Rooms start a RM800, a reasonable rate compared to similar over-water villas in destinations like the Maldives.
Other island nations with sanctuaries also include Palau, the Maldives, Tokelau, Honduras and the Bahamas.
Sharif and Gujral reportedly hit it off when they met in the Maldives 14 months ago.
By Mr Nasheed's telling, the Maldives' political fortunes foreshadowed events of the Arab spring.
ECONOMIST: Rival leaders bicker, and vie for help from India
Monaco and Islands operates services in the Channel Islands, Falkland Islands and the Maldives among other areas.
If the Maldives wanted to send airplanes into the stratosphere to scatter sulfates, who could stop them?
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives.
He and his family were vacationing in the Maldives in December 2004 when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit.
He said messages of condolence have been sent to India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
With the Maldives only being a metre above sea level, it's created devastation.
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The situation not just in Male but in other parts of the Maldives, too, was reported to be tense.
Perhaps one in seven hotels on the Maldives may have to be rebuilt.
Most of the Maldives coral is less than a metre above sea level.
The luxury Soneva resort chain, with properties in the Maldives, Thailand, Greece and Sri Lanka, is striving to fully decarbonise by 2015.
The Maldives has seen political unrest in recent years in protest at the 29-year rule of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
Land owned by Sri Lanka and India were possibilities because the countries have similar cultures, cuisine and climate as the Maldives.
He belonged to the party of another former President, Maumoon Abdul Gayoon, who ruled the Maldives for 30 years from 1978.
The Maldives was thrown into turmoil in February 2012 when Mr Nasheed was ousted in what he says was a coup.
Fourteen people have been arrested in connection with a bombing in Male, capital of the Maldives , which injured 12 tourists.
The Maldives are pretty much in a straight line north to south.
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New Delhi then sent a four-member delegation to the Maldives to assess the stand-off between the Maldivian government and the former president.
The United Nations joined politicians from the Maldives in condemning the murder.
Nineteen of the Maldives' 87 resorts are said to be severely damaged.
But the situation was straining relations with the Maldives' giant neighbour, prompting Delhi to send a special envoy, says the BBC's correspondent Charles Haviland.
Mr. Nasheed, who became the Maldives' first democratically elected president in 2008, was ousted in February last year, but the current government says he resigned.
Most attention tends to focus on inhabitants of low-lying islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans the Maldives, Tuvalu and Kiribati, say and coastal plains, notably in Bangladesh.
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Myanmar, Bangladesh and some east African nations, however, have lagged behind India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in their investments in public education, Jegillos said.
An official inquiry in the Maldives has dismissed claims by former President Mohamed Nasheed that he was forced from power in a coup six months ago.
The number of electoral democracies went down by three, to 116, with Honduras, Madagascar, Mozambique and Niger dropping off the list while the Maldives were reinstated.
The legal system of the Maldives, an Islamic archipelago with a population of some 400, 000, has elements of Islamic law (Sharia) as well as English common law.
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