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May 12, 2022

Shivshanker Nair granted Freedom of The City of London

Shivshanker Nair, Chairman emeritus of Suez Holdings and Tuvalu’s Ambassador on Oceans and Climate change, was given the Freedom of The City of London in a […]
April 26, 2022

Ambassador Nair appointed Tuvalu’s Envoy to CHOGM

The Prime Minister of Tuvalu appointed Ambassador Nair, who has been his Special Advisor, as Tuvalu’s Envoy to The Commonwealth Heads of Govt.Meeting (CHOGM).   This […]
September 18, 2021

The Georgian Prince, the Vanuatuan Ambassador, and an American social-media influencer united to help Afghanistan

In the rush to get vulnerable Afghan nationals out before the mass killings begin, a particular story reflects how concerned citizens from around the world have […]
May 1, 2021

Shiv Shanker Nair bails out Costa Brava’s biggest animal welfare charity

Ms. Suella Winston-Campbell, Charity Manager of the Big Reds Animal Association, thanked Ambassador Shiv Shankar Nair, Vanuatu’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The Commonwealth, for […]
July 26, 2020

Shiv Shankar Nair donates vital PPE to Tuvalu and Vanuatu to fight COVID19

The Minister of Health of the Republic of Tuvalu, the Hon. Isaia Taape, thanked Ambassador Shiv Shankar Nair, Vanuatu’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The […]
May 28, 2020

China’s Belt and Road initiative in a post-Covid world

The Headlines In the 17th Feb. issue of Time magazine, in a lead article headlined “The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Derail Xi Jinping’s Dreams of a Chinese […]
May 28, 2020

China’s One Belt One Road, threat or a major opportunity?

Earlier this year, the first train rumbled down the tracks of a $3.4 billion electric railway connecting landlocked Ethiopia with Djibouti and its access to the […]
May 28, 2020

Illegal migration and the EU’s mis-targeted response

In 2015, according to Frontex, the EU Agency for protection of EU borders, a record of 1,820,000 illegal immigrants entered the EU (these were the ones […]
May 28, 2020

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