The Seychelles Fisheries Authority (SFA) is working on regulations that will oblige purse seiners to land a percentage of their catch in the island nation, a government official said Tuesday. The decision is being pushed forward as the Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT) canning factory in Seychelles faces challenges in obtaining yellowfin tuna from vessels operating [...]
The next time you stow your tray table, fasten your seatbelt and prepare for take-off, there's a good chance your pilot could be South African. South African Airways (SAA) is being buffeted by financial turbulence and new chief executive Vuyani Jarana says he has ambitious plans to steer the company to safety. One of his [...]
Seychellois Anaël Bodwell received an award on Tuesday in recognition for her leadership skills and work done to improve other citizens' lives. Bodwell also took part in the 2018 Queen's Young Leaders programme held during the last two weeks. The Seychellois was among a group of exceptional young people from the Commonwealth recognised for working [...]
Blaise has a beer in his hand, he's in front of a TV screen showing the World Cup, and the smile on his face suggests life doesn't get much better than this. But Canal Plus may disagree -- it owns the broadcasting rights in Gabon to the match being illegally shown in the bar in [...]
Seychelles will get a line of credit for the building of infrastructure and assistance in other areas with the signing of six agreements on Monday during President Danny Faure’s State visit in India. State House said on Tuesday that Indian Prime Minister Modi offered the second line of credit of $100 million dollars for defence [...]
Desperate parents led a prayer ceremony outside a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for days, as military rescue divers packing food rations resumed their search Tuesday. Hundreds of people have been mobilised to find the youngsters who went into the Tham Luang cave on Saturday [...]
The World Cup and a drop in the value of Russia's currency are negatively affecting the number of tourist arrival in Seychelles, a tourism official says, though Germany, France and Italy are sending more visitors to the island nation this year than in 2017. The 115-island archipelago in the western Indian Ocean has seen only [...]
Argentina ground to a halt Monday as public service unions blocked road, rail and air transport with a nationwide 24-hour strike in protest at the government's latest deal with the International Monetary Fund. In a massive show of force against the center-right government of President Mauricio Macri, organizers said at least one million workers were [...]
Broadening cooperation between Victoria -- the capital of Seychelles -- and Panaji -- the capital of Goa, India -- was the subject of discussions held between President Danny Faure and the Mayor of Panaji, State House said on Sunday. Faure and Mayor Vithal Chopdekar also agreed to explore further cooperation in areas such as port [...]
With the aim of consolidating cooperation in education with India, the President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, visited two institutions of higher learning in the state of Gujarat on Saturday at the start of his first State visit to India, State House said on Sunday. Faure visited the Indian Institute of Management where the Seychellois delegation [...]