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News
Release
 WHO
urges health professionals to engage in tobacco control
- 31 May: World No Tobacco Day
New survey show lack of training on tobacco cessation
techniques for health- profession students.
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) is
encouraging health professionals to be proactive in
minimizing the problems caused by tobacco addiction,
consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. As a result,
this year's World No Tobacco Day on May 31st is
dedicated to the important role of health professionals
in tobacco control under the banner of 'Health
Professionals against tobacco, action and answers'.
read more
Local News
Adduvas cover changed
under pressure from Gayyoo
Male' - A few issues of
Adduvas Weekly has been quite critical of Gayyoom and
his cronies. Its readership had increased quite a bit
over the last 2 months and gets sold out within hours of
publication. However, the last issue of the magazine was
banned by Gayyoom because the cover had an artists
impression of Gayyoom. The new issue has the same
headline but different cover which was released
yesterday.
read more and
view the banned cover in its full glory
Opinion
 We
need role models in Maldives not porn stars
In any society famous people like footballers, actors
and TV presenters have a great impact in shaping up the
thinking and behaviour of the young generation. They
grow up watching these people or reading about them on a
daily basis and idolise them. Therefore, these famous
and public figures have a responsibility to project
themselves as role models who respect Islam, uphold the
rule of law and hard working. Otherwise, they could be
the reason for corrupting and criminalising the young
mind. read
more
SAAG Paper
 Maldives - ready for a change: Is Gayoom
ready?
Past experience has shown that those
waiting for President Gayoom to deliver on his promises
for reform need not hold their breath. Predictably, the
President refuses to loosen his grip on power and is
demonstrating the drastic measures that he will take to
ensure that the pro-democracy movement does not take
hold. The international community and India in
particular must look beyond the President's insincere
promises, and apply sustained pressure to ensure the
implementation of the genuine democratic reform that the
people of the Maldives are now demanding. For
change, GAYOOM MUST GO!
read more
CNN
 Clinton
to tour ravaged Indonesian city - Met with
leaders in the Maldives to discuss tsunami
recovery
KURUMBA,
Maldives (AP) -- Former U.S. President Bill
Clinton was scheduled on Monday to visit the
Indonesian city of Banda Aceh -- worst hit by
the December 26 tsunami -- a day after holding
meetings in the Maldives to get water and
sanitation restored there. A spokeswoman for
Clinton dismissed reports that he was feeling
exhausted during his current whirlwind tour of
four countries hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
read more
Sandhaanu.com
 A
life of torture under Gayyoom (Part II) - Detailed
report on how the police of Maldives broke my spine and
how they treated me (Part II & III)
As I may have mentioned earlier that I held myself to
get up by holding the bed and sometimes people who came
to the headquarters had witnessed this and used to try
to talk to me through hand-action, and because of such
things they shifted me to a room near the counter where
ladies are kept. So I had to call the officers to go to
the toilet. It is restricted to urinate in that room. On
the 2nd day morning after changing the room, Jaadhullah
Nazim came by and informed me that if I promise not to
tell any of the things that had happened, they would
give me permission to meet with my family and that if
they found me speaking about it, they would have to
punish me further and that I would never be allowed to
talk to my family again.
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Monday 30 May 2005
Local
News
 Maumoon
Peoples' Party meeting venue changed
Male' - Confirmed reports
say that the meeting which was supposed to be held in
Hulhule Island Hotel has now been changed and is now
scheduled to be held at Finance Minister Jaleel's house
in Male'. The meeting is setup to debate the name for the
ruling party and to layout its strategies, reports say.
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Voice of
America
 Clinton
Cancels Visit to Tsunami-Hit Areas of Maldives
Former U.S.
President Bill Clinton has canceled a scheduled visit to
tsunami-hit areas of the Maldive Islands for reasons
that are still not entirely clear. Clinton is touring
four Indian Ocean nations in his role as special United
Nations envoy for tsunami relief. The former president
arrived Saturday in the Maldives after visiting Sri
Lanka. He will have scheduled meetings in the capital,
Male, with government officials and business leaders to
discuss tsunami relief efforts.
read more
Minivan
News
 What
is the Adopt-an-Island Scheme all About?
A chance for wealthy individuals and organisations to
sponsor the reconstruction of one or more of the
Maldives’ 22 worst-hit islands.
read more
Minivan News
 How
Banyan Tree Helped Naalaafushi - A Story of an Adopted
Island
Thanks to UNDP’s adopt an island, three months after
Tsunami every home in Naalaafushi has been rebuilt.
read more
Minivan News
 Judicial
Services Commission – yet another ruse!
"The JSC committee will be manipulated and directed by
Gayoom" - says a reader.
read more
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Sunday 29 May 2005
 Clinton
scales back Maldives trip - Bill Clinton arrived in the
Maldives from Sri Lanka
Former US President Bill Clinton has called off a trip
to tsunami-hit areas of the Maldives because he is
exhausted, a UN official has said.
