Sri Lanka's colonial-era presidential palace has embodied state authority for more than 200 years, but on Sunday it was the island's new symbol of "people power" after its occupant fled. Thousands of men, women and children were pouring into the imposing state mansion queuing to sit on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's chair on the upper floor [...]
Seychelles' state-owned Islands Development Company (IDC) says that it is still going ahead with its agriculture programme on the outer island of Coetivy despite some issues with prospective farmers. Plans for large-scale farming on Coetivy were announced in 2020 but since then there have been a number of hurdles which resulted in the project being put on [...]
Students and instructors from Seychelles Tourism Academy will resume exchange visits with their counterparts on Reunion Island through a newly signed agreement. High-level officials from two tourism training establishments in Reunion, a French overseas department, signed an agreement virtually with the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) to resume the exchange programme. The STA director, Terence Max, signed [...]
Seychelles is set to start issuing COVID-19 vaccination certificates or QR codes at the health centre level across the country following vaccinations as of August 1, a health official said on Monday. At the moment QR codes required for travel purposes are currently only being issued at the Blue Roof building at the Ministry of Health [...]
The race to replace Britain's Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and prime minister is underway, with 11 candidates already declared and more Tory MPs likely to join. While several possible successors are seen as frontrunners, there is no clear favourite -- and such contests are notoriously volatile. - Rishi Sunak - The UK's first Hindu [...]
Japan's ruling party and partners won enough votes to form a supermajority in an upper house election held just days after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, local media said Monday. The ex-premier's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner Komeito strengthened their hold by winning more than 75 of the [...]
Sri Lankan protesters refused to budge from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence on Sunday, a day after they stormed his home, forcing him to flee with the navy and announce he would resign. "Our struggle is not over," student leader Lahiru Weerasekara told reporters the day after Rajapaksa, currently taking refuge on a vessel offshore, said [...]
A new gallery offering limited edition prints and affordable art of five local artists has opened its doors to the public on the outskirts of the Seychelles' capital, Victoria. The opening of the 'Dream Gallery' on July 1 was attended by President Wavel Ramkalawan as well as many artists and art lovers. The art space is a collaboration [...]
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola with an iron fist for 38 years, died on Friday at a hospital in Barcelona after suffering cardiac arrest, the government said. He was 79. Seldom seen in public, dos Santos was nonetheless a presence in daily life for as long as most Angolans could remember. He came [...]
Fitir Hilton Academy, a new training facility located at the Hilton Labriz Silhouette Resort and Spa in Seychelles, opened its doors in May with its first cohort of 12 students. Most of the students, who started on June 20, are from the Seychelles Tourism Academy and are following the housekeeping and front office course. The [...]
