• Regno Unito Malta

    Chamber of Commerce vice-president Tonio Casapinta dies

    The vice-chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, Tonio Casapinta, died early this morning, aged 68, a spokesman for the chamber confirmed to The Malta Independent.Mr Casapinta had established the Casapinta Design Group Limited in 1985, and for many years was responsible for the design and build-up of ...

  • USA Malta

    690 Air Malta staff complaints since March 2013

    690 Air Malta employees have registered complaints since March 2013, Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis has revealed.The Minister, who was replying to a parliamentary question tabled before him by Opposition MP Jason Azzopardi, also revealed that the Air Malta board which handled the complaints was composed of three members.Minister Zammit ...

  • Malta

    INDEPTH: Religion studies should be optional – Michael Briguglio

    Ethics should be compulsory in our education system and not optional, sociologist and former Alternattiva Demokratika leader Michael Briguglio said on INDEPTH.Interviewed by The Malta Independent news editor Rachel Attard, Dr Briguglio said that at the moment only two state schools offer this subject, one of them being the Sliema ...

  • Malta

    1,516 divorces obtained in first four years

    A total of 1,516 divorces were obtained from Malta between the introduction of divorce in 2011 and the end of 2015, according to a report by the National Statistics Office (NSO).  The law came into effect on the 1st of October 2011, following which 42 divorces were obtained between that ...

  • USA Malta

    Malta enjoying one of the strongest macroeconomic expansions in the eurozone - minister

    Finance Minister Edward Scicluna welcomes the latest credit rating report by Standard and Poor’s affirming Malta’s rating at 'A-/A-2' with a stable outlook supported by the country’s strong growth performance coupled with consistent current account surpluses, as well as by narrowing general Government deficits and improved fiscal management.Standard and Poor’s ...

  • USA Malta

    Updated: Plans to construct bridge linking Valletta to Cottonera - our April Fool's joke

    It was, of course, an April Fool's joke.Our story below that there are plans to build a bridge across the mouth of the Grand Harbour was our prank for April Fool's Day. In a day and age of fake news, it's the only one you will get from us this ...

  • USA Spagna Regno Unito

    Brexit: Gibraltar outraged that Spain has veto power over its future

    Gibraltar expressed outrage Friday at how it said Spain is using the U.K.'s impending departure from the European Union to force renegotiations on the future of Gibraltar, the territory that Spain has been trying to get back from Britain for 300 years.The nine-page roadmap introduced Friday by EU Council President ...

  • Spagna

    Tourism Minister Zammit Lewis speaks about smart tourism destinations

    Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis participated in a high-level conference on the ‘International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development - Smart Tourism Destinations Contribution for the Planet and its People’ in Seville, Spain.The conference was hosted by the President of Andalucía Susana Díaz and organised by the Network of European ...

  • Giappone

    Japan’s first outdoor Legoland park opens in Nagoya

    Japan’s first outdoor Legoland park opened in Nagoya on Saturday, raising hopes that more tourists will visit the area and deliver an economic boom to the nation’s third-largest business region. With children’s tickets priced higher than those at Tokyo Disneyland, Legoland Japan offers various rides inspired by the Danish construction ...

  • Giappone

    Toshiba likely to miss earnings deadline for third time

    Toshiba Corp. will likely miss a third deadline to report its fourth-quarter business results, two sources said, forcing the conglomerate to ask for a fresh extension or face a possible delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A postponement of the report past the April 11 deadline looks necessary because Toshiba’s ...