Times Of Malta
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:33:00 +0200Hong Kong could soon bin millions of unused vaccine doses
Hong Kong may soon have to throw away millions of coronavirus vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed up for the jabs, an official warned Tuesday.
Hong Kong is one of the few pla...
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:12:00 +0200Man. City wins give Chelsea boost ahead of Champions League final: Tuchel
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said on Monday his side can approach this weekend’s Champions League final against Manchester City with confidence after recent victories against Pep Guardiola’s Premier League winners.
The Blues wil...
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:08:00 +0200European financials: Insurance in focus
With the rising confidence in the economic recovery, bond yields as well as inflation expectations have fuelled the recovery across cyclical and value sectors. From a year to-date snapshot, European equities have traded ahead of the ...
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:02:00 +0200Live blog: Europol testifies at Yorgen Fenech murder compilation
A Europol witness is to testify in the compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech on Tuesday
The wealthy businessman is accused of conspiring to murder journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb on October 16, 2017.
It is ...
Tue, 25 May 2021 09:56:00 +0200Competition is on as Gozo Fast Ferry announces its fares
Gozo Fast Ferry on Tuesday announced some of its fares for the service starting on June 1, saying anyone with a Tallinja adult or student card will be able to travel to Valletta and back for €7.99 while Gozo residents can make t...
Tue, 25 May 2021 09:38:00 +0200A bird’s-eye view on migration in Heritage Malta webinar
Animal migration, particularly birds, will be the subject of Heritage Malta’s next webinar, to be livestreamed on Facebook tomorrow at 6.30pm.
John J. Borg, Heritage Malta’s senior curator for natural history and an ornithologi...
Tue, 25 May 2021 09:22:00 +0200Coronavirus: so many variants, but vaccines are still effective
Viruses are constantly changing. This is because errors sometimes occur when they copy their genetic material. Some errors have no effect at all. Some might make the virus less viable. Some make it more benign, which means it can sur...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:47:00 +0200So what happened to treasures seized from Malta by the French in 1798?
After the conquest of Malta on June 12, 1798, the French fleet and army departed from the island but certainly not empty-handed. During his week’s sojourn here, General Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) ensured that the army pay-chest...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:34:00 +0200Maltese among least likely in EU to be stopped by police
People in Malta are among the least likely in the EU to get stopped in the street by the police, according to research by the Fundamental Rights Agency.
The island ranks second lowest, along with Romania, in terms of people reporting...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:34:00 +0200Data protection chief: Freedom of Information law 'needs to be revised'
A law allowing the public access to government documents needs to be amended to remove certain hurdles, information and data protection chief Ian Deguara has said.
"The FOI legislation is what it is. To me, it needs to be revised,"...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:30:00 +0200Who will challenge Inter's Serie A crown next season?
Inter powered to their first Serie A title in 11 years, but dethroned Juventus who will be eager next term to reclaim the trophy they had made their own for nine consecutive seasons.
AC Milan and Atalanta have the capacity to challen...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:15:00 +0200What happened on... May 25
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Tue, 25 May 2021 08:01:00 +0200Shepherd hailed as hero in deadly China ultramarathon race
A shepherd has been hailed as a hero in China after it emerged that he saved six stricken runners during an ultramarathon in which 21 other competitors died.
Zhu Keming was trending on the Twitter-like Weibo on Tuesday, three days af...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:00:00 +0200Iconic Opel Manta’s 50th birthday celebrated with special electric concept
Vauxhall’s sister firm Opel has revealed a one-off electric concept version of its iconic Manta model.
Built to celebrate the coupe’s 50th birthday, the Manta GSe ElektroMOD has been designed as a way to showcase the firm’s her...
Tue, 25 May 2021 08:00:00 +0200Listen: Malta's data protection commissioner on three years of GDPR
To mark the third anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Paul Micallef Grimaud met with Information and Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara to discuss the lessons learned and the challenges that lie ahead....
Tue, 25 May 2021 07:51:00 +0200Money market report for the week ended May 21
ECB monetary operations
On May 17, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the seven-day main refinancing operations (MRO).
The operation was conducted on May 18 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of €117 m...
Tue, 25 May 2021 07:42:00 +0200Ronaldo hints at Juventus exit with cryptic message
Cristiano Ronaldo’s future at Juventus is set to be one of the talking points in the coming weeks after the Portuguese superstar wrote a cryptic message on his Instagram account that gave the impression that he could leave Italy th...
Tue, 25 May 2021 07:19:00 +0200The cannabis conundrum
In the early 2000s, US president George Bush decided that sex education programmes should focus on promoting abstinence from premarital sex, rather than condom use.
‘’When our children face a choice between self-restraint and sel...
Tue, 25 May 2021 07:13:00 +0200“We were like brothers” Ecclestone pays tribute to ex-FIA boss Max Mosley
Max Mosley, the former president of motorsport’s world governing body the FIA, who has died aged 81, “was like a brother”, ex-Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone told AFP.
Mosley became FIA president in 1993 after serving in ...
Tue, 25 May 2021 07:04:00 +0200Time to bring jobs home – Revel Barker
Gozo has a problem. All right, it probably has several, if not many, starting with over-development.
But high on the list is jobs: there aren’t enough of them to keep youngsters on the island after they have left school, so they ar...