Mauritius News

Kenya's self-exiled anti-graft czar, John Githongo, retu rned home to a heroic welcome by celebrated anti-corruption activists Wednesday a nd appeared paternal in his call for an end to a culture of impunity ...

Two nights at Thorpe Park in Chertsey, near London, costs from 293 for a family of four from 23 August.

Headline inflation has been falling steadily from a peak of 10.7 percent last June to a low of 8.8 percent in May and June this year.

The East African Community is negotiating a protoc ol on custom union for the region to remove tariffs and taxes attracted by goods in the member states within the next five years, a Kenyan government official ...

Hours before the partial closure of the third mainland b ridge in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, for routine maintenance work, residents are expressing mixed feelings and nursing fears that the ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says combating AIDS will be a top priority on his first official visit to Mexico, scheduled to begin on 3 August.

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius: The governments of Qatar and Mauritius signed here yesterday an agreement for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of income tax evasion as well as an annexed protocol.

“Living the digital world” is the theme chosen for the Infotech 2008 scheduled to be held at the Swami Vivekananda International Convention Centre from August 7 to 10. Some 75,000 Mauritians are expected to visit the salon.

An Air Mauritius plane with 241 passengers and 11 crew on board aborted take off in New Delhi on Thursday afternoon after the pilot noticed a fire in the undercarriage of the aircraft, airport officials said.

Displaced people have this week begun returning to their h omes in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the help of the United Nations refugee agency.

British Authorities intend to reintroduce Visas as entry prerequisites to the United Kingdom for all Mauritian citizens.

One of our recent tales revolved around two lesbian lovers who asked police to help them fight their parent's wishes and stay together.

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai World has signed a deal to construct a pipeline that would link Djibouti with Awash and rehabilitate the over 100 year old railway line for a staggering two billion ...

Inter Press Service 1 August 2008 Nasseem Ackbarally Port Louis "We are selling everything in this country: from our bodies to our land and now our sea and lagoons.

Mauritius also suffers from a rapid evacuation and evaporation of water because of the topography of the island.

Vietnam has pledged to sell 1.2 million tonnes of ri ce to Mozambique, at a rate of 400,000 tonnes a year, over the next three years, PANA reports from here Thursday.

Senior official of the Communist Party of China He Guoqiang met here Friday evening with Mauritian Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam.

From now on, all local broadband users' downloads will be monitored by MT. The FUP policy adopted by the local Internet Service Provider MT, proposes to monitor downloads and reduce transmission speed in cases ...

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An Agence France-Presse report from Port Louis, Mauritius, said the bodies were discovered on a Taiwanese fishing boat on Monday during a raid.