Port Louis (Mauritius)

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'

PORT-LOUIS, Nov 21 (IPS) - "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. Nature was...

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Mauritius to raise $50 mln from telecom listing

PORT LOUIS, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Mauritius expects to raise 1.5 billion rupees ($50 million) from the listing of the country's biggest telecoms player, Finance Minister Ramakrishna Sithanen said in his budget speech on Wednesday.

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Mauritius Union Assurance gets nod to buy rival

PORT LOUIS - Mauritius Union Assurance Company said on Tuesday shareholders of rival National Mutual Fund (NMF) had given it the green light to buy a controlling stake. Mauritius oldest insurance company, MUA, which has around...

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Even tiny Mauritius buys IMF gold

Posted: Tuesday , 17 Nov 2009 PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it sold two tonnes of gold to the central bank of Mauritius at prevailing market prices on Nov. 11. The IMF said in a statement...

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Mauritius' MCB bank Q1 profit falls 7.1 pct

PORT LOUIS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) said on Friday its first quarter profit fell 7.1 percent because of the impact of the global financial crisis on overseas partners and the strength of the...

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International Diabetes Experts Converge On Mauritius To Highlight Escalating Diabetes Rates...

The Republic of Mauritius in collaboration with the World Health Organization Afro Region and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today opened an International Conference on Diabetes & Associated Diseases in Port Louis,...

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Mauritius's SBM reports Q1 profit down 7.9 pct

PORT LOUIS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - State Bank of Mauritius SBML.MZ, the Indian Ocean island's second biggest bank, posted a 7.9 percent fall in its first-quarter net profit on Thursday. SBM, which has about a 25 percent market...

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Mauritian sugar producers focus on land in merger

By Jean Paul Arouff PORT LOUIS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Two leading Mauritian sugar producers listed on the Indian Ocean nation's benchmark SEMDEX index said on Thursday that their planned merger would help the firms optimise land...

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International Conference on Diabetes to highlight the rapid growth of the diabetes epidemic...

The Republic of Mauritius in collaboration with the World Health Organization Afro Region and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today opened an International Conference on Diabetes & Associated Diseases in Port Louis,...

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UPDATE 1-Mauritius October inflation rate falls to 3.6 pct

PORT LOUIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Consumer prices in Mauritius fell 0.5 percent in October from a month earlier, cutting the annual average inflation rate to 3.6 percent from 4.4 percent in September, official data showed on...

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