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Professor Emeritus J.H. Kwabena Nketia, a musicologist and composer, on Thursday reiterated the need for the promotion of traditional music and culture in order to project the country's cultural heritage. “We need to promote and share…

Mr George A. Anko-Bil, Deputy Commissioner of Police, has appealed to the public to desist from corrupting police personnel. He said corrupting personnel with money and other gifts amounted to preventing the personnel from performing their…

A Zimbabwean hospitality company is upbeat about setting up in Ghana to serve the country’s tourism sector, citing political stability as the reason. The CEO of Harare-based African Sun Ltd., which is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange…

The discovery of oil in Ghana is making the country attractive for businesses seeking to take advantage of the sector. A British testing company, Lloyds British Testing is the latest to head towards Ghana to provide services to the oil…

Cotton production in Ivory Coast may increase by as much as 41 percent in the 2010-11 harvest as the country introduces a new seed variety for planting. Output for the 2009-10 season, which runs from May to April and peaks around November,…

British Airways Plc, Europe’s third- largest airline, will extend capacity reductions, ground planes and delay deliveries of superjumbo aircraft as demand for air travel shows scant signs of rebounding amid the recession. British Airways…

China needs to promote domestic consumption to make up for weak global demand because its economic recovery isn’t firm, a government researcher said. “Global demand won’t recover to the pre-crisis levels within two to three years,” Xia…

European stocks dropped for a third straight week, the longest stretch of losses since March, as concern mounted that the economy won’t recover soon. Volkswagen AG slumped 6.3 percent, leading declines in automakers, after U.S. car sales…

British authorities have started an investigation into millions of dollars of payments from the operations of the convicted money manager Bernard L. Madoff to companies linked to the Austrian banker Sonja Kohn, an Austrian official…

The African Union says it will halt co-operation with the International Criminal Court over its decision to charge Sudan's leader with war crimes. President Omar al-Bashir was indicted over alleged atrocities in the Darfur region in…