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Stress test: 2025 Year in Review

Courts, nepo babies, medicine, housing, debt: the year's fault lines.

31 Dec 2025, 5:35 PM

Two tiers, 22,900 homes on paper: Malé's new housing rules

What changed, who qualifies, and what's still missing.

30 Dec 2025, 5:59 PM

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Stress test: 2025 Year in Review

Courts, nepo babies, medicine, housing, debt: the year's fault lines.

31 Dec 2025, 5:35 PM

Two tiers, 22,900 homes on paper: Malé's new housing rules

What changed, who qualifies, and what's still missing.

30 Dec 2025, 5:59 PM

Stranded students left to fend for themselves abroad

Scholarship and loan recipients describe systemic neglect by higher education ministry.

29 Dec 2025, 4:51 PM

Two decades after the tsunami, "safer islands" need expansion and protection

Environmental groups warned this would happen within decades.

28 Dec 2025, 5:11 PM

Breaking cycles: what’s missing in our blueprint for revolution?

We have the energy. We lack the strategy.

25 Dec 2025, 5:35 PM

Bangladeshi recruiter goes to prison. Maldives Immigration officials he bribed keep their jobs.

No Maldivian has ever been convicted for human trafficking.

24 Dec 2025, 7:10 PM

Stranded students left to fend for themselves abroad

Scholarship and loan recipients describe systemic neglect by higher education ministry.

29 Dec 2025, 4:51 PM

Two decades after the tsunami, "safer islands" need expansion and protection

Environmental groups warned this would happen within decades.

28 Dec 2025, 5:11 PM

Breaking cycles: what’s missing in our blueprint for revolution?

We have the energy. We lack the strategy.

25 Dec 2025, 5:35 PM

Bangladeshi recruiter goes to prison. Maldives Immigration officials he bribed keep their jobs.

No Maldivian has ever been convicted for human trafficking.

24 Dec 2025, 7:10 PM

Maldives Independent

Year in Review

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Protect national security, face fines: what a new code asks of Maldivian journalists

16 Dec 2025, 4:53 PM

Dissecting decentralisation: how island councils are about to change

04 Dec 2025, 5:14 PM

EU mission highlights SOE misuse as key unaddressed electoral concern

18 Nov 2025, 4:44 PM

Stability and darkness: Muizzu touts achievements as critics savage two-year record

17 Nov 2025, 5:32 PM

Banyans and saplings: 100 years old, replaced by inches tall

10 Dec 2025, 6:01 PM

Maldives reefs at risk as coral tipping point is crossed

01 Dec 2025, 2:13 PM

Dead on arrival: a shark fishery with no fishers

19 Nov 2025, 5:16 PM

Environment minister bypassed safeguards to approve Addu wetlands reclamation

11 Nov 2025, 6:08 PM

The forever accused: when waiting for trial becomes the punishment

18 Dec 2025, 9:33 PM

One in six Maldivian teenagers has considered suicide. They're turning to AI for help.

15 Dec 2025, 4:00 PM

Trousers for girls, beards for boys: school uniform policy reignites Maldives culture war

09 Dec 2025, 6:18 PM

Left without light: a deadly wait for power in Addu

26 Nov 2025, 5:26 PM

Maldives gets failing grades on money laundering and terrorism financing

22 Dec 2025, 4:45 PM

Protect national security, face fines: what a new code asks of Maldivian journalists

16 Dec 2025, 4:53 PM

Death penalty for drug traffickers: What the new law says

07 Dec 2025, 10:00 PM

Dissecting decentralisation: how island councils are about to change

04 Dec 2025, 5:14 PM

Arts And Culture

The wounds that follow you home: Ganaa turns the lens on bullying in the Maldives

20 Dec 2025, 2:39 PM

"The crime we cheered for": young artists map the true cost of reclamation

15 Nov 2025, 4:51 PM

Thin Huvafen and the unrealised promise of Dhivehi fiction

11 Oct 2025, 1:42 PM

A brutal mirror: Kan'bulo confronts domestic violence in Maldivian society

27 Sep 2025, 1:57 PM

Timeline Series

A US$ 90 million trail that went nowhere: the MMPRC scandal's unresolved legacy

29 Jun 2025, 4:55 PM

UK Chagos handover sinks Maldives hopes of reclaiming southern waters

02 Jun 2025, 7:29 PM

Eight years and no justice: the murder of Yameen Rasheed

12 May 2025, 4:00 PM

Nasheed bombing trial remains stalled four years after failed assassination

06 May 2025, 7:03 PM

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31 Dec 2025, 9:05 AM

Social housing rules, affordable flats and Indian surveillance

30 Dec 2025, 9:01 AM

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29 Dec 2025, 8:07 AM

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28 Dec 2025, 8:30 AM

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Today in history

Maldives urged to drop charges against NGO chief

04 Jan 2018

Jailed former VP charged for bribing intelligence officials

04 Jan 2018

Fenaka officials walk free from corruption scandal

04 Jan 2018

Officials charged over drug kingpin escape

04 Jan 2018

Ex-MMPRC boss not questioned over fresh graft charges, says lawyer

04 Jan 2018

MP files police complaint over tabloid attacks

04 Jan 2018

First stabbing of 2018 happens under state care

04 Jan 2018

Maldives to hold National Patriotism Day in March

04 Jan 2018

Local council elections rescheduled for April

04 Jan 2017

On Fuvahmulah’s blackened beach, workers begin cleanup of tonnes of dumped rock pieces by hand

04 Jan 2017

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