The French weekly L’Express recently carried an article entitled China’s records in the eyes of foreigners....

Late last year, the government announced that, in the first quarter of 2005, so-called green wardens would be employed with specific duties to safeguard the environment....

An urgent remedy has to be found by the authorities-that-be to coordinate much better the various court cases that are pending, before different Halls, before different magistrates or judges, on different floors and in separate buildings, but having the s...

I do not know whether Marisa Micallef Leyson is a teetotaller like myself or whether she had one drink too many during the festivities when she wrote Best and worst media moments of 2004 (TMID 27 December)....

The Easy Line telephonic system of paying for calls is a blessing for whoever is responsible to honour telephone bills. Especially more so for those landlords who lease out their premises on comparatively short term, and prefer to retain in their name, th...

Could not the heavenly message that the angels did sing “Peace on earth to men of goodwill” be given a chance to be fulfilled in our days if man, with heart, soul and mind, did make a now-or-never gigantic effort to grasp the occasion of this paralysing a...

No matter how hard some of the local media might have tried to play down the award of Lm2,000 in libel damages to the opposition leader after Magistrate Silvio Meli upheld ...

A report published last week confirms what was already known – that there is a strong connection between unemployment and poverty. Naturally, people who do not have an income, or whose income is limited, find it hard to maintain a decent standard of livin...

Weird isn’t it. The Nationalists collected over Lm161,000 for their new headquarters and suddenly there is a new bounce in the Nationalist camp. Suddenly people start whispering that maybe they could win again especially as Labour collected less, much les...

The tragedy of the Egyptian man who drowned off Ghar Lapsi as his brother watched only serves to remind us that there are no facile solutions to what is rapidly becoming a ‘boat people’ problem. The term ‘boat people’ was coined in the late 1970s, when Au...