Developments in the pharmaceutical industry in Malta have led to an increase in the number of projects prepared by fifth-year pharmacy students in this area, the pharmacy symposium organised by the department of pharmacy heard....

Long delayed and overdue port reforms are making the business sector lose patience. The subject has again been referred to, this time by the Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise....

The Marsascala Shop Owners Association recently presented a number of proposals to Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Labour Party deputy leader Charles Mangion in two separate meetings. ...

The Rural Affairs and the Environment Ministry has announced that farmers and villagers may start applying for EU assistance....

Malta has been granted a permanent derogation that will ensure the smooth-running of the milk production sector in the country, Francis Agius, the parliamentary secretary in the Rural Affairs and Environment Ministry, said yesterday....

Malta is aiming to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world and research and development and innovation will be key to this, Education Minister Louis Galea said. ...

The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and Foreign Minister Michael Frendo on Thursday signed a bilateral Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) shipboarding agreement, making it the seventh such agreement signed by the United States. ...

The number of Maltese residents departing by air and sea in January was 14,372, an increase of 18.2 per cent over the same month last year, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday; 97.5 per cent of them travelled by air....

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses yesterday threatened to call industrial action by the end of March if the Health Division did not supply its members with uniforms, and issued a directive to members not to wear a uniform to work. ...

A lawyer yesterday filed an application in court insisting that the time his client spent under house arrest should be deducted from his client’s jail term because this is still a form of preventive custody. ...