Labour market data for October 2007 indicate that the full-time gainfully occupied population increased by 2,787 persons while unemployment decreased by 512 persons when compared to October 2006....

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During the counting of votes held in the Naxxar Counting Hall yesterday afternoon, Azzjoni Nazzjonali’s deputy leader Anglu Xuereb said: “It looks like we don’t stand a chance of electing a candidate. ...

“The new government does not have political legitimacy, as none of the parties got an absolute majority. It is clear that the population does not want to be ruled by any of these parties,” ...

In one of the lowest turnouts for a general election since 1971, 93 per cent of registered voters yesterday cast their votes for one of the four political parties contesting the 2008 general elections. ...

Even though counting of first preference votes did not start before about 8.30pm, the stacks of voting documents in the pigeon holes after they were sorted out, gave a good indication of how some candidates fared in terms of first-count votes....

At 9.20pm, the air of expectation was finally lifted as PN secretary general Joe Saliba announced victory, but with an extremely narrow margin of 1,200 votes – along the lines the party had been predicting throughout the day. ...

Around 200 gloomy-faced Nationalist party diehards assembled yesterday morning in front of the PN headquarters. ...

The people of Malta and Gozo turned out to vote in their usual great numbers yesterday in the tenth general election since Independence, despite the cold weather that at times threatened rain, and despite the many delays voters had to put up with....

On the Mistra nightclub case, FAA notes that MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, involved in the Mistra nightclub case, has now requested that Mepa halts the processing of a permit on his land ...