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The Maldives is world-renowned for its breathtaking beaches and high-end resorts for wealthy Westerners. The grouping of islands though is less known for its political arrangement.

For much of the past 30 years the country had been run by a...

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Mar 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

The president of the Maldives says the Indian Ocean nation will become the world’s first carbon-neutral country within a decade.

 
 
Nov 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

Mohamed Nasheed was sworn in Tuesday as the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, ending three decades of single-party rule in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

 
 
Oct 29 2008 by AP0 Comments

Election officials say opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has won the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election.

 
 
Oct 27 2008 by AP0 Comments

Asia’s longest-serving leader faces a democracy activist he once held as a political prisoner in a run-off vote Tuesday in the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election.

 
 
Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appeared headed for a runoff against a former political prisoner who leads the main opposition in the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election, according to poll results announced Thursday.

 
 
Oct 8 2008 by AP0 Comments

Islanders in the cramped city of Male and scores of far-flung atolls began voting Wednesday in the first democratic presidential election in their tiny nation’s history.

 
 
Oct 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia.

 
 
Aug 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signed and adopted a new constitution Thursday that allows multiparty elections and other democratic reforms after decades of authoritarian rule.

 
 
Aug 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signed and adopted a new constitution Thursday that allows multiparty elections and a number of other key democratic reforms after decades of authoritarian rule.

 
 
May 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives.Britain’s High Court says The Big Pictures and Eliot Press Sarl agencies...

 
 
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