International Business News - MDV http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Melting Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels and depleting fresh water sources as a result of global climate change are posing grave threats to food production and economic development in the populous South Asia region, experts said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/climate-change-threatens-south-asia-food-supplies.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:25:49 EDT Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signed and adopted a new constitution Thursday that allows multiparty elections and other democratic reforms after decades of authoritarian rule. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080807/official-maldives-adopts-new-constitution.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:15:03 EDT Fresh fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger separatists killed 14 rebels and two soldiers across the embattled northern region, the military said Sunday as South Asian leaders gathered in the capital. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080803/16-killed-in-sri-lanka-battles-as-summit-continues.htm Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:17:27 EDT Sri Lankan government troops have entered the district housing the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital for the first time in 11 years, the military said Saturday as a regional summit opened in the capital. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080802/battles-kill-35-rebels-14-soldiers-in-sri-lanka.htm Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:16:15 EDT Sri Lankan soldiers attacked Tamil Tiger rebels with artillery and small arms, triggering battles that killed 21 rebels and two soldiers across the embattled north, the military said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/sri-lanka-fighting-kills-23-ahead-of-top-summit.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:24:18 EDT The Sri Lankan army launched a wave of attacks against Tamil separatists in the north, sparking battles that killed 29 rebels and one soldier, the military said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101262-sri-lanka-civil-war.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/sri-lanka-fighting-kills-25-as-summit-nears.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/sri-lanka-fighting-kills-25-as-summit-nears.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:26:02 EDT Sri Lanka sealed off roads and deployed 19,000 soldiers and police in the capital Sunday to prepare for a summit of South Asian leaders amid a raging civil war. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/sri-lanka-security-bolstered-for-summit.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:00:11 EDT A tax on airline tickets, an auction of pollution rights, an international climate change bond: These are some of the ideas likely to be thrashed out at a 162-nation conference on raising the billions needed each year to fight global warming. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/61933-germany-climate-change.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/climate-costs-nations-talk-taxes-bonds-auctions.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/climate-costs-nations-talk-taxes-bonds-auctions.htm Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:26:13 EDT A tax on airline tickets and an auction of pollution rights are just two ideas likely to be studied at a 162-nation conference examining ways of raising the billions of dollars needed every year to fight global warming. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/61093-germany-climate-change.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080602/new-round-of-climate-talks-opens-in-germany.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080602/new-round-of-climate-talks-opens-in-germany.htm Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:14:38 EDT Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/grant-and-hurley-win-case-against-photo-agencies.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 08:56:18 EDT A look at the world's longest-serving leaders, excluding monarchies: _President Fidel Castro of Cuba rose to power Jan. 1, 1959. Aged 81 and suffering health problems, Castro says he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080219/worlds-longest-serving-leaders.htm Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:18:25 EST Running out of space in its crowded capital, this republic of 1,200 islands thought it had a can't-miss solution: build another island. Planners weren't discouraged when people started eating the freshly planted palm saplings, or called the new island an ugly misfit among the picture-perfect beaches of their Indian Ocean archipelago. One day, they told themselves, the new island called Hulhumale would have it all: leafy streets, an artificial beach, a marina for megayachts, a luxury hotel and an entertainment strip. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080202/an-unloved-new-island-in-maldives.htm Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:23:44 EST Running out of space in its crowded capital, this republic of 1,200 islands thought it had a can't-miss solution: build another island. Planners weren't discouraged when people started eating the freshly planted palm saplings, or called the new island an ugly misfit among the picture-perfect beaches of their Indian Ocean archipelago. One day, they told themselves, the new island called Hulhumale would have it all: leafy streets, an artificial beach, a marina for megayachts, a luxury hotel and an entertainment strip. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080202/an-unloved-new-island-in-the-maldives.htm Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:20:40 EST A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080122/child-mortality-highest-in-sierra-leone.htm Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:03:03 EST For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of the Maldives was a crash course in cop-like heroics. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/7980-maldives-assassination-attempt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080110/teenage-boy-scout-a-hero-in-the-maldives.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080110/teenage-boy-scout-a-hero-in-the-maldives.htm Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:41:23 EST The 15-year-old Boy Scout who saved the president of this Indian Ocean archipelago from a knife-wielding attacker said Thursday the assailant shouted "God is Great" before the assault. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/7954-maldives-assassination-attempt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080110/scout-islamic-militant-attacked-prez.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080110/scout-islamic-militant-attacked-prez.htm Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:12:16 EST Residents of the Maldives showered praise Wednesday on 15-year-old Boy Scout who foiled an attempt to assassinate the president of this island nation by grabbing the attacker's knife. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/7665-maldives-assassination-attempt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080109/boy-scout-hero-in-saving-maldives-prez.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080109/boy-scout-hero-in-saving-maldives-prez.htm Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:54:17 EST A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/7641-maldives-assassination-attempt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/boy-foils-attempt-on-maldives-president.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/boy-foils-attempt-on-maldives-president.htm Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:51:39 EST A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/7636-maldives-assassination-attempt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/boy-scout-saves-maldives-president.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/boy-scout-saves-maldives-president.htm Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:14:16 EST The president of the Maldives was saved from assassination Tuesday when a boy scout grabbed the knife of an attacker who had jumped out of a crowd greeting the leader, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/7411-maldives-assassination-attempt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/boy-scout-saves-leader-of-the-maldives.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/boy-scout-saves-leader-of-the-maldives.htm Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:45:44 EST