Ahead of Sunday’s election in the Maldives, read up on the issues facing the island nation, including democratic backsliding, corruption, and geopolitical competition between China and India. Maldives ...
Like rays of burning sunlight concentrated through a magnifying glass, almost all the world's environmental problems come into sharp focus in the Maldives. The 1,000km-long archipelago is the extreme ...
In February 2016, Gasim Abdul Kareem, a regional manager with the Bank of Maldives, was arrested for leaking bank statements that exposed a massive corruption scheme. The documents showed a government ...
"It's like the islands dance," a young official of the Maldives' Ministry of Environment and Energy told me in an interview. In Male, the densely built-up capital where there are no stray dogs and ...