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US Transfers Guantanamo Bay Detainee to Switzerland
The Department of Justice has announced that a detainee has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Switzerland for resettlement in Switzerland. The Swiss Government, with the support of the Canton of Geneva,...
Foreign Direct Investment in Mauritius Reaches $250m
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) from January to October 2009 have amounted to $250 million, according to a release issued by the Bank of Mauritius (BoM) on Friday. France and the United Kingdom have been the principle sources of investments with hotels...
Seychelles Voted Top Environmentally Friendly Tourist Destination
The American Condé Nast Traveller Magazine has voted Seychelles as the most environmentally friendly destination in its Annual Readers’ Travel Awards 2009. Seychelles, which prides itself on environmental conservation takes the first place with an...
Disadvantage Pornography
Presumably, the title of Jonathan Raban’s piece about the photographs of Dorothea Lange for the New York Review was entitled “American Pastoral” because, as his point of departure, he invokes William Empson’s Some Versions of...
Seven Countries Meeting in Seychelles to Discuss Plan to Fight Piracy
Some 70 delegates from seven countries are meeting in Seychelles to set up an action plan to fight piracy and to build ties with international bodies. The delegates are from Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Maldives, Madagascar and Yemen among other...
Two Guantanamo Bay Detainees Transferred to Kuwait And Belgium
The Department of Justice has announced that two detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the governments of Kuwait and Belgium. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the...
Three Guantanamo Bay Detainees Transferred to Foreign Nations
The Department of Justice has announced that three detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the governments of Ireland and Yemen. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the...
Sharp Increase in Tourism to Sri Lanka
The Tourism Ministry said yesterday that tourist arrivals saw a sharp increase in May in comparison to the corresponding period last year. According to a spokesman of the Ministry the month of May saw 31,140 arrivals as against 26,307 in the corresponding...
