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							<title>Editorial: Au-delà d’un quinquennat</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Les c&amp;eacute;l&amp;eacute;brations de la f&amp;ecirc;te nationale en cette ann&amp;eacute;e d&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;lections  g&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;rales sont in&amp;eacute;vitablement &amp;eacute;clips&amp;eacute;es par les man&amp;oelig;uvres politiques  visant &amp;agrave; faire accoucher des alliances de convenance &amp;mdash; r&amp;eacute;elles ou  imaginaires.</description>
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							<title>Blog: Silent invisible women</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:04:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>International Women&amp;rsquo;s Day on 8th March is an opportune time to spare a  thought for the hundreds of thousands of women in Mauritius who are  active in the economy and at home but are much less visible in the media  than their &amp;lsquo;sisters&amp;rsquo; further up the social and economic ladder.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Dilemme capital</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:23:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>L&amp;rsquo;agenda politique de ce mois de mars devrait momentan&amp;eacute;ment rel&amp;eacute;guer au  second plan les tractations d&amp;rsquo;alliance et les folles sp&amp;eacute;culations qui en  &amp;eacute;taient tributaires. Les projecteurs seront d&amp;eacute;sormais braqu&amp;eacute;s sur le  body language, les attitudes et les prises de position des principaux  acteurs d&amp;rsquo;abord, en marge des c&amp;eacute;l&amp;eacute;brations de la f&amp;ecirc;te de l&amp;rsquo;ind&amp;eacute;pendance  et, ensuite, de la rentr&amp;eacute;e parlementaire.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Seul maître à bord</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Le Premier ministre Navin Ramgoolam a apport&amp;eacute;, mardi, un cinglant  d&amp;eacute;menti &amp;agrave; ceux qui annon&amp;ccedil;aient sous forme d&amp;rsquo;une exclusivit&amp;eacute; &amp;ldquo;s&amp;ucirc;re et  fiable&amp;rdquo; qu&amp;rsquo;une alliance rouge-mauve est concr&amp;eacute;tis&amp;eacute;e. Tout en apportant  ce d&amp;eacute;menti, Navin Ramgoolam, en fin strat&amp;egrave;ge, laisse toutes les options  ouvertes et, par la m&amp;ecirc;me occasion, &amp;eacute;tiolant ces pr&amp;eacute;tendants &amp;agrave; une  alliance dans une langoureuse confusion, non sans distiller un soup&amp;ccedil;on  de malice.</description>
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							<title>Earthquakes and volcanoes : Are Rodrigues and Mauritius really at risk?</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:22:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Recently, the inhabitants of Rodrigues have felt very much concerned as they have heard of repeated earth tremours near their island. This concern took another dimension following the January 2010 Haiti deadly earthquake. In the wake, Mauritians have also started to ask questions. This article attempts to give a clear scientific analysis of the geophysical set up&amp;nbsp; in our region with focus on Rodrigues concerning earth tremours and on Mauritius concerning any imminent volcanic upsurge.</description>
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							<title>Blog: Bank of Mauritius - Former Governor Basant Roi feels a foreigner would have done a better job than he did</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:12:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>The conflict at the Bank of Mauritius is not between the Board and the  Governor because the Governor presides over and forms part of the Board.  It is rather between the dissenting Directors and the Governor, Mr  Rundheersing Bheenick.</description>
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							<title>Chagos and A Marine Protected Area: Brainwash and Greenwash</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:49:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>From lies to deceit, from one trick to another&amp;hellip; For many years the UK  (and the US) have led the world to believe that the islands of the  Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean never had any indigenous  population, except for the giant tortoises in its waters and flying  seagulls around its shores, that life could not be sustained on these  islands, so no Robinson Crusoes or Man Fridays except for American  military personnel and perhaps a few Mad Dogs and Englishmen.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Aux grands maux, les grands remèdes</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:18:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>La mise en application cette semaine de l&amp;rsquo;Enhancement Programme visant  l&amp;rsquo;abolition des le&amp;ccedil;ons particuli&amp;egrave;res en Std IV dans le cycle primaire  constitue un premier pas vers une r&amp;eacute;forme profonde de l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;ducation  nationale.</description>
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							<title>Blog: Militant Creole</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:14:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Since the militant era of the 1960&amp;rsquo;s and 70&amp;rsquo;s, politicians like Dev  Virahsawmy (who is also a linguist) have invented a type of phonetic  writing which contravenes proper spellings and grammatical rules in the  French language which they have unsuccessfully been trying to impose on  the rest of the population through fascist propaganda in an attempt to  force the Mauritian government to introduce this &amp;lsquo;language&amp;rsquo; as a medium  of instruction in our schools four decades later.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Un bel exploit</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:07:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Le lait frais produit localement a commenc&amp;eacute;, certes timidement, &amp;agrave; faire  son apparition. C&amp;rsquo;est suite &amp;agrave; la courageuse initiative et l&amp;rsquo;esprit  d&amp;rsquo;entrepreneuriat de SKC Surat qui s&amp;rsquo;est jet&amp;eacute; dans un secteur pourtant  important mais o&amp;ugrave; d&amp;rsquo;autres ont &amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute; contraints de fermer boutique  pr&amp;eacute;matur&amp;eacute;ment. SKC Surat est, sans jeu de mots, un bel exploit qui  m&amp;eacute;rite d&amp;rsquo;&amp;ecirc;tre salu&amp;eacute;.