A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Staff of Raajje TV pose with a check of over MVR 5 million raised by the station to relieve the plight of the Rohingya. PHOTO: HUSSAIN WAHEED/MIHAARU Maldives Broadcasting Commission (MBC) has again fined local television channel Raajje TV, this time by MVR 500,000, for broadcasting content that defamed President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom. This […]
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 […]
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, are kept under watch by Bangladeshi security officials in Teknaf on December 25, 2016. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have intercepted 34 boats carrying some 340 Rohingyas at border points near Cox’s Bazar. / AFP PHOTO / STR […]
A boy puts money in a fund box placed by Raajje TV to raise aid for the persecuted Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar. PHOTO/TWITTER Local television channel Raajje TV announced that it has raised over MVR 1 million in less than 12 hours from capital Male City alone to relieve the plight of Rohingya Muslims who […]
Secretary General of Jumhooree Party, Ahmed Sameer has been summoned to the police again. After being arrested near the Jumhooree Party hall at Maafannu Kunooz on 16 August 2017, he was released after a the court set some conditions on him. But police have summoned him before to take statements in their investigation. The Jumhooree […]
Hussain Fiyaz Moosa, the chief operating officer of the opposition-aligned Raajje TV, has been found not guilty on a charge of assaulting a police officer while covering a bomb scare in November 2015. The veteran journalist was accused of hitting Corporal Mohamed Shaheen during his arrest for refusing to leave the sports complex area of Malé […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 9th April 2017. By Ahmed Hamdhoon The following is a loose translation: At MVR 1 million, local television station Raajje TV is facing Maldives’ biggest ever fine over broadcasting defamatory comments against President Abdullah Yameen Abdul Gayoom. It was just last Thursday that Raajje […]