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In 2021, Reporters Without Borders ranked the Maldives 72nd in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, a jump of seven places compared to 2020. The ranking was based on repealing...
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Since 1967, the Maldives has had a friend from the Far East, the Land of the Rising Sun. A nation of people whose humility, culture, determination, and hard-work are globally...
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Sometimes, what has been so deeply ingrained in our way of life gets overlooked when considering development and benchmarking, in terms of economic importance. In the case of the Maldives,...
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Umar Zahir. The name brings up images of a man riding a bicycle on the streets of Malé, a humble, down-to-earth individual, loved and respected by many, who had always...
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China is assiduously cultivating North Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen in an effort to fill a gap created by India’s inaction in regard to the suffering these fishermen undergo as a...
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On 14 December, the Criminal Court sentenced Adhuham Rasheed, charged with attempting to assassinate Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed, on 6 May 2021, to 23 years, six months and nine...
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President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, in 1997, initiated the reclamation of the Hulhulé Farukolhufushi Lagoon (HFL) next to the Hulhulé Airport, and after five years, in 2002, completed the Phase I...
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On 11 December, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) reported 218 new COVID-19 cases, increasing the total number of cases in the country to 93,064 cases.
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Ahmed Athif was determined that no child should be left behind in the education system in the Maldives. Beginning his career as a teacher, Athif understood that the current curriculum did not cater for children...
