A deposit of SCR2 will be applied to alcoholic drinks in glass bottles beginning in October in an effort to incentivise recycling and cut down on litter in Seychelles. The levy to be introduced is part of a new scheme within the waste management strategy, the Director-General for Waste, Enforcement and Permit, Nanette Laure, told a [...]
New British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday will urge the United States and European countries to do more to call out Russia's "malign behavior" and keep Vladimir Putin in check, notably by implementing tough sanctions. "The established rules of international conduct are repeatedly being flouted by major countries like Russia," Hunt was to say [...]
Seychellois students from the National Conservatoire of Performing Arts are currently on an exchange in Thailand learning traditional Thai dance. The exchange is part of international dance workshops which the school of dance within the institution organises every two years. Pierre Joseph, director of the Conservatoire, told SNA on Monday that the 15 students left [...]
New banknotes stripped of five zeros entered circulation in Venezuela on Monday as part of President Nicolas Maduro's radical plan to curb hyperinflation, but business leaders branded the move as counterproductive. The country appeared paralyzed. Most shops and businesses closed as Venezuelans reacted nervously to the issuing of the new "sovereign bolivar," launched to replace [...]
Greener practices are being promoted in all government departments as the Seychelles’ Ministry of Environment adopts new measures to eliminate single-use plastic products, said a top environment officer. “We are telling people to stop using plastics and we are passing new laws and regulations, but it needs to start with us in the government,” said [...]
Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans met their Northern relatives Monday for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago. The three-day reunion is the first for three years and follows a diplomatic thaw on the peninsula. The meetings began at Mount Kumgang, a scenic [...]
International students in Seychelles will soon benefit from a legal framework aimed at regularising the activities of foreign educational programs in the island nation. The regulations cover legal aspects to ensure that the rights of visiting international students are protected. One of the rights is for students to have access to clear, balanced and accurate [...]
Multiple earthquakes -- including a powerful and shallow 6.9-magnitude tremor -- have rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing at least five people and setting off fresh waves of panic. A series of quakes were recorded by seismologists throughout Sunday, the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing [...]
A project in Seychelles aims to secure the long-term future of the Paradise Flycatcher -- locally known as Veuve -- endemic to the third-most populated island of La Digue by transferring the birds to other islands. The project is the follow up of a Darwin Initiative project implemented in 2008. Rachel Bristol, a conservation biologist [...]
Ghana-born Kofi Annan, who died Saturday aged 80, was the first UN chief from sub-Saharan Africa, and it was on this continent that he experienced both the most difficult moment of his career, as well as some of his biggest diplomatic successes. Like a whole generation of officials, diplomats and foreign ministers, Annan was forever [...]