{"id":66490,"date":"2025-07-26T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/?post_type=multimedia&#038;p=66490"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:37:12","slug":"66490","status":"publish","type":"multimedia","link":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/multimedia\/66490\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO STORY: A New Gateway to the Maldives \u2014 VIA Terminal Officially Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"593\"><strong data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"361\">Mal\u00e9, Maldives \u2013 July 27, 2025:<\/strong> In a landmark moment for Maldivian aviation, <strong data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"438\">President Dr Mohamed Muizzu<\/strong> officially inaugurated the <strong data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"520\">new terminal at Velana International Airport (VIA)<\/strong>, marking a major upgrade to the country\u2019s primary international gateway.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"595\" data-end=\"948\">The inauguration ceremony was held as part of the Maldives\u2019 <strong data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"680\">60th Independence Day<\/strong> celebrations and was attended by senior government officials, diplomats, and aviation stakeholders. The new terminal is expected to greatly enhance passenger capacity, streamline international arrivals and departures, and support the country&#8217;s growing tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"994\">\u00a0<em data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"994\">Photos courtesy: The President\u2019s Office<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":66506,"template":"","format":"standard","multimedia_type":[405],"class_list":["post-66490","multimedia","type-multimedia","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","multimedia_type-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/multimedia\/66490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/multimedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/multimedia"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"multimedia_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/multimedia_type?post=66490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}