Along with an ambitious infrastructure scale-up, the finance minister said the budget is geared towards bringing the Maldives' growing debt on a sustainable footing
A group of detainees broke out of their cells at the police custodial facility on the island of Dhoonidhoo around 3am Monday morning but were caught...
Gayoom is preparing to travel across the Maldives to meet supporters whilst the Yameen faction is planning to hold a rally of the "real PPM" in...
The no-confidence vote will be the first challenge to President Abdulla Yameen's majority in parliament since the split within the PPM saw eight MPs loyal to...
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's withdrawal of support for his half-brother President Abdulla Yameen's administration after a four-month-long battle for control of the ruling party signalled...
The number of city, atoll, and island councillors to be elected in the upcoming local council elections is 653, the elections commission announced Saturday, significantly fewer...
Customs officers seized 2.153kg of cocaine from the luggage of a Bolivian woman who arrived in the Maldives last Monday. Passenger clearance officers at the airport...
After concluding hearings today, the high court is due to decide whether the civil court was right to hand over control of the ruling party from...
More than 130 graduates have been granted licenses to practice law following a delay of more than a year after the supreme court took over regulating...
Four months after Channel News Maldives shut down citing pressure from the government, the hard-hitting team of journalists behind the popular online paper have made a...
The People's Majlis endorsed today President Abdulla Yameen's decision for the Maldives to quit the Commonwealth over alleged unfair treatment, interference in domestic affairs, and threats...
Naseer insisted today that his tweet suggesting that women are among three negative influences that "makes good people bad" was misinterpreted: "Women was used in the...
A first hearing of the trial scheduled for 10:30am this morning was cancelled after the criminal court failed to deliver a summons chit to Ali Waheed....
The elections commission is due to decide which faction of the PPM has the legal authority to field candidates in the local council elections. Rival factions...
"US concerned that today's action against political opponents further imperils Maldivian democracy," the US assistant secretary of state said after the civil court controversially stripped former...
As of August this year, Chinese arrivals have fallen by -11.5 percent, prompting Mega Maldives Airlines, which pioneered direct flights to China, to downsize and freeze...
The move comes after the Commonwealth's democracy watchdog placed the Maldives on its formal agenda and warned of suspension if progress is not made by March...
