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"Expendable": the migrant worker casualties that go unreported

A Facebook group tracks injuries and deaths that Maldivian authorities don't.

13 hours ago

A family for every child: the promises and risks of the foster care push

Applications are up. Safeguards haven't kept pace.

25 Feb, 17:19

Finders not keepers: the fisherman, the bolts, and the rocket from the sky

India's space debris reached Laamu Kunahandhoo.

24 Feb, 14:45

News In Brief

News in brief from Wednesday, February 25.

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A family for every child: the promises and risks of the foster care push

Applications are up. Safeguards haven't kept pace.

25 Feb, 17:19

Finders not keepers: the fisherman, the bolts, and the rocket from the sky

India's space debris reached Laamu Kunahandhoo.

24 Feb, 14:45

From archipelago to city-state: a Q&A with Salma Fikry

On who benefits when Maldivians leave their islands behind.

23 Feb, 15:17

Mahzoom: Malé deserves better

"Discussion alone has not produced solutions, and it never will."

22 Feb, 14:42

Episode 15: The referendum on combining elections

MDP MP Meekail on rejecting concurrent elections.

21 Feb, 14:00

Broken by design: Malé City Council has stopped functioning

The PNC's 14-seat supermajority cannot find 10 members for a meeting.

19 Feb, 16:00

From archipelago to city-state: a Q&A with Salma Fikry

On who benefits when Maldivians leave their islands behind.

23 Feb, 15:17

Mahzoom: Malé deserves better

"Discussion alone has not produced solutions, and it never will."

22 Feb, 14:42

Episode 15: The referendum on combining elections

MDP MP Meekail on rejecting concurrent elections.

21 Feb, 14:00

Broken by design: Malé City Council has stopped functioning

The PNC's 14-seat supermajority cannot find 10 members for a meeting.

19 Feb, 16:00

Maldives Independent

Year in Review

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Watchdog questions corruption score as Maldives stagnates on annual index

11 Feb, 13:14

From resort dividends to an open prison: everything Muizzu pledged in his three-hour address

09 Feb, 19:40

Maldives deploys military after Muizzu rejects maritime boundary with Mauritius

05 Feb, 20:23

Resort deals, campaign help, financial advice: Epstein's deep ties to ex-Maldives president

01 Feb, 21:21

President champions climate adaptation abroad as dredgers blanket atoll in sediment

12 Feb, 17:15

"We simply have to keep going": Maldives' first Magsaysay laureate on fighting an existential timeline

26 Jan, 14:10

More orcas in Maldivian waters – or more cameras?

18 Jan, 16:35

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

10 Dec 2025, 18:01

Ramadan cheat sheet: schedules, services and prices

18 Feb, 12:37

RTI data reveals scale of student payment problems ministry says it cannot fully count

17 Feb, 16:03

Dr Hassan Hameed on his life's work: an English-Dhivehi dictionary eight years in the making

16 Feb, 15:00

A year after Trump's aid freeze, Maldivian civil society counts the cost

02 Feb, 16:49

"Dangerous precedent": pension board clears path for MVR 2.4 billion money printing scheme

04 Feb, 19:08

The US$ 500 million question: can the Maldives avoid default in April?

15 Jan, 17:31

The Noonu corridor: Maafaru emerges as Maldives' private jet hub

12 Jan, 17:31

"Can't carry on, can't go out to fish": Maldives yellowfin industry fights for survival

17 Dec 2025, 16:24

The Chagos dispute explained: colonial borders, displaced people, and a small nation defying international law

10 Feb, 17:26

The US$ 500 million reckoning in April: what is a sukuk and why does it matter?

28 Jan, 16:21

The dry season haze: what you need to know

20 Jan, 16:24

"A good start, not a solution": MIFCO begins buying yellowfin tuna after protests

14 Jan, 17:29

Arts And Culture

In the midst of a thought: revisiting The Bird and the Flying Fish

14 Feb, 18:12

Fiction: On the virtues of route 8

07 Feb, 16:53

To the makers of Dhoadhi – give them their flowers

31 Jan, 14:44

After 16 years, 1984 is back

24 Jan, 16:33

Timeline Series

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

29 Jun 2025, 16:55

UK Chagos handover sinks Maldives hopes of reclaiming southern waters

02 Jun 2025, 19:29

Eight years and no justice: the murder of Yameen Rasheed

12 May 2025, 16:00

Nasheed bombing trial remains stalled four years after failed assassination

06 May 2025, 19:03

More stories

WAMCO accident, referendum challenge and disability rise

25 Feb, 06:40

Blocked cards, boardwalk vandalism and cat rescue

24 Feb, 01:27

What we brought home from the world's largest investigative journalism conference

23 Feb, 11:44

Farage to Chagos, drug bust and daytime eating

23 Feb, 09:31

MDP referendum stand, Addu power outage and missing man

22 Feb, 04:03

Pollution, dengue and domestic violence rising

20 Feb, 10:00

From the archive

Today in history

Opposition moves no-confidence motion against defence minister

26 Feb 2019

Vote on presidential commissions bill called off for third time

26 Feb 2019

Imam questioned over refusal to deliver ‘politicised’ sermon

26 Feb 2018

Construction begins on Maldives’ US$24m King Salman Mosque

26 Feb 2018

Opposition defies police protest curfew

26 Feb 2018

Parliament resumes with speedy five-minute sitting

26 Feb 2018

Maldives hires US Trump-tied lobbying firm

26 Feb 2018

PPM MP aggrieved over stalled airport project

26 Feb 2018

Maldives threatened with ‘targeted measures’

26 Feb 2018

Parliament’s approval of state of emergency constitutional, Supreme Court rules

26 Feb 2018

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