Parliament amended the constitution in 2015, with opposition party backing, to authorise foreign ownership of land or freeholds despite calls for a public referendum.
Ali Hashim, the president of the Dhidhdhoo island council, has been placed under arrest on charges of forging official documents, tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses.
A widely shared video of a standoff between two groups of young men on the capital's main thoroughfare has sparked outrage and concern over public safety.
Visitor numbers reached 119,713, down from 119,774 in the same period last year.
The council of the Progressive Party of Maldives decided unanimously Tuesday night to give its ticket to President Abdulla Yameen.
Former Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin was taken back to the high-security Maafushi prison Tuesday after a week's stay at the ADK hospital in Malé.
The 55-year-old religious scholar was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Colombo when he passed away Tuesday afternoon. He was hospitalised last Friday after suffering a...
The main opposition party was warned not to conduct its presidential primary as planned on May 30 with former president Mohamed Nasheed as the sole candidate.
Gayoom was charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly refusing to hand over his mobile phone for a police investigation.
The haul included "ecstasy, methamphetamine, amphetamine, cannabis tree branches, heroin, methcathinone, and mephedron."
Education Minister Dr Aishath Shiham handed out the Huawei devices to Iskandhar School teachers at a ceremony Monday. The ministry plans to cover all schools in...
The value of fish exports rose to MVR368 million in April, up from MVR208 million in the same period last year.
With exiled former president Nasheed's campaign for the May 30 primary in full swing, the EC announced guidelines for conducting primaries and implicitly rejected the candidacies of convicted...
The Human Rights Commission of Maldives has denied media reports of seeking charges over a custodial death of a Maafushi jail inmate whose family alleges he...
"According to the official narrative, no one ordered my son’s murder. No one paid these suspects. They acted on their own," Yameen Rasheed's father wrote in...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has asked people to take precautions as dengue, the flu, viral fever, and influenza increase across the country.
Nas Daily made his page inaccessible in the Maldives out of fear for the safety of a local girl in his latest video who expressed her...
