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When China Turned 60!

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

When people turn 60 many things can happen. Their ageing process can quicken, their biological age might turn out to be younger than their chronological age, senility might set in,...

Sports Journalists too afraid of Joe Mifsud

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

You may have seen this headline in the 19 July edition of this newspaper. It was the first in a series of news articles I wrote about the investigations into corruption in Maltese football....

Labour Adds a bit of blue

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

All this ado, over what exactly? It was not a cabinet minister, or even a backbcncher, who crossed the floor, but a failed election candidate who has changed sides, so why the fuss?...

J’accuse: The Sultans Of Swing

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

This was the week of tsunamis, earthquakes and missile tests. It was the week when an EU inquiry finally found that Georgia was to blame for starting the Georgia-Russia war (and that Russia over-reacted)....

The Fall of sterling and tourism

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

As if the current slump in tourism were not enough, we are now faced with bleaker future prospects for this industry as a result of the rapid fall in the value of sterling against the euro. ...

St Francis And the Holy Land

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Today the Catholic Church celebrates one of her greatest saints – Francis of Assisi, who in Pope Benedict XVI’s words, abandoned himself to the Holy Spirit’s action, was converted ever more closely to Christ and was transformed into a living image of Him...

The Symbol that is Marisa

Sunday, 4 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The decision taken by Marisa Micallef (Leyson) to throw her lot in with the Labour Party would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago. ...

A New era

Saturday, 3 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

If agreement is not reached in Copenhagen in two months time, the last bus would have been missed to save the planet from catastrophic consequences resulting from climate change. As secretary general Ban Ki Moon aptly put it, ...

Bringing Transparency to the world of lobbying

Saturday, 3 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

One of the things I have quickly learnt about Brussels is the frenzied activity of lobbyists in and around the EU institutions. A lobbyist is a person or group ...

Will Democracy triumph in the EU?

Friday, 2 October 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

“Europe’s nations should be guided towards the super-state without their people understanding what is happening...

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