According to the World Health Organisation mental health will be among the top 10 diseases challenging the world’s population by 2020, Richmond Foundation CEO Doris Gauci told The Malta Independent....

In less than three weeks, Malta will get its first taste of smoke-free environments when the revised non-smoking regulations kick in on 5 October....

More than half the tenders for road works issued by the Malta Transport Authority this year cannot be awarded because the contractors are quoting prices that are way over the estimated value of the work, The Malta Independent has learnt. ...

A set of five stamps showing Maltese festivals as depicted in scenes painted by well-known Maltese and foreign artists is being issued by the Philatelic Bureau of Maltapost plc today. The set, which has been offset printed in Malta by Printex Limited...

The Federation of Associations of Travel and Tourism Agents cannot but agree more with the Tourism Minister’s plea for the Malta Environment and Planning Authority to start taking a more proactive approach together with the ministry so as to indicate...

The government must give Gozo’s tourism industry a new sense of direction, said Labour MP Evarist Bartolo....

MLP financial services spokesman Josè Herrera yesterday congratulated the government on the position it took at the recent EU meeting for finance ministers at The Hague in Holland....

Although the Malta Labour Party agreed with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s request for a group of experts to suggest radical changes in the way the UN operates, it hoped the report will not fall victim to resistance from certain member states and ...

At midday yesterday, the European Parliament observed a minute of silence in solidarity with the victims of the act of terrorism in Beslan....

The Malta Labour Party councillors’ section yesterday condemned an assault on Xaghjra major Anthony Valvo and his wife....