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On 7 June 2021, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid, was elected President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The Maldives’ candidate won against a...
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Many Maldivians were taken aback with this recent announcement by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, especially since the Maldivian government had made no mention of it.
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The Maldives' GDP increased by 189 percent over the past 10 years, reaching about USD5 billion in 2019. GDP per capita climbed from USD8,429 in 2014 to USD10,541 in 2019,...
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M-Pesa is Africa’s most successful mobile money service, and Kenya’s largest fintech platform used to send and receive money using a mobile phone. Integration of financial services with the mobile...
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Augmented Reality (AR) is transforming the traditional methods of learning practice in our nation. In the early days, people learnt simple Dhivehi, Arabic and Arithmetic by writing letters in sand...
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On 7 June 20201, Abdulla Shahid, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives, was appointed the President of the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). His decades long work...
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With the advent, and proliferation, of multiple instant communication platforms, the sanctity of communications between the state and the people are experiencing a certain disconnect. Where once letters, delivered by...
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On 3 June, Minister of Health Ahmed Naseem acknowledged negligence in the provision of emergency health care leading to the tragic loss of the Maldives' youngest COVID-19 victim, a 10-year-old...
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At least 11 were arrested under suspicions of being members of a Bangladeshi trafficking gang that lured girls and women into neighbouring India’s sex trade using TikTok, Dhaka police said.
