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...

6. International relations and participationThe reality of a register that is among the largest in the world, has increased the responsibility Malta has to meet its international commitments and to participate actively in international shipping fora. ...

By and large, the New Year’s Eve festivities were not marred by alcohol related injuries or deaths and it is heartening, bearing in mind the tragedies of Asia, to note that no individual tragedies were recorded due to excessive indulgence....

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...

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...

I read your comment in Odds and Ends (TMID, 13 December) about L-Istrina and I couldn’t agree more. ...