Port Louis, Mauritius News

Sudana's leading sugar firm, the Kenana Sugar Company, exported its first shipment of five million litres of ethanol to the European U n ion , top on the list of its international clients, PANA reported Monday.

Impressed by the growing healthcare infrastructure and quality of doctors in this country, Mauritius is seeking India's help to boost its medical tourism industry and has invited Indian healthcare majors to invest in the island nation.

DHAKA: Bangladesh is going to appoint a new honorary consul to Mauritius in place of A Ganny Joonas, a Mauritius national who had been serving as the honorary consul for 16 years and has been dismissed on charge of various irregularities.

DHAKA: Bangladesh and Mauritius on Monday signed an agreement on avoidance of double taxation and fiscal evasion, says a foreign ministry press statement.

Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on October 1, 2009, appointed as Rector of the Propedeutic and Philosophical Interdiocesan Seminary 'Notre Dame de la Trinite' in Diocese of Port Luis , Fr.

Mauritius is a tiny island country off the coast of Madagascar, politically and geographically a part of Africa.

Flic en Flac, one of the main tourist areas in Mauritius, has seen crime significantly reduce since installing a distributed surveillance system using IndigoVision's IP Video technology.

Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

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.

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.