With new measures and green initiatives, the Maldives is hoping to become the cleanest country in the world, a senior official said. The Indian Ocean archipelago is already phasing out single-use plastic, including water bottles, and projects that could reduce its carbon footprints.
Tourist arrivals in the Maldives crossed the half a million mark in the first six months of the current year despite the challenges posed by the renewed Covid wave across the region. From 1 January to 25 June, the country welcomed 500,406 tourists, data released by the Ministry of Tourism shows
Mohammed Nasheed, Maldives' former president and current speaker of parliament, who escaped an assassination attempt last month, hasn’t yet recovered fully
The Maldivian government will finance loans to local businesses affected by the pandemic at an “interest rate like never seen in the country’s history,” the country’s Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer said, detailing the government stimulus plan to revive the country’s economy
Authorities in the Maldives are planning to withhold the passport of former tourism minister Ali Waheed, accused in multiple sexual harassment cases, as he fails to return to the country upon the expiry of the four-month travel relaxation period granted earlier on medical grounds
Ahmed Siyam Mohemed, the leader of opposition in the Maldives’ parliament, has been heard calling for the hanging of a fellow lawmaker in an audio clip that went viral on the internet
Maldives has eased domestic travel restrictions, lifting the ban on non-essential travel as Covid-19 cases receded significantly in the past few weeks
A month after a failed assassination bid on the Maldives’s former president Mohammed Nasheed, the country’s parliament has approved a bill allowing official residence for speaker and chief justice because of security concerns
Maldives’ Home Minister Imran Abdulla was on Saturday questioned by a parliament committee, which initiated an inquiry in connection to the case of the failed assassination bid on the country’s former president Mohammed Nasheed last month
Authorities in the Maldives have refuted the claims of allowing Israeli airlines to operate direct flights between the two nations
Maldives’ Elections Commission Chairman Ahmed Shareef has resigned without disclosing the reason behind the move
The Maldivian government has introduced a new low-interest home loan scheme, aimed at providing easy finances to people living in residential islands outside the capital
Foreign firms have now been allowed to operate airports in the Maldives as parliament passed an amendment permitting 100 percent stakes for foreign companies in running airports
Maldives has launched a counter-terrorism operation in its prisons in the capital Male and Mafushi in connection with the failed assassination bid on the archipelago’s former president Mohammad Nasheed
The Maldives had banned tourists from South Asian countries with the renewed wave of the Covid-19 was raging in the region
Authorities in the Maldives have given emergency use approval to Covid-19 vaccines of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson--both of them are already approved by the World Health Organization (WHO)
