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Growth Needs all hands on deck

Sunday, 17 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

It is now over 45 years since Malta gained independence and switched from a fortress to a market economy. During this relatively short span of time, the tempo of economic development had to be sustained and, at ...

Who Is being duped?

Sunday, 17 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Pop stars have always been eccentric and out to shock. I am no prude, and I must say I do enjoy outlandish performances, but it does intrigue as well as amuse me to see today’s young paying through the nose to be insu...

Progressively Authoritarian

Sunday, 17 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Joseph Muscat will probably tell us that the idea to do away with the post of secretary general of the Labour Party is one of his progressive ideas. He seems to be getting a lot of them these days....

To Jab or not to jab

Sunday, 17 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The media is being blamed for causing a sensation and needless panic when it reports on people who have fallen ill or, as happened this week, died from having the swine flu vaccine....

Bush Diaries found in the back of New York cab

Sunday, 17 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Stefan Simanowitz

On the anniversary of Obama’s inauguration, the discovery of George Bush’s secret diaries reveal what really went on behind the doors of the White House and just how close the US came to attacking Iran. ...

What Is lightning?

Saturday, 16 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Early scientists thought that lightning occurred due to the burning of combustible gases in the atmosphere. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin, with his kite experiments, discovered that...

Combating Poverty and social exclusion

Saturday, 16 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

2010 is the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. I am aware that you are the only...

Golden Globe Nominations for Melita More series

Friday, 15 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Three of the top HBO series airing this season on Melita More – True Blood, Entourage and Hung – were recently nominated for the Golden Globe awards. ...

How To keep a New Year’s resolution

Friday, 15 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

What does this have to do with keeping resolutions? Richard Holton, a professor of philosophy at MIT and the author of Willing...

Change Of command ceremony

Friday, 15 January 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

“The AFM’s change of command parade’s ceremonial allows for its symbolic final review of those soldiers the outgoing Commander, Brigadier Carmel Vassallo, has commanded for these last five years”...

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