• Malta

    Today's front pages

    The two stories on the front page of today's Times of Malta report on the Chief Justice's appeal for new law courts, and Identity Malta's explanation on why so few details of the 'passport buyers' was being released in the interests of diplomatic relations. The Malta Independent gives prominence to a ...

  • USA Spagna

    Stock market party settles down for central bank reflection

    Global stocks came off record highs and the euro fell back towards seven-week lows yesterday as minutes from the European Central Bank’s last meeting showed policy-makers had widespread concerns about the single currency’s rapid rise. The ECB’s plans to map an exit from an era of ultra-easy monetary conditions could be ...

  • USA

    Today is Talkies Day

    Nothing could have introduced sound to the movies better than Al Jolson’s catchphrase, “Wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing’ yet!  Do you want to hear ‘Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye’?” The unscripted ad-lib by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer made a big impression on the audience on October 6, 1927. The ...

  • Malta

    ‘This boat is my life’ – Owner of vessel held in Libya calls on government to intervene

    The owner of a vessel that has been held in Libya for over a week is calling on the government to intervene and save his livelihood.The vessel has been detained in Benghazi for nine days. Speaking to The Malta Independent, Albert Satariano, who purchased the vessel eight years ago after retiring, ...

  • USA Myanmar

    Las Vegas gunman may have scoped out other music festivals

    Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.Paddock booked rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago ...

  • Bulgaria Malta

    13 Bulgarian nationals arrested for pickpocketing as they were set to leave Malta

    Thirteen Bulgarian nationals were arrested as they were leaving a hotel on their way to the airport, and will be charged with pickpocketing, the police said.In a statement, the police said that at 12:30pm, four men and six women, all from Bulgaria, were arrested after police officers saw them exit ...

  • Panama

    Debaten la penalización de la evasión fiscal

  • Brasile India

    Defining emerging markets

    WHAT COUNTS AS an emerging market? Broadly speaking, an economy that is not too rich, not too poor and not too closed to foreign capital. The term was coined by Antoine van Agtmael in 1981 when he was working for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a division of the World ...

  • India

    Worries about premature industrialisation

    BANGLADESH EXPORTS 60% more ready-made garments than India, a country with over eight times its population. On the busy roads of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, white vans nose through the traffic on “Emergency Export Duty”, according to the ambulance-like letters painted on their sides. The success of this quintessentially labour-intensive industry ...

  • USA

    Protectionism and its risks

    EVEN BEFORE THEY claim their baggage at the airport, visitors to the city of San Luis Potosí in central Mexico see an advertisement for the site where Ford Motors was planning to build a $1.6bn factory. The Planta Ford is still marked on a map in the arrivals hall, albeit ...