Archive for July, 2009

Olympic Library will be biggest contribution to Maldives’ sporting community: Marzooq

Café Alfresco warmly congratulates our valued customer Ahmed Marzooq who on 11 July 2009 was elected as Secretary General of Maldives Olympic Committee in the first elections the organization held in its 31 years. Marzooq represented Body Building Federation of Maldives while contesting for MOC’s Executive Committee.
Marzooq, who was a former general secretary of first [...]

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Freedom is people’s rule: President Nasheed

* Café Alfresco wishes President Mohamed Nasheed, our valued customers and all beloved citizens of Maldives a very happy Independence Day as Maldives celebrates the first taste of true liberal democracy after 30 years.
MALE, 26 July 2009 — President Mohamed Nasheed today said that true freedom has certain conditions and that includes the fact that [...]

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Café Alfresco introduces FREE Wi-Fi service

We have introduced Wi-Fi service now and it’s all FREE!
You can ask for a free username and password from the counter.
Whenever your 60 minutes are over, you can always request for further free usernames and passwords.
We hope that this will be an educational and entertaining experience while you have a coffee or snack at our [...]

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Obama visits Ben’s Chili Bowl for lunch

* A special thanks to subcorpus for bringing our attention to this interesting story and video to go with the story President Nasheed visits Café Alfresco.

Barack Obama dropped in Saturday afternoon for a bite to eat with Washington’s mayor, Adrian Fenty, at Ben’s Chili Bowl, the venerable diner in Washington’s U Street district.
Obama said it [...]

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President Nasheed visits Café Alfresco

President Mohamed Nasheed today visited Café Alfresco in the afternoon.
The President, being very much a man of the people, took an afternoon stroll around the local marketplace and the busy business area of the capital Male’, inquiring into the well-being of ordinary people and personally checking on how generally businesses were faring in these difficult [...]

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MDP candidate wins Thimarafushi re-vote

Mohamed Mustafa of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has won Thaa atoll Thimarafushi constituency by 52 votes.
Mustafa won 500 votes in the re-vote today (yesterday, 11 July 2009), bringing the total number of votes to 1,440.
“I am very happy. This victory belongs to the people of this island and the history of this island [...]

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