In March, at a meeting in Beijing organised by Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue and China’s Central University of Finance and Economics, scholars and policymakers discussed how to reform the international monetary system...

The comments board on timesofmalta.com has long been infamous as a gathering point for those Maltese who believe that the internet exists so that they can communicate to the world at large their stupidity...

Revolution across the Arab world has forced the region’s peoples and governments to grapple with the need for change. Years of sclerosis have given way to a frantic push for reforms to match the aspirations and discontent of millions...

I am compelled to write on the divorce issue as a bioethics subject; tackle for example the issue of whether to offer IVF only to married couples and the fact that in bioethics many of us try to insist that children ...

The tsunami raced through the town at eight metres per second, the speed of a gold-medal sprinter. The wave’s height reached 15 metres, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars. Ships were heaved onto hills, and cars floated like boats...

It was bad enough that the Nationalist leaning media tried to cash in on the Libya crisis by trying to revive Gonzi’s flagging and waning support by hyping him up as a steady ‘safe pair of hands....

Current action taken to protect people from mass atrocities in Libya has created a watershed moment in public discussion focused on a new emphasis in international policy...

I do not like thinking that the European Commission has a habit of picking on tiny Malta to flex its muscles when it needs to make a point or try a test case...

It was almost 10 years ago. On 4 September 2002, Ray Abdilla wrote this story for the Malta Financial and Business Times:...

Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East: decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally-connected ...