HSBC's equity lifts MSE Share Index
The share price of HSBC Bank Malta plc advanced by 2.3% to a 3-month high of €2.65 at the stock exchange this morning, although volumes remained low with only 7,000 shares changing hands. The bank's...
View ArticlePartisan politics discouraged young people from participating - candidates
Councillors have to look beyond partisan politics so as not to discourage young people from participating, a nine-panel debate agreed this afternoon. The poorly attended debate, on Youth in Politics,...
View ArticleCanale 5 to feature third film shot in Malta
The third of a series of six TV movies, ‘Souvenir’ which benefited from financial incentives offered by the Malta Film Commission for filming in Malta will be aired tomorrow evening on Canale 5 at...
View ArticleOne last chance for boy who drowned dog
A 16-year-old boy who last October was placed under a probation order after he pleaded guilty to drowning a dog in Marsaxlokk returned to court today, charged with violating the conditions of his...
View ArticleNew Qormi school takes shape
Construction work on a new €8m girls' secondary school in Handaq, Qormi, has been completed, nine months after the prime minister laid the foundation stone. The new school, planned to open in...
View ArticleAustrian government agrees €28-billion austerity package
Austria's government has agreed on an increased austerity package worth €27.9 billion ($36.6 billion) in tax increases and savings to balance the budget by 2016. The text will be submitted on Thursday...
View ArticleAll for the family
The family features in the theme of the electoral programmes that both political parties submitted for the local council elections. Both of them are promising that they want to make – albeit in...
View ArticleDaily fines to be imposed on developers who ignore Mepa orders
Updated - Adds Mepa reaction - Mepa is currently finalizing a legal notice for the introduction of daily fines and penalties which will be imposed on developers who ignored its orders, the Authority...
View ArticleThree plead guilty to drug possession
A 17-year-old man from Victoria has been granted bail after he pleaded guilty to procuring and supplying cocaine, being in possession of cocaine, ecstasy and mephedrone in amounts that denoted they...
View ArticleGovernment wants 'golden rule' entrenched in the Constitution
The government feels that the 'golden rule' on balanced budgets, which is at the core of the Fiscal Pact agreed by all but two EU member states last week, should be entrenched in the Constitution with...
View ArticleKPMG studying Sargas proposal
The government has commissioned KPMG to study the proposal made by Sargas on the building of a power station, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said in reply to a parliamentary question today. The...
View ArticleStill no date for debate on justice, home affairs
The House Business Committee this evening again failed to set a date for debate in parliament on an opposition motion on the situation in justice and home affairs. Opposition MPs Anglu Farrugia and Joe...
View ArticleGovernment to sue over tuna fishing bribery claims
The government is to institute libel proceedings abroad against New Europe (which calls itself the European Political Newspaper) over comments in its issue of February 26-3 March, the Prime Minister...
View ArticleLabour consistent on power tariffs promise - Muscat
Labour leader Joseph Muscat observed this evening that while the government had up to recently said that Labour could not reduce power tariffs as oil prices continued to go up, it was now declaring...
View ArticleMilan through, just
Arsenal 3 Milan 0 AC Milan advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League this evening after Arsenal fell agonisingly short of a remarkable comeback despite an emphatic 3-0 victory over the...
View ArticleUEFA Champions League results
UEFA Champions League last 16 second-leg results: In London Arsenal (ENG) 3 (Koscielny 7, Rosicky 26, Van Persie 43) AC Milan (ITA) 0 AC Milan win 4-3 on aggregate In Lisbon Benfica (POR) 2 (Maxi...
View ArticleTevez scores on public comeback
Carlos Tevez marked his first public appearance for Manchester City in more than five months with a goal as the Premier League leaders' reserves beat Bolton 3-1 tonight. Tevez, who played for 45...
View ArticleChelsea overcome Villas-Boas exit to beat Birmingham
Chelsea began life after Andre Villas-Boas with a victory, winning 2-0 away at second tier side Birmingham City tonight in an FA Cup fifth round replay to book a quarter-final place. The Blues, who...
View ArticleSarkozy: 'We have too many foreigners' in France
President Nicolas Sarkozy said today that there were too many immigrants in France, defending his re-election campaign promise to cut the number of new arrivals in half. "Our system of integration is...
View Article'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' composer dies
Robert B. Sherman, the composer of the "Mary Poppins" song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and other Disney classics, has died in London aged 86, his publicist said. "He died peacefully...
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