• Francia Austria

    Airbus hires outside monitors amid fraud investigations

    Airbus has appointed an independent panel including two former ministers to examine its anti-corruption practices after Britain and France launched fraud and bribery investigations into the sale of jetliners.  Europe's largest aerospace group said today the three advisers, who include former German finance minister Theo Waigel and former French European affairs ...

  • USA

    Ford fires CEO Mark Fields

    Ford Motor Co chief executive Mark Fields is set to leave the carmaker as part of a shake-up that includes other top executive changes as the company's shares hover near a 52-week low, several media reported today.  Forbes and the New York Times reported James Hackett, head of the Ford unit ...

  • Indonesia

    Indonesia police detain more than 140 men in raid on gay club

    Indonesian police have detained more than 140 men after raiding what authorities described as a gay prostitution ring being run out of an entertainment venue in the north of the capital, Jakarta, a police spokesman said today. Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said in a statement officials had "detained 141 people ...

  • Malta

    Watch: Busuttil 'shooting from the hip' with MFSA pledge, says Muscat

    Updated 1.20pm Financial regulator chief Joe Bannister had already indicated he intended to step aside by the end of the year, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today. Dr Muscat said Prof. Bannister had told him about his intention earlier this year, with a decision taken for him to stay on through the ...

  • Malta

    Supporting healthy eating

    Schools are a key environment where to teach large groups of children of all social classes about healthy eating and thus instil positive dietary behaviours. Charmaine Gauci, superintendent of public health, discusses the food procurement guidelines for schools. Childhood and adolescence are periods of development when establishing healthy diet and lifestyle ...

  • USA Malta

    PL pledges 3 years of no income tax for companies that relocate to Gozo

    The Labour Party has pledged three years of no income tax for those companies in Malta that decide to relocate to Gozo and employ people on Malta's sister island, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced this evening.Dr Muscat was speaking at an electoral campaign political event under the theme 'L-Aqwa Zmien ...

  • Panama Malta

    Watch: Malta Files - 'Unprecedented attack' on Malta, PM Muscat calls for united front

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today that there should be a united front for the country to face what he described as an “unprecedented attack” on the country’s financial services sector and taxation system.He was speaking at a press conference following the publication of what has been described as the ...

  • USA Panama Malta

    Watch: PM Muscat says he kept Schembri, Mizzi because he wanted them for special projects

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today that he kept Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri in their places in spite of the Panama Papers scandal because he needed them for special projects the government was carrying out.Without mentioning their names specifically, the Prime Minister said that some people might not have ...

  • Malta

    iSurvey: Trust ratings in both PN and PL leaders drops

    Trust ratings for both Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil have dipped in the space of one week, according to the ninth edition of the iSurvey.Respondents were asked which leader they trusted most, with possible answers being Dr Muscat, Dr Busuttil or neither. Overall, the prime minister ...

  • Regno Unito Malta Macedonia

    Opinion - The truth be told - Ivan Bartolo

    In its desperate attempt to divert attention from the very grave accusations the Prime Minister and his Government is facing, the Labour Party has launched a concerted attack on my integrity and on a foreign investor. The Labour media and its exponents, including the Prime Minister himself, launched the attack ...