The Malta Independent 15 November 2026, Sunday
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Turkey’s Nation of faiths

Monday, 19 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to ...

Living On borrowed time

Monday, 19 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Having obtained the great majority of votes at the Nationalist Party general council, in a contest that was really no contest at all, the Prime Minister returned to Parliament facing the same old challenges and uncertainties...

Higher Wages make bad habits worse

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Caritas Malta, which works extensively with the poor and disenfranchised, has proposed that the mandatory minimum wage be raised from €158...

Let’s Rid ourselves of bigotry

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Forget about murders and other dramatic happenings. The most talked about subject right now is Julian Galea’s bowing out of the Slie...

Probably Too far gone to turn around

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Simon Busuttil is such a nice person. There is steel in him but it is cloaked in velvet, in good manners, in soft words, and in words that are never spoken in anger or anxiety but always pondered before they are uttered....

Ringing Alarm bells

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

No matter how much the top brass at GonziPN try to give the impression that the current circumstances are a case of business as usual, most of the people are fully aware ...

Malta Enterprise – Raising the bar

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

This week it was all fanfare on Net TV, as it showed an ebullient Prime Minister proudly promoting Malta’s wares showcased at the prestigious Harrods department store in London. He also addressed a business breakfast...

I Am Australian… too!

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The historical ties between our two islands, Malta being one of the smallest island nations on earth and Australia, for good contrast, one of the largest, revert to the earliest...

Reflections After last week’s vote

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Are the local council elections we had a few days ago more a victory for the Labour Party or a defeat for the Nationalist Party? Which of these two is the greater?...

Tokyo 11-3-11

Sunday, 18 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

We were reaching the end of our workshop in the heart of Tokyo, in a building next to the massive Tokyo train station, when the earth started to move. At first it was quite mild though...

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