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Seychelles

  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    HTSI
    A first look at the Cheval Blanc, Seychelles

    LVMH’s über-hotel has arrived in the archipelago. The HTSI travel editor checks in

    Views over Anse Intendance beach
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Welcome to crypto archipelago

    One tiny, lightly regulated African nation plays an oversized role in global token trade

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    Africa holidays
    A shipping container in paradise

    On Cosmoledo — a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the Seychelles — a pioneering eco-camp is welcoming well-heeled castaways

    BlueSafari-cosmo-beach-cabanna-03
  • Monday, 29 October, 2018
    Sovereign bonds
    Seychelles sells world’s first blue bond in ‘dolphin debt’ deal

    Sale by tiny island nation is first with expressed purpose of protecting marine life

    SEYCHELLES - JUNE 15: Aerial view of a lagoon, Mahe Island, Seychelles. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2018
    Environment
    Debt swap paves way to protect Seychelles ocean

    Celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio and asset manager Jeremy Grantham help provide funding

    t Aldabra tortoise on an island in Seychelles. Granite, coast.
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2017
    Anjana Ahuja
    Medieval diseases are making a grim comeback

    The return of plague and cholera reveals a fragile stand-off between humans and bacteria

    A young woman (L) gestures as she is examined by a doctors at a healthcare checkpoint at the "taxi-brousse" station of Ampasapito district in Antananarivo on October 5, 2017, with the mission of informing passengers leaving Antananarivo, and to potentially detect cases suspected of plague. Madagascan authorities have ordered two universities to close temporarily as efforts intensify to halt a plague outbreak that has killed 33 people and caused widespread panic. The Indian Ocean island nation suffers annual plague outbreaks, but this year the disease has affected urban areas, triggering concern from the World Health Organization (WHO). / AFP PHOTO / RIJASOLORIJASOLO/AFP/Getty Images
  • Friday, 28 October, 2016
    Life & Arts
    A fly-fishing heaven in the Seychelles

    For anglers, Alphonse Island is a glimpse of tropical perfection, with white sands, blue skies — and colossal fish

    Fly-fishing on Alphonse Island
  • Friday, 30 September, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Travel updates: Amsterdam, Maldives, Seychelles and Greece

    Visit the Rijksmuseum; stay at Soneva Jani or Zil Pasyon; book in advance for Sani Dunes

    Capybara by Frans Post (1639)
  • Friday, 17 June, 2016
    FT Magazine
    The new wave

    Lap up luxury in sublime waterfront settings

    Miavana, Madagascar
  • Friday, 10 June, 2016
    Life & Arts
    A fantasy island in the Seychelles

    A pirate’s hide-out has been reborn as a $5,000-a-night retreat, offering privacy, luxury, white sands and 3,000 giant tortoises

  • Friday, 27 May, 2016
    World
    Malaysia letters deepen mystery over fate of 1MDB cash

    Leaked central bank documents contain claim that $1bn flowed to company owned by socialite financier

    NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 20: Mr. Jho Low speaks onstage during Angel Ball 2014 hosted by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street on October 20, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Gabrielle's Angel Foundation)
  • Sunday, 1 May, 2016
    UK economy
    UK offshore havens see drop in company registrations

    BVI, Gibraltar and Isle of Man experience dip after backlash

  • Friday, 8 April, 2016
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    My brief career as an Indian Ocean tax pirate

    How easy is it to set up in one of the world’s favourite tax havens?

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    US politics & policy
    Panama Papers reveal companies blacklisted by US

    Leaked documents include 33 people and entities on US sanctions list

  • Friday, 15 January, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Why buyers in the Seychelles need patience to land a home

    The islands offer peace and privacy but slow turnover and lack of new large properties means perfect hideaways are hard to find

    A fisherman on La Digue island, the Seychelles
  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2015
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    So, Satoshi is an Aussie?
  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2015
    beyondbricsJonathan Wheatley
    Tackling poverty among women and girls: six key questions
  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2015
    Chinese politics & policy
    Modi launches charm offensive in Indian Ocean backyard

    Visits aimed at reasserting New Delhi’s interests over Chinese influence in region

    TO GO WITH India-China-SriLanka-Maldives-diplomacy,FOCUS by Claire COZENS and Amal JAYASINGHE in Colombo This photo taken on September 10, 2014 shows a ship loaded with containers ready for departure, berthed at the new Chinese-majority owned Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) in Colombo. China's president will kick off his first South Asia tour with a visit to Beijing's latest investment in Sri Lanka, a 1.4-billion USD port city development to include a marina and a Formula One track -- all just 250 kilometres (150 miles) from India's coast. AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI
  • Tuesday, 16 September, 2014
    Banks
    British Virgin Islands suffers amid push against money laundering
    View of Road Town, capital of Tortola, Caribbean British Virgin Islands.
  • Friday, 4 April, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Is spring/summer’s nomad look right for you?
    Left to right, from the spring/summer 2014 collections of Alexander McQueen; Givenchy; Dries Van Noten
  • Friday, 14 March, 2014
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    Russia: reversal

    Sanctions may hurt. But damage is already done

  • Thursday, 28 November, 2013
    UK inward investment
    Chinese investor has grand designs for London docks
    Xu Weiping
  • Friday, 15 November, 2013
    Life & Arts
    Postcard from . . . Denis Island, the Seychelles

    The island lodge delivers the desert island fantasy of talcum-soft beaches, freshwater pool and thatched bar and restaurant

    Denis Island
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2013
    Emerging markets
    Chinese visitors provide lifeline to Indian Ocean tourism
    Mauritius
  • Friday, 3 May, 2013
    Life & Arts
    Reclamation mark

    Faced with land constraints, Seychelles created six new islands

    Four Seasons Seychelles
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