Foreign Minister Michael Frendo has proposed the setting up of an economic and social council of the Mediterranean with the participation of economic and social partners in the decision-making process...

Deputy Prime Minister Tonio Borg has been warmly welcomed by the Maltese community in Australia for the government’s decision to allow Maltese citizenship for second generation Maltese born in Australia....

The Water Services Corporation has launched its new website today to coincide with World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on 22 March. ...

The General Workers’ Union yesterday welcomed the unanimous approval of the SmartCity project by Parliament on Tuesday night....

The public service sector of the Union Haddiema Maghqudin has written to the law courts’ administration saying it would take industrial action if it does not receive a reply to a formal request for a revision in the payments system to court marshals....

The Nationalist Party’s Youth Movement (MZPN) said National Youth Day should serve as a day of reflection on the situation of young people in Malta, the challenges they were facing and the opportunities they were being offered....

The National Youth Council (KNZ) encourages the participation of youths in society and recognises their contribution to the world of work, education, research and voluntary work, said president Alessia Zammit yesterday....

The European Commission yesterday decided to send a supplementary letter of formal notice that is the beginning of legal proceedings against Malta, to extend the bird hunting prohibition not only to 2005-6-7 ...

A Chinese man with Australian nationality was jailed for six months after he pleaded guilty to making financial gains from human trafficking on 19 November 2006....

Two men were yesterday remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to trying to rob a house in Zabbar on 4 February. ...