A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
The renown tourist hotel in Male’, Hotel Jen, has resumed services after rebranding to call itself “Jen Maldives Male’, by Shangri-La”. Upon its recommence, this Hotel will provide services to both locals and tourists. However, at the moment, the hotel is being used as a transit stay for tourists visiting resorts. According to the marketing […]
The Maldives is an island nation well-known for its coral reefs and tropical islands, with a remotely distributed population. The Maldives is mostly famous as a tourist attraction throughout the world with a very small print on the map. It consists of a population of less than 400,000; located just below Sri Lanka and India. […]
Hassan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford, is among the top speakers at the Great Northern AI Summit 2020. Professor Ugail will be speaking on “Explainable Artificial Intelligence – Towards Building Trust in Machine Learning Algorithms” AI Tech North is the first AI Conference in the North of England where all […]
FENN a collection of events focused on sustainable innovation was announced in Male’, Maldives. The event will be held in April 2021 (Assidha Nakaiy, Summer). The debut instalment of the series of events under FENN, #FENN2021 will be the first of its kind to be hosted in the Maldives. The event will bring together some […]
Your eyes, nose, and mouth are all intimate gateways and tissues touch all three, but ordinary, unsterilized tissues can carry germs and viruses, like COVID-19, which can live on tissue paper for up to 3 hours. That’s why every Fine tissue undergoes the company’s patented sterilization process, killing 99.99% of germs and viruses during the […]
MVR 30 million has been spent in advance on 75 ventilators supplied through a contract with Dubai-based Executers General Trading LLC. While only 11 of the ventilators have been brought to the Maldives, none of the ventilators has been accepted for use by the Ministry of Health. In the latest COVID-19 compliance audit report by […]
Ministry of Education, on 13th August 2020, has revised the academic calendar to announce its decision to start the new academic year on August 10th, 2021. According to the revised academic calendar, the first semester of 2020 will extend till December. Although the academic year of 2020 commenced on January 12 with its first semester […]
Maldives Transport Authority has extended the deadline provided for the registration of companies that provide shipping agency services. In an announcement made by the Customs, the authority has previously asked the agents registered and issued with a license, to submit the registration documents to the Transport Authority before 16th August 2020. According to customs, agents […]
The revenue generated by the State Trading Organization (STO) from the oil business in 2019, has increased by MVR 77 million. According to the annual report of 2019, the company has earned a revenue of MVR 6.4 billion from the business of oil, while in 2018, the company has earned MVR 4.3 billion. The report […]