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Human Holding pens and a bête noir or hero

Sunday, 22 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It would be funny if it were not, well crazy springs to mind.While the EU is making waves to protect battery...

Key Challenges facing our gaming industry 

Sunday, 22 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It was an icy cold wind that greeted me at Hamburg airport on my way to attend a specialised gambling conference ...

Mintoff And what happened in 1998

Sunday, 22 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

When Dom Mintoff distanced himself from the Labour Party in the 1996-98 Alfred Sant Labour government he did not do so because he expected to be named a minister, ...

Europe’s Emancipation from the credit raters

Saturday, 21 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In the last four years, the three largest credit rating agencies, which between them rate almost all of the world’s credit, have risen on the coat tails of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis to become the stuff of headlines...

Concordia Disaster could cost industry millions

Friday, 20 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The capsizing of the Costa Concordia could not have come at a worse time for the cruise industry – right at the start of the peak booking season...

Leading An active life into old age

Friday, 20 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Life expectancy in the European Union has increased by an average of eight years since 1960 and is expected to increase by a further five years over the next four decades...

Presidential Races flummox conservatives

Thursday, 19 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Republican Party’s steadily rightward drift, exemplified by the tea party movement’s muscle, keeps hitting a quadrennial paradox that frustrates social conservatives: presidential primaries...

Please Bear with me

Thursday, 19 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I’m sorry. I know that many of you are now turning the page and switching to a different channel when you see that man’s face or hear his name. And that you switch even faster when you hear his voice...

French Downgrade puts onus on Germany

Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

One of the defining images of Europe’s two-year-old debt crisis is that of the French and German leaders, side by side on a podium presenting their latest strategy for the continent...

George W. Bush: Deep In blood

Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Last month, US forces left Iraq eight years and seven months after President George W. Bush prematurely declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ following the invasion in March 2003...

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