Maldives Travel News Archives

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 ...

MALE: At least 60 Filipino construction workers in Maldives are seeking immediate repatriation so that they may be relieved from unjust working conditions a ' which include the non-payment of wages and the lack of substantial food and potable water.

MALE: The president of the Maldives said on Monday he plans a $3-a-day green tax for all tourists at its popular island resorts to help pay for the countrya s ambitious goals in fighting climate change, reports AP from Male, Maldives.

The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a new environment tax on all tourists who use its resorts and provide its economic lifeline.

MALE: MVK Maldives Pvt. Ltd , a fast developing trading company registered in Maldives, has won the bid to join the islands of the Southern Province of Maldives in transport network and that preparations are underway to sign agreement with the company, state minister for housing , transport and environment Maizan Adam Manik has said.