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Cina USA
Africa: Investment in Africa - There's Room for Everyone
[Al Jazeera] China is not "moving relentlessly across Africa". Despite what Peter Navarro, head of US President Donald Trump's National Trade Council has written, that China is "locking down strategic natural resources, locking up emerging markets and locking out the United States", experience on the ground tells a different story.
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Australia
Africa: Most Financial Inflows Not Developmental
[IPS] Sydney and Kuala Lumpur -Recent disturbing trends in international finance have particularly problematic implications, especially for developing countries. The recently released United Nations report, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017 (WESP 2017) is the only recent report of a multilateral inter-governmental organization to recognize these problems, especially as they ...
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Malta Cipro
Cyprus-Malta: competition, cooperation on passports
The debate over Malta’s citizenship-by-investment programme may have subsided in recent months, but on another small Mediterranean island, the same scheme is facing similar criticism – and a similar defence by the authorities. The programme introduced by the government of Cyprus in 2013, originally as a temporary measure in the face ...
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Malta
Intriguing aspects of Maltese legal history
Mark A. Sammut: The Law In All Its Majesty.Essays in Maltese Legal History and Comparative Law, Volume 1Lettou & de Machlinia Press I recently came across this book which, however, had been published in January 2016. And, therefore, this is ‘a better-late-than-never’ short review. The book brings under one cover four essays ...
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USA
Reviving Deutsche in US is priority for CEO Cryan
German lender’s chief is taking a stronger personal grip on the American business
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Regno Unito
Europe will be transparent in Brexit talks
An orderly UK withdrawal has to be agreed before any trade deals are struck
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Malta
Malta Developers Association condemns irresponsible building contractors
The Malta Developers Association today condemned "irresponsible building contractors", saying that all should abide by the law.Referring to media reports on the way the Imperial Hotel in Sliema is being demolished, the MDA said it believes that contractors today have all the means – apart from the legal and moral ...
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USA Regno Unito
UK says London attacker used WhatsApp, firm must help police get access
Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood sent a WhatsApp message that cannot be accessed because it was encrypted by the popular messaging service, a top British security official said Sunday.British press reports suggest Masood used the messaging service owned by Facebook just minutes before starting a rampage Wednesday that left three ...
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Russia USA Slovacchia Regno Unito Malta Slovenia
Malta-Slovakia: Pietro Ghedin optimistic ahead of another World Cup qualifier
Silvio Vella Like anybody else, national coach Pietro Ghedin is well aware that today’s World Cup qualifier from Group F against Slovakia at Ta’ Qali will be yet another extremely difficult test for Malta.Speaking to the media at the MFA technical centre before Malta’s fifth game in this qualifying group, ...
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Malta
PM announces launch of tender for international school including restoration of Mtarfa site
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that in the coming weeks the government will be launching a call for expression for a tender that would see an abandoned school in Mtarfa be restored to a new international school, offering the IB system rather than the SEC system.Speaking at a political activity ...