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A Giant ‘suq’ from a bygone age

Thursday, 21 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Many years ago, the Trade Fair Corporation – or its predecessor by some other name – leased the greater part of the gardens of Palazzo Parisio in Naxxar....

Turkey: Where from here?

Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The recent parliamentary visit to Turkey on Council of Europe business was very short. Barely a day and a half in Gaziantep, which is the troubled South Eastern part of the country, and a brief one-night stop over in Istanbul....

The Visa, immigration and Libya

Monday, 18 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I am not at all surprised that the government is in a quandary on the new visa regime with Libya that has come about with Malta’s accession to the common visa policy of the European Union two years ago....

360 Eves Around London... how many in Malta?

Monday, 18 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Around 360 women around London are reported to have been date raped recently, in a new and horribly damaging form of date rape. ...

No Place for compromise?

Sunday, 17 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Dutchman Jeremy Boissevain and several other social observers from the realm of academia have, over the years, frequently alluded to our inbred polarisation that...

Construction Site management

Sunday, 17 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The tourist sector in Malta has gone through yet another season of adversity. One of its identified maladies was the poor state of the environment – and the most obvious ailment was the fact that, at the ...

The Electability of electricity?

Sunday, 17 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It does seem extraordinary, doesn't it, that a full eight years after 1998, electricity bills still dominate the political agenda, will still be one of the deciding factors in how people vote, will still be one of the most used ...

Yes, Dr Mallia, Some doctors are corrupt

Sunday, 17 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Pierre Mallia, a general practitioner and a specialist in bio-ethics, who is also a former president of the Malta College of Family Doctors, has said that it isn’t true that some doctors receive bribes to prescribe certain brands ...

Honey, I Shrunk the Union

Sunday, 17 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last week, figures published by the National Office of Statistics revealed that... hey, wait: where are you all going? I know I used the word “statistics”, but that’s no reason to go and do a GWU port workers section on me, now is it? ...

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