The Parliament accepted the bill to ban national elections during the month of Ramadan and appointed a special committee to examine it; the bill was tabled ahead of the parliamentary elections to be held on 17 March

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

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

President Mohamed Muizzu appointed new members, including a chairman and vice chairman, of the Labor Court

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