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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,...
Malta seeks to grow ties with Qatar, lauds Doha’s mediation prowess
The Peninsula
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August 24, 2025
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Tourism of the Republic of Malta, H E Christopher Cutajar. Pics: Rajan Vadakkemuriyil/The Peninsula. Doha, Qatar: Terming Qatar’s diplomacy ‘quite extraordinary’, Permanent...
Malta gets one to two ALS cases per month, researcher says
The Malta Independent
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Project leader Professor Ruben J. Cauchi with ALS/MND Lab team members, including Sylvana Tabone, Paul Herrera and Rebecca Cacciottolo. Tabone is supported by a Tertiary Education Scholarship; Dr Cacciottolo is supported by Reach High II...
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...
Activists call for 'immediate' emergency conservation order for Santa Verna
Times of Malta
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August 23, 2025
Activists have called for an “immediate” emergency conservation order to be issued on the prehistoric Santa Verna temple in Xagħra, Gozo after a parliamentary petition was launched earlier this week. Speaking at an activity at the archaeological...
Innovation as Malta’s engine. Building a living lab for the future
Malta Today
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If Malta is to thrive in the coming decades, we must stop thinking of ourselves as a small island and start seeing ourselves as a global testbed for bold ideas. Throughout history, small nations have often led the way in innovation. Size has never...
WATCH | ERA CEO says authority carrying out regular inspections near fish farms to identify illegalities
Malta Today
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Environmental Resource Authority CEO Kevin Mercieca said regular inspections are carried out near fish farms to identify possible illegalities. Interviewed on TVM’s Xtra hosted by Karl Azzopardi, he was asked on the recent occurrences of slime on...
Malta’s 7,000-year-old Santa Verna Temple under threat from development
HeritageDaily
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August 22, 2025
Santa Verna is a megalithic site occupied by a prehistoric village and a megalithic temple in Xagħra on the island of Gozo, Malta. Dating to approximately 5000 BC, Santa Verna represents one of Malta’s earliest temple structures and forms part of...
Inside Girolamo Gianni’s Valletta
Times of Malta
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August 24, 2025
One can safely state that no landscape artist active in 19th-century Malta has not included Valletta in their repertoire of sites. From its incipient days as a city, back in the latter half of the 16th century, Valletta has always ranked as the...
Repubblika condemns appointment of Chris Cardona as a consultant for the Education Ministry
The Malta Independent
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Repubblika has condemned the appointment of former minister Chris Cardona as a consultant for the Education Ministry. It was reacting to an article by the Times of Malta that Cardona returned to the government as a paid policy consultant within...
Country has EU’s highest proportion of foreign students
University World News
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LUXEMBOURG In 2023, a total of 1.76 million foreign students were enrolled in tertiary education – which covers all types of formal post-secondary education – across the European Union, making up 8.4% of all the bloc’s students, according to a...
Malta Chamber of SMEs backs Government-Church affordable housing scheme ‘after concerns addressed’
The Malta Independent
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The Malta Chamber of SMEs has expressed its support for the affordable housing initiative jointly launched by the Government and the Church, following a detailed review that addressed initial concerns raised by the SME Chamber, it said. "Although...
Country has above-average foreign student numbers for EU
University World News
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PORTUGAL Portugal is the ninth country in the European Union with the most foreign students in tertiary education. More than four in 10 of these students come from Africa, reports TPN/Lusa. But among the various member states, there are...
The declining influence of the Church in Malta (the 1962 election)
The Malta Independent
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Post-war Malta, especially the 1950s and 1960s, was characterised by new socio-economic realities which were weakening the power base of the Catholic Church in Malta. This led to growing secularisation and the declining influence of the Catholic...
Chris Cardona is back in government fold as an education ministry consultant
Times of Malta
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August 24, 2025
Controversial former minister Chris Cardona has returned to the government fold as a paid policy consultant within the education ministry. Cardona was hired in February on a position-of-trust basis in the ministry’s parliamentary secretariat for...
Kristie Rutledge loves serving the community
Big Sandy Mountaineer - Montana
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August 27, 2025
Kristie Rutledge is a certified LPA (Lay Pastoral Associate) and serves the Christ Lutheran Church. Kristie is one of those wonderfully blessed individuals who the Lord touched as a young child. She said, “I would say faithful family (is the...
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...
Jet2 issues major holiday update for families with children under the age of 2
Chronicle Live
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August 23, 2025
Jet2.com has made a major announcement that will help families to save money. The airline has confirmed that children aged under two will now travel for free. This announcement means that Jet2.com is the only UK airline to not charge a fee for...
Growth through volume rather than quality never suitable for Malta, National Democratic Union says
The Malta Independent
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The strategy of growth through volume, rather than improvement in quality, is one that is never suitable for Malta, both in the tourism sector as well as with regard to the economy in general, the National Democratic Union (UDN) said in a...
Young people neither in employment nor in education: Which European countries are worst affected?
Euronews
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August 23, 2025
Young people are key drivers of social and economic change. They are the human capital of every country. Yet, in Europe, many young people are ‘neither in employment nor in education or training’ (NEET). In 2024, 11% of people aged 15 to 29 in the...