Tag: 2019
China Innovation Index hits new high in 2019
By Liu Zhiqiang
Traveling more than 200 million km, China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 completed a deep-space maneuver about 30 million km away from Earth on...
Builsa Community Bank rated third in 2019
Out of the 144 Rural and Community Banks in the country, the Builsa Community Limited has been rated third best performing bank as at...
Coalition on RTI lashes at government
The Coalition on the Right to Information – Ghana has expressed disgust at the way and manner the Ghanaian Government is handling the implementation...
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Indian car maker in pact with premier management institute to incubate start-ups in mobility...
India's largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki announced its partnership with India premier management institute in Bengaluru to help technology-based innovative start-ups in the mobility...
New Olympic qualifying process for athletics
World Athletics releases the updated qualifying regulations for Tokyo 2020
After the re-opening of the headquarters last week, World Athletics released the updated Olympic qualification...
Ghana earns US$6.67 billion from mineral exports in 2019
Ghana earned a total of 6.67 billion U.S. dollars from mineral exports in 2019, the Ghana Chamber of Mines said in its annual report.
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Insurance industry in Uganda grows by 13.2 percent in 2019
Uganda's insurance sector grew by 13.2 percent in 2019 to 973.58 billion shillings (263 million U.S. dollars) from 859.8 billion shillings (232.4 million dollars)...
Mozambique loses about US$8 million in 2019 due to corruption
Mozambique suffered a loss of about 8 million U.S. dollars (544 million meticais) in 2019 due to corruption, Attorney General Beatriz Buchili said on...
Expected health expenditure in Germany exceeds US$442 billion in 2019
Expected health expenditure in Germany in 2019 had gone up by 4.3 percent to 407.4 billion euros (442 billion U.S. dollars) compared to the...
Namibia’s financial sector remained resilient in 2019
Namibia's financial system remained sound and resilient in 2019 despite unfavourable global economic conditions, a report said Tuesday.
According to the 2019...
China reports world’s most international IP applications in 2019
By Jiang Jianke
China became the top filer of international patents in 2019, and accelerated the progress to build itself into an intellectual property (IP)...
Ghana’s economy grows 6.5 percent in 2019
Ghana's economy grew by 6.5 percent in 2019, compared with the 6.3 percent recorded in 2018, the Ghana Statistical Service has said.
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China files most applications for international patent in 2019
By Ren Yan
China became the top source of international patent application filings in 2019, according to an annual report released by the World Intellectual...
Italy’s economy expected to take hit despite encouraging growth in 2019
Italy's economy emerged from 2019 healthier than expected, based on data released Monday by the country's National Institute of Statistics (Istat), but economists said...
U.S. crude oil production grows 11 percent in 2019
Annual U.S. crude oil production reached another record level at 12.23 million barrels per day in 2019, or 11 percent more than 2018 levels,...
Germany’s death toll from road accidents hits record low in 2019
A total of 3,059 people died in road accidents in Germany in 2019, a decline of 6.6 percent compared to the previous year, the...
Rwanda’s trade deficit up 16.3 percent in 2019
Rwanda's trade deficit increased by 16.3 percent in 2019, compared to the same period of 2018, the central bank said on Tuesday.
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Unpacking Nigeria’s Retail & Office Market Performance in 2019
Broll Property Intel’s latest reports grant an insider glance at the performance of Nigeria’s retail and property markets throughout last year. The two reports...
Nigeria sees 2.27 percent GDP growth in 2019
Nigeria recorded a 2.27 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2019, according to data released Monday by the country's National Bureau of Statistics...
Ghana Beverage Awards Committee receives entries for 2019
The Ghana Beverage Awards (GBA) Committee, after receiving over 500 entries for the 2019 Awards ceremony, has officially closed nominations to the public...
Zimbabwe’s exports decline in 2019
Zimbabwe's exports are estimated to have declined by about 4 percent in 2019 to 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, from 4.7 billion dollars in 2018,...
Zambia attracted US$12.6 billion investments in 2019
Zambia's investment agency says on Friday that it recorded an increase in investment in 2019 compared to the previous year.
The Zambia...
House sales fall in Spain in 2019
The number of houses sold in Spain during 2019 fell by 3.3 percent in comparison with 2018, according to data published by the Spanish...
Wages in Germany grow faster than consumer prices in 2019
The index of real wages in Germany rose by 1.2 percent on average in 2019, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Wednesday.
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Property prices in Germany rise faster than rents in 2019
Asking rents in Germany increased by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 8.13 euros (8.88 U.S. dollars) per square meter in 2019, the German Property Federation...
German auto club registers 4 percent less car breakdowns in 2019
ADAC, the largest automobile club in Europe, provided assistance to motorists around 3.8 million times in Germany in 2019, a decline of 4 percent...
German carmaker Daimler reports falling profits for fiscal 2019
For the fiscal year of 2019, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of German carmaker Daimler fell by more than 60 percent to 4.3...
South Africa’s unemployment rate unchanged in fourth quarter of 2019
South Africa's unemployment figures remained unchanged at 29.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to figures released by Statistics South Africa on...
German tourism industry sees record high of overnight stays in 2019
The number of overnight stays in German accommodation facilities in 2019 increased by 3.7 percent compared to last year, according to the Federal Statistical...
Fiat Chrysler’s net income falls 19 percent in 2019
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) on Thursday reported net income of 2.7 billion euros (about 3 billion U.S. dollars) in 2019, declining 19 percent year...