Mauritius, Mauritius News

Kochi: One hundred and thirty five officer cadets of the Navy and the Coast Guard successfully completed their afloat training onboard the First Training Squadron at the Naval Base here on Saturday.

Port Louis - Mauritius' central bank governor Rundheersing Bheenick told Reuters on Wednesday he saw no reason to step aside, shortly after a majority of board members at the Bank of Mauritius called on him to go.

The president of the West African Development Bank , Mr. Abdoulaye Bio-TchanA©, said here on Wednesday that only 46 per cent of Pub l ic Development Aids , announced by donor countries, actually got to the ben e ficiary countries.

"We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests.

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The winning photographs of an eco-themed photo contest sho wed pro-environmental activities in Africa, featuring environmentalists planting trees in a water catchment area in Kenya, Moroccan women turning plastic bags in t o handbags as part of a trade fair project and a Kenyan couple planting a tree o n their wedding day.

Most African nations are corrupt, scoring less than 3.0 out of a possible mark of 10 in the 2009 Corruption Perception Index of the Berlin-based anti-corruption organ isation Transparency International , released Tuesday in Berlin, Germany.

NASA's MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite captured Cyclone Anja in the southern Indian Ocean on Nov.

Take a leap of faith and vacation in a city you can't place geographically such as Entebbe or Mauritius.

The Republic of Mauritius in collaboration with the World Health Organization Afro Region and the International Diabetes Federation today opened an International Conference on Diabetes & Associated Diseases in Port Louis, Mauritius to highlight their concern about the rapid growth of the diabetes epidemic throughout Africa.

The company gave a presentation at a conference hosted by the Mauritian Board of Investment.

An International Monetary Fund mission headed by Atish Ghosh visited Mauritius during October 19-31, 2009 to conduct Article IV consultation with the authorities.

Armadillo and Dodo at Local Stamp Club. THE October 7 meeting of the Stroud and District Philatelic Society turned out to be an unusual one for members when they arrived to show a Few of their Favourite Things.

The Postage stamp collector rings Twice: William Haden and Katie Huard in the village playhouse's Mauritius Mauritius Oct.

Mauritian Industry, Science and Research Minister , Dharam Gokhool, said the time has come for Africa, a land of knowledge, to red i scover itself and embark on the route to regeneration, renaissance and renewal.

Hey!heard of Jardin des Pamplemousses?It's a well-know place to see the island's flora while you are on a holiday in Mauritius , It has got more than 500 plant species.

Mauritius plays out all the complications of a blended culture in an island paradise, writes Pico Iyer I AM walking, almost alone it seems, with two lion cubs through a wilderness evocative of Africa.

The Kenyan High School, one of the few schools to record one of the highest infection rates of the dreaded H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, Friday confirmed 11 new cases of the disease, raising its toll to 36 s ince Tuesday.

Mauritius health minister, Rajesh Jeetah, has decla red that about 1,600 people have been deployed across the country as part of the fight against the chikungunya fever.

Nasseem Ackbarally 14 September 2009 column Port Louis - "Why should we surrender ourselves to the invasion of highly subsidised European goods? What will be the impact of capital outflows because of strategic services such as telecommunication, port, energy and water services being liberalised and privatised in the interest of European companies?" ...