The Chinese Embassy in the Maldives hosted a grand reception on September 30 to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The
The recent flurry of agreements between Sri Lanka and the Maldives reflects a significant deepening of bilateral relations that extends beyond traditional diplomatic engagement into the domains of security, law enforcement, economic
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Sri Lanka and the Maldives have taken a significant step toward strengthening bilateral relations with the signing of seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) during the state visit of Mohamed Muizzu. The agreements,
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism of Sri Lanka, Vijitha Herath, MP, paid a courtesy call on President Dr Mohamed Muizzu today during the Maldivian President’s ongoing State Visit
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Journalism has always been a contested practice, but in politically sensitive environments it becomes something far more volatile: a struggle over truth, authority, and control of narrative. The case surrounding the “Aisha”
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Maldives recorded no terrorism-linked fatality in 2025. The abduction and killing of blogger Yameen Rasheed by a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda on April 23, 2017, was the last terrorism related incident in
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The government of the Maldives has confirmed that the planned visit of its President to Sri Lanka — originally slated for November 7–9 — has been postponed, in light of the ongoing
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Google has unveiled Dhivaru, a major new Trans-Indian Ocean subsea cable system designed to connect the Maldives, Christmas Island, and Oman—marking one of the company’s most consequential
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The Trump Organization and its London-listed partner Dar Global have unveiled plans for a high-end 80-villa resort in the Maldives, a project they say will use blockchain-based tokenisation to open the door
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Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval recently declared ‘poor governance’ led to uprisings that resulted in change of governments in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka over the past three-and-a-half years. Doval
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The Republic of Maldives has taken a bold and unprecedented step in global tobacco control, becoming the first nation in the world to implement a generational ban on tobacco. Effective from November
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