“China has always positively developed its military relations with the Maldives and hopes to enhance communication and cooperation, promote the construction of both militaries, and safeguard regional peace and stability,” China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Chinese National Defence Minister General Liang Guanglie as saying.
Budhavant told Minivan News: “We can normally expect to lose roughly two to three days worth of data per week, but in some instances the smoke [from burning biomass nearby] is ruining our data for the entire week.”
Supreme court in its injunction this Wednesday ordered the parliament to withhold the no-confidence motion until the court decide on the matter after looking into “necessary constitutional principles that had to be followed in making such a decision”.
The Finance Ministry meanwhile informed the Public Accounts Oversight Committee on November 13 that it has not received a copy of the border control agreement.
When contacted about the future for the INIA post-GMR, the President’s Office today told Minivan News that no decision had yet been taken on when – or if – the country would look to tender a new privatisation agreement for the airport.
Both majority and minority leaders of parliament criticised the estimated budget for 2013 during last week’s budget debate and questioned whether proposed revenue raising measures to generate MVR 1.8 billion of new income would be approved by parliament.
The sudden eviction of the developer – which won a 25 year concession under the former government to manage and upgrade the airport – scraps the project, which at US$511 million was the single largest foreign investment in the Maldives.
Today’s dictator is not in a uniform covered in gold-plated medals; nor is he an object of ridicule generating derisive laughter, writes Latheefa Ahmed Verrall. “He is well spoken, cosmopolitan and media savvy. His CV and certificates on the wall may indicate strong academic connections that validate his claim to good governance and commitment to progressive ideals.”
The Maldives Customs Service (MCS) revealed that while goods worth MVR 16.25 billion (US$1 billion) were imported in the first 10 months of 2011, the figure as of the end of October 2012 was MVR 19.22 billion (US$1.2 billion).