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Foundation Laid for Maldives’ Largest Mosque and an Islamic Civilisation Centre in Hulhumalé

President Dr Mohamed Muizzu lays the foundation stone for the Sultan Mohamed Bin Abdullah Grand Mosque and Islamic Civilisation Centre in Hulhumalé Phase II on 13 September 2026.

President Sets Mid 2028 Target for Housing Access as Greater Malé Projects Advance

President Dr Mohamed Muizzu answers questions on housing policy at a press briefing at the President's Office in Malé on 7 September 2026.

GST Amendment Seeks to Tax Foreign Tourism Sales: What the Destination Principle Means for the Maldives

A guesthouse in the Maldives sells a room for the night. It charges GST, because the law requires it. A company in another country...

Special cabinet committee says Maldives is maintaining stable supplies as global risks intensify

The government’s special cabinet committee on essential supplies says the Maldives continues to maintain stable availability of food, fuel and medicine, even as global...

Maldives Votes: A Historic Triple-Ballot Election Day Unfolds

The Maldives held what may be its most consequential and logistically complex election day since the advent of multiparty democracy in 2008. Across the...

Two Votes, One Day: Maldives Heads to the Polls

On Saturday, April 4, Maldivians vote across 226 constituencies to elect Island Council and Women's Development Committee members. At the same time, they will...

Maldives says any Chagos transfer must reflect its own claim, not just Mauritius’s

The Maldives has moved to more openly challenge the proposed British transfer of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, with President Mohamed Muizzu’s administration arguing...

Setting the record straight on President Dr Mohamed Muizzu’s remarks on the Iran-US/Israel conflict

A translated report circulated this week has blurred an important distinction in President Dr Mohamed Muizzu’s remarks on the widening Middle East war. The...

Maldives freezes retail fuel prices for now as oil shock deepens across global markets

The Maldivian government says it has no immediate plan to raise retail fuel prices, even as the oil shock spreading from the Middle East...

Malé warehouse fire exposes regulatory gaps and sharpens urgency of port relocation

A fire at a Prime Fertiliser warehouse in Maafannu has again exposed how dangerous-chemical storage remains entangled with daily life in the capital, despite...

Day 20 of Iran-US-Israel war sends a deeper shock through energy markets and the global economy

Day 20 of the Iran-US-Israel war marked a dangerous turning point, with the battlefield and the global energy system colliding more directly than at...

Iran strikes UAE transport and energy hubs as Maldives faces deeper tourism risk

A fresh escalation in the Gulf is now raising sharper concerns for the Maldives, after BBC News reported that Iran struck key sites in...

India Gets Limited Hormuz Passage.

India said on Saturday that two Indian-flagged tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, crossed the Strait of Hormuz safely early in the morning and...

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Maritime, Aviation Development Key to Tourism Growth, says MACL Chief

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Minister Urges More Oversight from Four Pillars of Gov’t, People to Strengthen Decentralised Governance

The Minister of Cities, Local Government and Public Works,...

2025 to be a year of development project launches and economic recovery: The President

President Dr Mohamed Muizzu has stated that 2025 will...

Maldives Sends Condolences to Vanuatu Following Devastating Earthquake

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Abdulla Khaleel has sent...
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