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Cina
Watch: Konrad Mizzi dodges questions about wife Sai’s apparent ongoing government employment
No portfolio minister Konrad Mizzi told journalists that questions about his wife should be made to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Sai Mizzi is still listed as the Consul General in Shanghai on the Foreign Affairs Ministry website. PN candidate and radio presenter David Thake yesterday called the consulate in Shanghai ...
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Messico Germania Spagna Malta
Updated: Minister Cardona ‘not worried at all’ about reputation, insists he was in hotel; PN reacts
Economy Minister Chris Cardona insisted “he is not worried at all” about his reputation in the wake of allegations made against him about his whereabouts while on a Ministerial visit to Germany.He also maintained that he was in his hotel room in Essen, following a conference, at the time when ...
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Panama Malta
AD says Speaker has not yet accepted invitation for PANA committee to meet MPs
Despite the fact that the PANA enquiry committee have asked to meet the present Maltese members of parliament on 20 February, to date this request has not yet been accepted by the Speaker of the Maltese parliament, Alternattiva Demokratika said in a statement.Moreover, politicians of special interest to PANA, like ...
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USA Francia Malta
Record-breaking chart-toppers The Chainsmokers confirmed for Isle of MTV
The Chainsmokers have today been announced as the first and headline act to perform at MTV's annual open-air, summer music festival – ISLE OF MTV MALTA. Widely regarded across the music industry as one of the ‘breakout acts’ of 2016, the multiplatinum selling duo will perform the closing set under ...
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Cina Malta
Watch (2): Mizzi avoids giving deadline, says Delimara plant will go online in coming weeks
No Portfolio Minister Konrad Mizzi today would not commit himself to a date when the new gas-fired power station at Delimara will be fully commissioned.Press by journalists during a press conference to explain the power shortages Malta experienced last night, Dr Mizzi said that tests are being carried out and the ...
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Malta
INDEPTH: If Muscat removes Mizzi, Schembri, I would be the first to applaud – David Casa
If Prime Minister Joseph Muscat were to remove Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri from their respective posts I would be the first to go to the European Parliament to applaud his decision, the PN’s head of delegation at the EP David Casa said.Interviewed on INDEPTH by The Malta Independent online ...
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USA Francia Regno Unito Malta
Maltese businessman finds priceless lost Bob Marley master recordings in a rundown London hotel
A Maltese businessman has discovered a hoard of lost Bob Marley Master recordings in a rundown hotel in London.Marley fan and businessman Joe Gatt found the thirteen 2” reel-to-reel analogue master tapes in cardboard box files, in a damp hotel basement in Kensal Rise, North West London, where Bob Marley ...
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USA
NAO presents report on Structural Funds to Europe 2020 Strategy in employment, education
The Auditor General Charles Deguara presented Speaker Anġlu Farrugia with a report titled ‘Contribution of the Structural Funds to the Europe 2020 Strategy in the Areas of Employment and Education’. This was a parallel audit carried out with the Supreme Audit Institutions of ten other European Union (EU) member states. ...
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Malta
Education Minister denies claims regarding Gozitan whistleblower; says the story was a fabrication
Education Minister Evarist Bartolo has denied allegations which appeared in an article published by The Times of Malta.The article alleged that whistleblower (Joseph Cauchi) involved in the Anthony Debono (Giovanna Debono's husband) case asked the minister to reinstate a Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools supervisor who was relieved of his duties ...
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USA Giappone Grecia Malta Cipro Italia
Once-conservative Malta leaps ahead on LGBT rights
At age 24, Alex Mangion became Malta's first transgender politician when he won a local office on the conservative Nationalists' ticket, a striking combination in a country that until recently had been a last bastion in western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church.The Nationalist Party recruited Mangion to ...