Mr Clinton, the UN envoy for tsunami relief, will hold
talks in the capital. "He's plain pooped and he wants to
slow the schedule down," said Cherie Hart of the UN
Development Programme.
read more
CNN World
 Clinton
staff disputes he's 'exhausted'
(CNN) -- Former President
Bill Clinton will continue his tour of the Maldives and
Indonesia in the tsunami-hit regions in Southeast Asia
on Sunday.Clinton's staff is downplaying reports that he
is worn out. The Associated Press cites a U.N. official
as saying Clinton cancelled a planned tour of
tsunami-damaged areas of the Maldives Saturday because
of exhaustion.
read more
Editorial
 Nazi
Rule, Any different to Gayyoom's Terror in Maldives?
Adolf Hitler was appointed
chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, bringing an
end to German democracy. Guided by racist and
authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms
and sought to create a "Volk" community. In theory,
community united all social classes and regions of
Germany behind Hitler. In reality Third Reich quickly
became a police state, where individuals were subject to
arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.
read more
Readers' Review
 Human
Rights in Dictator Gayyoom's Maldives
The human rights situation
in Maldives under dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom was and
still notorious for the use of torture and to maintain
dictator Gayyoom's rule. The total number of deaths
related to torture and from 1987 until 2004 are unknown.
However, there are countless reports of human rights
violations, notwithstanding the government prohibits the
establishment of independent human rights organizations
within the country and rarely permitting foreign human
rights watchers inside.
read
more
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Saturday 28 May 2005
 Minivan
News
"Get Out of my Office!" Umar Zahir
tells PH's brother
The brother of Ismail Faiz (PH)
who was arrested on 1st May has reportedly said that the
Home Minister, Umar Zahir, refused to meet him yesterday
(despite a scheduled appointment) because he was wearing
a 'Free PH' t-shirt.
read more
MDP Press Release
 Information
Ministry violates Article 19 of Maldives Constitution
In a press release
dated 25.05.2005, the Ministry of Information, Arts and
Culture has revealed "that it is unlawful for the press
to publish any information regarding the rules and
procedures to be followed by prospective political
parties, before the establishment of a multiparty system
in the Maldives."
read
more
Today in History
Maldives
bows to pressure for political parties
LONDON (eTurboNews) -- The
government of the Maldives has bowed to international
pressure for the establishment of political parties.
Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has written to
the Speaker of the Maldives Parliament (the Majlis), and
told him to put the matter to a new session which opens
in June.
read more
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Friday 27 May 2005
Tsunami Aid News
 Cyprus
gives Maldives financial assistance
New York, May 27 (CNA)
- Cyprus' Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador
Andreas Mavroyiannis, handed a cheque worth 110 thousand
dollars to the Ambassador of the Maldives Mohamed
Latheef collected by the Cooperative Movement in Cyprus
in aid following the catastrophic tsunami of last
December in south-east Asia.
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by Cyprus Foreign Minister George Iacovou, Mavroyiannis
expressed Cyprus' solidarity with efforts being made to
reconstruct the country as well as its willingness to
support the country, as an EU member state.
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Minivan News
 British
Government to Investigate Gayoom's Persecution of
Salisbury FOM
The British government promised to
investigate claims yesterday that British aid for
victims of the Boxing Day tsunami in the Maldives is not
getting through, the BBC has reported. Two Conservative
Members of Parliament in the UK complained at a House of
Commons question time that medical supplies, food and
money collected in their constituencies had not been
able to be delivered.
read more
Local
News
 IGMH
- Hospital runs out of Oxygen
Today the management of
IGM Hospital (the only government hospital in the
capital and the central hospital in the whole country)
sent a notice to the doctors saying that the hospital
has run out of oxygen. The management has advised the
doctors through a notice to cancel all surgeries except
in emergency cases. The hospital staff was advised not
to waste oxygen and reports are coming from sources
within the hospital that the central supply has been cut
off.
read more
Students' Report
 Feydhoo
School management as corrupt as Gayyoom's government
It has been a
terrible year for Feydhoo School especially for the
students. The school is a Government run school and has
been quite successful in recent years. The students, no
matter what their teachers teach them keep on attending
their classes and somehow they get through exams and
learn a thing or two. Things have been different for
the administrative team and the teachers there.
