Bill No. 233 proposes various amendments to the Companies Act (chapter 386 of the Laws of Malta). The amendments primarily relate to clarifying the qualifications for persons to act as directors of Maltese companies (including specif...

Authorities in China's Wuhan said Tuesday they would test the city's entire population for Covid-19, as the virus returned to the place where it first emerged and the highly contagious Delta variant drove tightening lockdowns worldwi...

The front pages of Times of Malta from 25 and 10 years ago.  Become a Times of Malta premium member to gain full access to our archive dating back to January 1930.

Amazon announced Monday that its big-budget The Lord of The Rings series, based on the fantasy saga by J.R.R. Tolkien, will premiere worldwide in September 2022. The streaming service hopes that the yet-to-be-titled series will riva...

Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti’s third episode of Rewind: Great Exhibitions Revisited, which recalls some of the organisation’s major exhibitions, was recently launched. This episode, which is being released in two parts, revisits...

The Onorificienza di Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia was conferred on Henri Saliba, managing director of Virtu Ferries, by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in appreciation for his contribution to Maltese-Italian c...

The conclusions of the inquiry into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia did not surprise those who had followed the reporting on the evidence given to the inquiring team of judges. The headline conclusion is that the cabi...

Daphne’s legacy is in our hands. We, as a country, are now called to decide what her assassination will stand for. This is the very cruel reality that gives me a flicker of hope. A journalist was brutally murdered so that, together...

Norway’s Karsten Warholm produced a devastating performance to smash his own world record and win the Olympic men’s 400 metres hurdles gold on Tuesday. Touted as one of the stand-out events of the 10-day track and field programme...

When it comes to COVID, it seems that there is a general agreement that we want to get rid of it as soon as possible and go back to our regular life. Ideally, a better version of it. The disagreement seems to lie on how to go about a...

One of the earliest initiatives of the English-Speaking Union of Malta, when it revived its activities locally as an NGO in 2009, was an outreach in a local community where the predominant language was Maltese. ESU Malta is part of a...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Tuesday. Times of Malta quotes an expert in international law saying the jailing of two mothers, separating them from their young sons, breaches international legal obligatio...

I stand to be corrected but I recall Prime Minister Robert Abela declaring recently that he only felt responsible (whatever that means to him) for events that happened in Malta after he became prime minister. He forgot to remind his ...

Updated 8.26am with PN statement below. A decision to jail two Turkish mothers for making use of forged passports – resulting in their young sons being placed in state care – “seriously infringes” Malta’s international lega...

Obituary GRECH. On August 1, at the Little Sisters of the Poor Home, Ħamrun, ROSE, née Bruno Waters, widow of Carmel, at the age of 98 years. She leaves to mourn her loss her children Veronica, Bernard and his wife Sheila, Marie-Je...

A surge in Air Malta passengers cancelling their flights as a result of new travel rules cost Malta some €12 million in lost revenue in July alone, estimates show. The figure was calculated by Times of Malta after a Malta Tourism A...

COVID-19 entry rules Much is being written about the new COVID-19 entry regulations into Malta. Judging from the tendency I see online, most readers seem to simply blame the tourists for having the wrong papers and find it acceptable...

ECB monetary operations On July 26, the European Central Bank announced the seven-day main refinancing operation (MRO). The operation was conducted on July 27 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of €96 million...

Updated 8.28am A missing Belarusian activist has been found hanged in a park in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, police said on Tuesday, adding they had opened a murder probe. "Belarusian citizen Vitaly Shishov, who had gone missing in Ki...

Malta has dropped five places in the global index of Sustainable Development Goals since 2019, recording the biggest regression in the sector pertaining to peace and good governance. The SDGs are 17 targets that UN member states have...