My Ghana Electronic Desk

  By Edmund Smith-Asante Multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation, Pfizer, has held a virtual media roundtable for over 40 journalists from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal, to climax this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The zoom meeting held last Friday, October 28, urged the public to take early detection seriously and help friends and families by encouraging regular self-examination and conversations with their doctors. Healthcare practitioners were also encouraged to have open conversations and support patients. While in 2020 the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, Global Cancer Observatory reported 4,482 and 28,380 new cases of breast cancer for Ghana and Nigeria respectively, the WHO’s Cancer Country Profile of Ghana 2020, said breast cancer was the number one cancer among women in the country, with an incidence of 20.4 per cent and a relatively high mortality rate. Since 2000 Ghana’s breast canc...

Smart grab The Vice President of Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC), Mr Hu Weidong, has stated that although a contract has been signed with the Ghana Railway Company for upgrading of the Western Railway Line delays in processing the documents was stalling the project. By Edmund Smith-Asante, CHENGDU, CHINA Mr. Hu Weidong, Vice President of Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC) addressing the  journalists. PICTURE BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE A contract signed between the Ghana Railway Company and the Dongfang Electric International Corporation (DEC) of China for an upgrade of the Western Railway Line has gone missing in the throes of bureaucracy.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, BEIJING The Outside Broadcast (OB) van. One of two outside broadcast vans which is part of a 10-year agreement between StarTimes Communications Group and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is ready for delivery to Ghana.

Smart grab: Digital TV operator, StarTimes Communication Network Technology Group and UNAIDS have formally established a partnership to reduce the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Beijing. UNAIDS Executive Director, Mr Michel Sidibé  and StarTimes President, Mr Pang exchange documents after signing. By Edmund Smith-Asante, BEIJING UNAIDS, the United Nations agency responsible for the control of HIV/AIDS and the StarTimes Communication Network Technology Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to stop the spread of the epidemic by 2030.