Maldives Travel News

There is an abundance of marine life to see around the coral reefs in the Maldives.

The Cabinet of the beautiful island nation of Maldives last month set a precedent of commitment to save environment when the full cabinet convened for a underwater session to sign off a resolution to urge the global community to curb carbon emission.

MALE: Maldives Journalist Association has widely opened opportunities for interested locals to study short term courses in journalism in India.

The capital of the Maldives will be powered by a wind mill in a bid to shift the Indian Ocean archipelago's power supply from oil to renewable energy, the Maldivian government said on Monday.

What would you do if someone handed you $8,500 and told you to go on a trip around the world? Gabrielle Kleber, 21, of Clarkston got that chance.

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday finished building a new centre-right government for Germany and announced an overhaul of the health care system, more help for families and annual tax cuts of up to euro24 billion.

MALE: The Fuahmulah atoll development committee has announced its goal of becoming the first carbon neutral island in the Indian Ocean.

The government will raise the issue of regularising an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 unauthorised Bangladeshis with the Maldives.

COLOMBO: Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed is travelling on Wednesday on a five-day official visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

In this handout picture released by The Maldives Presidency, Maldives cabinet ministers are photographed underwater off Girifushi Island on October 16, 2009, during rehearsals for an underwater cabinet meeting scheduled for October 17.

MALE: Members of the cabinet made an appeal Tuesday to leading businessmen from across Asia-Pacific to invest in the Maldives and consider kick-starting the development of 65 resorts which has come to a standstill.

The National Immigration Agency and the Tourism Bureau announced on the weekend that 9,500 employees of the Beijing-based Pro-Health Company and their family members would come to Taiwan on a sightseeing tour late this month, adding that the south would not be part of the itinerary.

MALE: Customs seized literature and CDs promoting Christianity in Dhivehi from a South African tourist at the airport Thursday.

Maldivian Vice President Mohamed Waheed on Thursday officially started government offices' voting campaign for the Maldives in its bid to become one of the New7Wonders of the Nature.

MALE: More than 40 Filipino construction workers have come to the capital Malea from Gaaf Alif atoll seeking repatriation for five months of unpaid wages.

President Nasheed will hold an underwater Cabinet meeting as part of the 24-hour programs conducted across the country to join in the "350" campaign held worldwide.

In six months, Doctor Owais Aziz seemed to have adapted well to life on an island; from crowded, chaotic Karachi of 20 million people to Thulhaadhoo, a 380 metre-long, 230 metre-wide-island in Maldives with, well, 2800 people on it and white, grainy sand around it.

MALE: Maldives Tourism Development Corporation has on Wednesday opened sale of the remaining 40 percent of the 688,123 shares offered for sale in July this year.

MALE: A global vote by readers of smarttravelasia.com has placed Maldives and Phuket in Thailand as second best Asian holiday destination.

Village official Mohamed Usman points to a boat anchored off shore where the beach stood a few months earlier before rapid coastal erosion at the north-central island village of Thulhaadhoo in the Indian Ocean atoll nation of the Maldives White sand and crystal clear water that laps around the Maldives draw thousands to the islands every year, but ...