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    Finance and Economy

    World Bank Urges Maldives to Cut Costs, Implement Reforms

    World Bank highlighted the Maldives' current economic and fiscal situation and provided recommendations to alleviate the challenges at present. Inflation is projected to rise...
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    Human rights

    Maldives Launches Mental Health Helpline

    The service will provide counselling and support tailored to individual mental health challenges. Red flags, such as callers expressing suicidal thoughts will be conveyed...
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    Finance and Economy

    Maldives Economy: IMF Flags Concerns

    In its report, the mission noted that amid elevated fuel prices coupled with continued strong import demands, the current account deficit in 2024 is...
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    Bio-diversity

    Maldives Plans for a Floating Resort on Ecologically Significant Island Evokes NGOs ‘Concern’

    In a joint statement, the civil society organisations have called on the government of Maldives to declare HDH.Keylakunu as a nature reserve and halt...
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    Disaster Management

    Maldives floods: Homes damaged, people relocated

    The army, police and Male’ City Council alongside public workers, has stacked 1,018 sand sacks for prevention in 152 areas including locations such as...
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    Clean tech

    ADB, Maldives Sign Agreements to Expand Renewable Energy Access

    ADB’s support consists of $41.5 million from the Asian Development Fund which provides grants to ADB’s most vulnerable developing member countries, an $8.5 million...
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    Bio-diversity

    Undersea survey reveals a cafeteria for Sharks, Tuna

    The survey team came across a natural mesh made of fossilised carbonate reefs that traps micro-nekton on their way to bottom of the sea,...
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    Accreditation

    Maldives New ‘Evidence’ Law Undermines Media Freedom

    The Maldives Media Council (MMC), Maldives Journalist Association (MJA), and Transparency Maldives all condemned the law, saying it contravened constitutional protections for the media....
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