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IPU interview with Reeko Moosa speaks about fallout with MDP

IPU interview: Reeko Moosa speaks about fallout with MDP

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The following is a transcript of the video: IPU TV: So very warm welcome to IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union) TV exclusively, I mean, IPU TV is going to launch from today and this is the first time on 136 assembly from Bangladesh. We are going to launch this IPU TV. So we have a very special […]

Aasandha

Aasandha health insurance suspension, a revenge strike?

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 7th May 2017. The following is a loose translation: If looked at it in any angle, the overnight suspension of Aasandha (universal health insurance scheme of the Maldives, managed in partnership with Allied Insurance Company) from private medical providers is beyond bewildering. Especially when the […]

Death by popular demand

Death by popular demand

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The death penalty breeds injustice. It is most often imposed on  the persecuted or the underprivileged. As the civilised majority increases its commitments to abolish it, some countries have spiked up executions. This includes states that have resumed the death penalty after discontinuing long-standing moratoriums.  Apart from far-reaching authoritarianism, there doesn’t seem to be a […]

Minister of Youth And Sports

Maldives Jobs: each leader with a different number

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 21st April 2017. By Mohamed Yameen The following is a loose translation: The government’s main top goal is to create 94,000 jobs before the end of their 5-year term, thereby instilling happiness amongst the citizens. However, the unsettlement is now over the number of jobs […]

Faris, Umar, Qasim , Nasheed

Who will contest in the 2018 Maldives election?

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Vaguthu.mv website on 12th April 2017. By Musharraf Hassan The following is a loose translation: It was in 1953, the lineal sultanate rule was abolished in the Maldives. Mohamed Ameen Dhoshimeynaa Kilegefaanu took the lead to introduce Maldives to a republican system and became the first President of […]

Gasim's house searched

Maldives govt: similar issues, yet different actions

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 18th April 2017. By Fazeena Ahmed. The following is a loose translation: In the political sphere, all eyes are on Jumhooree Party leader and bigwig Gasim Ibrahim’s court case. Member of parliament for Maamigili constituency Gasim is suspected of bribery. He was summoned to the […]

Uninhabited island in the Maldives

What do we understand from Maldives’ tourism investment surge?

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 19th April 2017. The following is a loose translation: – huge increments in the first quarter – big brands on resort management on the rise – contrasts in what’s been said and the real story Would tycoons leave their money where they have no confidence? […]

US

Are foreign criticisms politically stained?

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 9th April 2017. By Moosa Rasheed The following is a loose translation: Foreign nations, associations and NGOs attempt to interfere with the Maldives internal affairs is not something new and of which that started recently. When we dive back into the history it is clear […]