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Merkel, The salary rise and Mario Felice

Friday, 14 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Here’s wishing all our readers a happy new year, with health being the foremost wish, alongside with all our personal dreams and wishes....

Sudan’s Moment of opportunity

Friday, 14 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Not every generation is given the chance to turn the page on the past and write a new chapter in the history of their people. Yet today - after brutal civil wars spanning 50 years killed two ...

Shooting Spotlights debate over guns

Thursday, 13 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

The shooting of a US congresswoman and the killing of six others at a Tucson, Arizona, shopping center prompts Americans yet again to ask why. Are guns still too readily available?...

Banana-skin Humour

Thursday, 13 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Front Against Censorship has rushed to criticise Public Broadcasting Services for cancelling the programme VIP Xow because of one scene in which former AD chairman Arnold Cassola threw shoes at photographs of the president...

The Official pursuit of happiness

Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In a time of tight budgets and financial crisis, politicians nowadays look to economic growth as the centrepiece of their domestic policy programs...

Media Comments on hospital crises

Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I was invited by One News to give a comment on prevention of flu. As I sat on the low bench feeling like a chicken about to lay eggs, I listened attentively to the feature on hospital that was aired before...

SB1070: The Challenges it faces, and what its passage indicates

Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Though facing an injunction imposed by the federal court, months of debate have not changed the reality that Arizona’s controversial immigration Bill, SB1070, may go into effect...

Insensitivity

Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

One would have expected the government to have made an effort to mend its ways once the New Year has kicked in...

The Japan Myth

Monday, 10 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The first decade of this century started with the so-called dot-com bubble. When it burst, central banks moved aggressively to ease monetary policy in order to prevent a prolonged period of Japanese-style slow growth....

Great Start for the New Year

Monday, 10 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Never in my life have I attested to a greater sense of revulsion than that expressed by the general public the moment the New Year heralded the imposition of higher prices for fuels and essentials....

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