A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Government expects tourist arrivals this year to surpass the numbers of the past four years, a senior minister announced Monday. Speaking after inaugurating this year’s Hotel Asia Exhibition in the capital Male on Monday, finance minister Ahmed Munavvar hailed the arrival of over 700,000 tourists by July as a major accomplishment adding that the government […]
Maldives Food and Drug Authority on Monday refuted reports of ‘plastic’ rice in the country, insisting that tests thus far have been negative. In a letter sent to Lily International which is the importer of renowned rice brand ‘Kohinoor’, FDA said the investigation into reports had not revealed any traces of plastic in the rice […]
Permanent Appointee to the United Nations from the Maldives, Dr. Ali Naseer Permanent Appointee to the United Nations from the Maldives, Dr. Ali Naseer has said that the Maldives will push the UN to stop the human rights violations by the military of Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims. Responding to the opposition claims that the […]
Signing between Maldives and China at a previous session of the free trade talks between the two nations. Maldives has successfully concluded its free trade talks with China that had commenced back in September 18, 2015. Making it two years since the discussion kicked off. The free trade talks between the closely allied China and […]
It was one of biggest efforts at legal reform in the Maldives in recent years. On August 30, More than 20 lawyers, including a former attorney general, former solicitor general and former deputy prosecutor general, gathered outside the Supreme Court in the island country’s capital, Male. They had with them a 14-point petition endorsed by […]
Environment Minister Thoriq Ibrahim at the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Montreal, Canada — Photo: twitter Minister of Environment and Energy Thoriq Ibrahim has on Saturday, participated in the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Montreal, Canada. The high-level meeting is hosted by Canada, China and the European Union “in order to talk about […]
Former Presidents Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed have had their say after the Maldives decided not to participate in the United Nations General Assembly vote to include “The Responsibility to Protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity’ in its agenda. Nasheed, the first democratically elected President, sent […]
RaajjeTV has publicized the audit report and financial statement of the Maldives with Rohingya telethon held on the 10th and 11th of this month. The telethon collected MVR 5.16 million in a period of 30 hours. The station publicized the audit report and financial statement of the funds on Friday. Most proceeds were collected from […]
To witness the yawning global disconnect in climate change finance – between those who have the money and those who need it – simply hop on a plane and head for Hulhumalé. Twenty years ago this was little more than a sandy reef, with an airport runway at one end used as a jumping-off point […]