A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Winners of flats under the previous government’s Veshi Fahi Malé social housing programme have been told by the state-owned Housing Development Corporation to secure loans before a deadline of October 15. The HDC’s announcement last Tuesday came after complaints about delays in introducing a new affordable housing loan scheme devised by the central bank to help make […]
Sept 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr. Rajitha Senaratne will leave for the Maldives tomorrow (September 5) to attend the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region meeting. Health Ministers of the 11 Member countries of World Health Organization South-East Asia Region (WHO-SEARO) will be taking part in its 70th […]
The Maldives has condemned the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and ceased all trade ties with the country. Citing “systematic repression” of the minority group as documented in the past by the UN, the Maldives expressed concern with “the recent cycle of violence that resulted in the death of dozens of Rohingya Muslims and displaced […]
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, are kept under watch by Bangladeshi security officials in Teknaf on December 25, 2016. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have intercepted 34 boats carrying some 340 Rohingyas at border points near Cox’s Bazar. / AFP PHOTO / STR […]
Lawyers representing Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim have slammed the failure of the authorities to allow the convicted opposition lawmaker to seek medical treatment overseas as ordered by the criminal court. Despite assurances from Home Minister Azleen Ahmed last week that medical leave will be authorised within days, the Attorney General’s office appealed the part of Gasim’s […]
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Maldives condemned the atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims. The Administration will cease all trade ties with Myanmar until the Government of Myanmar takes immediate action. The statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reads; “The Maldives condemns in the strongest terms, the atrocities committed […]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) — A North Korean delegation left for Male, the Maldives, on Saturday to attend a regional meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO), the North’s state media reported. The delegation, led by the communist state’s Public Health Minister Jang Jun-sang, traveled to the capital of the Maldives to attend the 70th […]
The Maldives Correctional Services has on Thursday released a statement clarifying that their transfer of Jumhooree Party leader Qasim Ibrahim’s to house arrest is only temporary. This was a follow up statement to reports that Qasim had been transferred to house arrest while being hospitalized and undergoing treatment for a cardiovascular ailment. The Correctional Services said that this […]
The Maldives has reaffirmed its commitment to the ‘India First’ policy in the wake of attempts by China to woo the Indian Ocean archipelago as part of Beijing’s ‘string of pearls’ strategy to encircle India. ‘’The Maldives practices and follows an Indian First policy when it comes to security and peace in the Indian Ocean,’’ […]