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Chassez le naturel…</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>On dit souvent que g&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;ralement la fonction fait l&amp;rsquo;homme. Qu&amp;rsquo;importe les  caract&amp;eacute;ristiques peu honorables des gens, une fois qu&amp;rsquo;ils acc&amp;egrave;dent &amp;agrave;  des fonctions de hautes responsabilit&amp;eacute;s, surtout celles de l&amp;rsquo;Etat, ils  arrivent &amp;agrave; se d&amp;eacute;faire de leurs gros d&amp;eacute;fauts pour prendre de la hauteur.  Ainsi, la fonction devrait transformer l&amp;rsquo;homme. G&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;ralement.  Malheureusement, il existe des exceptions et le leader de l&amp;rsquo;opposition  Paul B&amp;eacute;renger en est une.</description>
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							<title>Blog: Freedom &amp; ethics of former President Cassam Uteem</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:06:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Former President Cassam Uteem is being attacked because he expressed the  possibility of returning to active politics, probably by re-adhering to  the MMM, to which party and values he has always been faithful like the  late James Burty David was to the Labour Party.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Une question de survie</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:08:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Il n&amp;rsquo;y a rien d&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;tonnant que les principaux partis politiques s&amp;rsquo;agitent  en ce d&amp;eacute;but d&amp;rsquo;ann&amp;eacute;e afin de trouver la meilleure formule d&amp;rsquo;alliance -  pr&amp;eacute;- ou post- &amp;eacute;lectorale. Ce qui surprend, cependant, c&amp;rsquo;est la fa&amp;ccedil;on  dont certains cherchent &amp;agrave; pr&amp;eacute;senter les d&amp;eacute;marches des uns et &amp;agrave; camoufler  les man&amp;oelig;uvres des autres.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Petit soldat ?</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>La d&amp;eacute;cision de Cassam Uteem, ancien pr&amp;eacute;sident de la R&amp;eacute;publique, de se jeter, ou tout au moins, d&amp;rsquo;envisager de se jeter de nouveau dans l&amp;rsquo;ar&amp;egrave;ne politique a provoqu&amp;eacute; des r&amp;eacute;actions de part et d&amp;rsquo;autre. Cette question d&amp;eacute;passe largement le cadre de l&amp;rsquo;individu. Elle comporte des implications d&amp;rsquo;ordre r&amp;eacute;publicain - bien plus moral que l&amp;eacute;gal. De ce fait, il est n&amp;eacute;cessaire qu&amp;rsquo;elle soit port&amp;eacute;e devant la nation sous forme de d&amp;eacute;bats publics.</description>
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							<title>Blog: Aviation Tourism in Air-minded Mauritius</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:39:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>To say that Mauritians are air-minded is to state the obvious. Those who live on an island have to be aware of the significance of both air and sea transport to their quality of life. But it is still useful to ask: To what extent are we air-minded?</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Pour un meilleur avenir</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:11:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>L&amp;rsquo;&amp;icirc;le Maurice de demain d&amp;eacute;pendra de ce qu&amp;rsquo;on fait d&amp;rsquo;elle aujourd&amp;rsquo;hui. Dans un monde qui mue &amp;agrave; un rythme ph&amp;eacute;nom&amp;eacute;nal en d&amp;eacute;pit de la crise &amp;eacute;conomique, il convient de se demander si on est, &amp;agrave; Maurice, suffisamment conscient de la n&amp;eacute;cessit&amp;eacute; de sortir de l&amp;rsquo;orni&amp;egrave;re traditionaliste.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Alchimiste</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:29:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Rarement est-il donn&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; un homme politique qui n&amp;rsquo;a jamais &amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; la t&amp;ecirc;te d&amp;rsquo;un mouvement quelconque d&amp;rsquo;entrer imm&amp;eacute;diatement, apr&amp;egrave;s sa mort, au panth&amp;eacute;on des grands tribuns de son pays. James Burty David a r&amp;eacute;ussi cet exploit.</description>
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							<title>Editorial : Copenhague : quel espoir ?</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:36:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Le sommet sur le changement climatique qui se tient en ce moment &amp;agrave; Copenhague rev&amp;ecirc;t une importance capitale car il s&amp;rsquo;agit du sort de la plan&amp;egrave;te qui, comme on sait, est d&amp;eacute;j&amp;agrave; atteinte d&amp;rsquo;une d&amp;eacute;gradation irr&amp;eacute;versible. Bien entendu, il s&amp;rsquo;agit &amp;eacute;galement de la survie de la race humaine dans son ensemble.</description>
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							<title>Editorial: Situation malsaine</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>Le malaise qui couvait depuis plusieurs mois au sommet de la Banque de Maurice (BoM) s&amp;rsquo;est dangereusement transform&amp;eacute; en un dysfonctionnement institutionnel. C&amp;rsquo;est une situation extr&amp;ecirc;mement malsaine pour une institution qui est cens&amp;eacute;e r&amp;eacute;guler et servir de chien de garde au secteur bancaire.</description>
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							<title>Blog: Bheenick Bashing!</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:32:00 +0400</pubDate>
							<description>This is a scene which may be unique to Mauritius. Some board members of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM) briefing the press on its steps about a meeting held some minutes earlier and calling for Governor Rundheersingh Bheenick to step down until the fact-finding committee which is yet to be appointed investigates the alleged wrongdoings on his part.</description>
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