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Not Voting would be a mistake

Friday, 3 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Penning an article in August is normally a difficult task....

US Dilemma in South China Sea response

Thursday, 2 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

China has heightened tensions in the South China Sea with its new, remote island city and planned military garrison in a contested area viewed as a potential flashpoint for conflict in the Asia-Pacific...

Somebody Has no eggs to put in one basket

Thursday, 2 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Those Italians…they can really be too much. One of their judges has now ruled that if you tell a man he has “no balls”, you’re committing a crime....

The Embryo act – some reflections on Church and State relations

Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We have finally and hopefully come to the end of a long saga; a saga which, where it not for periodic spokes in the wheels and other government important matters, could have been resolved years ago...

Social Impact assessments? Look around you and weep

Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

As Malta looks back on the last 50 years, it can be seen that in building planning development terms it has been a story, until just recently, akin to the wild west...

Tonio Fenech’s Idea of a storm in a teacup

Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I would have not bothered to hold a media conference if I had no smoking gun evidence that a leading private auditing firm had written to WasteServ, the Minister of Finance, MGI – the Malta Government Investments Limited – and MIMCOL...

Privatising The Gulf

Monday, 30 July 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As the Arab world undergoes fundamental changes, its leaders must adapt fast or risk popular uprisings – a lesson that has not been lost on the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ...

A Long hot summer

Monday, 30 July 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The fact that the country is in election mode is accepted by one and all. For the first time after many years, today we have a coalition government which is, of course, not something that the Maltese voted for...

Is Malta Safe for our children?

Sunday, 29 July 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The news that two teenage foreign guests went missing within days of each other caused consternation and alarm....

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