GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SUN 29 NOVEMBER, 2009
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| Carol Furtado: Merchants of Bollywood | ||
 29 Nov. Sunday Mail (Qld. Ausralia). After more than 850 performances worldwide, India's Merchants of Bollywood stage show returns to Australia next year with its leading lady, Carol Furtado… “I was born and brought up in Mumbai, but my parents are from Goa, which was dominated by Portuguese colonies at some point in time, so somewhere my ancestors are Portuguese… Merchants of Bollywood plays QPAC's Lyric Theatre, March 9-14; www.qtix.com.au 657 words. For a video clip of Carol Furtado select the link below. | ||
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| Joe Rocha “Slow Joe” set to conquer France | ||
 29 Nov: Le Monde (France). Recently the Times of India carried a headline "The Cinderella Man of Goa, on his way to a celebrated French festival."... It could well be a fairytale... Slow Joe had a comfortable childhood but then spent 30 years doing drugs in Goa ...until his path crossed with a red-haired French tourist...the unknown is set to play at the festival of Transmusicale de Rennes...organiser Jean-Louis Brossard defended that the goal was not to create publicity nor to produce a curious beast in a large hall...Joe's only fear is a persistent cold and that he might have to blow his nose in front of the microphone. 980 words, in French. [Translation by Selma]. | ||
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| Toronto: Expo held for promoting diabetes awareness 28 Nov: South Asian Observer (Canada). Toronto Diabetes Expo was held in North York… Sobia Khan, professor at George Brown College advised South Asians that it is wise to eat brown bastami rice, now available in grocery stores. For more information, please visit diabetes.ca… 309 words. Full Text. | ||
| UK: Desperate foreign students seek charity 29 Nov: BBC. Hundreds of destitute Indian students have finished another free lunch at a Sikh temple in Southall, west London. It's not the dream of England they were sold by agents - middlemen who charge students a fee to secure them a college space … Agents in India said that they will definitely find a part-time job to fund their studies in the UK. But it's totally different, there are no jobs… 1018 words. Full Text. more info... | ||
| Death: Justina Almeida 28 Nov: Assolna, Goa. JUSTINA ALMEIDA. Wife of late Carmelito. Mother of Belivia/Antonio Valdares; Dr Francis / Trudy Almeida; Marcia /late Joao Santana Gomes; Wilma / Cliff Fernandes; Elvis / Shaila Almeida (Canada). Funeral on 29 Nov. at Assolna. | ||
| Major crackdown on child porn in offing 29 Nov: Sunday Pioneer (India). India can now look forward to greater Interpol support in cracking down on paedophilia … Recent reports have highlighted the problem in coastal areas. Calangute, Candolim and Baga in Goa have been converted into a paedophiles’ paradise… In 1991, India and specifically the resort State of Goa caught the attention of the world for all the wrong reasons... 1051 words. Full Text. | ||
| Iffy IFFI 6 Dec: The Week. It doesn’t augur well for a cine buff when an international film festival of repute does not update its website till the day it begins. Nor is it a good sign to be given the schedule for only the first five days. Even worse is the organisers’ ambivalence about the attendance of noted film-makers…The Goan viewer has come a long way; but the festival has steadily been floundering… 926 words. Full Text. | ||
| IFFI’s red carpet circus 29 Nov: Hindustan Times. One of the most comic sights at the ongoing International Film Festival of India here is the Red Carpet tamasha every evening. Unlike the Red Carpet at Cannes or Venice or Berlin, Goa’s produces the loudest giggles… 502 words. Full Text. | ||
| Tony Fernandes named Airline CEO of 2009 29 Nov: Malaysian Star. AirAsia chief executive officer Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes has been named the Airline CEO of the Year 2009 by Jane’s Transport Finance magazine in London… The airline has flown more than 75 million guests in less than eight years… 185 words. Full Text. | ||
| Indian Government blocks church sales 27 Nov: Religious Intelligence (UK). The Government of India’s Maharashtra state has ordered the halt of all sales of Anglican Church property, pending an investigation into insider dealing and corrupt practices in the administration of church lands in the Diocese of Bombay… 650 words. Full Text. | ||
| Nerlon’s counsel shoots back over media articles 29 Nov: Herald. “Trial by media.” That’s how Counsel for Nerlon Albuquerque, Adv Ashwin Naik, sums up the series of articles written by Adv Jos Peter D’Souza in this paper on the investigation into the British teen Scarlet Keeling’s case… 393 words. Full Text. | ||