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Lovelorn In Goa
6 Feb: India Today. Book Review of The Girl By Sonia Faleiro,
Viking/Penguin Price: Rs 250. Excerpts: The Girl is unabashedly sentimental
... the real treat of this book: the dazzling and often strangely dark
visual imagery ... what really engages here is the gloomy, monsoon-drenched
richness in the descriptions of Goa, its Portuguese Catholic ethos ... 723
words.
Read the reviews, hear the author, look at her photos, buy the book ...
http://soniafaleiro.com/press.htm
New Zealand: Lobbying for Asian voices on health
31 Jan: New Zealand Herald. Health experts are setting up a foundation to
lobby for Asian health interests at Government level ... The trustees are Dr
de Silva ... and Ruth de Souza, a nurse and researcher at the Centre for
Asian and Migrant Health Research at Auckland University of Technology.
Over the next two decades, New Zealand's Asian population is projected to
increase from 270,000 people to 670,000. Most of this growth will be in
Auckland. Dr de Silva said it was already known that Asian disease rates
climb with acculturation. Asians with chronic disease tended to seek
medical help late, she said, and women did not have mammograms and cervical
screening tests at the rates of other population groups. 309 words.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000C8647-D4B9-13DD-A59183027AF1010F
For a photo of Ruth see http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/
President of Portugal to inaugurate St Francis Xavier Exhibition
30 Jan: Agência Ecclesia (Portuguese). The President of the Republic, Jorge
Sampaio, will inaugurate on 1st Feb. an exhibition on "St Francis Xavier -
his Life and Times" as part of programme to mark the 5th centenary of the
birth of the Saint. The exhibition will run in Lisbon till 17 Apr. 2006
and will have 250 items.
For the exhibition website see http://www.sfx.eventos.lisboa.ucp.pt/
For text of article see
http://www.agencia.ecclesia.pt/noticia.asp?noticiaid=28012
Portugal Exports Beer to Goa
30 Jan: Agência Financeira (Portuguese). Sagres and Imperial Portuguese
beers are to be marketed initially in Goa which has with a high
consumption of beer per capita. It is hoped to widen distribution later to
other parts of India. 308 words.
http://www.agenciafinanceira.iol.pt/noticia.php?id=640667&div_id=1728
UK: ITV jets to India with new drama
30 Jan. Guardian (UK). ITV is to explore the perils backpacking in a new
drama called Losing Gemma, in which two friends go to India and only one
returns. Based on the first book by novelist Katy Gardner, Losing Gemma is
set against a backdrop of India's top tourist destinations. Holby City
actress Rachel Leskovac plays Gemma, a needy girl who is thrown together
with hardened travelling partner Esther (Alice Eve) ... the two-part
thriller will start a six-to-eight week location shoot in Goa, Delhi and
Agra at the end of this month. 316 words.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1698382,00.html
Mumbai to Goa by Kingfisher Airlines
29 Jan: Take Back the Times. Retired Journalist Ken Reich (L.A. Times for
39 years), writes about the Kingfisher Mumbai to Goa flight and of his
experiences in Goa. 477 words.
http://takebackthetimes.blogspot.com/2006/01/flying-to-old-portuguese-colony-of-goa.html
UK: Sex for visas scandal
12 Jan: Croydon Guardian. Excerpts: Young girls working at the visa centre
looking for a little bit of fun used to proposition Australian and New
Zealand men and then talked about it casually in the tea room ... female
asylum seekers threw themselves at staff in a bid for visas ... women
paraded like contestants in a beauty pageant ... 471 words.
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/search/display.var.671274.0.shock_new_claims_in_lunar_house_sex_for_visas_scandal.php
Death
28 Jan: Siridao, Goa. INACIO PINTO: Husband of Cristalina, father of John
Manuel/Joana (Paris), Francis Cruzinho/Maria Caitana, Agnelo /Filomena
(Paris), Dr Isabel/Dr Gustavo (UK). Caring Grandfather of Jerillee/Raoul
(UK), Cheryl, Lorettee, Ambika, Anita (UK), Gordon (Paris), Nash (Paris),
Reuben (Paris) and Arlinda.
