After weeks of increasingly violent protests, China's top policy body on Hong Kong affairs was set to hold an extremely rare press briefing Monday on the crisis engulfing the financial hub, where dozens of protesters were arrested in weekend clashes with police. What began as a mass display of opposition to an extradition bill two [...]
The Seychelles’ ladies volleyball team retained its title in the 10th edition of the Indian Ocean Island Games, which will end on Sunday with the closing ceremony. In the heavily contested final on Saturday, Seychelles came back from losing two sets to nil to win the match against Madagascar and clinch the gold medal. This is the [...]
Thousands of Tunisians on Saturday attended the funeral of president Beji Caid Essebsi as the North African nation gears up for snap elections as early as September to defend the democratic gains of the Arab Spring. Essebsi, the country's first head of state elected in nationwide polls, died Thursday at the age of 92, triggering [...]
La Digue will become the first island in the Seychelles archipelago to get its own dedicated history museum. ‘Musee de La Digue’, to be built at L’Union Estate, will trace the island’s history since its discovery. The museum is an initiative and partnership between the Seychelles Heritage Foundation and L’Union Estate. “L’Union Estate in itself [...]
Images from a Seychellois fine art photographer capture how climate change links the North Pole, Antartica and the Seychelles’ Remire Island in a new photo exhibit. The free exhibition is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until July 31 at the Alliance Française des Seychelles, in the central Mahe district of Mont Fleuri. The aim of the [...]
Electronic cigarettes are "undoubtedly harmful" and should be regulated, the WHO said Friday as it warned against the use of vaping products by smokers trying to quit their deadly habit. The growing popularity of e-cigarettes, battery-powered devices that enable users to inhale addictive nicotine liquids, has raised fears among policymakers worldwide of a new gateway [...]
A Sri Lankan investigation into nearly 3,000 tonnes of illegally imported hazardous waste has shown that some of it was sent on to India and Dubai, a top minister said Friday. Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera told parliament the importer of the waste had reshipped about 180 tonnes of raw garbage to India and Dubai in [...]
A ‘Made in Seychelles’ label will soon be introduced as a branding and marketing tool for the island nation to promote locally made products, said a top official on Thursday. “Seychelles depends greatly on importation and our local products tend to get lost in the process. Therefore, we need to establish a brand so that people [...]
A teenager from Seychelles has left the sunny island nation to join 129 other young people taking part in ‘Students on Ice' 2019 Arctic Expedition, a platform that fosters collaboration on key issues faced as a global society. Kelsy Gill said she is happy to have been selected for the expedition to the eastern Canadian [...]
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the country's first leader elected in nationwide polls, died at the age of 92 on Thursday, triggering political uncertainty ahead of planned elections. The veteran politician, the oldest head of state after Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, came to power in 2014, three years after the Arab Spring uprising toppled longtime [...]
