Afghan security forces have killed 31 militants during series of operations across the militancy-battered country over the past 24 hours, said the Interior Ministry in a statement on Sunday. During the operations that covered parts of Wardak, Nangarhar, Daikundi and Uruzgan provinces, according to the statement, two other insurgents have been injured and another 12 […]

China’s court system concluded 45,000 graft cases in 2016, implicating 63,000 people, a work report of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) said Sunday. The defendants included 35 former officials at the provincial and ministerial level or above, and 240 at the prefectural level, said the report delivered by Chief Justice Zhou Qiang at a plenary […]

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Sunday left the presidential Blue House for her private home in southern Seoul two days after the constitutional court upheld her impeachment. Park came out from the residence inside the Blue House at about 7 p.m. local time (1000 GMT). A queue of black sedans and vans, carrying […]

Iran on Sunday unveiled a homegrown state-of-the-art tank called “Karrar,” Tasnim news agency reported. The domestically-manufactured tank is a clear sign of the high capability and creativity of the Defense Ministry’s experts, Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gene. Hossein Dehqan was quoted as saying. Upgrading armored military tools is one of the main strategies of the […]

Cuba and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)announced in Havana on Saturday a joint “strategic work plan” for raising the region’s global profile and strengthen the bloc’s development in various fields. Speaking at the inauguration of the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Ministerial Meeting in Havana, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that defending the unity of the Caribbean was […]

Bangladesh embassy in Bahrain has admitted that there are Bangladeshis human trafficking gangsters who are behind the ever-increasing number of illegal workers in the country, Al Wasat local news reported on Sunday. The Bangladesh Ambassador told the newspaper that the embassy has a plan for the arrests of those gang members to deport them back […]

Diplomatic tensions between the Netherlands and Turkey escalated on Saturday night after a convoy of Turkey’s Minister of Family and Social Policies Betul Sayan Kaya was halted for hours close to the Turkish General Consulate in Rotterdam. “I am being taken to Germany via the Nijmegen border with democratic and humanitarian values trampled underfoot,” Kaya […]

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) hailed on Saturday the completion of the refurbishment of a historic jetty at Britain’s Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth as a major milestone in preparation for the arrival of the biggest warships ever built for the Royal Navy. The jetty, parts of which date back over 90 years ago, has been […]

Venezuela aims to receive up to 10 billion U.S. dollars from oil exports in 2017 if international crude oil prices continue to rise, an official said on Saturday. Jesus Faria, minister of foreign trade and investment, made the remarks at a business summit in the western state of Zulia. He also praised President Nicolas Maduro’s […]

Food and clothing shortages must be solved to alleviate poverty, a Chinese official pledged recently, in China’s latest vow to get tough in war on poverty. To make sure its poverty alleviation policies are effective, China has promised the strictest assessments as well as a strict cap on the number of impoverished people. Besides food […]

Some deputies to the ongoing “two sessions”, namely the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), called for more efforts to improve the laws on protection of wild animals and launch a tougher crackdown on illegal actions. Such appeal came after social media posts of pangolin […]

Due to the unexpected surge in import, February saw a 60.36-billion-yuan ($8.7 billion) deficit in yuan-denominated trade, the first for China since February 2014, according to statistics released by China’s General Administration of Customs on Wednesday. Import in February witnessed a 44.7-percent year-on-year growth, higher than the expected 23.1 percent and the 25.2 percent in […]

The 410 members of the 15th Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon were conferred the United Nations (UN) Peace Medal of Honor on March 8 local time. The medal-awarding ceremony in honor of the Chinese contingent was held at the Chinese troops’ camp in Hinniyah village in southern Lebanon. The UN Peace Medal of Honor, which […]

Women living in China have witnessed a dramatic rise in their social status in recent years, thanks to the increasing efforts made by Chinese government to improve the protection of their rights. Data showed that by 2015, the average life expectancy of Chinese women is 79.43 years old, the proportion of girls receiving junior college […]

Over the past few weeks, the Mental Health Leadership and Advocacy Programme (mhLAP) has followed with intense interest a disturbing trend of alleged suicide cases across the country-two of which involved students from two of our leading tertiary institutions (The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); and the University of Ghana. The third […]

Young lives are wasting away tragically and all we are interested in is reporting it. What did we expect when we only care about the grades they are making in school while we leave their emotional health to chance. Our education system urgently needs an effective counselling program. In a space of two weeks, we […]

ENERGY Policy Think Tank, the African Centre of Energy Policy (ACEP) has charged government to consolidate fuel supply plans to ensure cost reduction. Without further delay, government needs to review the Nigeria Gas agreement to establish a clear case for its reliability, Benjamin Boakye Deputy Executive Director said in ACEP’s comments on the 2017 budget […]

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Ashanti Region, has scaled up the effort to improve customer care through prompt response to complaints. As part of this, it has designated, the coming Saturday, March 11, as ‘Customer Complaints Day.’ This was contained in a press statement signed by Mr. Erasmus K. Baidoo, Manager, Public […]

file image Atta Aboagye, Manager of popular Kumawood actor Agya Koo has dispelled claims that the stage play acted by the Kumawood stars during Ghana@60 independence day celebration was characterised by insults. He described the stage play as a good one which needs to be commended saying there was no point the actors/actresses spewed out […]

Authorities of the University of Ghana (UG) are collaborating with the Ghana Police Service to gather evidence that will help explain circumstances that led to the death of a final year student of the school last Wednesday [March 8, 2017]. The student fell to death from the 4th floor of her Akuafo Hall residence. Citi […]