Malta News Digest - October20 to October26

Wednesday26: Malta sends aid to Pakistani quake victims International Film Festival starts 2 November; EC raps Malta on non-implementation of environment directive; Joghla l-petrol utittrippla t-taxxa fuq id-dawl u l-ilma; Alfred Sant mistieden tal-PM Ingliz
Tuesday25: From workpermit.com, UK to help Malta fight illegal immigration, and more; Power surcharge goes up to 55%, increase in petrol price; 'Public finances remain a key priority for Malta'-IMF; Employment in the EU - Malta has highest rate of inactive people; Hruq fil-Kullegg ta’ Sant’ Agata; Dun Karm twieled u miet fix-xahar ta’ Ottubru minn Anton Cassar
Monday24: From The Scotsman, British and Maltese PrimeMinisters have breakfast together; From Reuters, Avian flu did not kill birds on ship in Malta port; From the Indian Financial Express, Prime Minister to attend CHOGM; Interview with Harry Vassallo by Michael Carabott; Eliminating discrimination, interview with Sina Bugeja; Interview with Fr Mark Montebello; Irregular immigration - Europe is part of the solution - Joanna Drake
Sunday23: Ten years and nothing to show, Noel Grima on the Euro Med Barcelona process; Malta’s plight in layman’s language by J. G. Vassallo; Migrating birds and people by Marisa Micallef; Chatting safely on the Net by Juan Ameen, more from Eurobarometer; MEDAC's Euro-Mediterranean diplomatic vocation; Serious television is something we lack, by Pamela Hansen; Economic and political tandem, by Manuel Borda; Fuel to the fire, interview with GRTU Director-General Vince Farrugia; In-‘nazzjonalizmu’ minn Fr Mark Montebello; Pont minn Pembroke ghal Pennsylvania minn Charles Flores
Saturday22: Waste disposal in front of National Poet's house condemned; The spring of hope... the winter of despair, by Lino Bugeja
Friday21: From the BBC, Immigrant frustration for Malta; Small is increasingly beautiful - EIU's Dan o'Brien on FDI in Malta by David Lindsay, more from the Business Weekly - interview with MDC's Philip Micallef; Timing is everything by Alfred Mifsud; Malta 'least corrupt' of new EU states
Thursday20: From IPP Media, former President of Malta to lead Commonwealth election observers in Tanzania; From Travel Video TV News, Julian Zarb reports on new Malta hotel; Bells ring in Malta to commemorate Battle of Trafalgar; Verheugen addresses European Tourism Forum in Malta; Learning the past to understand the present by Daphne Caruana Galizia; What if the French had stayed on in Malta? - new book by Didier Destremau, former French ambassador to Malta; Never mind golf, turn to the sea, by Tony Zammit Cutajar