India’s NTPC conducts feasibility study to set up solar power projects in the Maldives; Reports: Existence of eight Tamil Tiger (LTTE) ships outside Sri Lanka could contribute to piracy and drug trafficking in Maldives;
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    • Reports noted that India’s largest state-owned power producer National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is conducting feasibility study in Maldives for setting up solar power projects.1 Meanwhile, according to intelligence reports, the existence of eight Tamil Tiger (LTTE) ships outside Sri Lanka could contribute to piracy and drug trafficking in Maldives. The Maldivian Coastguard has joined hands with Sri Lankan and Indian Navy to eradicate piracy, drug trafficking in the Indian Ocean.2

    According to the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom report produced by the Wall Street Journal and Washington based think-tank the Heritage Foundation, Maldives is one of the world’s most economically-repressed countries which has been ranked at 154th position out of the 183 countries across the globe and 34th out of 41 countries in the Asia Pacific regions.3

    In other developments, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of China, Wu Bangguo met with his Maldivian counterpart Abdulla Shahid in Beijing on January 10, 2011. They called for closer relations between China and the Maldives at all levels aimed at enhancing mutual trust as well as economic and trade cooperation in fields such as fisheries, tourism, and infrastructure construction between the two nations.4

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