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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Mon, 22 Nov 2009 12:20:49 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 11/22/2009 12:20:49 PM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250189/1/un-report-points-to-central-role-women-play-in-eff.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250189/1/un-report-points-to-central-role-women-play-in-eff.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250189/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:43 +0100 0 This years state of the World Population report has been launched in Accra with family planning reproductive health care and gender relations as the tools that could influence the future course of climate change and how human adapts to natural disastersThis is because international climate change agreement and national policies are more like ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250144/1/2009-world-population-report-launched-in-accra.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250144/1/2009-world-population-report-launched-in-accra.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250144/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:05:43 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250095/1/ghanaian-media-full-of-he-said-stories-gacc-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250095/1/ghanaian-media-full-of-he-said-stories-gacc-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250095/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 10:54:44 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/249365/1/africans-pay-higher-for-basic-services-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249365/1/africans-pay-higher-for-basic-services-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249365/1/#showcomments2 Mon, 15 Nov 2009 10:27:37 +0100 0 MIDRAND South Africa November A study recently conducted in African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa its electricity water roads and information and communications technology ICT cuts national economic growth by percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249209/1/new-study-shows-that-transforming-african-infrastr.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249209/1/new-study-shows-that-transforming-african-infrastr.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249209/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Nov 2009 19:34:47 +0100 0 Research indicates that people in some communities in the country believe that people living with HIV are cursedThis was revealed by Dr Clement Ahiadeke the Deputy Director of the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research ISSER on Joy FMs current affairs programme Front Page He and other panelists in the research sector were ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249184/1/some-people-think-hiv-is-a-curse.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249184/1/some-people-think-hiv-is-a-curse.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249184/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Nov 2009 17:37:27 +0100 0 Patients may not need to fast before having their cholesterol tested a major report has foundAfter analysing data from people Cambridge researchers found results were just as accurate if the patient had eaten before the testFor decades patients have been told to fast for hours prior to a testIt is hoped the study publis ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/248670/1/no-fasting-for-cholesterol-test.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248670/1/no-fasting-for-cholesterol-test.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248670/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 11 Nov 2009 15:06:02 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/248284/1/health-care-for-women-still-far-below-need-and-exp.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248284/1/health-care-for-women-still-far-below-need-and-exp.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248284/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 10 Nov 2009 12:02:35 +0100 0 The United States Department of State on Tuesday released its International Religious Freedom Report noting positive efforts by the Government of Ghana to promote interfaith understanding and to respect religious freedom in practice Through the Annual Report the United States encourages all nations to protect religious freedom and to ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/247556/1/religious-freedom-strong-in-ghana-us-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/247556/1/religious-freedom-strong-in-ghana-us-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/247556/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 06 Nov 2009 11:12:32 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/247253/1/china-assists-malaria-research-centre.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/247253/1/china-assists-malaria-research-centre.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/247253/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 04 Nov 2009 13:05:52 +0100 0 The subject of petroleum products pricing has always been a contentious one Ghana like all developing countries is always faced with the problem of a pricing scheme that will be acceptable to the population but which will not also cripple the economy This notion has therefore influenced all pricing regimes for petroleum Particularly there have ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/246722/1/petroleum-products-pricing-in-ghana-economics-or-p.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/246722/1/petroleum-products-pricing-in-ghana-economics-or-p.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/246722/1/#showcomments2 Mon, 01 Nov 2009 09:06:30 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/245083/1/corruption-in-the-judiciary-is-rife-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245083/1/corruption-in-the-judiciary-is-rife-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245083/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 23 Oct 2009 08:37:33 +0100 0 From Lydia Asamoah GNA Special Correspondent Addis Ababa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Oct GNA Since mobile phone subscription has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world a new Information Economy Report has revealed The report dubbed Trends and Outlook in Turbulent Times released by the United Nati ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/245057/1/mobile-subscription-rate-fastest-in-africa-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245057/1/mobile-subscription-rate-fastest-in-africa-report.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245057/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 23 Oct 2009 01:55:22 +0100 0 Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem killing women a year a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global surveyMore than half the deaths about are in subSaharan Africa which was singled out as the region with by far the lowest rate ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/243632/1/70000-die-from-unsafe-abortions-yearly-survey.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/243632/1/70000-die-from-unsafe-abortions-yearly-survey.