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Maldives News Archives for October 2009

Oct 30, 2009 | The Hindu

eLL Mobile Succesfully Unlocked the Latest iphone Os 3.1.2

eLL Mobile Maldives Successful unlocked the Latest iphone 05.11.2007 basband with Os 3.1.2 it works both dhiraagu and wataniya sim cards.

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Oct 30, 2009 | Yorkshire Post

Bernard Ingham: The world may bankrupt itself in this dubious fight against global warming

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Maldives govt acknowledges poor: Zaki

MALE: Presidenta s Special Envoy Ibrahim Hussein Zaki has said that the government will always remember and acknowledge that there are poor in Maldives.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

AME Info

Oman Air commences operations to Maldives

Oman: 2 hours, 24 minutes ago Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman launched on October 24th its new non-stop service between Muscat, capital of the Sultanate of Oman and Maldives.

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South Asian Media Net

Male 53rd in World Press Freedom Index

MALE: Maldives has gained 53 places and jumped to 51st in the Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2009 compiled by Reporters Without Borders annually.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Radar system to be established

MALE: Maldives Airports Authority has said that work is underway to complete establishing a radar system in Male International Airport in Hulhule under the project of 4th phase of Hulhule development.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

South Asian Media Net

VP opens HSBC Green Office

MALE: Vice President Dr Mohamed Waheed has yesterday opened HSBCa s environmentally friendly a oeGreen Officea .

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

New Delhi News.Net

Maldives president discusses climate change with Manmohan Singh

Days after he made a splash by holding an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight perils of climate change, Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday to seek India's support for a common position on global warming.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Maldives condemns Israeli settlements

MALE: The Maldives called last week for an immediate freeze on all settlement activity in the West Bank as the first step to resuming peace talks in the Middle East.

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Monterey County Herald

Maldives plans climate meet for threatened nations

In this photo provided by the President s Office, Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed smiles as he tries on his diving gear before an underwater meeting of the Maldives' Cabinet to highlight the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth, in Girifushi, Maldives, Saturday, Oct.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Divehappy.com

Maldives Diving Trip Report: MV Orion

The new Maldives liveaboard MV Orion offers seven day trips that take in classic Maldives dive sites at Male and Ari atolls as well as visiting the whale shark haunt of Hani Faru MV Orion MV Orion is built around the cruising in comfort concept, where the boat is appealing to divers and non divers alike.

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Cybercast News Service

Maldives Islands' Leaders Hold Global Warming Meeting Underwater -- Literally

A small chain of islands in the Indian Ocean is often cited as a threatened area by some environmentalists who claim that global warming will lead to catastrophic events, including rising sea levels that could put the Republic of Maldives underwater by 2100.

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

Independent Online

Maldives sounds alarm over climate change

By Maryam Omidi Male - The Maldivian president and ministers held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago's existence.

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TreeHugger

Maldives Holds Underwater Cabinet Meeting To Bring Attention to Climate Change

The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, and his ministers yesterday held an official cabinet meeting underwater as part of an international movement organized by 350.org to bring increased global attention to climate change.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

The News

Maldives cabinet meets under water

Sunday, October 18, 2009 MALE: The Maldives government held an underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday in a bid to focus global attention on rising sea levels that threaten to submerge the low-lying atoll nation.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

The Independent

The Maldives: Heaven on Earth?

As I got into the lift, my breakfast-show rival Johnny Vaughan asked me why I was looking so smug.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Maldives government to go into exile due to rising sea levels

Officials have begun drawing up plans to move its parliament, or Majlis, abroad so it can remain functioning it the event of ecological disaster.

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Independent Online

Cabinet gets ready for underwater meeting

Colombo - Ministers in the Maldives dived in their final rehearsals on Friday ahead of an underwater cabinet meeting this weekend aimed at drawing attention to the dangers of global warming for the island nation.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Maldives thanks Bhutan for SARRC offer

MALE: Vice President Dr Mohamed Waheed met with with prime minister of Bhutan Wednesday.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Maldives open for business

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.

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Mon Oct 12, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Underwater cabinet meet stuns world

MALE: The underwater cabinet meeting scheduled to be held on 17th of this month to mark 350 is making international headlines.

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Sun Oct 11, 2009

South Asian Media Net

DRP drowning, says Dr Shaheed

MALE: Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmed Shaheed who has joined the ruling MDP after leaving his close friend Dr.

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Sat Oct 10, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed

The Maldives president roused the Tory faithful at Manchester last week. Next Saturday he will hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the dangers of global warming Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed stands in the sea off Kurumba to show the threat the islands face.

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Thu Oct 08, 2009

People's Daily Online

Maldives to campaign for "New 7 Wonders of Nature"

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.

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Environmental News Network

President Calls Underwater Cabinet Meeting: Tells His Ministers to Take Scuba Lessons, in Maldives

Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has asked his cabinet members to take scuba lessons and learn underwater signs in preparation for a cabinet meeting he has called for October 17 - the reason for the lessons and sign language is because the meeting will be held 20 feet underwater.

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Wed Oct 07, 2009

South Asian Media Net

MPs grill CSC vice-president

MALE: Civil Service Commission vice-president Abdul Muhsin was grilled by MPs from the home affairs committee today about its decision to reduce civil servantsa salaries.

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Mon Oct 05, 2009

South Asian Media Net

MPs clash over ties with Israel

MALE: Opposition MPs Monday severely criticised the governmenta s decision to normalise relations with Israel and establish diplomatic ties.

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Sun Oct 04, 2009

South Asian Media Net

British Airways melts in Maldives

MALE: British Airways is to launch its new thrice-weekly direct service from Gatwick to Male in the Maldives from October 25, 2009.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Maldives co-sponsors UN resolution

MALE: The Maldives yesterday gave its support to a United Nations resolution on the exclusion of racial or religious hatred as part of freedom of expression.

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Fri Oct 02, 2009

South Asian Media Net

Nasheed defends ties with Israel

MALE: President Mohamed Nasheed has defended the governmenta s decision to normalise relations with Israel, arguing that not recognising a country in the modern age was an a oeextreme positiona to take.

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