One of the main ingredients of Malta’s tourism industry is hospitality, said Tourism Minister Francis Zammit Dimech yesterday....

A Malta Federation of Industry (FOI) survey showed an improvement in larger, mainly export-oriented firms and a deterioration in the larger ones that are mainly locally-oriented. The 43rd Industry Trends Survey (ITS) covers the first half of this yea...

A second series of the popular television programme L-Isfida will probably not be broadcast this year in view of considerable fees that still have to be settled with the producers and lecturers before a second edition could go ahead....

A total of 949 immigrants who have been granted refugee or humanitarian status have benefited from Lm139,175 in contributions since the Emigrants’ Commission was instructed to make such payments in September 2002....

The purchase of Malta House in Brussels had been made in the best interests of the country, said a Department of Information statement issued yesterday....

Even though established international magazines such as The Economist are claiming that three of Europe’s largest travel firms are struggling to make ends meet, their representatives in Malta say that the number of tourists being sent for a holiday i...

A man, who cannot be named by court order, was yesterday accused of attempting to indecently and violently assault a 12-year-old girl, her brother who is even younger, and their mother....

Wardens at Ghadira Nature Reserve are irate at the continuous dumping of litter on the reserve’s perimeter by members of the public....

The current law regulating markets gives the duty to local councils to keep waiting lists of all hawkers that are licensed and who wish to set up stalls in the locality’s open market, a Department of Information statement said yesterday....

The VAT department will be increasing its inspections of various establishments in Malta and Gozo....