The wage supplement ought to be extended until at least March of next year, according to the Malta Chamber of SMEs, which also called for revision of the amount paid by the government for those forced to take the special quarantine l...

Spazju Kreattiv is on Saturday showing the MET Opera production of Cinderella. Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with ...

Ikea will hike its prices by an average of nine per cent next year due to ongoing supply and transportation disruptions, the company that operates most of the Swedish furniture giant’s stores said. Thursday’s announcement comes a...

A statue of Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has caused a stir in the southern Indian state of Goa, with locals accusing officials of insensitivity for honouring a sports star from the region’s former colonial power. Protest...

Getting wine, chocolate, and coffee into China could get even harder from Saturday, with new import restrictions adding fresh hurdles for foreign companies bringing products into the world’s largest market for food and drink. Chine...

Today is the last day of the year. It has the same feeling as the last day of 2020. Then, as now, we were all hoping that over the subsequent months, we would have left the coronavirus behind us and had turned over a new leaf. Facts ...

Shares in Hong Kong opened with strong gains on Friday, as surging Chinese tech stocks helped it shrug off a weak lead from Wall Street on the last trading day of the year. The benchmark Hang Seng index was up by two per cent in earl...

Ralf Rangnick described Manchester United’s attacking play in the first half against Burnley as the best of his reign so far and explained the tactical and personnel changes he made to make it happen. United stormed into a 3-0 lea...

Four Cameroon players including attacker Pierre Kunde Malong have tested positive for COVID-19 less than two weeks away from the Africa Cup of Nations, the holders’ head of communications said Thursday. The quartet had been in quar...

Of hashish and assassination Is there a connection between the consumption of hashish (cannabis) and assassination? I first came across this connection in 1984 in a book entitled A Criminal History of Mankind – at that time it was ...

Every year, Times of Malta journalists report, reveal and respond to many important events. But what is the one story that impacted them most in 2021? Our team take you behind the scenes of their chosen story of the year. Their choic...

The world prepared to usher in 2022 on Friday after another tumultuous and pandemic-ridden year capped by new restrictions, soaring case numbers, and a slight glimmer of hope for better times ahead. The past 12 months saw a new US pr...

Several pharmacies around Malta may have to close temporarily as they struggle with staff absences due to COVID or quarantine, according to a representative of the sector. Mario Debono, president of the pharmacy and pharmaceutical d...

The Gasan Foundation recently collaborated with Żibel to launch a social media awareness and educational campaign aimed at highlighting ways and best practices on how to minimise environmental impact in our daily lives. Tuesday Tips...

January 1 has always been a special day for me. It is the start of a new year, of course, as it is for everyone, but it is also my birthday. And, on January 1, 2002, there was another reason to celebrate: it was the day when the euro...

Malta’s open economy means that we are often affected by extraneous events that we cannot control. Whether tourism will increase again in 2022 depends more on how the COVID pandemic evolves in Europe than on anything we do locally....

COVID-19 shakes up democracies. Dictatorships react more easily to the pandemic, yet democracy remains the best form of government. Is COVID-19 dividing society? At the end of November, 62 per cent of the Swiss – as a pure democrac...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta leads with news that the hospitality industry is bracing itself for what threatens to be the most challenging New Year's Eve ever. Separately the newsp...

Obituary VASSALLO. On December 29, at Mater Dei Hospital, RAYMOND of Rabat, aged 64, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Patricia, his son Raoul and his partner Lucienne,...

A preliminary South African government study published Thursday showed a booster of the Johnson & Johnson COVIDccine was 85 percent effective in preventing hospitalization from the Omicron variant, a finding that helps revive the sho...