• USA

    VW rejects calls to publish dieselgate probe findings

    Volkswagen today rejected investor calls for the carmaker to publish the results of a key investigation into its diesel emissions cheating scandal, saying it was unable to do so for legal reasons. Investment advisory firm Hermes EOS said on Tuesday the findings of a company-commissioned probe by US law firm Jones ...

  • Cina

    China wants national anthem sung, but only at certain speed

    China's national anthem has already been victim to many restrictive measures, however a new law, regarding the tempo at which it is to be sung, is being planned, according to Sky News. Aside from having been banned at weddings and funerals throughout the country, the anthem will soon be restricted further ...

  • Malta

    Cardona’s chief of staff in trouble again

    Economy Minister Chris Cardona’s chief of staff was involved in an altercation with the police on May 1 after he was prevented from accessing a restricted zone during Labour’s mass meeting in Valletta. Labour Party sources present at the scene told the Times of Malta that a more serious incident was ...

  • Malta

    Airport reports 9% increase in profit

    Malta International Airport plc reported a net profit of €20.98 million for 2016, an increase of 8.9% over the previous year.  The results were presented at Malta International Airport’s 25th annual general meeting today. The company’s financial growth was achieved on the back of a 10% increase in passenger traffic and an ...

  • Australia

    Watch: Qantas boss gets pie in face from gay marriage opponent

    A man who squashed a lemon meringue pie into the face of Qantas Airways chief executive Alan Joyce in Australia said he was protesting against his advocacy for same-sex marriage. Irish-born Mr Joyce, who is gay, was giving a speech to 500 people in a Perth hotel yesterday when Tony Overheu ...

  • Malta

    PN, PL pledge to ease the red tape on DJ parties

    Both main political parties have pledged to address the red tape that holds local DJs back from organising parties, the Times of Malta can report. DJ Joven Grech, better known by his musical alias, Tenishia, yesterday told this newspaper he had met with both Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil and Home ...

  • Panama Malta

    Data leak reveals details of 70,000 offshore firms in Malta - German state minister

    Updated 12pm A data leak has revealed information about 70,000 offshore companies in Malta, a German state minister claimed this morning.  North Rhine-Westphalia finance minister Norbert Walter-Borjans said the data also included information about several German corporations and up to 2,000 German taxpayers.  Tax authorities in the city of Wuppertal obtained the data through an ...

  • Cina USA Corea del Sud

    New South Korea President says he is willing to visit Pyongyang

    Moon Jae-in has taken the oath of office in Seoul hours after starting work as South Korea's new president. He won the presidential by-election to replace ousted leader Park Geun-hye, who now awaits a corruption trial in jail. The election commission said Mr Moon gained 41% of the votes, comfortably beating conservative ...

  • Messico Spagna Malta

    Brothel allegations: Minister Cardona files objection for courts to preserve phone records

    The legal team of Economy Minister Chris Cardona have filed an objection, on the last day permissible by law, to the request for his phone records to be preserved for the night he was allegedly at a German brothel called FKK Acapulco.Journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia had alleged that ...

  • USA

    Watch: PN proposes increase in children's allowance, maternity leave to go up to 22 weeks

    Childcare should be open to all, and not only for parents who both work said Opposition Leader Simon Busutti. The first electoral pledge announced today by the Nationalist Party was that free childcare will be offered to everyone, whether the parents work or not.Dr Busuttil was addressing a press call ...