Australia & New Zealand Mauritius

Global IT outages hit airlines and businesses worldwide [Updated 14:19]

The disruption appears to stem from an issue with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, industry experts said. Microsoft Windows is among its clients.

4 months ago

Air Mauritius reprend ses vols vers l’Australie

Après plus de deux ans, Air Mauritius a repris son service vers l’Australie. L’Airbus A330-900neo de la compagnie nationale a atterri à l’aéroport de Perth hier matin, le 2 novembre, après un voyage de six heures et 55 minutes depuis Maurice.

2 years ago

WHO chief scientist urges people not to panic over Omicron

'We need to be prepared and cautious, not panic,' WHO scientist says; Border controls only 'buy time'; Five U.S. states find cases of Omicron variant; BoE takes wait-and-see approach to raising rates

2 years, 11 months ago

Koala rescued from Australia bushfire is reunited with hero grandma

A badly burned koala that was rescued crying and screaming from Australia's bushfires has been reunited with the heroic grandma who saved its life.

4 years, 12 months ago

Australia's A$50 note misspells responsibility

Australia's latest A$50 note comes with a big blunder hidden in the small print - a somewhat embarrassing typo.

5 years, 6 months ago

Attouchements sexuels: la fédération des jeux du Comonwealth ouvre une enquête

Le chef de la Fédération des Jeux du Commonwealth a lancé une enquête sur des informations selon lesquelles une athlète mauricienne aurait accusé le chef de mission du pays de l’avoir agressé sexuellement depuis son arrivée sur la Gold Coast. C’est ce qui a paru dans le site du journal britannique The Guardian à la mi-journée

6 years, 7 months ago

Barnaby Joyce: Australia PM bans ministers from sex with staff

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has said he will prohibit sex between ministers and their staff, after it was revealed his deputy had an affair with a former staffer.

6 years, 9 months ago

A drone has rescued two people from rough seas off the coast of Australia

By dropping a floatation device

6 years, 10 months ago

Amazon’s Echo, Alexa and Music Unlimited are hitting Australia and New Zealand next month

Amazon announced its intentions to launch the Echo down under during its big AWS Re:Invent show back in November. Details were pretty light on the offering at the time, but now the company’s back with specifics a few weeks ahead of availability.

6 years, 10 months ago

Blanchiment d’argent: la commission anticorruption sur la piste d’un axe Maurice-Australie

Ajay Shanto, un commerçant, a été arrêté par l’Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) ce jeudi 23 novembre. Il a par la suite été traduit en cour. Les enquêteurs le soupçonnent d’avoir pris part à un plan visant à blanchir de l’argent en Australie.

6 years, 12 months ago

Paradise Papers: « La FSC se penche sur le dossier » selon Sudhir Sesungkur

Le ministre des Services Financiers et de la Bonne Gouvernance, Sudhir Sesungkur, a confirmé ce matin au Mauricien que la Financial Services Commission (FSC), l’autorité régulatrice du secteur des services financiers non bancaires, s’est déjà mis à l’ouvrage pour « étudier la véracité des informations contenues dans le lourd dossier (13,4 millions de documents) des Paradise Papers, en particulier les informations relatives aux activités dans le centre financier mauricien ».

7 years ago

Pauline Hanson wears burka in Australian Senate

The leader of Australia's far-right One Nation party has worn a burka on the floor of the nation's Senate.

7 years, 3 months ago

China jails Crown Resorts staff over gambling crimes

A Chinese court jailed 16 employees of Crown Resorts Ltd, including three Australians, in a quick-fire trial on Monday that caps a lengthy probe into how the firm lured Chinese high-rollers to its casinos.

7 years, 4 months ago

China Eastern flight lands safely in Sydney with hole torn in engine

A China Eastern flight bound for Shanghai was forced to turn back to Sydney because of a mid-air emergency, an airline spokeswoman said on Monday, with pictures showing a gaping hole in the casing of one of its engines.

7 years, 5 months ago

Great white shark leaps into tiny boat, fisherman treats it like NBD

Terry Selwood was hoping to catch some snapper off the coast of Evans Head in Australia when a great white shark leapt out of the sea and into his boat.