Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Think Maldives blog informs that the presidential election of Maldives has gone to a second round as none of the candidates could get 50% of the vote. ArtWork predicts who will win in the runoff.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom will face a former political prisoner in a run-off vote on 29 October to decide landmark multi-party elections.
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | yesterday
: By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan Unofficial election results: With 95 percent of the counting completed, it looks that there will be a run off to the presidential election with no candidate getting a simple majority. Unofficial results as given by the Maldivian media are as follows. The final results are unlikely to change the overall standings of the individual candidates: Abdul Gayoom of DRP and President—...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Malé The first democratic presidential election to be held in the Maldives will be decided by a second round of voting after Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the longest-serving Asian leader, failed to win a large enough majority.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Divided opposition hoping to unite in run-off against long time ruler.
CNN (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who was seeking a seventh five-year term, appeared headed for a runoff in the country's first ever multiparty elections, according to preliminary results.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Voting in the Maldives first multi-party presidential election goes to a second round after President Gayoom fails to win outright.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Maldives Live covers the first free election in Maldives that started yesterday. The latest results indicate the long serving (since 1978) president Maumoon Abdul Qayyoom is leading.
Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Maldives has gone to the polls in its first multi-party election. The sitting president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has won 40.3% of the votes cast. The person who came second was Mohammed Nasheed of the opposition Democratic Party. He got 24.9%. As no candidate got more than half the votes, there will be a second round. It will be interesting to see whether Gayoom - who has been in power for 30 years...
dcat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Joan Anderman is not impressed by an anodyne generation of male singer-songwriters. She blames John Mayer. (I kind of like John Mayer because while he sings earnest songs he is pretty talented and he does not take himself too seriously. That said, I take Anderman's point.)
Bluematter. (Free subscription) | yesterday
More pictures that capture the essence of the moment Heaven on earth: Maldives Get out and play
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Supervisors at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in New York allegedly forced female employees to have sex with them, a sexual misconduct suit claims.Four plaintiffs allege in the lawsuit that a number of male Tropic Zone managers, including a former general manager, routinely visited female workers in their personal rooms near the New York eatery in search of sex, the New York Post reported Thursday.The Times...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appeared headed for a runoff against a former political prisoner who leads the main opposition in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, according to poll results announced Thursday.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appears headed for a run-off vote following its first multi-party presidential election.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Stories of irregularities spread after the start of the south Asian country's first multi-party presidential polls that could unseat Maumoon Abdul Gayoom from his 30-year autocratic rule
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paulglen | 10/06/2008
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shugaray | 09/13/2008
Woman Violently Strip Searched By Male And Female Officers
icelebz | 08/28/2008
Jessica Simpson claims she has had "secret lovers". The singer - who has dated a string of male celebrities including John Mayer and Tony Romo , and is divorced from Nick Lachey - admits there are tracks on her debut country album 'Do You Know' which refer to her illicit love affairs. She said: "There are guys that people don't know that I've been in love with. I've had secret lovers." Read Full Story
