Investors reacted strongly to Amazon's larger than expected Q2 2014 loss of $126 million. The company also indicated that its time in the red is not over yet, and projects operating losses in the current period of as much $810 million. Amazon saw its stock tank ...

Polytanks (Gh) Ltd, manufacturers of water storage tanks, has launched a new type of water storage tanks, the first of its kind on the Ghanaian market.

For the oil and gas sector to deliver on development outcomes, gender considerations must receive adequate attention, Mrs Patricia Blankson Akakpo, a gender activist of the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), has noted.

Doing business in Ghana is “very difficult” and “extremely cumbersome,” a representative of the leading communication company in Ghana, MTN said in an answer to how the company rated its business fortunes in Ghana. “But MTN are not quitters, it’s about finding solutions to problems, that’s why we are the leaders,” Mrs Cynthia Lumor, Corporate Affairs Executive of MTN, said [...] The post MTN Faces Operation Challenges appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

WORKERS across the country embarked on demonstrations in the regional capitals yesterday, to draw government’s attention to the worsening economic situation facing the citizenry. The one-day demonstration, spearheaded by Organised Labour and led by the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), received an overwhelming endorsement by workers of all sectors. Both formal and informal workers joined forces and embarked on the [...] The post LET’S THINK ABOUT GHANA appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Yesterday’s demonstration by Organised Labour across the regions went on as planned, but not without some nasty incidents, especially in the Brong Ahafo Region. Our correspondents say the turnout was massive in most of the regions. From Sunyani Daniel Dzirasah reports that a number of demonstrators were arrested and others severely beaten by the police, following disagreement over the number [...] The post … Clashes With Police At Sunyani appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Organised Labour yesterday staged a massive demonstration through some principal streets of Accra in protest against what they described as harsh economic conditions in the country. The demonstrators, numbering over 15,000 defied police orders for them to converge at the Accra Hearts of Oak Park near the Arts Centre and proceeded to the Independence Square, where they presented a petition [...] The post NATIONWIDE DEMOS! appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

Early this year, elders of the Murugu and Mognori communities in the West Gonja District wrote a letter to the District Assembly requesting it to support them in their efforts to manage wildlife and other natural resources within the area. The letter specifically asked the Assembly to assist it to stop illegal logging of Rosewood, as the practice was undermining [...] The post Empowering C’nities To Protect Local Resources (1) appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

On 21st July 2014, Chinese Ambassador Ms. Sun Baohong met with Anthony Akordor, Board Chairman of Philip Akpo Memorial School and Lydya Sediro, a Headmistress of the School, both of whom came to the Chinese Embassy specially to express their gratitude to Ambassador Sun for the "China-Ghana Friendship ICT Laboratory" aided by the Chinese side.

Type 2 diabetes is more common in people who work shifts, a large international study suggests. The findings, published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, indicated men and those doing rotating shifts were at highest risk. It is thought that disruption to the body clock affects waistlines, hormones and sleep – which could increase the risk. ...

The debate in Ghana over the cultivation of genetically modified seeds provided by international aid agencies demonstrates that foreign aid often comes with an agenda determined by foreign financial and political backers, not by the end-users of the assistance.

The religious organisations insist that Ghana's dwindling food production cannot be attributed to our non-usage of GMO technologies but due to poor access roads to farms, lack of credit, unavailability of ready market, lack of storage facilities and agricultural processing

VG Food Sovereignty Ghana calls for an indefinite Moratorium or ban on the propagation, cultivation, raising, and growing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Ghana.