They get whatever they are entitled to and seem to
be doing nothing for the benefit of their students but
are enriching themselves.
read more
Tsunami News
 The
Tsunami Five Months On: New Report Documents Oxfam's Biggest Aid Effort Ever
BOSTON, May 26 /U.S. Newswire/
-- International agency Oxfam helped more than one million people in the
first three months after the tsunami and has raised more than $250 million
to support its aid effort, which is the largest in the organization's
history, according to the first quarterly report on its response being
published today.
read more
Business News
 Latest
Visa data shows tourism recovery still volatile in key tsunami affected
countries
According to the latest tourist spending data
released by Visa Asia Pacific, tourism recovery in selected tsunami-affected
countries remains volatile , with international traveler confidence showing
signs of weakening following the series of earthquakes and aftershocks on
Nias Island, Indonesia in March 2005. Visitor card spend in the three
tourist destinations hardest hit by the tsunamis of December, Maldives,
Phuket and Sri Lanka, after a period of steady positive recovery through
February and March, has fallen since April and is still experiencing
year-on-year decline.
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Breaking
News
 Friends
and Families of PH and Zahid to stage a protest tomorrow
demanding their release
DO has information that friends and families of Ismail
Faiz (PH) Dhiraagu Engineer from Male' and Mohamed Zahid
(Addu – Feydhoo) also a Dhiraagu staff in Addu who were
both arrested early this month are organizing a peaceful
protest tomorrow in Male' and Addu Atoll after Friday
prayer. The aim of the protest is to express their anger
and disbelief over their continued detention which is
not only illegal but also inhumane. These two young men
are in no way affiliated with any crime or criminal
organization and they are being held under false
allegation that they collaborated with Dhivehi Observer
news website which is run from England. DO has
categorically denied these allegations and recent
activities of the Police such as raiding Hithadhoo
Dhiraagu Office this week points to the fact that they
have nothing against PH and Zahid.
read more
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Local
News
 Gayyoom's
thugs harassing MDP members & supporters
Male' - Maldivian
Democratic Party (MDP) has been garnishing tremendous
support in Maldives, especially in the capital Male'
since the return of Chairman Nasheed (Anni) from exile
earlier this month. Membership of the party has soared
and people are freely assembling and meeting to discuss
political issues and the future of the party and its
role in the future of Maldives.
read more
Editorial
 Gayyoom
hates his cartoons but allowed Nasir to be humiliated by
Maldivian artists
In media everywhere,
political and business figures are laughed upon by
publishing cartoons on printed media and the internet.
The purpose of political cartoon is to bring in a touch
of humour into the whole game of reporting and in the
case of internet, this have become a lot easier with the
availability of graphic design softwares like Adobe
Photoshop.
read more
Hotel
Online
 Nearly
200 Employees of Four Seasons Resort Maldives Find
Temporary Work at U.S. Four Seasons Properties
By Deborah Fleck,
Detroit Free Press - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 13, 2005 - The Four Seasons Resort and Club in Las
Colinas is reaching out to help its family halfway
around the world in the Maldives. The floods produced by
December's tsunamis washed away the jobs of about 400
employees on the tiny island of Kuda Huraa.
read more
News
 Maldives
campaigners take protest to Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland
(eTurboNews) -- The President of the tourist paradise
islands of the Maldives has come face to face with
campaigners pressing for improved human rights for local
people. Protestors confronted Maldivian President
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as he arrived for a meeting at the
United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva,
Switzerland.
read more
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Wednesday 25 May 2005
Local
News
Adduvas
under attack from Gayyoom
Male' - Adduvas Weekly magazine have over the past few
weeks become the most sought after printed magazine in
the country. To the shock of many Maldivians, despite
several articles critical of Gayyoom and his
dictatorship, it has not been stopped by Gayyoom as yet
but all that is likely to change soon. The upcoming
issue is being stopped by Gayyoom when the printer 'Loamaafaanu
Print' - Haveeru Group owned by Gayyoom's old friend
Zahir Hussain - sent a copy to Gayyoom.
"Dictators cannot stand criticism of any sort or the
emergence of a society which wants to be informed of all
things and make decisions for themselves and not by a
autocratic dumb dictator like Gayyoom" said Hassan from
Male'.
Is
this the end of freedom for Adduvas?
FOOTBALL/AFC Cup News
 Indra
and Hairuddin to the fore
THE absence of Cameroon striker Bernard Tchoutang means
that Indra Putra Mahyuddin and Hairuddin Omar will lead
Pahang’s attack against Maldives’ New Radiant in their
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup final Group E
match in Male today.
read more
Local News
 Kulhudhuffushi
and Neighboring Islands Experience Abnormal Winds and
Heavy Rain
Minivan News - Kulhudhuhfushi
experienced unusually high winds early morning
yesterday. The winds, which lasted an hour, caused
damage to the island. The low-lying jetty area was
inundated with water and a number of trees were
uprooted, sources have said.
read more
Tsunami
News
Slow recovery for
tourism in tsunami-affected countries
Tourism recovery in three-tsunami affected countries,
Thailand, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, remains volatile
with international traveller confidence showing signs of
weakening following a series of earthquakes and
aftershocks on Nias Island, Indonesia in March, says
Visa Asia Pacific.
read more
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