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Government Subsidises broadband access for first time subscribers

Friday, 11 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

With Malta’s broadband internet access prices having subdued consumer take-up of high speed internet access, the government yesterday launched a subsidisation scheme offering broadband internet access for €3 (Lm1.29) per month for a one-year time frame....

Government Signs MOU with CERN

Friday, 11 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The government, headed by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) that might lead to a formal infrastructure of research in Malta...

Crackers: Your Body: A Peek Inside

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Everyone is unique. We have different skin colours, hair colours, body shapes and sizes – but we all look alike inside. If you could peek inside your own body, what would you see? ...

Crackers: Spiders

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. ...

Crackers: Record Brekers - Fastest SMS

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In a competition held in Singapore some time ago, 16-year-old student Ang Chuang Yang has earned a place in the record books, thanks to his fast thumbs. ...

Crackers: Hello Everyone

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Everyone is different... we have different skin colours, different types of hair, different characters, but one thing is the same – if we had to have a look inside our body everyone is the same...

MLP, Government clash on plastic waste

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Labour environment spokesmen Joe Brincat and Roderick Galdes noted that Malta would be having a phenomenal increase of plastic waste as a result of the introduction of plastic soft drinks bottles as required by the EU...

Visible Trade gap narrows in first 11 months of 2007

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Preliminary figures show that the visible trade gap widened by Lm22.1 million (€51.5 million) in November when compared to November 2006, but narrowed in the first 11 months of last year, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday....

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