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Malé, Maldives
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Infant mortality at its highest since 2006. Interest bills more than quadrupled. Divorces at a two-decade high. More foreign workers than the official estimate of foreign residents.
Five stories in the government’s latest statistics, in charts: maldivesindependent.com/soci…
What if a plot in Rasmalé let families live anywhere?
In a guest essay, Mohamed Shain Yoosuf argues the island’s unplanned housing half could be a stake in land families carry anywhere – not another pull towards the capital as the atolls empty. maldivesindependent.com/essa…
OPINION | Mahal Ibrahim Abdulla on walking away from elections – and why he thinks political consciousness, not a new party or leader, is what the Maldives needs. maldivesindependent.com/opin…
News in Brief
Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24
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Helmeted mannequins, a torso made from a rolling suitcase and a Hulk dressed for long-haul economy.
Fashion designer Angel Shujau photographs the accidental theatre in Malé’s shop windows.
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Nearly eight years after a falling cement bag killed eight-year-old Rawshan Jian in Malé, the appeal over damages has resumed.
The company contesting liability, W Construction, counts two ruling party MPs among its shareholders.
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Business has fallen from 71 to 49 per cent of Maldivian students since 2008. Former MNU chancellor @hsn_hameed calls the shift “too little too slow”. Educators say the stream picked in grade eight can close doors that are hard to reopen. maldivesindependent.com/soci…
“If the bait fishery goes, there will be no fishery at all.”
In a new documentary, Maldivian fishers describe bleached reefs, scarce bait and seasons that no longer arrive on time – as a legal review finds fisheries rules yet to adapt maldivesindependent.com/envi…
Guest essay: @Midhuamsaud isn’t against residency for the rich – he’s against doing it now.
Singapore and Dubai built up their own people before inviting the rich in, he writes. The Maldives is skipping steps.
Translated from Dhivehi:
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Op-ed: More than 500 hectares of Rasmalé are being committed to Eagle Hills, but the agreement is unpublished. Former MDP chairperson @faya_i, a contender for the party’s 2028 presidential ticket, argues a good deal would have nothing to hide. maldivesindependent.com/opin…
News in Brief
Friday and Saturday, October 16 and 17
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He walks past a hungry man and can’t stop thinking about him. That evening he buys him dinner. It doesn’t help.
New fiction from Nashiu Zahir: maldivesindependent.com/fict…
This is Dhigufaru lagoon in Noonu atoll, where the Maldives’ first township for foreign buyers is taking shape on reclaimed islands, sold with the promise of residency through the Henley-designed Pearl visa.
Reported in collaboration with @OCCRP: maldivesindependent.com/poli…