A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
MALE (Maldives), Dec 19 (Bernama) — Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak arrived here Tuesday for a two-day official visit to the island nation of the Maldives. Najib and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor were greeted on arrival at the Velana International Airport, Hulhule, by Maldivian Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Mohamed Asim […]
Ronan and Storm Keating are set to spend their first Christmas with baby Cooper on the beach in the Maldives. The 40-year-old Boyzone singer and Australian TV producer welcomed the tot back in April and will be celebrating their first festive season as a family with an exotic holiday. Posing for a Christmas themed photoshoot […]
Ooredoo Maldives has launched AppNGame Packs providing data for general browsing and a certain amount dedicated for specific applications. The Ooredoo AppNGame packs include ringfenced data allowances for Snapchat, Sound Cloud, Clash of Clans and IMO. The 1.5 GB pack costs MVR 159 and includes 711 MB dedicated to apps, with 50 on-net minutes; 4GB […]
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu along with his family is going to the Maldives on a personal visit. Mr Naidu’s wife Bhuvaneshwari, daughter-in-law Brahmani and grandson Devaansh were in Hyderabad on Sunday and the family was going to take a flight to the Maldives from Shamshabad airport when last reports came in. His son Nara […]
Baby love! Zoe Foster Blake cuddles up to her three-month old daughter Rudy as she continues to enjoy an idyllic $7,000 per-night Maldives work junket with her family She’s currently enjoying a lavish holiday in the Maldives thanks to her work perks. And the joyous holiday continued for Zoe Foster Blake on Sunday when she […]
PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak will undertake an official Visit to Sri Lanka from Dec 17 -19 and to Maldives from Dec 19-20 . The Foreign Ministry in a statement here yesterday said the visits were at the invitation of Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena and the President of the Republic […]
Maldives and China signed FTA last week. FTA was signed keeping India in dark. India has aired its unhappiness over the pact signed in stealth. Diplomatic script seems to have changed between India and Maldives in two years. Maldives had plunged into a severe water crisis exactly two years ago following a massive fire that […]
United Nations — The 44-member Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) represents some of the world’s most vulnerable island nations fighting a virtually losing battle against rising sea levels triggered by global warming and climate change. A negotiating voice of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), AOSIS has membership drawn from all oceans and regions of […]
BENGALURU: The eighth edition of Ekuverin, the fortnight-long Indo-Maldives joint military exercise, will begin in Belagavi on Friday. The previous edition of the annual bilateral exercise between the Indian Army and Maldives National Defence Force was held at Kadhdhoo, Laamu Atoll, the Maldives in December 2016. “Ekuverin means friends in Maldivian language, and the focus […]