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EarthCam To stream New Year’s Eve celebrations from Malta

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

EarthCam (http://www.earthcam.com/), the industry leader in webcam technology and pioneer in webcasting premier events, will transmit the annual New Year’s Eve Times...

Ray Calleja Entry said to have been leaked on the web

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

After the great hype given to a particular song, which made it to the second phase of the Malta Song for Europe 2008, it seems that a snippet (1minute)...

A Rocky stretch for Roads Minister

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

To say Minister for Urban Development and Roads Jesmond Mugliett has had a challenging year would be an understatement, with repeated calls from the Opposition for his resignation and the driving test examiners debacle to be grappled with....

MEP Fights to save doves

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

A Wigan Euro MP is backing moves to enforce a ban on illegal hunting in Malta, giving a lifeline to birds featured in one of Britain’s most famous Christmas songs....

Malta Still to reply to EU’s final warning on spring hunting

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Malta is still to reply to the European Commission’s final written warning on the opening of the spring hunting season, which it considers to have constituted a violation of the EU’s Wild Birds Directive for the last four years running....

Malta’s Central bank staff complement 6.5 times EU average

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The technicalities of Malta’s euro changeover have been in good hands, according to figures that show Malta has, by far, the highest proportion of central bank employees in the European Union – at 6.5 times above the EU average....

Entry Into eurozone ‘to help tourism, business’

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Michael Bonello, the Governor of the Central Bank, reports that those arriving on the island for the first time often look perplexed....

Consumers In Cyprus fume over medical price hikes

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

Cypriot consumers said last week they wanted the competition commission to probe why healthcare costs had risen in the run-up to euro adoption....

Massacre Of the songbirds

Sunday, 30 December 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

They were all massed in 40 boxes normally used to transport vegetables, hidden on a lorry that was on its way to Capo Passero, the tip of Sicily’s southeastern coast....

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