Suriname's state energy company Staatsolie and an affiliate of Malaysia's oil firm Petronas on Tuesday signed a production-sharing contract for exploring and developing an offshore oil and gas block,

PARAMARIBO: PETRONAS, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PETRONAS Suriname E&P B.V. ("PSEPBV"), has signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block 66, located in the deepwater region offshore Suriname.

For years the small South American country of Suriname, a former Dutch colony, has been instrumental in producing some of the Netherlands' best footballers, from Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit to Clarence Seedorf.

Suriname’s state energy company Staatsolie has signed a production-sharing contract with Paradise Oil Company, a subsidiary of Malaysia’s Petronas, to explore and develop offshore Block 66

Suriname will swear in its first female president after an usually complicated electoral process, with analysts saying investors have little to fear from a change in government in the newly oil-rich nation.

H is finger ink-stained from voting, Wagirin Tjokrosetiko, a 62-year-old driver of Javanese descent, has a simple reason for wanting a woman to run Suriname, a multi-ethnic former Dutch colony of under 700,000 people on the north-eastern shoulder of South America. “Male presidents only fill their pockets,” he says.

Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones.

Lucknow: To strengthen international cooperation and enhance the global visibility of Uttar Pradesh as a premier tourism destination, the ambassador of India to Suriname, Subhash P Gupta, visited the directorate of UP Tourism on Monday.