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Unions want TBSB
Three trade unions are demanding that the Termination of Contract and Service Board (TCSB) be reintroduced. They want this to be reintroduced as they believe that it will reduce unjustified firing of employees. The three unions are Government Services Employees Association (GSEA), the Federation of Parastatal Bodies and Other Unions (FPBOU) and the Local Authorities [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
MRA seeks World Customs Organisation’s expertise
The Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) will soon organise a high-level meeting with the World Customs Organisation (WCO) to discuss counterfeiting and smuggling in Mauritius. The meeting will take place next Thursday. The secretary general of the WCO, Kunio Mukuriya will chair a technical workshop from May 16 to 18, where the MRA technicians will discuss [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
SEMDEX crosses 2,100 mark
The Stock Exchange of Mauritius Index (SEMDEX) has achieved a new record. On Wednesday, it closed at a new record, that is, 2105.62 points. The earlier SEMDEX record was noted on February 18, 2008. This was 2101.34 points. Since the beginning of 2011, the SEMDEX has made an improvement of 7.02 per cent. This stock [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
MACOSS inks protocol with Beijing NGO
The Beijing NGO Association and the Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) signed an agreement protocol on May 10. The Beijing NGO Association will aid MACOSS in setting up an NGO academy and will also provide personnel for the artisanal sector. It has also agreed to help in other sectors. Li Xiaoqiang, vice president of [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
Nurses Day celebrated
On the occasion of International Nurses Day on Thursday, the Nursing Association (NA) held a press meet at the Marie Reine de La paix centre, Port Louis. The theme chosen for this year is ‘Closing the Gap Increasing Access and Equity’. According to NA president Bagooaduth Kallooa, Mauritius offers medical services to everyone and there [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
Body found at Roche Bois, foul play suspected
Police officials are suspecting foul play in the death of Richard Franco Begué, a 22-year-old whose body was found at a garbage transfer station in Roche Bois early on Thursday. The post mortem report was carried out by chief police medical officer Dr Sudesh Kumar Gungadin, who attributed the death to inter-cranial cerebral injuries. Police [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
Union seeks Bunwaree’s resignation
The Government Secondary School Teacher’s Union (GSSTU) is planning to hold a demonstration in Phoenix to demand the resignation of minister of Education Vasant Bunwaree. This was stated by unionist Naraindranath Gopee. He wants to know the reason why the National Inspectorate and the Quality Assurance Division have not yet been created. The ministry had [...]
13 May 2011, The Independent Daily
Mondial Hochey sur glace: Finlande et Russie rejoignent Tchèques et Suédois en demies
BRATISLAVA (AFP)La Russie et la Finlande se sont qualifiées jeudi pour les demi-finales du Mondial-2011 de hockey sur glace, où elles rejoignent ainsi la République tchèque, championne du monde en titre et la Suède.La Russie, qui a souffert jeudi pour battre 2 à 1 les Canadiens, champions olympiques 2010 affrontera donc la Finlande, facile victorieuse de la Norvège 4 à 1.Le vainqueur rencontrera en finale le vainqueur de l'autre demie, République tchèque-Suède, prévue samedi."Il nous manquait un petit quelque chose, juste un tout petit coup de pouce de la chance dans ces championnats. Mais aujourd'hui nous avons enfin connu cette …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Naseeruddin Shah attends Imaad's rock concert at Kathmandu
The great Naseeruddin Shah is doing for his son's career what he has never done for his own. Lending his presence at strategic places to promote his elder son's new film 404. Imaad who is also a rock musician, has been performing live at various venues in different cities. For Imaad and his rock-band's concert in Kathmandu on Friday evening, people were pleasantly surprised to see Naseeruddin Shah turn up all the way in Kathmandu to lend moral support for his son. According to members of Imaad's crew, no one was aware that Naseeruddin Shah would show up since Imaad …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
I want my note back, Chilean miner says
SANTIAGO (AFP)The Chilean miner who penned the famous note informing the world that he and 32 colleagues trapped deep underground were alive wants his note back.Jose Ojeda is the author of the August 2010 note that read: "We are okay in the refuge, the 33 of us."The note was attached to a probe that reached the miners 17 days after a collapse at the San Jose mine in northern Chile trapped them some 700 meters below the surface.Rescuers were surprised to find them alive, and the discovery set in motion a frantic rescue effort.President Sebastian Pinera, who linked himself to …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Caudan Waterfront - The decade of road safety launched
The decade of Road Safety was officially launched Wednesday at Caudan. Thus, three radio stations came together around a common platform for discussion.
12 May 2011, motors.mega.mu
Nine cars with radiation
The Department of radioactivity of the country is working. Nine cars were contaminated by radioactivity. These cars have hit the ground Mauritius on April 20.
