Asia Maldives 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
Asia Maldives The State Electric Company has planted more than 36.000 trees in the three months since the project to plant 500.000 trees over the next five years was launched in June
Asia Maldives The National University of Maldives has opened applications for its two-year research and book-writing scholarship programme
Asia Maldives Maldives Immigration stated that they encountered considerable difficulties in deporting migrants at the authority's detention centre who did not have legitimate documents
Asia Maldives The latest revisions to the Foreign Investment Act will increase the role of foreign investment in the development of the Maldivian economy according to Mohamed Saeed, Minister of Economy