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The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is on a swing through the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) from January 4 to 9. Wang’s trip spans the IOR from the East African...
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On 25 December, the first test flight landed at Madivaru Airport. The airport construction project was awarded to China's Beijing Urban Construction Group in May 2018.
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On 18 December, UNICEF Maldives said that the Maldives has received 100,620 doses of Pfizer vaccines, donated by the United States through COVAX.
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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...
