District�s abundant potentials.
Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, District Chief Executive (DCE), who gave the invitation, said there is a vast arable land suitable for …
Central Bank Governor, Mr Kwesi B. Amissah-Arthur
has inaugurated a seven-member board of the Central Securities Depository with a call on members to help deepen governance practices to serve the interest of the investment public.
I…
Graduates with technical and vocational
background, have the opportunity to work in the security services, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Cephas Arthur said in Accra on Thursday.
He said the security services did not only emp…
Agricultural Ministries of Burkina Faso and Cote
d�Ivoire have lifted a more than four-year old ban on animal trade between their two countries.
Enacted in 2006, the prohibition was aimed mainly at poultry following an outbreak …
Ghana and the International Development Association of the World Bank on Wednesday signed six financing agreements totalling $313.3 million to support various sectors of the economy.
The support in the areas of energy, social services…
A sensitization workshop on China's investment infrastructure to promote Chinese projects in Africa was held in Accra on Tuesday.
The workshop, which brought together participants from Ghana, South Africa, Mali, Liberia, Uganda and S…
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has tasked financial institutions to do more to increase access to loans by farmers and agri - businesses.
They should also collaborate with research institutions to devise innovative means through w…