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Filmed on the occasion of the visit of Commissioner Jacques Barrot, this reportage examines life in Malta’s detention centres. Facebook Comments Box spread the word:TweetEmailPrintMoreLike this:Like Loading...

Worlds Apart from the station.lu news: Luxembourg receive asylum requests from Serbia, Bosnia & Iraq Luxembourg was the 32nd most preferred destination for asylum-seekers in 2008, according to a report published by the United Nations Commission for Refugees.The USA, Canada, France, Italy...

Go – Malta’s former telecommunications monopoly has announced that it is setting a target of 350 employees. That’s 350 people who have to lose their job because Go is…. “rightsizing”. Now there is nothing abnormal with a company in a competitive market...

I sat through the fourth session of my elementary German course this morning. The Direct Method of teaching requires the teacher (lehrerin) to use nothing other than the German throughout the lesson so Estonians, Frenchies, Maltese, Hungarians and Swedes alike are fully immersed in the...

Barack (From Hebrew Baruch meaning Blessed) The people of Iran are celebrating Naw-Ruz, the first month of the Iranian solar year. The first day of spring has been celebrated since time immemorial in the region of Iran – land of the ancient Persians. There are evident links to a pastoral...

Got this weeks Economist and started browsing through it as I always do… starting from the back (Science and Obit). As I did so my eyes fell on an ad taken out in the Tenders section. The word MALTA stood out loud and clear and the title of the ad was “INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY...

Pope Benedict XVI said on Tuesday, on his first leg of a trip to Africa, that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against H.I.V., his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even the clergy who work with AIDS patients. (…)  Benedict also asserted...

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It’s really not as boringly predicatable as one would have thought it would be. The Malta EP election campaign is what I mean. We do not even have to rely on the usual renegade Mad Hatter style parties to be ever so mildly entertained and distracted from the usual banter of pot, kettle...

Change “Because of the ruggedness of the climate and the environment, because of their pride, the people have lost the will to “do” and to change, because they feel that theirs is the perfect nation. Therefore, any attempt to change the country would be destined to fail...

Minister Austin “Powers” Gatt has announced that due to the horrible state of the roads in the Republic plans are on the line to privatise the Maltese road system.  From the Times: Roads Minister Austin Gatt said today with the current standard of the road network being...