Maldives Independent

Year in Review

2025
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Politicsarrow right

Stress test: 2025 Year in Review

31 Dec 2025, 5:35 PM

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

Environmentarrow right

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

Societyarrow right

Stranded students left to fend for themselves abroad

29 Dec 2025, 4:51 PM

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

28 Dec 2025, 5:11 PM

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

24 Dec 2025, 7:10 PM

The forever accused: when waiting for trial becomes the punishment

18 Dec 2025, 9:33 PM

Explainerarrow right

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

30 Dec 2025, 5:59 PM

Maldives gets failing grades on money laundering and terrorism financing

22 Dec 2025, 4:45 PM

Death penalty for drug traffickers: What the new law says

07 Dec 2025, 10:00 PM

The pension fund workaround: the Maldives money printing controversy

27 Oct 2025, 3:37 PM

Arts And Culturearrow right

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 Seriesarrow right

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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News In Brief

"Irreligious activity," media diplomacy and infant formula recall

09 Jan, 10:05 AM

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Haze hazard, Avid defence and Lanka hospitals

08 Jan, 9:02 AM

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Amin acquittal, MTCC projects and Aasandha burden

07 Jan, 8:53 AM

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Fast-tracked amendments, port privatisation and vaanuvaa detention

06 Jan, 9:30 AM

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Constitutional changes, mixed-sex schools and modesty codes

05 Jan, 9:05 AM

News In Brief

Foreign airport management, Avid College reprimand and Sunny detention

04 Jan, 8:20 AM

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