Minivan Daily
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Minivan Daily is a local newspaper
of Maldives
published in Dhivehi language
. The literal meaning of Minivan is independent. The paper started publishing on July 26, 2005 — The day coincides with the Independence Day
of the Maldives. This newspaper is the only daily newspaper which does not get government aid. In August, the second month of publishing, the printing press, Novelty Printers and Publishers stopped printing the paper due to threats they received from an unknown source. Since August 2005, the newspaper has been printed on a cyclostyle machine and the size has been reduced to A4. Several journalists along with the editor Aminath Najeeb have been charged by the government for various news articles published by the paper. With its 200th edition the paper launched its website. The paper, which openly supported the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), closed in 2008 after MDP candidate President Mohamed Nasheed won the country's first democratic presidential election.
Minivan News is a private news website which was initially linked to Minivan Daily but in recent years has been editorially independent. It has a good reputation among diplomats and Maldivians abroad as a reliable news source.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
of Maldives
Maldives
The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...
published in Dhivehi language
Dhivehi language
Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by about 350,000 people in the Maldives where it is the national language. It is also the first language of nearly 10,000 people in the island of Minicoy in the Union territory of Lakshadweep, India where the Mahl dialect of the Maldivian...
. The literal meaning of Minivan is independent. The paper started publishing on July 26, 2005 — The day coincides with the Independence Day
Independence Day
An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a colony or part of another nation or state, and more rarely after the end of a military occupation...
of the Maldives. This newspaper is the only daily newspaper which does not get government aid. In August, the second month of publishing, the printing press, Novelty Printers and Publishers stopped printing the paper due to threats they received from an unknown source. Since August 2005, the newspaper has been printed on a cyclostyle machine and the size has been reduced to A4. Several journalists along with the editor Aminath Najeeb have been charged by the government for various news articles published by the paper. With its 200th edition the paper launched its website. The paper, which openly supported the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), closed in 2008 after MDP candidate President Mohamed Nasheed won the country's first democratic presidential election.
Minivan News is a private news website which was initially linked to Minivan Daily but in recent years has been editorially independent. It has a good reputation among diplomats and Maldivians abroad as a reliable news source.