The Global Times said China remained the largest source of tourists for the Maldives and that there was no “political intrigue” to the Free Trade Agreement.
The Maldives has been downgraded to a “fragile state” by the IMF because of the tense political situation, the way business is regulated and how the...
In a statement the global institution said survey staff had been posing questions “beyond the scope” of a data gathering exercise about how people save, borrow,...
Holidaymakers had sat through two aborted take-offs before being lobbed into the ocean on the third attempt, The Sun reported, and were left bobbing in the...
British minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon told the House of Lords the government had engaged the Maldives at the highest levels over the death penalty.
The celebrated human rights lawyer's alliance with the Maldivian president has thrust him into the social media spotlight and made him the focus of fevered exchanges...
The 'house call' initiative comes amid the ongoing trial of seven people charged with murdering liberal blogger and Internet activist Yameen Rasheed, whose death was justified...
Maldives former defence minister was found guilty of weapons smuggling in 2015 and sentenced to 11 years in prison, but a UN rights panel found he...
Developing an airport on Kulhudhuffushi, the main population hub in the northern atolls, was a campaign pledge the president made in 2013. But a contractor has...
Transparency Maldives has condemned the government for proposing a bill that would merge two existing media watchdogs and “expand its sphere of state control on print...
TMA calls itself the world’s largest seaplane operator, saying it flew close to a million passengers around the Indian Ocean archipelago last year on more than...
Teachers in the Maldives must be educated on how to monitor students for extremist ideologies, according to the first strategy document from the National Counter Terror...
“This alarming mass suspension clearly did not abide by international standards regulating disciplinary proceedings against lawyers and protecting their independence, and I strongly condemn it,” said...
The Maldives has lashed out at the European Parliament after it called for individual targeted sanctions over “the deteriorating political and human rights situation in the...
The gender ministry’s monthly statistics of reported cases have shown a drop from 260 cases in July to 246 in August, despite a rise in cases...
A Maldives blogger who was murdered in April was killed by men who believed he was “mocking” Islam, the police have said. The suspects believed Yameen...
The renowned Islamic scholar urged President Abdulla Yameen to reconsider moving ahead with the first execution in the Maldives in more than 60 years.
