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Heritage Malta is once again organising guided tours of the Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Temples on the 21st June to mark the summer solstice. The unique setting of the Mnajdra and Hagar Qim Temples at Qrendi, overlooking the coast, gives them a special charm not to be found in any other of the large-scale megalithic ...

Today is World No Tobacco Day, this years World No Tobacco Day focuses on tobacco free youth with a special view on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship bans. The EC funded 'HELP - for a life without Tobacco' campaign, aimed at young people (15-25 years) kicked off this years World No ...

Theatres staged a total of 475 performances during the year 2006 appealing to an entire audience of 182,464 spectators attracting in particular, a distinct interest in concerts. The total of 245 productions staged during 2006 was mainly attributed to concerts which comprised 46.1 per cent of the total variety of productions. ...

The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) Council elected Mr Kevin De Cesare as the new Association President following Mr. Josef Formosa Gauci's resignation from this post and the MHRA Council, due to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer at the Malta Tourism Authority. Mr Kevin De Cesare who ...

A total of 34 persons who were enjoying humanitarian protection in Malta over the past months have departed for the United States of America over the past two days. This was made possible following a decision taken in 2006 by the American Government to assist Malta on the particular pressures it is facing in asylum claims. The first group of 15 persons left ...

The Maltese government continues to fail its citizens by falling short of EU requirements for nature conservation sites on the island, BirdLife Malta asserted today. This, as the Natura 2000 network is being hailed as one of the greatest achievements of EU environmental policy at the 9th Conference of the Parties ...

According to data obtained from the Consolidated Fund of government for the first four months of the year, the shortfall between recurrent revenue and total expenditure increased by €76.6 million, and amounted to €208.7 million when compared to the same period of 2007. An increase of €130.6 million in total expenditure was only partly offset by an increase of €54.1 million ...

The Government has issued a strongly worded statement against the recent report published by Amnesty International which was entitled "Sixty years of Human Rights Failure." The full text of the Governments reply is quoted below. "The section concerning Malta in the report published by Amnesty International on the 27th May entitled Sixty years of Human ...

For his first personal exhibition Mario Agius is showing a series of sculptures inspired by various themes. 'Nature Exalted' is a showcase of both wood and stone sculpture in which Agius is expressing his love for capturing figurative and semi abstracted forms. Besides exploiting a variety of ...

Alternattiva Demokratika has said that it expresses its serious concern at the fact that Italian Minister Claudio Scajola has announced that the building of nuclear plants in Italy cannot be delayed any longer. AD added that, "the decision by the Italian Minister is based on fallacious arguments. Apart from the fact that Italy is prone to high seismic activity, and therefore ...