• Cuba

    Sellal visits historic leader Fidel Castro in Havana

    HAVANA-Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal visited Thursday in Havana (Cuba) the Cuban historic leader Fidel Castro Ruz. The prime minister is accompanied by Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra and Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform Abdelmalek Boudiaf. Sellal arrived Wednesday in Havana ...

  • Egitto

    Watch: Raging tuk tuk driver video goes viral

    A video of an enraged tuk tuk driver condemning the state of Egypt's suffering economy has gone viral, underlining growing popular discontent over shortages of food staples. Filmed in the crowded narrow lanes of a working class Cairo neighbourhood, the video shows the driver - surrounded by locals - condemning the ...

  • Malta

    'Mysterious' death could be natural; it's the second death in same flat in 8 months

    A Serbian woman is helping the police with investigations following the discovery of a dead Englishman in her apartment in St Paul’s Bay on Wednesday night - the second man to die there in eight months. Police began investigating after an autopsy revealed water in the man's lungs, known as pulmonary ...

  • Malta

    Six shortlisted for first Social Impact Awards

    Seven projects have been shortlisted for the first ever Social Impact Awards in Malta, to be held on October 25. The initiative aims to bring the private and non-profit sectors together to offer opportunities for financial and non-financial support to develop and see to fruition a project that will have ...

  • Malta

    Work ethics must begin at home

    Employer complaints that the education system is churning out students with certificates but no employment skills barely make the headlines any more. Finding the right recruits gets more difficult when unemployment is low, making it an employee market in some sectors. Foreign recruitment is resorted to in order to fill ...

  • Malta

    Fair share

    I refer to the front-page article entitled ‘€1.75 wage increase per week likely’ (October 11). It is misleading. The €1.75 sum would be the cost of living adjustment (COLA), not an increase in wages. The lowest wages in Malta have not increased for decades despite the economy (apparently) doing so well in ...

  • Thailandia

    Events put on hold

    Organisers have postponed major concerts and entertainment and marketing events in Bangkok indefinitely to join the nation to mourn the loss of His Majesty the King.

  • Cina Giappone

    U.S. keeps Japan, China, other nations on currency ‘monitoring list’

    The Treasury Department said Friday it has retained Japan, China and others on a list of countries it monitors over what it calls potentially “unfair” currency practices, but concluded that none of the U.S. trading partners is manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage. Despite a sharp appreciation ...

  • Giappone

    U.S. bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones from airliners

    Passengers and flight crews will be banned from bringing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights under an emergency order issued Friday by the Department of Transportation in response to reports of the phones catching fire. The order, which goes into effect on Saturday at noon EDT, says the ...

  • Cina India Giappone

    China’s Xi inks raft of deals worth billions with Bangladesh

    Chinese President Xi Jinping, stepping up a competition with India for regional influence, said Friday ties with Bangladesh would be enhanced to a strategic partnership as the two countries signed 27 agreements worth billions of dollars. Xi, making a first trip by a Chinese president to Bangladesh in 30 years, ...