Minister for Tourism Edward Zammit Lewis  today launched the new turnaround Malta to Malta cruise itinerary of the P&O Oceana cruise-liner, which is due to commence in 2017. In a press...

Malta’s Individual Investor Programme, aka the cash-for-passports scheme, took yet another international beating yesterday with highly critical articles appearing in the influential Brussels...

Total outbound tourists for the second quarter in 2016 were estimated at 104,331, an increase of 9.3 per cent over the corresponding quarter last year, the NSO said. April-June 2016 During...

The Bahrija playing-field has been subjected to frequent vandalism, Rabat Mayor Charles Azzopardi told The Malta Independent. A concerned resident called this newsroom, mentioning the danger the...

Members of the Sliema Local Council yesterday unanimously voted to file an appeal against the development of what is known as the Townsquare project, which was approved by the Planning Authority Board...

The Law on Children’s Rights, which was drawn up four years ago, is now being updated in order to have a law which really protects children and their rights. ...

The much debated EU Constitution is finally coming to the vote at European Parliament level in Strasbourg at the first plenary session of the year....

The government’s decision to irrigate fertile fields in the north of Malta with treated drainage and second-class water should be studied further, said opposition MP Noel Farrugia....

Depending on reports by a medical team to be sent to Sri Lanka by SOS Malta next Friday, a team co-ordinated by the Malta Red Cross Society will be at hand to fly over and provide assistance in this area which has been hit by the greatest natural disaste...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: Mourners in Sri Lanka buried their dead with bare hands while displaced and hungry islanders in Indonesia looted stores following explosive tidal waves that the United Nations said may be history's costliest natural disaster....