French urban freeclimber Alain Robert was arrested on Tuesday, police said, after he scaled one of Manila's tallest towers in his latest high-risk ascent. The 56-year old adventurer dubbed the "French spiderman" climbed the 47-storey GT Tower without safety equipment, leaving watchers on the ground staring in amazement. "This is my path, this is my [...]
Cooperation in trade and the economy are two areas that Seychelles and Pakistan will work together on, said the newly accredited Pakistani High Commissioner on Tuesday. The newly accredited High Commissioner for Pakistan to Seychelles, Syed Ahmed, spoke after he presented his credentials to President Danny Faure at State House, Victoria. “Pakistan and Seychelles already have [...]
United States sanctions aimed at pressuring Nicolas Maduro to capitulate in his power struggle with self-proclaimed acting-president Juan Guaido have Venezuelans fearing they may be left facing fuel shortages. Whether they support the US sanctions or not, Venezuelans interviewed by AFP agreed on one thing: with a devastated economy, hyperinflation the International Monetary Fund predicts [...]
Seychelles has improved eight places on the global Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018, ranking 28th out of 180 countries, the best performance for the island nation since the Index started in 1995. The index, released by Berlin-based Transparency International, measures perception of corruption in the public sector using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 [...]
A century and a decade. That's how old Nancy Marie turned over the weekend, becoming Seychelle's oldest citizen on record as she celebrated her 110th birthday on January 26 in the presence of family members and friends. Born in 1909 on Praslin, the second-most populated island of Seychelles, Marie now holds the record for the [...]
A shipwreck hunter hired by the family of missing footballer Emiliano Sala to look for his missing plane said he was planning to begin an underwater search on Sunday. David Mearns of Bluewater Recoveries said on Monday that two fishing boats were searching the sea around the island of Guernsey as part of the search. [...]
Renovation work has started on Beachcomber Seychelles Sainte Anne Resort & Spa to transform the hotel from 87 rooms to a 5-star resort of 295 rooms. According to an article from the Independent newspaper published on January 18, the Beachcomber Group announced that local company Vijay Construction has won the tender for the project. The Beachcomber Group is [...]
The US Justice Department on Monday unveiled sweeping charges against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in two cases likely to ratchet up tensions between the two superpowers -- including that of a top executive arrested in Canada on a US warrant. The department unveiled 13 charges against chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou -- the daughter of [...]
Seychelles’ third-most populated island, La Digue, has a new fish market funded by the European Union (EU), the EU said in a communiqué. Speaking at the opening on Friday, EU’s Ambassador to Seychelles, Marjaana Sall, said, “The La Digue fish market reflects the success of the EU-Seychelles bilateral cooperation on fisheries because it will generate revenues, [...]
A traditional dhow sailing boat made entirely of trash and flip-flops has set off on an expedition along the Kenyan coast to raise awareness about the harmful effects of plastic waste. Dhows, with their billowing triangular sails, are an icon on the Kenyan coast, having traversed these Indian Ocean waters for some 2,000 years. On [...]
