Business lobby calls for ban on foreign press over ‘damage to Maldives tourism’
Foreign journalists have been biased in their reporting on the Maldives and must be banned from working long-term in the Maldives, says the MNCCI
28 Aug 2016, 9:00 AM
A business lobby group has urged President Abdulla Yameen to ban foreign journalists from working in the Maldives, citing damage to the economy and the tourism sector.
The Maldives National Chamber of Commerce and Industries said foreign journalists were “biased in their coverage of the Maldives.” A ban would also increase opportunities for “hardworking and young local journalists,” the group said.
“Therefore this organisation advice government authorities to ban foreign journalists from working long-term in the Maldives,” the MNCCI said in a statement on Thursday.
Ismail Asif, the vice president of the MNCCI, was not responding to calls for comment at the time of going to press.
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