The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has alerted Maldivian citizens of the potential risks of travel to Thailand, particularly Bangkok, due to ongoing political and social unrest. A statement released by the Ministry yesterday (May 24) explains that Maldivians should take extra care due to the Royal Thai army seizing power on May 22. “The situation [...]...
An orientation session to familiarise the new intake of MPs set to be sworn in later this week was held at Traders hotel today. ...
"I believe that one of the main bases for the stability in this country today is the hard work done by the diligent journalists of Maldives, media outlets, and those active in those outlets, when what was happening inside a government wounded human rights and dignity and cast a dark shadow on the nation's riches," Dr Jameel said last night....
The national unity created by the AFC Challenge Cup appeared to waver as protests broke out in ticket lines amid claims of corruption while the police commissioner alleged a conspiracy in yesterday's Addu City bus crash. ...
The child was found in Maafanu after the mother was reported to have been taken to IGMH by her family suffering severe bleeding. While police have released few details, local media is reporting the case as infanticide. ...
According to online jihadi groups, Abu Turab was killed in a joint operation by Jabhat Al Nusra and the Islamic Front, targeting soldiers loyal to Bashar Al Assad in the northwestern city of Edlib....
The Criminal Court has today scheduled and canceled MP Abdulla Jabir’s alcohol possession hearing. Jabir, currently serving a one year sentence for a failure to provide urine to police for testing, was given permission by the court to leave the country for three months for medical treatment. He is currently in Malaysia and is due back [...]...
A nine-month-old baby boy was able to have a life saving heart surgery, after his family created a Facebook appeal for donations to fly him to India for treatment. Akiyal’s father Farhan, an engineer from the Maldives, decided to make a Facebook page after the family was unable to able to get any funding in [...]...
Five members and two officials of Afghanistan’s national football team have suffered minor injuries in a bus accident at 6:36 pm on Addu City’s link road. Eleven others including five police officers were injured. ...
A total of 156 persons have been fined for various offences since the regulation came into effect, the police reveals. ...
A two-day workshop on ‘National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP) Revision and Development of Fifth National Report’ has started today (May 22) at Nasandura Palace Hotel. The aim of the workshop – organised by the Ministry of Environment – is to prepare plans to comply with the Convention on Biological Diversity, which the Maldives [...]...
The President's Office has announced on Wednesday that President Abdulla Yameen has accepted new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to attend his investiture ceremony to be held in New Delhi. ...
Auditors found that the Maldives embassy in the EU was instructed to pay the former ambassador US$3,500 a month as a 'special representational grant' in violation of regulations governing allowances for employees at diplomatic missions....
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The US$7 million development of the state-run hospital, which includes an new 11-storey prenatal care and paediatrics wing, has been welcomed by the hospital's users who have criticised the current facilities. ...
Minivan News takes a look at social media responses to a selfie between former Presidents Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed at the AFC Challenge Cup football match last night....
Chief of Defence Force Major General Ahmed Shiyam has on Thursday announced that the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) is setting up a paramedic contingent inclusive of emergency response teams. ...
Convicted drug kingpin Ibrahim Shafaz Abdul Razzak [Shafa] who was caught in Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo on Tuesday in a joint operation by the Maldivian and Sri Lankan security services has now been transferred to the Maldives' capital city Male'. ...
A case filed at the ACC last week alleged Adheeb abused his position of power to obtain MVR 77.1 million and US$ 1 million from state owned companies and subsequently loaned the funds to relatives and friends via the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation....
"Maldives and Sri Lanka must ensure that their anti-corruption agencies are granted 'suo motto' powers to instigate both corruption investigations and prosecutions on their own initiative without prior government approval," suggested a report released today....