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Snappies campaign launches on ZAAR

Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 10:09 Last update: about 7 years ago

A new sanitary product created by a woman for women has launched a campaign on Malta's online crowdfunding platform, ZAAR. Answering the call by women everywhere for a fully sustainable,...

Sally Sounds returns

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 11:18 Last update: about 7 years ago

Sliema's oldest community theatre, Teatru Salesjan, is no new name to many residents in the locality or any regular cultural enthusiasts who frequently enjoy a theatre experience. In recent years, it...

Marie Benoit's Diary: Life in the time of Coronavirus

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 09:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Marie Benoît

Though now living on the periphery of injury time, I had never in my long life been exposed to a pandemic at close quarters. I recall the popular alarm at a whiff of bubonic plague just after the war,...

Filigree maker by profession

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 09:22 Last update: about 7 years ago Marika Azzopardi

He was a teenager when he started helping out in his father's workshop. And he has not looked back since. Kevin Attard is an award-winning filigree maker, one of a small handful of such makers in...

First air raid on a Second World War hospital (11 June 1940)

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 09:20 Last update: about 7 years ago Anthony Zarb Dimech

The world is living at a time when it is struggling with spikes in COVID-19 and the situation could spiral out of control as many are still holding mass events and not keeping social distancing. The...

New opening hours at Palazzo Falson Mdina

Thursday, 3 September 2020, 15:17 Last update: about 7 years ago

Following its reopening in July 2020, Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum in Mdina has launched new opening hours as of September 2020. The Museum will be open from 10:30am to 4:00pm (last tour at...

What we can learn from failure

Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 12:12 Last update: about 7 years ago

We live in a society where being successful or being the best is given enormous value. From a young age we're taught to aim for the highest grades, to do well at sport and that winning or achieving...

Cruise tourism – Planning a better activity and the host gaze

Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 09:40 Last update: about 7 years ago

Cruise travel conjurs up many images of the days of ocean-going steamers, luxurious liners and the exclusive life of the traveller in the early part of the 20th century. But the cruise liners, over...

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