House Democratic leaders on Monday slapped Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with a subpoena to turn over Ukraine-related documents as part of an accelerating formal presidential impeachment probe. The subpoena "compels you to produce the documents set forth in the accompanying schedule by October 15, 2019," House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff and the [...]
Seychelles supports the view that there is a need to strengthen the capacity in developing, monitoring and reviewing durable partnerships for Small Island Developing States, President Danny Faure said at a meeting in New York. Faure made the statement on Friday at a high-level multi-stakeholder meeting on the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), [...]
The Maldives is seeking more direct flights from China to attract up to a million tourists annually -- triple the current number -- by 2023, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid sought to boost air connectivity between the two countries during his visit to Beijing over the weekend. "During my meeting with [...]
Too much politics involved, inefficient, and a waste of taxpayers’ money. Those were the views of some of the participants who took a survey about the effectiveness of regional councils in Seychelles after the completion of a one-year pilot project. The people running the councils, conversely, saw their work as effective. The local consultant who conducted [...]
Communist China's creation seven decades ago irrevocably changed Taiwan, but Beijing's huge celebrations this week will be met with a collective shrug on an island where people increasingly see themselves as distinct from the mainland. After the People's Republic of China was declared on 1 October 1949, its rival, the Republic of China, set up [...]
A Seychellois-owned company has gone international with the launching of two new online lottery games -- one for sports lovers and another offering an inclusive tailor-made holiday experience to Seychelles. The new games were launched on Wednesday in a ceremony at Savoy hotel on the northern side of the main island Mahe by the owners of Maz [...]
Mourners gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday to pay their respects to former president Jacques Chirac, whose death unleashed a flood of tributes to a charismatic but complex giant of French politics. Chirac, president from 1995 to 2007, died on Thursday aged 86 after years of deteriorating health since suffering a stroke [...]
Citizens of Seychelles will soon have access to information now that the Information Commission is in place, Vice President Vincent Meriton said in his message to mark the International Day for Universal Access to Information. “I believe I can safely say now that the commission is in place and staff recruited that the full implementation [...]
The Seychelles Revenue Commission (SRC) has confirmed that it has received to date 66 requests for information on French offshore entities incorporated in Seychelles. France has been carrying out investigations into 500 offshore companies following the Panama Papers scandal three years ago which exposed illegal practices in the offshore finance industry. According to an article [...]
Afghans head to the polls amid tight security Saturday to vote for their next president, following a bloody, two-month election campaign that has been marred by repeated attacks across Afghanistan. The Taliban, who already have unleashed a string of bombings, have in recent days issued repeated warnings they intend to attack polling centres and have [...]
