The Maldives government has withdrawn the country from the New7Wonders campaign, claiming that once it was a finalist the organisation began demanding increasingly high ‘sponsorship’ fees for it to compete meaningfully in the campaign.
“It is not that prices have not gone up, it is that you have found out the real price,” said President Nasheed, in a speech on Sunday seeking to explain his decision to implement a managed float of the rufiya.
A week after severing diplomatic ties with Libya for “clear evidence of crimes against humanity”, a leaked UN report urging investigation of Sri Lankan war crime allegations places the Maldives in a difficult position between its national interest and vocal human rights agenda.
Immigration policy needed, says Controller, as Qatar-based newspaper Gulf Times reports on employment of an additional 20,000 people in the Maldives’ construction, textiles and tourism industries.
The base period for measuring real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been updated from prices at 1995 to 2003 for the first time since 2001, the Department of National Planning revealed this week.
An Oscar and Emmy-winning film production company based in San Franscisco, Actual Films, has produced a 90 minute documentary charting the Maldives’ efforts to raise awareness of climate change in the lead up to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) last week appealed a Civil Court ruling that declared the President’s decision to auction plots from the southwestern harbour area in Male’ illegal. Solicitor General Ibrahim Riffath told newspaper Haveeru that the court did not provide legal justification for its ruling, which held that the auction was invalid as a … Continue reading AG appeals ruling on harbour plot sales
Bluepeace meanwhile claims island forms a natural bay that is home to rays and baby sharks, and was “a very important ecological site.”
Fares-Maathoda in Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll reflects the challenges facing the wider country regarding waste management, coastal protection and economic development.