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Regno Unito Malta
HSBC Bank Malta named Bank of the Year for 2016 by The Banker
HSBC Bank Malta has been named Bank of the Year in Malta for 2016 as part of the Financial Times prestigious The Banker magazine awards. The award recognises that HSBC Malta has been successful in rapidly adapting its business model to thrive within a changed operating environment for banks characterised ...
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USA Regno Unito
Oil firms and carmakers diverge in costly debate
Many carmakers are predicting a significant shift to electric vehicles in the next decade. Advances in battery technology and the growth of autonomous driving and ride sharing – suited to electric vehicles – will power this expansion, they reason. But some oil executives take a different view, predicting electricity will play ...
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Russia
Doping scheme may have touched all Russian athletes
A report that connected over 1,000 Russian athletes to a state-run doping system only scratched the surface of a drugs culture that may have touched all the country’s Olympians, WADA director general Olivier Niggli said. Olivier Niggli described the numbers in Canadian law professor Richard McLaren’s explosive report as “frightening” but ...
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USA Malta
Malta Public Transport to donate ticket sales on 17 December to l-Istrina
The Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation in collaboration with Malta Public Transport announced a new initiative "B'tal-linja għall-Istrina" which is being held on Saturday 17 December 2016."Through this initiative, the Company will donate the full ticket price paid by the passengers for their first trip of the day when using ...
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Malta
Jason Azzopardi insists: ‘Minister lied’; Bonnici demands apology
A ruling by the Speaker of the House of Representatives over Jason Azzopardi’s breach of parliamentary privilege has not tamed the Opposition MPs’ insistence that Justice Minister Owen Bonnici had lied to Parliament on the Henley & Partners Individual Investment Programme contract, and that he had done so before. Minister ...
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USA Panama Regno Unito Malta
'Barts Medical School will generate jobs and help put Gozo on the map, more so than ever'
Professor Mark Brincat has told The Malta Independent on Sunday that an iconic institution like Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry will generate jobs and help put Gozo on the map more so than ever."I am saddened by the lack of realisation regarding the dearth of opportunities for Gozitans when it ...
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Malta
Lack of proper education on immigration and refugees major obstacle in tackling hate speech
Lack of proper education on migrants and refugees who live in Malta is one of the major obstacles which the nation must overcome in order to tackle hate speech, a policy paper by ELSA concluded.The paper, which was launched at an event held at the President's Palace in San Anton ...
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USA Malta
How Malta was shot, a book about photography in Malta by Kevin Casha
There are books and there are books. Then there are thorough books. And this massive volume of peopled pages and pictures from the past is one such thorough book. This is 'Photography in Malta - The History & The Protagonists', penned by Kevin Casha. It shows clearly how Malta can ...
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Turchia USA
Updated (2): Turkey hunts for answers, buries dead after blasts kill 38
Turkey declared a national day of mourning and began to bury its dead Sunday after twin blasts in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium. It was the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security threats.The bombs Saturday night targeted police ...
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Spagna
Economía/Macro.- Expertos de PWC mejoran su optimismo y prevén un alza del PIB del 3% este año y del 2,6% en 2017
MADRID, 11 (EUROPA PRESS) Expertos, directivos y empresarios han redoblado su optimismo sobre la evolución de la economía española por el "fuerte tirón" del consumo y del empleo, y sitúan el alza del PIB en el 3% este año y en el 2,6% en 2017, lo que supone ...