TOKYO (AP) — A week into his new job, Japan's disaster reconstruction minister resigned Tuesday after making remarks widely criticized as offensive during a visit to the tsunami-devastated northeaster...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's health minister has derided homosexuality as an unnatural "disease" from the West, drawing fire Tuesday from activists who said the comments set back the country's campaigns f...
TOKYO (AP) — A week into his new job, Japan's disaster reconstruction minister resigned Tuesday after making remarks widely criticized as offensive during a visit to the tsunami-devastated northeaster...
Human Resources Minister Hassan Latheef has denied that his ministry and immigration authorities failed to deal with longstanding internal concerns over corrupt “discretionary” practices, after the Ma...
Finance Minister Ahmed Inaz has told parliament that addressing the foreign currency crisis will require structural changes to the economy.
Increasing revenue and reducing expenditure to address the d...
Minister of Transport and Communication, Mohamed Adhil Saleem, has said that he expects the Maldives to be among the first beneficiaries of expanded ferry services between South Asian Association for...
Two months after the government announced plans for greater economic stability by devaluing its currency against the US dollar, the Maldives’ Economic Development Minister has said increases in black...
Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem has this week reportedly pledged that the Maldives will lift taxes on the import of products such as pharmaceuticals from Bangladesh as well as work to register tens of t...
Minister of Human Resources Hassan Lateef, has denied that the government has loosened quotas on the hiring of expatriate workers like domestic servants, claiming regulatory reforms published last wee...
The Maldives will back the creation of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders at the next UN Human Rights Council meeting, Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem said on his return from visiting Israel and...
