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 ...
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 ...
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 ...