Archive for October, 2009

1st anniversary of a new beginning for Maldives

As the first yellow rays of the sun hit Raalhugandu on the morning of October 29, 2008, it was a most surreal scene as hundreds of people, young and old, who had been waiting up all night waiting the previous day for a change, came out in hordes, most dressed in yellow, to greet and [...]

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Divers Association of Maldives’ 350 movement TV Spot

This is a TV spot made by Divers Association of Maldives to promote the 350 movement. 350 is an international movement that lobby’s to bring down the carbon emission to lower than 350ppm. If the concentration of carbon continues to increase life as we know would cease to exist and humanity will suffer. Currently the [...]

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Maldives ministers prepare for underwater cabinet meeting

By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian, 7 October 2009
Politics in the Maldives will sink to a new low later this month, when the nation’s cabinet holds its first meeting underwater.
The country, a collection of atolls and islands in the Indian Ocean, stands less than two metres above sea level, and as climate change causes seas to [...]

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