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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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USA
Editorial - Electoral pledges: How will you fund your proposals, Dr Busuttil?
There is no doubt that Simon Busuttil has grown in stature over the past three years and today commands an argument with more strength than he did in his infant years as Leader of the Nationalist Party. It is also clear that he took the reins of his party and ...
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Malta
PN did not consult with social partners on maternity and paternity leave proposal
The Nationalist Party did not consult with any of the social partners and trade unions before proposing an increase in maternity leave and paternity leave, it turns out.PN leader Simon Busuttil yesterday pledged that maternity leave would increase from 18 to 22 weeks and that four weeks paternity leave would ...
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Malta
PL government would build railway system, details to be published soon
The Prime Minister said that a new PL government will construct a railway system. He said that in the coming days, he will be giving details of a report the government commissioned to study the feasibility of a mass public transportation system. He did not give any further details but ...