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SiGMA Euro-Med 2025 returns to Malta with 1xBet as headline sponsor
Yogonet International
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August 27, 2025
SiGMA Euro-Med is set to return to Malta from 1st to 3rd September 2025, powered by 1xBet, uniting thousands of industry leaders, innovators, and decision-makers in the Mediterranean. With C-level leaders, top operators, affiliates, regulators,...
'Marsa' and 'Bormla' prepare for a Maltese regatta, 16,000km away from home
Times of Malta
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August 27, 2025
A regatta seeped in Maltese tradition will take place far from Malta this September. Sixteen thousand kilometres away from the Grand Harbour, a Maltese community in Australia is preparing to host a race between ‘Marsa’ and ‘Bormla’ on Independence...
Culture Crush, Aug. 27
Pacific Sun - California
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August 26, 2025
Petaluma Pins & Needles Labor Day weekend marks the launch of the Mercury Theater inaugural season with Pins and Needles, the Depression-era labor revue that became a Broadway sensation in 1937. First staged by members of the International Ladies...
My essentials: Tiana Formosa’s cultural picks
Malta Today
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About me I was born in Australia and have been performing since the age of three (thanks mum for pushing me onto the stage). I’m always on the move and ‘busy’ should most definitely be my middle name. I have been blessed to consistently act and...
China Cultural Centre in Malta to host evening of traditional Chinese medicine
Times of Malta
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August 27, 2025
The China Cultural Centre in Malta is hosting a lecture on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on September 4 at 7pm. The lecture will be delivered by Yang Libai, director of the 20th China medical team to Malta and the Mediterranean Traditional...
Malta’s media freedom: Laws on paper, shackles in practice
The Shift
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August 26, 2025
Legal Notice 175 of 2025, bearing the grandiose title European Media Freedom Act (Measures for Implementation) Order has just been published. It sounds impressive, doesn’t it? What the man on the Clapham Omnibus is supposed to understand is that...
Malta Medical Association calls for public inquiry into IEU scandal
Times of Malta
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August 26, 2025
The Medical Association of Malta (MAM) has condemned the regulatory failures that allowed the Gżira-based private ‘university’ to operate and leave many foreign students out of pocket and in the dark about their future. Describing the situation as...
Malta Women's Lobby slams Labour for excusing 'misogynistic' deputy mayor
Times of Malta
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August 26, 2025
The Labour Party has been condemned as insensitive and "pitiful" by a leading women's lobby after it defended a deputy mayor who was forced to apologise for saying women "enjoy being beaten". The Malta Women's Lobby said it was "beyond...
Who Is Emma Heming Willis? Quick Facts On Bruce Willis' Wife — Age, Career, Ethnicity & How They Met
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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August 27, 2025
Emma Heming Willis has long been a steady presence at Bruce Willis' side, from the height of his Hollywood stardom to his ongoing health battle. Yet the British–American model and entrepreneur has built an impressive career of her own, moving from...
Switzerland, Malta Enjoy Fruitful Bilateral Relations with Ethiopia
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 26, 2025 (ENA) -- President Taye Atseke Selassie bids farewell to Tamara Mona, the Ambassador of Switzerland to Ethiopia, and Ronald Micallef, the Ambassador of Malta to Ethiopia. President Taye expressed his gratitude to the...
Meet the activists trying to reach Gaza by sea
Dazed & Confused
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August 26, 2025
As a direct result of Israel’s blockade on food supplies, mass starvation is continuing to take hold across Gaza, and UN-backed experts have finally declared a famine. Because the world’s governments have so far failed to intervene, the task of...
University of Malta says PGCE remains valid despite past errors
Malta Today
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The University of Malta has affirmed graduates of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) remain fully qualified to teach, despite past errors in classification. “The University reaffirms that all PGCE graduates have received rigorous...
University of Malta admits PGCE classification error, pledges top-up course
The Malta Independent
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The University of Malta on Tuesday issued a statement clarifying concerns over the classification of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), following reports that hundreds of graduates between 2010 and 2013 were mistakenly given...
Activists and individuals unified in the goal of protecting Ghajn Lukin, Gozo
Gozo News
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August 25, 2025
Last Saturday, a broad coalition of representatives from different political parties and independent activists came together, unified in the goal of protecting Ghajn Lukin, the landscape surrounding the Santa Verna Temple, in Xaghra, Gozo. Among...
Malta set to suffer downgrade with CrediaBank takeover of HSBC
The Shift
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August 25, 2025
The reputation and strength of Malta’s banking sector are expected to decline significantly with the acquisition of HSBC Malta by Greek CrediaBank SA, formerly known as Attica. Experts told The Shift that the Greek bank, the sixth-largest bank in...
Trailblazers: 50 Santa Cruzans Who Shaped Our County
Good Times - California
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August 27, 2025
At the beginning of 2025, as we contemplated Good Times’ 50th birthday, publisher Dan Pulcrano presented an idea that’s been front of mind ever since: Come up with a list of 50 people who changed Santa Cruz, during a period that transformed the...
Activists hold protest against Israel-linked medical conference in Malta
Times of Malta
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August 24, 2025
Pro-Palestine activists held a demonstration on Sunday against an Israeli-affiliated medical conference being held in Malta. The 33rd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) is taking place at...
What’s on in Malta and Gozo this week: August 25 to 31, 2025
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
THEATRE Ġaħan Teatru Malta is commemorating the birth centenary of Malta’s most influential modern playwright, Francis Ebejer (1925–1993), with Ġaħan at Fort St Elmo from August 28 to 31 at 9pm. This bold adaptation of Ebejer’s final play,...
L-Appostlu Tal-Ġnus: Original Maltese musical
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
This September, Munxar Square in Gozo will be transformed into an open-air theatre for one of the most ambitious cultural productions ever staged on the island. L-Appostlu Tal-Ġnus, an original Maltese musical, will bring together history, music,...
China Medical Team in Malta hold TCM free clinic in the evening in Marsaxlokk
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
On the evening of August 22, the 20th China Medical Team from the Mediterranean Regional Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine (MRCTCM) successfully held a free clinic activity in Marsaxlokk. This event featuring traditional Chinese medicine not...