
The last of Malé's old market
Photographs from 2021, before the road widened and the stalls moved.
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As El Niño builds, Maldivian reefs are running out of time to recover
A global report cites their recovery but bleaching events are now coming faster.
10 Sep, 17:07
The Maldives is taxing the world's travel agents. What the new T-GST law does
The World Bank said this would not work.
09 Sep, 21:12

Fenaka scrapped, Aasandha capped: everything Muizzu announced
What else came up: nationalisation, resort dividends and media exclusion.
08 Sep, 21:00

No law, no means: Maldives may be unable to police flow of restricted goods to Russia
Russian embassy says only UN sanctions are legitimate.
07 Sep, 17:58

My case for the MDP nomination
Abdulla Shahid on stepping down as party president to run.
06 Sep, 15:11

Ocean Junk Reimagined: a field guide to the reef that replaces us
Inside Afzal Shafiu’s gallery of impossible fish, assembled from collected waste.
05 Sep, 18:19



