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/243632/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 14 Oct 2009 15:13:44 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/243594/1/70-of-ghanaian-homes-have-no-toilet-facilities-stu.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/243594/1/70-of-ghanaian-homes-have-no-toilet-facilities-stu.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/243594/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 14 Oct 2009 14:50:36 +0100 0 Children can be taught to use their imagination to tackle frequent bouts of stomach pain research shows A relaxationtype CD asking children to imagine themselves in scenarios like floating on a cloud led to dramatic improvements in abdominal painThe US researchers said the technique worked particularly well in children as they have such fe ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/242969/1/children-can-imagine-away-pain.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/242969/1/children-can-imagine-away-pain.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/242969/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 12 Oct 2009 12:53:01 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/242853/1/five-per-cent-of-ghanas-population-is-still-hungry.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/242853/1/five-per-cent-of-ghanas-population-is-still-hungry.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/242853/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 10 Oct 2009 18:04:19 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/242835/1/violence-increases-the-rate-of-hiv-and-aids-survey.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/242835/1/violence-increases-the-rate-of-hiv-and-aids-survey.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/242835/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 10 Oct 2009 14:19:40 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/241796/1/slow-use-of-life-saving-diarrhoea-treatments-for-c.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241796/1/slow-use-of-life-saving-diarrhoea-treatments-for-c.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241796/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 02 Oct 2009 10:18:53 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/241470/1/2008-gdhs-report-launched.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241470/1/2008-gdhs-report-launched.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241470/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 30 Sep 2009 19:48:49 +0100 0 Mr Paul Evans Adioo the Western Regional Minister has said the government would use functional literacy to develop talents in the hinterlands for national developmentIt is governments aim to educate people in the villages through nonformal education to make them eligible for formal education and employment to better the lives o ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/241286/1/ahanta-bible-complete-after-14-years-research.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241286/1/ahanta-bible-complete-after-14-years-research.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241286/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 30 Sep 2009 10:36:35 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/241172/1/ahanta-bible-complete-after-14-years-research.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241172/1/ahanta-bible-complete-after-14-years-research.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241172/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 29 Sep 2009 19:12:49 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240408/1/anaemia-recording-high-prevalence-rate-in-children.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240408/1/anaemia-recording-high-prevalence-rate-in-children.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240408/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 24 Sep 2009 09:29:27 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/239296/1/research-reveals-poisonous-plastic-pollutants-in-t.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/239296/1/research-reveals-poisonous-plastic-pollutants-in-t.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/239296/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 17 Sep 2009 22:37:02 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/237839/1/scientists-research-into-animal-to-human-diseases.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/237839/1/scientists-research-into-animal-to-human-diseases.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/237839/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 11 Sep 2009 15:11:44 +0100 0 At its midyear review the Bank of Ghana repeated its perioidic survey findings that both business and consumer confidence in the Ghanaian economy was low In fact the indicators show that it is the lowest since This can be seen in the slump in merchandise imports down by on last year The worst hit is capital goods down b ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/237538/1/global-survey-confirms-investor-confidence-low-in-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/237538/1/global-survey-confirms-investor-confidence-low-in-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/237538/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 10 Sep 2009 13:59:32 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/237530/1/financial-illiteracy-still-high-survey.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/237530/1/financial-illiteracy-still-high-survey.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/237530/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 10 Sep 2009 13:49:03 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/236954/1/eighty-per-cent-of-ghanaians-are-financially-illit.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/236954/1/eighty-per-cent-of-ghanaians-are-financially-illit.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/236954/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 07 Sep 2009 22:47:51 +0100 0 A survey conducted in the UK has revealed that one in five women in Britain had heard of kitchen items including bread cling film and even chicken skin being used as alternative barrier methods Others had heard food items such as khebabs cocacola or crisp could be used as oral contraceptives The survey questioned women aged to ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/236632/1/contraceptive-myths-widespread.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/236632/1/contraceptive-myths-widespread.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/236632/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 05 Sep 2009 23:10:23 +0100 0 A Danish Research team has suggested that men and women with thighs over centimetres in circumference have a lower risk of heart disease and early death The study conducted on people suggest that the relationship remains even when body fat smoking and blood cholesterol are taken into account The team at the Copenhagen University H ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/236480/1/large-thigh-may-protect-heart.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/236480/1/large-thigh-may-protect-heart.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/236480/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 05 Sep 2009 00:21:03 +0100 0