Seychelles' Financial Services Authority (FSA) has launched an investigation into the financial transactions of Power Anchor Limited, a Chinese offshore company operating in Seychelles, a top official said on Monday. The offshore company is directly linked to Pamchel Trading Beijing, a steel manufacturer, which trades with Iran. The United States imposed new sanctions on Iran's [...]
Increased visibility online and an embrace of international sporting events led to a 6 percent increase in tourism arrivals to Seychelles in 2019, surpassing the goal set by the Seychelles Tourism Board, said a tourism official. Figures released by Seychelles’ National Bureau of Statistics show that visitor arrivals for 2019 increased to 384,204, compared to [...]
Lava and broad columns of ash illuminated by lightning shot from an erupting volcano south of the Philippine capital on Monday, grounding hundreds of flights amid an alert for a possible "explosive eruption". Homes and streets across the region surrounding the Taal volcano, which exploded to life on Sunday accompanied by a series of earthquakes, [...]
Mia and Elijah were named the Best Female and Best Male artists at the Cable Tunes Awards 2019. The two artists received their awards at a ceremony at Berjaya Beau Vallon Hotel on the northern side of the main island Mahe on Saturday evening. Upon receiving her award, Mia thanked God for her talent and for being [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, will be attending the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, State House said on Saturday. Faure leaves the country on Sunday to attend the summit taking place from January 13-16 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. The annual World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi is [...]
2020 is the most crucial year yet for humanity's plan to dodge the bullet of catastrophic global warming, experts said Saturday, warning that the narrow path to safety was riddled with pitfalls, from the US election to Brexit. When nations struck the 2015 Paris agreement, which aims to limit temperature rises under 2 degrees Celsius [...]
Qualifying for the Junior Grand Slam tennis tournaments is Seychellois player Damien Laporte's 2020 goal. In order to find himself on the grounds of Wimbledon or the French Open, the 17-year-old told SNA that he will be playing a lot of tournaments in the beginning of the year to gain as many qualifying points as [...]
Iran's civil aviation chief denied Friday that a missile downed a Ukrainian airliner which crashed killing all 176 people on board, rejecting Western claims of a catastrophic mistake by Tehran's air defences. The cause of the crash is to be announced Saturday after an investigating committee meeting in the presence of foreign and local parties [...]
The Chief Justice of Seychelles' top court said Friday in an address to mark the opening of the 2020 term that she intends to step down at the end of her mandate. Mathilda Twomey, who was sworn in as Chief Justice in August 2015, started her address by saying that "this is my fifth speech [...]
The last decade was India's hottest on record with the national weather office calling the impact of global warming "unmistakable" and extreme weather killing more than 1,500 people last year. India, home to 1.3 billion people, is at the forefront of climate change suffering devastating floods, dire water shortages and baking temperatures. The southern city [...]
