A retiring Seychellois pilot, who has flown passengers safely across borders for over 40 years, shared that the most challenging moment of his career was missing out on family gatherings and events. Francois Jackson, who retired as a captain for the national airline, Air Seychelles, earlier in August, met with President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday. "Being away [...]
The Seychelles government and a top university in Malaysia signed an agreement on Tuesday through which Seychellois students will have access to online courses by the end of this year. The managing director of the SEGi University and Colleges in Malaysia, Stella Lau Kah Wai, and the principal secretary in the Ministry of Education, John [...]
Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed Tuesday. Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fraction of the amount [...]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Sunday for the African Union to be made a G20 member, while also pitching his country as the solution to supply chain woes ahead of the bloc's summit in New Delhi next month. The Group of 20 major economies consists of 19 countries and the European Union (EU), making [...]
Swimmers Felicity Passon and Simon Bachmann gave Seychelles its first two gold medals on Monday on the third day of the 11th edition of the Indian Ocean Island Games in Madagascar. Passon won the women's 200m individual medley in 2 minutes 28.64 seconds. Two swimmers from Reunion Mahe Gory-Lauret and Elisa Montrouge were second and [...]
Swimmers Felicity Passon and Simon Bachmann gave Seychelles its first two gold medals on Monday on the third day of the 11th edition of the Indian Ocean Island Games in Madagascar. Passon won the women's 200m individual medley in 2 minutes 28.64 seconds. Two swimmers from Reunion Mahe Gory-Lauret and Elisa Montrouge were second and [...]
Russia's national airline, Aeroflot, will increase its flight frequency to Seychelles in October, which will keep the Eastern European country among the top three markets on the island nations' visitors' arrival list. As of October 16, Aeroflot will increase its number of flights from two to three weekly linking Moscow directly to Seychelles, an archipelago in the western [...]
The Assets Development Company from Qatar has been chosen to build a five-star hotel on Seychelles' Assumption Island with 50-60 rooms with ecological themes, said Glenny Savy, the chief executive of the Islands Development Company (IDC) on Monday. Savy made the announcement in a press conference on Monday when giving an update on the company's long-term development [...]
A federal judge is expected to set a date on Monday for what could be one of the most momentous trials in American history: the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith has asked for the trial of the 45th US president -- who faces charges of conspiring to overturn [...]
French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France's strict secular laws in education. "It will no longer be possible to wear an abaya at school," Education Minister Gabriel Attal told TF1 television, saying he would give [...]
