Asia Maldives Next year's budget will include an allocation to facilitate additional training opportunities for athletes, as part of the government's priority to develop the sports sector
Asia Maldives Sports equipment was donated from Bangladesh, including 100 footballs, 100 futsal balls, 90 volleyballs and 100 bibs
Asia Maldives The system of decentralisation in the Maldives is still at an early stage, said Minister of Local Government, adding that its reform will follow proper research and feedback from the public
Asia Maldives The Financial Intelligence Unit of Maldives became member of Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, facilitating information sharing between national financial intelligence agencies to investigate and prevent money laundering and terrorist funding
Asia Maldives A law will be amended to ban people with Israeli passports from entering the archipelago, as a reaction to war in the Gaza Strip; it is not yet clear when the ban will come into effect
Asia Maldives As the new academic year began last Sunday, some local schools complained that they did not receive textbooks though the Ministry of Education confirmed that all schools did receive textbooks
Asia Maldives Local produce has become scarce in the Male' market due to the weather conditions that are affecting the Maldives and disrupting the harvest and supply chain
Asia Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu arrived in Madinah to pray at the Prophet's Mosque while on official visit to Saudi Arabia
Asia Maldives Trans Maldivian Airways, the world's largest seaplane operator, has received a certificate of approval from De Havilland Canada, becoming the first operator in Asia to achieve this accolade
Asia Maldives Sunday's parliamentary elections were overwhelmingly won by the People's National Congress, the conservative and nationalist party of the country's current president, pro-Chinese Mohamed Muizzu
Asia Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu appointed new members, including a chairman and vice chairman, of the Labor Court
Asia Maldives Over a million bottles of water from melting Tibetan glaciers have been sent to the country by China; the Maldives is seeing salt levels seeping into the earth and corrupting drinking water, making it dependent on desalination plants
Asia Maldives Police have decided to open an internal investigation into the allegation that traffic police assaulted a teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hulhumale'