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| Couple sell home to fund Goa trip | ||
 18 Aug: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph. Charles & Donna Wilder (photo)
have sold their comfortable home to fund a trip to the slums of Goa where they
will care for children living in poverty. Donna Wilder became interested in
trying to help tackle child poverty after going on a surprise holiday to Goa
to celebrate her 50th birthday in 2006. Now 53-year-old Mrs Wilder has been
to Goa eight times and she is set to return for five months to work out there...
To donate cash for Mrs Wilder to take to help people in Goa call her on 07737
267714. 432 words. + comments. Click
here. For the Donna Wilder Facebook site, click here. | ||
| Freida Pinto makes cover of The New York Times Style Magazine | ||
 18 Aug: CNN Go. The latest cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine's Women's Fashion issue stars Indian actress Freida Pinto, currently the subcontinent's most famous face on the global fashion radar... The only other girl who enjoys that kind of stature in the fashion world is Goa-based model Lakshmi Menon... 332 words. | ||
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| Canada: Wayne Fernandes retires from national Field Hockey team | ||
 17 Aug: Field Hockey Canada. Wayne Fernandes, a veteran of the Men's National
Team, has decided to hang up his cleats and put away his stick. After 14 years
with the Senior National Team, Wayne is beginning a new chapter in his life...
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here. Wayne is the son of Ed (ex-Dar-es-Salaam) & Shirley (ex-Uganda) Fernandes; brother of Tara & Joanna. For more pictures of him, click here. For video clips, click here. | ||
| Illinois: Allan deSouza: The Farthest Point | ||
 16 Aug: R&D Mag. New and recent works by photo-conceptual artist Allan deSouza
will be on view through Dec. 30 in the exhibition "Allan deSouza: The Farthest
Point." Born in Nairobi in 1958 and of Goan descent, deSouza moved to England and was a key figure in the black British arts movement in the 1980s. He explores the conditions and consequences of being "placed" in racial, sexual, and temporal frames. He lives and works in San Francisco, where he is professor of New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. Click here. For the Allan deSouza website, go to http://allandesouza.com/ For a video clip, 3m. 23s. click here. | ||
News Summary | ||
| Looking for Baby Sitters: Foreign Language Skills a Must 18 Aug: The New York Times... Simona D’Souza, 38, grew up in Kuwait and Canada. Even though her parents spoke Konkani, the language of Goa, to each other, they insisted that their children speak only English. Her husband is German and speaks to the children exclusively in German. Her nanny of five years spoke only in Spanish with the children... “Once you are trilingual, your brain can break down new languages that make it so much easier to learn your fourth, fifth and sixth languages,” she said... Full Text. | ||
| Goa has 'poor implementation of RTI' 18 Aug: Times of India. Parivartan, the Delhi-based NGO, has blown the lid off just how receptive the Goa state information commission is to the much-vaunted Right To Information (RTI) Act... The analysis report found that 80 to 90% appellants did not get information ... 528 words. Full Text. | ||
| 5 restaurants lose licenses for subletting to foreigners 18 Aug: Times of India. The excise department has cancelled the licences of five restaurants in the coastal belt for subletting their alcohol sale licenses to foreigners on tourist visas in the state... The restaurants are two in Calangute, one each in Candolim, Morjim and Colva ... The foreigners pay anything between Rs 75,000 and Rs 3 lakh as rent to the owner... 528 words Full Text. | ||
| Indian community in Russia shocked at Solomein's conviction 18 Aug: PTI. The Indian business community in Russia has decided to take up the matter of a Russian citizen's overstay in Goa, being termed as ''offence against the nation'' by a local court ... Forty-year-old Aleksandr Solomein was arrested in Goa and sentenced for one year imprisonment ... 392 words. Full Text. | ||
| Kuwait: Benaulim crowned champions in football tournament 18 Aug: Arab Times (Kuwait). Livrament Boys (Benaulim) emerged champions of the Alvernaz-Lalush Memorial Trophy 7-aside football tournament played under floodlights on Aug 12, 2010 at the Surra Stadium, Kuwait. Livrament beat Navelim Youth Centre in the tie-breaker 3-2... 608 words. Full Text. | ||
| Activists corner town planner over DLF project 18 Aug: Times of India. Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) members and other activists gathered at the town and country planning department and raised queries over the DLF project at Chicalim... They alleged that the site was located on forest and sloppy land ... 458 words. Full Text. | ||
| Workshop for Goa immigration police 18 Aug: Times of India. The Goa immigration police have organized a three day workshop for the immigration police, to help them perform more efficiently. “Unfortunately there are a few officers who indulge in illegal immigration”, said Allen De Sa, the superintendent of Police... 351 words. Full Text. | ||
| Death: Monia Michelle Nyamanga 12 Aug: Mombasa, Kenya. MONIA MICHELLE NYAMANGA (Nee Pu Cheok Cheun). Wife of Heston Nyamanga. Mother of Nikita Atieno and Marcus Ochieng. Daughter of Bernard and Hazel Pu Cheok Chuen. Sister of Late Charmaine Rooke, Sasha Matagaro (Nairobi), Giselle Pu Cheok Cheun (Seychelles), Crystal Abrams (Seychelles). Niece of Joanita (UK), Paulina, (Msa), Gabby (Msa), Joe (Msa), Steven (Canada), Silvana (Msa), Gigi (Malindi), Bernadette (Kilifi), Bruno (Msa), Benny (Kilifi), Sunny (USA). Funeral Mass on Thu. 19 Aug. at 10.00 a.m. - Holy Ghost Cathedral Mombasa. Burial in Kisumu: - Saturday 21 Aug. [Info: Maureen De Souza] | ||
| UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes ENTERTAINMENT: Home Movie Roadshow Uncut. BBC 2 Thursday 19th Aug. 00:20 to 01:20. Amateur film footage includes a portrait of India at the time of the British Raj DOCUMENTARY: Who Do You Think You Are? BBC 2 DOCUMENTARY. Zone. Sony Entertainment TV Asia TRAVEL: Working Holiday. Travel Channel DOCUMENTARY: Sunday Feature. BBC Radio Three RELIGIOUS: Beyond Belief. BBC Radio Four DOCUMENTARY: Dispatches. Channel 4 DOCUMENTARY: Crossing Continents. BBC Radio Four NATURE: Deadly 60. BBC 2 | ||