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Ghana is acquiring technology and knowledge from India to develop its sericulture and silk production industry, the Financial Express, an Indian publication has reported. Sericulture is the production of cocoons which are used to produce…

Ghana, has won another award an in Information Communication Technology innovations contest by the World Summit Award (WAS) of the United Nations’ World Summit on Information Society (WSIS). The award winning project known as Tradenet…

Ghana has been named in an international scam that is promising visas to anyone and anywhere in the world. A news report carried by Abu Dhabi publication Khaleej Times is warning people who are interested in getting visas to Canada,…

Scientists are looking for women willing to eat chocolate every day for a year -- all in the name of medical science. Researchers at the University of East Anglia and a hospital in Norwich, eastern England are trying to find out whether…

Dutch officials have handed back to Ghana the head of a king who was executed by colonists in the 1830s. Tribal elders led a ceremony in The Hague to hand over the head of Badu Bonsu II, stored in formaldehyde in a Dutch museum for 170…

First, a confession from the sometimes-embarrassing world of Web 2.0: when I joined Facebook, it was just another site, one of the many social networks I thought would prepare me, then a high school senior, for college life. It was April…

The Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMC) of Ghana on Wednesday outlined measures to ensure that Ghana’s oil discovery becomes a blessing rather than a curse to the nation, as is being experienced in some oil producing nations.…

Three commercial banks operating in Ghana have met the requirement of the Bank of Ghana to recapitalize. Speaking at a press conference Tuesday July 21, 2009, the governor of the central bank, Dr. Paul Acquah, announced that three banks…

The global economic crisis is hitting Ghana’s timber industry very hard. Since the first quarter of 2009 the export of timber products from Ghana has continued to suffer decline. According to the latest records of the International…

In these tough economic times, it can be hard for a small business to turn down customers, even if they seem a bit odd. That's what Patrick Seward, owner and manager of Nyssa Machine and Welding Inc. in Nyssa, Ore., south of Ontario, was…