This time last week, Standard Publications launched a new portal. While we hope you are enjoying our new piece of machinery, we also draw our readers' attention to a new tool that we have incorporated...

The United Nations Refugee Agency yesterday issued a statement, calling on the European Union to overhaul its policy towards Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict zone. It urged the EU to provide...

Almost everyone in the world is touched directly, or indirectly by cancer. October is breast cancer awareness month. Various organisations both private and public go into high gear and organise...

Experts told this newspaper that new measures are needed to handle traffic flow and that the use of cars is continuing to burgeon. Many may think that the reason behind it all is that Malta has a...

All considered, it is a shame the new Parliament building was not completed by the PN administration that decided it and planned it. Important public works such as this should be begun and finished by...

A year ago, on 3 and 11 October, two migrant shipwrecks off the nearby island of Lampedusa claimed the lives of some 500 would-be asylum seekers. In the wake of that double tragedy, there was a new...

Standard Publications Ltd burst onto the local media scene in 1992, with our flagship publication The Malta Independent on Sunday. It was a novelty, offering readers something new - an...

The opening of the forensic year in court always incorporates a speech by the sitting Chamber of Advocates President. It is customary for the chamber to wait for this opportunity to put forward...

        The Home Affairs Minister in essence has said that the way former Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit handled an incident at a police station showed that he had...

        Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease. It is an erosion of the nervous system and affects the flow of information within the brain and body. Victims of MS...