Lombard Bank improved its pre-tax profit by 24 per cent on an annualised basis, the bank’s annual general meeting heard yesterday evening....

Stephen Calleja has been appointed editor of The Malta Independent Daily. He takes over as from today’s issue from Fr Noel Grima, who has been appointed editor of The Malta Independent On Sunday....

The government has decided to appoint former minister Josef Bonnici as the Malta representative on the European Union’s Court of Auditors, informed sources told The Malta Independent....

The largest haul of smuggled cigarettes ever discovered in Malta was seized by the Customs department yesterday. Approximately 25 million cigarettes, worth about Lm20 million and believed to be bogus, were discovered at the Freeport Terminal in Malta...

European Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom said the Maltese government is bound to close down the Maghtab landfill by 1 May....

The launch of Dr. Cachia’s new book, Global Diplomacy Reflected in Malta: A decade of decisive developments in international affairs, 1993-2003, took place at the Foundation of International Studies on 29 March....

Volumes 55, 56 and 57 in the series Kullana Kulturali – a series of 60 hard-back volumes dealing with cultural aspects of Maltese life Ð has just been published. These are Il-Ktieb Malti Perspettivi by Victor Fenech and Il-Folklor Malti I and II (co...

The La Valette National Philharmonic Society has just issued a CD consisting of 13 funeral marches. These are the best of the four sets kept in the society’s archives....

Ghaqda Nisa Giljanizi kept with tradition when it recently organised the 14th consecutive annual seminar on the occasion of World Women’s Day....

On 22 March, President Guido de Marco inaugurated the National Memory Project at the Banca Giuratale in Mdina. This building has been used as one of the repositories of the National Archives for the last 15 years and offers access to archival records...