On 19 September 2003 a conflict among some inmates of Maafushi Jail in the Maldives led to 12 of them being isolated from their cells. Among the isolated was Hassan Evan Naseem, a 19 year-old boy ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Google “Maldives” and you’ll get glimpses of impossibly blue seas and ...

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen and China's President Xi Jinping attend a signing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on December 7, 2017. Fred Dufour/Pool/Reuters Ahead of ...

Maldivian President-Elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih arrives at an event with supporters in Malé, the Maldives on September 24, 2018. Ashwa Faheem/Reuters The outcome of the election in the Maldives, which ...

In short: The Maldives are about to sink below the ocean. The Maldives, a collection of almost 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, have an average elevation of just 5 feet above sea level. And whether ...

The Corporate Maldives blog recently published an interesting analysis of how tourism leaders in the Indian Ocean Island Republic think. The information sheds some light on what tourism professionals ...

Last September’s presidential elections in the Maldives were conducted amidst uncertainty and fear. The previous five-years of authoritarian rule under President Abdulla Yameen provided a bleak ...

When the Maldives gained independence from Great Britain in the 1960s, Israel was the third country to recognize it. After the Yom Kippur War, the Maldives would decide to suspend ties with Israel – ...