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In 2006 Sri Lanka Telecom and the Maldives state-run telephone company Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun commissioned a US$20 million joint venture to lay an undersea fibre-optic cable connecting Male to Colombo, Sri Lanka, with Japan’s NEC Corp as the main supplier.
The history of the Maldives' overseas diplomatic mission in Colombo, dates back to 1934, when the Maldives was a British protectorate and Sri Lanka was part of British Ceylon. On 4 March 1934, the Representative Office of the Maldives in Colombo was opened in the capital of British Ceylon with the first representative being Abdul Hameed Didi. [2]
Official and economic relations between the neighbouring Indian Ocean countries of the Maldives and Sri Lanka, have been positive since the Maldives became independent in 1965. The Maldives first established a mission in Sri Lanka in July 1965, and today has a High Commission in Colombo. [23] Sri Lanka has a high commission in Malé. [24]
Maldives portal; Sri Lanka portal Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. -Sri Lankan expatriates in the Maldives (1 C) H ...
Beam: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) ... Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph ... Navy as INS Tarmugli in memory of the patrol vessel donated to the Maldives as the newer MCGS ...
The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland. The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia. Including the sea, the ...
[2] he carried out many excavations in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for the Archaeological Survey during an appointment running from 1890 to 1912 and claimed to dig treasures hidden in the Sigiriya and sent to England. [3] After retirement, he also investigated the archaeology and epigraphy of the Maldives, where he had been earlier in his life.
The Maldives may have been settled in parallel with the arrival of Indo-Aryan speakers in Sri Lanka. Mariners from the peninsula's northwestern coasts must have on occasion been blown over to the Maldives—unmanned canoes and rafts from Kerala appeared there – and the dangers of shipwreck were vividly described in Jātakas.