Asia Maldives The new academic year 2023-2024 will start on 6 August, according to the calendar published by the Ministry of Education; the second school term will begin on 7 January and end on 13 June 2024
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'