A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Sri Lanka has not made any request to extradite a sniper in Maldivian custody, Maldives Attorney General Mohamed Anil said today. He said that there is a system in place between Sri Lanka and the Maldives when dealing with criminals but so far Sri Lanka has not asked for the sniper to be deported to Sri Lanka. […]
Maldives government has said that its FTA with China will not come in way of its strategic alliance with India or Sri Lanka. Addressing a press conference in Colombo on Monday, country’s minister for fisheries Mohamed Shainee said the FTA is based on pure commercial considerations and will not affect the neighbourly relations with India […]
As he boarded a flight to the Maldives from London in 2012, Daniel Bosley had little idea of the island-nation beyond its tourist brochures and turbulent politics. He spent the next three years in a small apartment-turned-newsroom in the capital Malé with a tiny team of journalists from the Minivan News, keeping up with a […]
The Maldives Trade Union has expressed concern over the government’s commitment to signing a free trade agreement with China. A statement from the union said that the agreement could prove to be detrimental to local businesses, namely small and medium-sized enterprises, as large businesses from China could dominate domestic markets. The statement likened the free […]
Maldives is the only South Asian country that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not visited yet — one scheduled visit in March 2015 was put off. It is a sign of how much India and the Maldives have drifted apart that New Delhi appears to have been blindsided by the Free Trade Area agreement between […]
Weeks before the trip, the children pestered us about where we were headed for the summer. Instead of telling them outright, we played a game. A sliding scale of ‘crypticity’, so to speak, the closer to the holiday the less cryptic the clues became. The first clue deceptively read like the names of Poseidon’s daughters. […]
Spread over not much more than a dozen acres of a white-sand islet within a Maldivian atoll, Milaidhoo Island Maldives is not at all a large place as resorts go. Should you seldom see any other people as you stroll the grounds, however, that’s by design. Guests who arrive by seaplane are introduced to Milaidhoo […]
Words and photos by Maldives surf guide Bob Fawcett Video of Taylor Knox and Matt Griggs’ Male trip by Paul Borrud A persistent southwesterly wind and some slow-moving storms tried to hamper the late season in the Maldives, but, with regular pulses of swell, those in the know scored big time. From south to north, […]
NEW DELHI: Neighbouring Maldives could plunge into a fresh crisis with the main Opposition Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) led by former President Nasheed raising red flag over Maldives-China FTA that was rushed through Parliament on Wednesday in a record one hour without any debate. Sino-Maldivian trade balance remains considerably in favour of China, and there […]