by Richard Butler | 16 Feb 2015 | Invest
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries, and Biochemistry (MALFFB) and the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding opening the way for CAAMS to assist MALFFB to promote Vanuatu's rural productive sector.
The agreement was signed at the Harbourview Chinese Restaurant in Port Vila Thursday evening by the visiting President of CAAMS, Li Shujun, and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biodiversity, Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 16 Feb 2015 | Invest
Vanuatu Daily Post
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between UDBP, China Huashi Enterprise Limited and China South West Architectural Design Limited for the companies to be responsible for the construction project.
Commencement of the building is expected to start in the middle of this year to be completed in two years.
The UDBP President said on completion, the building is going to become the Headquarters of the Bank worldwide.
“This is the commitment of the UDBP Committee to Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 11 Dec 2014 | Invest, Retire
Have you experienced yet those Winter Blues when the temperatures plunge and the first snow appears?
This is when you retreat to the computer's search button as your winter companion, and you enter one of the most searched words on the internet in a personal search for an escape from the oncoming weeks and months of winter.
"Paradise" followed by the question "where is it?"
"As a trade commissioner for the Republic of Vanuatu and a project manager for several property developers Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 23 Nov 2014 | Invest
Fiji, November, 2014 - Extracts from speech by President Xi Jinping
I hope my visit will help strengthen political mutual trust, enhance cooperation in areas such as economy, trade, agriculture, forestry, fishery and tourism, example people-to-people and cultural exchanges, deepen multilateral coordination and cooperation, and take China-Fiji traditional friendship to a new height.
An important agenda of my visit is to invite leaders of all Pacific island countries that have diplomatic ties with Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 18 Oct 2014 | Invest
Migration statistics: Who's moving where?
By GE Look ahead Posted May 14, 2014
EMERGING MARKETS / ASIA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA & TURKEY, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
Global migration statistics, which keep tabs on who’s moving where, reveal interesting shifts in global migration patterns. According to the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital, the largest regional migration from 2005 to 2010 was from Southeast Asia to the Middle East Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 18 Oct 2014 | Invest
Hong Kong-listed gaming investor Amax International Holdings Ltd says it has completed the purchase of a 60 percent stake in Forenzia Enterprises Ltd, a firm that has access to an online gaming licence for the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The deal was closed for a total consideration of HKD48.1 million (US$6.2 million).
Amax International plans to use the licence to operate from the country’s capital Port Vila (pictured) live table games recorded and streamed for online players.
At Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 12 Oct 2014 | Invest
Vanuatu Internet Connection
Submarine Internet Cable is coming soon
Prime Minister Sato Kilman has sat down with Vanuatu’s International Development Partners to source funding for the realization of what is likely the most important infrastructure investment Vanuatu will see in the foreseeable future-the Submarine Cable.
The magnitude of the implications of the Submarine Cable’s contribution to Vanuatu’s economic and social development “cannot be underestimated”.
Because without Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 09 Oct 2014 | Invest
Venture into Vanuatu
When contemplating a holiday, east coast Australians can feel restricted due to the long distance from most holiday hotspots.
And yet too often, holidaymakers overlook their South Pacific neighbours, viewing them as ‘fly and flop’ type destinations, with little else besides a pretty beach and a nice hotel.
This is a common misconception, and one we are here to disprove. The South Pacific island nations comprise some of the most beautiful and culturally Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 09 Oct 2014 | Invest
South Seas Dispatch
by Laura Jernegan - Sep 17, 2014
Island life on Vanuatu.
Laura Jernegan was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard and graduated from MVRHS in 2009. After graduating from American University in Washington, D.C., in 2013, she signed up for the Peace Corps and was posted to Malekula in Vanuatu in January 2014.Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014.
My day has begun. From there I turn on some tunes — these days it’s usually Ayla Nereo or the Velvet Underground Read more [...]
by Richard Butler | 09 Oct 2014 | Invest
Vanuatu eyed for US$1b nickel plant
Updated at 1:52 pm on 20 September 2014
radio New Zealand
A deal has been signed between a New Caledonian and a Chinese company to build a one-billion US dollar nickel plant in Vanuatu.
The agreement provides for a joint venture, which gives New Caledonia's MKM company a 51 percent stake and China's Jin Pei 49 percent.
The plan is to mine New Caledonia's low quality ore reserves, which are valued at 20 billion US dollars, and ship Read more [...]
