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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:03:00 +0100
Original ‘Fight Club’ ending restored in China after online backlash
The original, iconic ending of cult US film Fight Club has been restored to screens in China after a censored version that brought all criminals to book sparked outrage online. Beijing has some of the world’s most restrictive censo...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:33:00 +0100
Burlò - February 7, 2022
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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:15:00 +0100
Hit Aussie show ‘Neighbours’ faces the axe
The Australian soap opera that helped launch the careers of Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie and Russell Crowe faced an uncertain future Monday, with Neighbours finding few friends in the television industry. After almost 9,000 episodes,...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0100
MAPFRE MSV Life reports strong demand for personal pension plans
MAPFRE MSV Life plc has seen sustained demand for personal pension plans in 2021, thus consolidated its position as the leading provider of retirement savings solutions in the Maltese market last year, the company reported.  “We h...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0100
Film festival showing best of Chinese drama and comedy
The China Cultural Centre in Malta, in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv, is presenting a film festival as part of celebrations to mark China’s popular Spring Festival. Acclaimed films covering a variety of genres are showing at t...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:30:00 +0100
‘Nowadays they don’t do pastizzi like we do anymore’
When she was 13 years old, Maria Mifsud would help her mother make pastizzi using the cheeselets prepared earlier after milking the goats in their family farm. Six decades later, Maria – now 72 – is still making the same round cu...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0100
Formula One teams set to unveil radical new look
Formula One will be showing off its new look when Red Bull, who carried Max Verstappen to a controversial maiden title last year, start the annual catwalk season by unveiling their 2022 car on Wednesday. The interest will be ramped u...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0100
The Quad Central opens its doors to first tenants
The Quad Central is now operational, as Apex Group, the first tenant to have signed on, moves into its new premises.  “It is only fitting that The Quad kicks off operations by welcoming Apex Group, our first tenants to sign on, wh...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:55:00 +0100
Vitals were left unattended with huge amounts of tax money: Steward Malta
The original owners of the hospitals' concession were left “unattended with massive amounts of taxpayer money”, according to Steward Malta’s president Nadine Delicata. In a Times of Malta Talking Point, Delicata says the situat...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:40:00 +0100
Effective tools to revamp a business
In its ongoing commitment to assist businesses in Malta during these challenging times crea­ted by the pandemic, in 2020, Malta BNI embarked on a series of business briefings during which BNI members who are experts in particular fi...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:25:00 +0100
Today's front pages – February 7, 2022
The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Monday. Times of Malta leads with a report on how Malta is lobbying for a two-year extension on the introduction of a new minimum corporate tax rate which, if introduced, wo...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:24:00 +0100
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai repeats sexual assault denial
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said she never accused anyone of sexual assault, according to an interview published Monday, again walking back an allegation that sparked worldwide concern about her safety. The former doubles world nu...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:10:00 +0100
The delusion of meritocracy – John Cassar White
I have still to know a business or political leader who does not profess their belief in the importance of rewarding merit. But what we often see is the spreading of the culture of entitlement in all layers of our society. Entitlemen...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0100
Book presentation in Victoria
Mario Saliba has presented a copy of the book, Ħajja u Mewt/Mard u Saħħa f’Għawdex fi żmien l-Arċipriet Dun Martin Camilleri (1910-1921) to Samuel Azzopardi, who has recently been re-elected president of the Gozo Region. The ...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0100
Announcements – February 7, 2022
Obituaries GATT. On February 5, at Villa Messina Rabat, ROSE nèe Dimech, of Sliema, aged 86, passed away peacefully to reunite with her dearest daughter Moira, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her ...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0100
Diplomatic flurry to avert Russia-NATO clash over Ukraine
As war clouds gather over Ukraine, international diplomacy goes into overdrive on Monday with the French and Russian presidents to talk in Moscow and the German chancellor heading to the White House to meet US leader Joe Biden. Also ...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0100
The land of equality – Owen Bonnici
Last week, my colleague Edward Zammit Lewis and I unveiled a set of amendments which will be now brought to parliament in order to introduce in our criminal code the concept of femicide for the first time in our country’s legal his...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:50:00 +0100
Letters to the editor - February 7, 2022
The PN’s 11 bills Anyone who followed the parliamentary debate on the hotchpotch of 11 draft laws presented as one bill by the opposition, couldn’t have missed the chasm that exists between the government and the opposition. Whil...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:30:00 +0100
Editorial: Stop the ridiculous self-promotion
There was good reason why a picture of four government officials, including the prime minister, applauding and staring at a stone slab marking the newly inaugurated Central Link project, became an instant online meme. It epitomised t...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:30:00 +0100
Malta lobbying for delay in minimum corporate tax rate
Malta is lobbying for a two-year extension on the introduction of a new minimum corporate tax rate which, if introduced, would seriously reduce the island’s attractiveness to foreign investors  Government sources said that talks w...



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