12 May 2011, motors.mega.mu
Tour d'Italie: Ventoso devance Petacchi
FIUGGI (Italie) (AFP)L'Espagnol Francisco Ventoso (Movistar) a remporté au sprint la 6e étape du Tour d'Italie cycliste, jeudi à Fiuggi, où le Néerlandais Pieter Weening (Rabobank) a conservé le maillot rose de leader.Dans ce sprint jugé en légère montée, Ventoso a devancé l'Italien Alessandro Petacchi, vainqueur dimanche de la deuxième étape à Parme.Petacchi, qui était idéalement placé dans le sillage de Ventoso, a expliqué n'avoir pu déborder l'Espagnol en conclusion du parcours ondulé de 216 kilomètres traversant le Latium, la région de Rome.L'Italien Roberto Ferrari a pris la troisième place devant son compatriote Danilo Di Luca, lequel a tenté sa …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Finlande: les nationalistes refusent de gouverner à cause du soutien au Portugal
HELSINKI (AFP)Le parti nationaliste Vrais Finlandais a refusé jeudi de rejoindre un exécutif qui s'apprête à avaliser le soutien financier de la Finlande au Portugal, tenant ainsi une promesse électorale qui devrait faciliter la formation et le fonctionnement du gouvernement."Nous ne participons pas à la formation d'un gouvernement qui emmène l'Union européenne vers une fédération d'Etats et qui soutient des mécanismes qui ne fonctionnent pas", a déclaré le leader des Vrais Finlandais, Timo Soini."Il est dommage que le seul vainqueur des élections (législatives du 17 avril) n'entre pas au gouvernement. Nous serons un parti d'opposition strict et dur", a-t-il affirmé.Les …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Dortmund 'in talks to sign Croatia striker Perisic'
BRUSSELS (AFP)Newly crowned German champions Borussia Dortmund are in talks to sign FC Bruges' Croatian international striker Ivan Perisic, the Belgian club told the Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper on Thursday."We're in the middle of discussions with the Germans but nothing has been signed yet," said Bruges general manager Vincent Mannaert.Perisic, 22, joined Bruges two years ago from French side Sochaux for a fee of 250,000 euros ($350,000).Het Laatste Nieuws claims the forward, who has scored 19 goals in the Belgian championship this season, could be sold for up to five million euros.The newspaper reports that Perisic has already reached an …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Bardot says 'destroyed' by ex-husband's suicide
BERLIN (AFP)French screen idol Brigitte Bardot said Thursday she was devastated and shocked by the weekend suicide of her former husband, German-born billionaire playboy Gunter Sachs."I cannot understand what he did. Nobody expected it," Bardot, 76, told German magazine Bunte, saying she had been "literally destroyed" by the news that Sachs took his own life in Switzerland on Saturday aged 78.She said that although their marriage broke up in 1969 after just three years -- he was the last of her three husbands -- the couple had remained close."Gunter -- that was a wonderful period of my life. After we …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Boxer Klitschko splits with actress Panettiere
BERLIN (AFP)World boxing champion Vladimir Klitschko and his American actress girlfriend Hayden Panettiere have separated after 18 months together, they announced on Thursday."We realise how difficult it is to maintain a relationship when living on two continents," said the 35-year-old Klitschko, who divides his time between his homes in Hamburg and Florida."I cherish Hayden as a person and a woman. I'm sure we will stay friends."IBF and WBO champion Klitschko is preparing for a unification bout against Britain's WBA champion David Haye on July 2 in Hamburg."While we have decided to split, we feel great sympathy and respect for each …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Pour la première fois, un Vert à la tête d'un Land allemand
BERLIN (AFP)Winfried Kretschmann est devenu jeudi le premier président Vert d'une région allemande, en étant élu par l'assemblée du riche et industriel Bade-Wurtemberg (sud-ouest).Professeur de physique-chimie et militant de la première heure, M. Kretschmann, 62 ans, fait partie de l'aile "pragmatique" du parti écologiste. Il a bénéficié comme prévu des voix des sociaux-démocrates (SPD).Il avait créé la sensation fin mars en détrônant les conservateurs (CDU) de la chancelière Angela Merkel qui dirigeaient sans discontinuer depuis 1953 ce Land où sont installés Mercedes, Porsche et autre Bosch.Les Verts y ont obtenu leur meilleur score jamais enregistré à une élection, qu'elle soit …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Ligue 1: au bout du rouleau, Lyon n'en peut plus
LYON (AFP)Humilié à Auxerre (4-0), mercredi, Lyon apparaît au bout du rouleau après une saison épuisante à tous points de vue, attendant impatiemment la fin de l'exercice avec l'espoir de sauver la 3e place qualificative pour la Ligue des Champions.Dire que les joueurs s'accrochent à cet objectif serait assez audacieux car il semble que ce soit surtout le président Jean-Michel Aulas, qui soutient à bout de bras une équipe en perdition, notamment à l'extérieur, et un entraîneur décrédibilisé. Les questions sur Claude Puel abondent: est-il condamné à terme? Est-il maintenu à son poste par défaut ? Effectuera-t-il sa quatrième et …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?
Anti-discrimination body slams French race row outcome
PARIS (AFP)A French anti-discrimination organisation on Thursday launched a complaint over the handling of the dual-nationality quota row by the French Football Federation (FFF) and the French sports ministry. The Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN) claimed that the clearing ofBlanc was on Tuesday cleared of racial discrimination demonstrated that the two bodies wanted "to bury the case"."Today we are taking a serious decision: in the case of the French Football Federation, we are making a complaint," wrote CRAN spokesperson Louis-Georges Tin in Thursday's edition of Le Monde."Clearly, everything was done to bury the case."Tin also expressed surprise that "the …
12 May 2011, Orange Ki News ?