The Maldives includes about 1,200 coral-reef islands, or atolls, in the Indian Ocean. The reefs sit atop the craters of a string of undersea volcanoes south-southwest of India.

Nonetheless, New Maldives has never expressed clear condemnation of the total absence of religious freedom in the archipelago.

The standard of education was falling in the Maldives before broadband Internet access brought a quiet online revolution to classrooms in the Indian Ocean atoll nation.

If you’ve ever dreamed of holidaying on a desert island, you were probably thinking of the Maldives. The 1,192 sand-circled islands that make up this exquisite archipelago sprawl across more ...

Current State of the Atolls In his book “Descent into Paradise”, journalist Daniel Bosley says that “development” pressures, political neglect and climate change have assailed the Maldives’ ...

The fish were found between two atolls, or ring-shaped reef island, in the central Maldives, an archipelago off the southeastern coast of India and Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.

Ari Atoll is one of the largest atolls in the Maldives, and is around 90 km long and 30 km wide. The turquoise colours in the image depict clear, shallow waters which contrasts with the dark ...

By K Male, November 12: Of the 1192 islands and islets comprising the Maldives archipelago, about 200 are inhabited. The island of Male i ...