On 19 September 2003 a conflict among some inmates of Maafushi Jail in the Maldives led to 12 of them being isolated from their cells. Among the isolated was Hassan Evan Naseem, a 19 year-old boy ...

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen and China's President Xi Jinping attend a signing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on December 7, 2017. Fred Dufour/Pool/Reuters Ahead of ...

Sarah Harvey has been covering the Maldives since 2010 and is a frequent visitor to its top resorts and lush islands. She helps travelers plan trips to the Maldives through her website, Manta Media ...

Mark Phillips is the CBS News senior foreign correspondent and has been based in the London Bureau since 1993. He has covered every major international story of the past 35 years, including conflicts ...

In a dramatic turn to the Great Game in the Indian Ocean, the United States’ strategies towards the island archipelago of Maldives have come under the scanner. The intriguing ‘leak’ of a draft Status ...

The Maldives government has ignored or undermined environmental protection laws, increasing flooding risks and other harm to island communities. Maldives authorities have failed to heed mitigation ...

The Maldives has become the first country to impose a generational smoking ban – making smoking, buying and selling tobacco illegal for anyone born after January 1, 2007. The ban took effect on ...

Chidanand Rajghatta is The Times of India’s US-based Foreign Editor, long-time Washington DC scribe and sutradhar, and author of The Horse That Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings. LESS ...

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed hailed India as a “key ally” of the security and prosperity of the archipelago nation. A tweet by a Maldives minister on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit ...

The Maldives has brought in a ban on smoking for all young people born on or after 1 January 2007. The measure makes it the only country with a generation-wide tobacco prohibition. The new law also ...

Hulhumalé, Maldives — “My most peaceful moments are on the water,” Thoiba Saeedh, an anthropologist, said just before a motorboat took us skimming across the glassy Indian Ocean towards the tiny ...