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Kenya
Business: Michael Joseph: Kenya Airways to focus on restructuring its financing
Kenya Airways needs to extend debt repayments and make other changes to restructure its balance sheet, which would take priority over finding a strategic partner, the new chairman of the loss-making airline told Reuters.
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Kenya
Business: Balala names task force to sell Kenya as tourist destination
Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has formed a task force to endear Kenya as a tourism and investment destination.
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Kenya
Business News: Balala names task force to sell Kenya as tourist destination
Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has formed a task force to endear Kenya as a tourism and investment destination.
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Malta
MCAST, Johann Strauss School of Music, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academy sign agreement
MCAST, the Johann Strauss School of Music and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academy today signed a collaborative agreement which will provide an accessible, long-term educational pathway for young musicians so that they may have the opportunity to become professional musicians. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed at MCAST Main Campus ...
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Breakthrough in Chinese tourism market is ‘welcome news’ – MHRA
The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) welcomed the announcement made yesterday by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in parliament that Government has signed agreements with Bank of China and China International Travel Services through which 10,000 Chinese visitors will come to Malta by 2018 and 50,000 by 2020. MHRA president ...
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Malta
EU presidency: hotel price hikes not expected to deter average tourist – Zammit Lewis
While Malta’s high-end hotels gear themselves for the conferences taking place in Malta during the 2017 EU Council Presidency, Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis discusses how this will not deter the average tourist.“As with other conferences and meetings, the EU Presidency attracts business delegates who can afford to stay in ...
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USA Malta
Government insists on strategic partner for Air Malta, but does not rule out local investment
Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis insisted today that the way forward for Air Malta was to find a strategic partner but said the government had never closed the door for local investment. His comments came after a newspaper report this morning said the government was likely to pull the plug ...
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Malta
Planning Authority: controlled anarchy - Astrid Vella
This is an article penned by Astrid VellaI never thought that I would hear myself say that the Planning Authority (formerly MEPA) should be disbanded altogether. I had thought that imperfect as it was, the Planning Authority prevented Malta from sinking into uncontrolled anarchy. I was wrong. At the Lija ...
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Malta
PN says tax on toiletries will lead to increase in daily costs
The Nationalist Party said that the new tax imposed on toiletries and other products used daily by the Maltese people will lead to an increase in daily costs for the family.In a statement, the PN said that the measures announced in the budget are anti-business and will have a negative ...
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USA Malta
‘The French, the British, the Italians and the Americans … they’re all in Malta’
The plane crash which left five Frenchmen dead on Monday showed how Malta is being used as a hub by several western countries to carry out secret intelligence operations in Libya, according to a French newspaper source.Liberation quoted a Malta-based Libya specialist as saying that the country is being used ...