Several calls have been placed at the doorstep of President Nana Akufo-Addo to downsize the current number of his ministers but the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has offered a different opinion claiming, it would only take the current numbers to clean up the mess left behind by the former […]
The Syrian army recaptured all areas fallen during Sunday’s wide-scale offensive by rebels in eastern Damascus, the military general command said Monday. The army retook all points lost to the rebels of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and like-minded groups in the factories area at the entrance of the rebel-held neighborhood of Jobar in the Eastern […]
China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake in eastern China’s Jiangxi Province, starts a three-month fishing ban at noon Monday. The local government initiated the ban, which lasts from March to June, in 2002 as a move to protect fish during the spawning season.All fishing and related activities that can threaten fish and the lake environment […]
A three-tower cable-stayed heavy railway bridge closed Sunday over Dongting Lake, the second-largest freshwater lake in China. The 1,290-meter bridge is designed with a carrying load of 10,000 tonnes, enough to accommodate a fully-loaded train passing at a speed of 120 km per hour. Xu Bin, project manager of China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group […]
East Africa should be alert to the escalating crises in South Sudan, which is fueling the influx of refugees and small arms that could destabilize the region, an expert told Xinhua in an interview on Sunday. Jacob Dut Chol, head of political science department at Juba University, said neighboring countries must brace for spillover of […]
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