July 2010

Participants at a Regional Consultation Stakeholders workshop held in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region has called on Government to increase the budget allocation for the protection and promotion of children’s rights. At a stakeholders’…

The management of Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) on Friday said it was encouraged by the bank's 2010 half year performance and hoped it would provide a platform for improved results for the year. Briefing the press in Accra on the results for…

A 17-Member Russian and Belarus trade delegation including five Ministers of State is to visit Ghana next week to meet President John Evans Atta Mills to discuss trilateral investment cooperation. The delegation would also meet the…

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday announced a nationwide exhibition of the voters register at all polling stations from Monday, August 9 to Sunday, August 15. The exercise would take place from 7:00 am to 6:00pm each day. A…

The desire of Berekum Traditional Council to further beautify the town received a jolt at the weekend when unidentified persons destroyed a structure meant for the erection of a statue at the main round-about. The police are investigating…

U.S. bank failures reached 108 so far in 2010 on Friday as regulators seized five small banks in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast, none publicly traded. Bank failures are expected to peak this quarter, with the industry slowly…

Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran's oil…

The U.K. pound scrambled to a five-month high Friday, bolstered by buying against the euro in unsettled market conditions. The yen advanced against the dollar and the euro as concerns about global growth remained a dominant theme, but it…

The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Passing the…

U.S. economic growth slowed sharply in the spring, stoking concerns about a weak job market, a drawn-out struggle for the unemployed and growing financial pressures on millions of American families. The nation's gross domestic product grew…