Throughout the course of the Arab Spring, Syria has been struck with unprecedented violence. Last March, widespread demonstrations began against the iron-fisted rule of Syria’s long-time autocrat, President Bashar Assad...

The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering is normally little more than a toast to the benefits of increasing global GDP, trade...

Industrial activities play an important role in ensuring Europe’s, as well as Malta’s, economic well-being, contributing to sustainable growth and providing high quality jobs...

Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws’ dungeon for seven months...

When Franco Debono brushed off his interest in the financial health of the country with the cavalier words that the economy is important but his list of complaints about cassette tapes in court and television in parliament more so, he wasn’t joking...

Had last Thursday Parliament voted on a vote of confidence put forward by the Prime Minister, the same result we had last time would have led to a defeat of the government...

The President’s intention to focus his annual Forum, which on present plans will be held in April (though this may have to be changed in the light of the current electoral uncertainties), on the Constitution of Malta is greatly to be welcomed...

For the third year in a row, the eurozone is the weakest link in the world economy. In 2010, attention was focused on responses to the crisis on the eurozone periphery – Greece, Portugal, and Ireland...

On the very same day when a leading Sunday newspaper appealed to government to stop taking the country for a ride while posing the ticklish question as to how long can the government realistically go on operating in such an unstable manner...

Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis? No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011. For India, last year is a year best forgotten....