Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Exchanges including Bybit and OKX have taken advantage of the Indian Ocean archipelago state’s low taxes and light-touch regulation....
...About 75 Indian military personnel are stationed on the islands and operate two helicopters, mostly used for medical evacuations. Muizzu has given them a deadline of March 15 to leave....
...The Maldives has given India until mid-March to withdraw its troops from the archipelago nation, as its new pro-China president draws closer to Beijing....
...In the 1860s, British colonial lawmakers passed section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which ended up criminalising homosexuality until well after Indian independence and partition....
...Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone — the first Indian port operator to work in the neighbouring island nation — holds 51 per cent of Colombo’s West Container Terminal, which it is developing with Sri...
...A group of Pacific island nations (their position eloquently articulated by Manoa Kamikamica, Fiji’s deputy prime minister) were visibly distraught that the fisheries deal did not progress....
...Switzerland has abolished all its industrial tariffs, a strategy more usually followed by city-states or city-enclaves such as Singapore and Macau, or by small island nations....
...Saturday’s presidential election could have an impact on which Asian giant has most influence on the tiny nation of islands in the Indian Ocean....
...Some of the biggest rises were in countries in the Middle East and north Africa, with high increases also observed in island nations in the Caribbean, Micronesia and Polynesia, such as American Samoa....
...Climate-vulnerable island nations condemned it in even stronger terms — notably Marshall Islands natural resources minister John Silk, who said his team “did not come here to sign our own death warrant”....
...But they are a modern confection, invented by 19th-century scholars to emphasise the superiority of their own nations and the justice of their empires....
...N4,000 ($5.20) from N1,500 a year ago, it has “stopped being affordable for most”, says Aladekomo, general manager of Grey Matter Social Space, a restaurant in the upmarket business district of Victoria Island...
...Nelson helped her husband, who was a political prisoner on Robben Island, while Winnie was a tower of strength during those difficult years....
...But Rasmussen’s lament, delivered on behalf of small island states as the hottest year on record drew to a close, was met with both tears and a standing ovation....
...At $3bn, the so-called Valentines project would have been the largest-ever foreign investment in Uruguay, traditionally a farming nation with little history in mining....
...The latter, a grouping of Pacific Island nations, has no means for staging a World Cup, leaving just members of the Asia Football Confederation to bid....
...for such a secular nation — that the former has provided the anchor for the latter....
...We then watch that world fracture, through contrasting responses to the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the legacies of wartime defeat; the closing of borders (Ellis Island went from reception centre to an...
...The gathering will also be joined by leaders of developing countries including India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil and the Indian Ocean island-nation of the Comoros....
...Papua New Guinea, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to co-chair a summit of Pacific Island leaders with his counterpart in Papua New Guinea James Marape, the first visit to the country by an Indian PM....
...Yields from rice and other staples have halved in many areas and the once largely self-sufficient Indian Ocean island now depends on international aid to combat a hunger crisis....
...Records show that Prateek Gupta and his wife both obtained Dominican passports in 2018 through the Caribbean island nation’s citizenship by investment programme....
...The Sansoni palette was influenced by the melodramatic sunsets of reds, burnt orange and mauve over the deep blues of the Indian Ocean that are daily theatre in this island nation of 22mn....
...The JETP was agreed last year between Indonesia and wealthier nations such as the US, UK and Japan to support Indonesia’s energy transition....
...They eventually reached Elephant Island and ultimately South Georgia island, 1,300km away, by lifeboat. Amazingly, everyone survived....
International Edition