• Ecuador

    Anyone want a power station?

    Awaiting rebirth “IT’S not a funeral, it’s a transformation.” That is the positive spin Francesco Starace, the Tesla-driving boss of Enel, one of Europe’s biggest electricity companies, puts on a tough issue looming over the energy industry: stranded assets. He knows of what he speaks. Whereas executives at coal, oil and ...

  • Cina Bulgaria

    It’s the real thing

    BUSINESSES have always told stories about their products. But in recent years they have become particularly verbose, bombarding consumers with any small detail that might enhance the brand. Shoppers at Whole Foods can peruse scintillating biographies of the chickens they are about to casserole. Prospective Tesla drivers can learn not ...

  • Giappone

    Here comes the Son

    Son and his anointed son IT WAS a vintage performance from Masayoshi Son, the 58-year-old founder and chief executive of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms and technology firm. He was speaking to members of SoftBank Academia, an in-house executive school set up five years ago with the chief purpose of finding his ...

  • Portogallo

    Portugal cai no ranking dos sistemas energéticos mais sustentáveis do mundo

    Lista dos países mais sustentáveis no uso da energia continua a ser liderada pela Suíça, tendo Portugal caído do 25º para o 34º lugar entre 130 mercados analisados pelo World Energy Council

  • Portogallo

    João Vieira Lopes: “Não simpatizamos muito com a ideia de um Governo de gestão”

    O presidente da Confederação do Comércio e Serviços de Portugal transmitiu esta manhã ao chefe de Estado as preocupações relativas ao sector, que passam pela existência de um Executivo em funções

  • Ghana

    Education Minister elected to serve on UNESCO board

    The Minister for Education and Chairperson of the Ghana National Commission for UNESCO Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has been elected to serve a four-year term of office on the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). This was announced at the just ended special plenary ...

  • Ghana

    “Ex gratia came from our own coffers”- Kwesi Nyantakyi

    President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has revealed that money paid to outgoing members of the Executive Committee as ex gratia came from the association’s own largesse. Members of the GFA’s Executive Committee, who served between 2011 and 2015, were paid USD 15,000 in benefits and that ...

  • Cina Ghana

    Parliament makes ‘U-turn’ on Ebola vaccination

    Months after Ghana’s Parliament directed the Ministry of Health to suspend an ongoing Ebola vaccination trial in the country; the law making institution is likely to rescind its decision. This follows a report submitted to the House by the Health Committee in Parliament which among other things recommended that the ...

  • Ghana

    Ghanaian ISIS recruit greets Facebook friends with ‘joy’

    The 25-year-old graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Nazir Nortei Alema, who left home to join the swelling ranks of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, a terrorist organization, has sent a message via Facebook to greet friends and family. Nazir captured local ...

  • Ecuador

    Selon la directrice du commerce extérieur : « Les Ape vont nous aider à mieux nous intégrer aux chaînes de valeur mondiales »

    La directrice du Commerce extérieur, Assome Aminata Diatta, demande au secteur privé et à la société civile de ne pas avoir peur des Accords de partenariat économique (Ape). Elle estime qu’ils vont aider les pays africains à mieux s’intégrer aux chaînes de valeur mondiales. Mme Diatta intervenait dans un débat ...