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Sporting community welcomes cash rewards for medals | Maldives Independent
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Sporting community welcomes cash rewards for medals. By Mohamed Saif Fathih. The sporting community has welcomed President Abdulla Yameen’s decision to award cash prizes for medals in international sporting events. Hassan Saaid, who won a gold and a silver medal in the Indian Ocean Island Games (IOIG), will receive a prize of MVR350,000 (US$22,698). This is an incentive for athletes to train even harder, he added. Ahmed Marzouq, the secretary gene...
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Maldives to deport foreign cashiers | Maldives Independent
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Maldives to deport foreign cashiers. Migrant workers found working as cashiers will be deported immediately, the department of immigration has warned. A special raid operation has been launched in Malé today to identify expatriate cashiers. The immigration department said foreign cashiers are doing unlawful work due to a ban prohibiting foreigners from working as cashiers and photographers in the Maldives. Some 22 businesses were each fined. The e...
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Maldives Independent | Feature & Comment
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Paradise with hell’s furore. Mushfique Mohamed writes on how the Maldives’ government uses postcolonial rhetoric to justify subjugation and economic exploitation. How the defamation law has changed Maldives’ media landscape. The new defamation law has forced newsrooms across the Maldives to practice self censorship, use broadcasting delays and control what is said by politicians on talk shows. A conversation with Umar Naseer. As the state prepares...
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Lawyers concerned over Nazim’s health, delays in Imran’s trial | Maldives Independent
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Lawyers concerned over Nazim’s health, delays in Imran’s trial. Jailed ex-defence minister Mohamed Nazim’s lawyer Husnu Suood has expressed concern with delays in providing medical treatment to the retired colonel, saying that doctors suspect damage to Nazim’s kidneys and have recommended that he should be kept in a stress-free or home environment to undergo heart tests. Nazim is serving an 11 year jail sentence on charges of weapons smuggling.
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Criminal court urged to expedite Imran’s trial | Maldives Independent
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Criminal court urged to expedite Imran’s trial. Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin has written to the criminal court urging it to expedite a terrorism trial against Sheikh Imran Abdulla, the president of the religious Adhaalath Party, indicted. On terrorism and held in police custody. Judge Abdul Bari Yoosuf has blamed the two-month delay on the construction of a new courtroom, lawyers said. The trial has remained stalled since. To the high court&#...
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Maldives Independent | Politics
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Business lobby calls for ban on foreign press over ‘damage to Maldives tourism’. Foreign journalists have been biased in their reporting on the Maldives and must be banned from working long-term in the Maldives, says the MNCCI. Ministers and MPs step up nationalistic rhetoric over removal plot. Nasheed ordered to repay ‘misused’ money. Political parties given deadline to re-register members under new fingerprint law. Adeeb calls fresh terror trial...
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Maldives Independent | Business & Tourism
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Government offers land for sale in Hulhumalé. The properties for sale in Hulhumalé include 38 beachfront plots and 38 beachside plots, each between 1,000 to 1,800 square feet. Bidding will start at MVR3,000 (US$195) per square feet. Yameen sets up new tourism firm. The Maldives Integrated Tourism Development Corporation is aimed open up the Maldives’ lucrative tourism sector to small and medium businesses, the president’s office said. The Maldives...
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Anger over school photo exhibition’s ‘exclusion of Nasheed’ | Maldives Independent
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Anger over school photo exhibition’s ‘exclusion of Nasheed’. The exclusion of former President Mohamed Nasheed from a local school photo exhibition depicting Maldives history has sparked outrage among his supporters. Only three photos of Nasheed were included in the exhibition. President Abdulla Yameen and First Lady Fathimath Ibrahim inaugurated the exhibition on August 7. Against the education ministry’s exclusion of student paintings depicting ...
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. The knowledge hub has been developed as a research tool for all those interested in the Maldives.This easily searchable resource includes reports from the government, local and international NGOs, as well as anything that might be of interest to those wanting to do research on the country. The hub is regularly updated, but if there is an important document you feel we have missed, please let us know. Maldives: An Introductory Economic Report.
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Judiciary to fast-track cases involving unpaid loans | Maldives Independent
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BUSINESS & TOURISM. SOCIETY & CULTURE. FEATURE & COMMENT. Judiciary to fast-track cases involving unpaid loans. The Supreme Court has decided to fast-track the legal process for cases involving unpaid loans and resolve disputes within six months, President Abdulla Yameen revealed today. 8220;Money in the bank will be needed by investors and corporate leaders. If loans issued by banks are not repaid there will be difficulties in issuing further loans,” he said. Completing the whole process in six months &...
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