A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
BML Islamic has today announced positive changes to its Lifestyle Financing for personal customers receiving rental income from a property. The facility is a Shari’ah compliant financing solution based on the concepts of Murabahah, Diminishing Musharakah, Wakalah and Ijarah. For the unsecured BML Islamic Lifestyle Financing, customers can finance from MVR 25,000 up to MVR […]
Orca Media Group has opened nominations for the fifth edition of “Corporate Maldives Gold 100” which will be held in March 2021. “GOLD 100” is a list of leading 100 business entities in the Maldives, published by Corporate Maldives at the end of every year. The selection criterion ensures that the selection process is transparent […]
Spokesperson of Health Emergency Operations Centre (HOEC), Dr Nazla Rafeeq has revealed that arrangement for vaccine storage will be made in Male’ and in Atolls. The vaccine for COVID-19 has to be stored in specialized freezers. In order to meet the capacity for vaccination, storage facilities will be established in both Male’ and Atolls, according […]
Velana International Airport has welcomed 244 jets in November 2020, resulting in a 142% increase in jet landings in comparison to the same period last year. As per Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL), Velana International Airport witnessed 101 jet movements in November 2019 while this year, the airport has handled 244 jet movements, resulting in […]
Germany’s most popular airline, Condor has returned to the Maldivian skies with its first scheduled flight that arrived in the Maldives at Velana International Airport yesterday. The airline will operate 2 weekly flights from Frankfurt, Germany to Male’, the Maldives on Sundays and Tuesdays. Joining Lufthansa, this marks the second German airline to operate scheduled […]
Male’ Water and Sewerage Company (MWSC) has announced that the installation of the sewer network for the Hiyaa flats, located in Hulhumale’ Phase 2, has been completed. In a tweet regarding the progress of the water and sewerage network for the 7,000 units being constructed under the Hiyaa Public Housing Scheme, MWSC revealed that 59 […]
Dhiraagu has introduced a special year-end promotion for their prepaid customers. Dhiraagu customers can now enjoy 100 per cent extra data once they activate the prepaid data 75 mini bundles. Under this offer, each customer will receive 3GB data instead of 1.5GB, once the bundle is activated. The promotion will continue till 10th January 2021. […]
State Trading Organization (STO), under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, has developed a bus stop and park at the West Park area in Malé City. Vice President Faisal Naseem inaugurated the bus stop and park in the opening ceremony held last night. Speaking at the inauguration function, Vice President Faisal Naseem said that the […]
Telecom giant Ooredoo announced the commercial launch of its 5G services in the Maldives, with the initial rollout covering a large percentage of the capital city of Male’, including key business hubs, hospitals, public spaces and more. At a special event held today to celebrate the kickstart of the 5G era for the company, Ooredoo […]